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What is Meant by 'Management'?

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प्रश्न

What is meant by 'Management'?

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उत्तर

Management is a process wherein various activities and functions are performed to achieve
the various goals and objectives of an organisation in an effective and efficient manner.

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2014-2015 (March) All India Set 1

संबंधित प्रश्न

Define Management.


Explain how management helps in the development of society.


State any three objectives of management


Answer the question briefly.
Why is management considered to be discipline?


“Management is universal.” Comment.


Answer the following question.
Management is a complex activity that has three main dimensions. Explain these dimensions.


Explain the concept of management.


According to the nature of management, Management can be considered as ______.


Management ensures ______.


A manager obtains the required capital at 12% interest while the prevailing rate of interest happens to be10%. How would you describe such a manager?


'Anyone can be called a manager irrespective of the educational qualification possessed." Identify the characteristic of the profession that Management does not fulfill in the statement being discussed above:


Read the following text and answer the questions given below:

Vinay was the Chief Operating Officer of 'Easy Solutions Ltd.', a company providing advanced software solutions to Indian Defence Services. They had been carrying on business successfully for the last twelve years and earning enough profits. But from the last one year, they realised that though the business is getting big orders which are being fulfilled on time, even then the revenues kept on decreasing. Vinay was not-able to find out where the problem was. He started keeping a close check on the progress of activities as he could sense that something was wrong. He wanted to take some action before any major damage could be done to the business. Vinay appointed a cyber security expert who monitored the company's processes and found out that the computer operator was deleting the entries from the computers and pocketing the revenues. He was caught and handed over to the police. This created an atmosphere of order and discipline in the organisation and helped in minimizing dishonest behaviour on the part of the employees.

What corrective action did Vinay take?


Match the CHARACTERISTICS of management in Column I with their correct EXPLANATIONS in Column II:

  Column I   Column II
(a) Goal-oriented process (i) Management is a complex activity involving management of people, work and operations.
(b) Group activity (ii) Some aims and objectives are the basic reason for existence of an organization.
(c) Multidimensional (iii) Diverse individuals with different needs work together to fulfill the common organizational goal.

Management is a/an ______ process as it is an ongoing and never-ending process. 


Different organisations have different goals. “Zeepo’ is an upcoming retail chain for providing consumer goods door-to-door, the objective of this organisation is to increase sales. 'Allie is an educational organisation working with an objective of providing education to under privileged children of the society. Management of each of these organisations unite the efforts of their employees towards achieving organisational goals.

The characteristic of management discussed above is:


Monika, Rashmi and Garima are childhood friends. After completing their education, Monika joined a school as a teacher. Rashmi joined a firm as a Chartered Accountant and Garima as a General Manager in a Multi-National Company. After a long time in a re-union function of the school, they met each other. Rashmi said that they were all professionals now. Garima told Rashmi that she can say this about Monika and herself, but not about her since Manager is not considered a full-fledged professional.

Why did Garima say that she was not a professional? State any three points in support of your answer.


Assertion (A): Management is concerned with efficient use of resources.

Reasoning (R): For management both efficiency and effectiveness need to be balanced.


Diligent developers, a website design company in Bangalore is a startup initiative of Mr. Maniraj which aims at achieving a profit margin of 10% in its first year. Mr. Maniraj appointed Mr. Advait as the Digital marketing Head, Mr. Kiyansh as the head of Backend department and Mr. Nirved headed the Graphics Designing Department. Since each head was specialised in specific skills, it resulted in increased efficiency and better coordination.

However, problems arose when Mr. Advait started considering group objectives superior to organisational objectives and stopped exchanging information with Mr. Kiyansh and Mr. Nirved. The company had to bear the brunt of lack of coordination and was unable to achieve its objectives.

  1. Identify and state the organisational structure adopted by the company.
  2. State two benefits and two limitations of the identified structure highlighted in the above case.

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