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Question Valency is the extent to which the outcome of the activity and its success matters to the
individual . (Level of motivation = Valency x Expectancy)
Correct Answer True
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Question Demand forecast is one of the popular forecasts.
Correct Answer True
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Question Management is management of men, machines, money, motives, materials
Correct Answer False
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Question According to Theory Y, people lack self-motivation and require to be externally controlled
and closely supervised in order to get the maximum output for them.
Correct Answer False
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Question A budget as a plan of statement of expected results is expressed in numerical terms.
Correct Answer True
Control techniques
This device has helped make possible the current trend towards extensive managerial decentralization
Management philosophy
The character of top executives have an important influence on the extent to which authority is
decentralized.
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Question Fear among managers is not a barrier to delegation of authority.
Correct Answer False
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Question It is said that always lines of communication should be open.
Correct Answer True
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Question A strategy is a ploy or a past course of action.
Correct Answer False
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Question Event management in India is an ancient activity.
Correct Answer False
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Question Planning and control are closely interrelated and they do not determine the accuracy of
decision-making.
Correct Answer False
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Question India should borrow management skill from other countries but one should never borrow
the use of the mechanical arts and applied sciences -
Correct Answer False
Manager does not require any specific qualification Anybody can become a manager
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Question Peter Drucker various publications have sold about 5 -6 million copies worldwide.
Correct Answer True
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Question Being self-motivated requires a high level of optimism.
Correct Answer True
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Question Wrong medium of communication is a physical barrier.
Correct Answer False
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Question Encore events is a leading Indian event management form.
Correct Answer True
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Question Parting with authority means parting with friendship.
Correct Answer False
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Question Management is always defined as dynamic, universal, ever-changing subject.
Correct Answer True
Disclosures transparent
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Question Financial institutions should maintain a close relationship to seek a seat on the board.
Correct Answer False
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Question Delegation and decentralization are closely related to each other.
Correct Answer True
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Question Morale is the sum total of various physical qualities.
Correct Answer False
Definition of Management
Management is management of men, money, machinery, materials and information
Peter Drucker
Management is a multi-purpose organ that manages a business, manages workers and work
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Question the heart of administration is the directing function.
Correct Answer True
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Question Unity of command means that employees should receive orders from one superior only.
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Question Posture' and Observance' are not included under the 'yogic' exercises
Correct Answer False
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Question Every manager in an organisation gives direction to his subordinates as a superior and
receives direction as subordinate from his superior.
Correct Answer True
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Question Decision-making is a primary part of the managerial process.
Correct Answer True
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Question The unorganized sector is mainly concentrated in metropolitan cities.
Correct Answer False
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Question Learning organizations should imitate a task force.
Correct Answer True
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Question There are three central ideas associated with consequentialism.
Correct Answer False
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Question Indian business families are still avoiding joint ventures and tie-ups.
Correct Answer False
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Question In principle the chairman and the CGO have the same role to play.
Correct Answer False
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Question Focus on savings and high bargaining interests of the consumer is an obstacle in retail
development in India.
Correct Answer True
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Question Event management has to pay only entertainment tax not the service tax.
Correct Answer False
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Question Decision-Making is a process of making a choice of poor alternatives.
Correct Answer False
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Question Management is the combination of Arts,Science and Profession.
Correct Answer True
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Question Management is that important process which continues till the objectives set by the
administrator are actually achieved.
Correct Answer True
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Question Communication is a composite (a) information given and received (b) a listening effort by
some of them involved.
Correct Answer False
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Question Management as a discipline needs certificate of practice.
Correct Answer False
Management Creative
Art Skill
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Question Science is a body of organized knowledge
Correct Answer True
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Question The Indian consumer does not see shopping as an end in itself.
Correct Answer False
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Question Retailers cannot just take their global retailing formats and try to transpose them onto the
India scenario.
Correct Answer True
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Question Profession needs certificate of practice
Correct Answer True
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Question 'Span of control' is also referred to as span of management.
Correct Answer True
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Question Learning from mistakes is often more powerful than learning from success.
Correct Answer True
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Question The theory of Bureaucracy was first propounded by Henry L.Gantt.
Correct Answer False
Need of consultants
Consultants are responsible for providing information to those individuals who fail to respond to changes
in outside environment
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Question The process of control is not complete when only corrective actions taken.
Correct Answer False
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Question Great Wall of China is a living symbol of creation and result of management practices.
Correct Answer True
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Question Service sector has expanded because of explosion in information technology.
Correct Answer True
AMP Sanmar
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Question Standard Batteries is a flagship company of the Thapar Group.
Correct Answer False
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Question Successful consultants must be foreign culture savvy.
Correct Answer True
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Question Motivation of subordinates to meet the expectations of the manager is a feature of direction.
Correct Answer False
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Question Ethics of statute tries to explore the traits which help the person to lead a life that is
satisfying from an ethical point of view.
Correct Answer False
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Question International teamwork is an integral part of many international consultancies.
Correct Answer True
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Question W.Edward Deming introduced quality control in Japan.
Correct Answer True
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Question Deontological ethics believe that mature persons have inadequate capacity to reason.
Correct Answer False
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Question Business families have started spending more on research and development.
Correct Answer True
Need for delegation Superior needs to concentrate on important and vital issues.
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Question Empathy is important for the need to retain talent.
Correct Answer True
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Question Science has no predictive power
Correct Answer False
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Question The financial structure is not one of the five channels of corporate governance.
Correct Answer False
Definition of event management Events are the occurrences designed for marketing interests
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Question Vision without mission is incomplete and mission without vision is meaningless.
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Question Expectancy theory of motivation predicts that an individual will generally be a high
performer when he see a high probability that his efforts will lead to high performance.
Correct Answer True
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Question Indian companies because of confused status have lacked self-confidence.
Correct Answer True
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Question Learning organizations must adopt processes that encourage interaction across boundaries
Correct Answer True
Strategies It is described as the expected income and expenditure under different heads.
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Question Management is conditional
Correct Answer False
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Question Gita has nothing to do with leadership in management
Correct Answer False
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Question Foreign insurance companies can appoint majority directors on the company board.
Correct Answer False
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Question Planning can eliminate risk, but can not minimize it.
Correct Answer False
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Question Good competitive skills are a potential external opportunity of learning organizations
Correct Answer False
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Question Planning can eliminate risk
Correct Answer False
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Question Decision-making is a process of making a choice out of poor alternatives
Correct Answer False
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Question Acceptance of order is essential if it is to be carried out effectively.
Correct Answer True
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Question Direction should not be a very continuous activity.
Correct Answer False
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Question Permanent liaison between departments fulfills boundary-spanning roles.
Correct Answer True
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Question A Whistleblower must examine his motives.
Correct Answer True
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Question Learning organizations should initiate a task force.
Correct Answer True
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Question SBU should have a large size
Correct Answer False
Services cannot be stocked and delivered later are called Non-Inventori able
EQ The qualities that mark the people who excel in real life
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Question Henry Fayol was born in England.
Correct Answer False
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Question Insider trading issue is an important aspect of corporate governance.
Correct Answer True
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Question Economic consideration do not affect the choice of span.
Correct Answer False
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Question Span of management is normally related to organization structure.
Correct Answer True
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Question Samartha Ramdas contributed to the conception of administration and management
Correct Answer True
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Question Taj Mahal are living symbols of 'creation and result of management practices'.
Correct Answer True
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Question Delegation has basically five degrees - zero, low, moderate, high and fifth degree.
Correct Answer True
Unit of command This means that employees should receive orders from one superior only
Scalar chain Chain of superiors from the highest to the lowest ranks
Equity
Loyalty, devotion on the part of managers should be there when dealing with subordinates
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Question Management is promotional
Correct Answer False
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Question One of the environmental factors that influences management is labour
Correct Answer True
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Question Management exists only at the top levels of the organization.
Correct Answer False
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Question Procedures establish a useful method of doing work and thus it can eliminate friction
between departments.
Correct Answer True
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Question Anybody can become a manager
Correct Answer True
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Question Management has been defined as the creation and direction of the internal environment in
an enterprise
Correct Answer False
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Question Lower level managers need EQ most.
Correct Answer False
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Question Management consultants do not assist implementation.
Correct Answer False
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Question The larger the organisation, the more easier is the control process with respect to overall
results.
Correct Answer False
Organization as a relationship This is more related with the formal and informal relationships
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Question One of the oldest technique of checking performance is the personal observation.
Correct Answer True
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Question Poverty is an asset of the insurance sector.
Correct Answer False
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Question Service sector in India dominates half of our national income.
Correct Answer True
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Question Correction of deviations is the point at which control can be seen as a part of the whole
system of management and can be related to other managerial functions.
Correct Answer True
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Question Insurance never faces the challenges of branding, packaging and revenue model.
Correct Answer False
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Question Human thoughts are classified under Tamas Rajas and Hettwa
Correct Answer False
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Question All consumers in India are looking for price alone.
Correct Answer False
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Question Important ingredients of the service industry are labour and knowledge.
Correct Answer True
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Question Control techniques affect the degree of decentralization.
Correct Answer True
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Question Communication in industry is a phase both of organisation and moral building.
Correct Answer True
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Question Learning organizations should be adaptive to their internal environment.
Correct Answer False
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Question The contribution of the service sector to the employment generation has been proportionate.
Correct Answer False
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Question Board members should have an independent sense of judgment.
Correct Answer True
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Question Professional management signifies separation of ownership and management.
Correct Answer True
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Question Federick W.Taylor is referred to as 'father of modern management theory'.
Correct Answer False
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Question The non-executive directors on the board of the company should be 50%.
Correct Answer True
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Question Actuary is one who specializes in the mathematics of insurance.
Correct Answer True
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Question An organization consists of individuals in which their formal roles and structural positions
bring them closer.
Correct Answer True
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Question "When an insurance policy is sold, a promise is sold".
Correct Answer True
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Question Good motivation lead to low morale. High morale is the manifestation of a weak or
defective motivating process.
Correct Answer False
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Question Fast food chains are not a corporatised service.
Correct Answer False
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Question The channels through which corporate governance may bear on performance are activated
through several structural and institutional factors as follows
Correct Answer legal, political and regulatory environment , financial structure of corporation ,
structure and functioning of co.
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Question Revenue model is a challenge in the service sector.
Correct Answer True
Management Audit It focuses on achieving better managerial control specially on cost factor
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Question The 7 S Framework first appeared in 'The Art of Japanese management' by Richard Pascale
and Anthony Athos in 1981.
Correct Answer True
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Question It is that top leadership fails to teach the MBO philosophy largely because, very often it is
itself not motivated.
Correct Answer True
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Question The longer the chain of communications and the greater the no. of supervisory levels, the
more opportunities there are for misunderstandings.
Correct Answer True
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Question Positive morale definitely influences the productivity of a group and reduces the amount of
supervision necessary for the desired output.
Correct Answer True
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Question A wisdom worker is one who focuses on self-control.
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Correct Answer True
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Question The purpose of control is not to appraise current and completed action but to provide a
basis for regulating future activities.
Correct Answer False
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Question It is said that no company is allowed to deal in life and non-life insurance as a single entity.
Correct Answer True
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Question Competitive is a common word in all of Michael E.Porter's three famous books.
Correct Answer True
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Question Management consultants do not assist implementation.
Correct Answer False
Vilfredo Pareto
Referred to as 'The father of the social systems approach' to organization and management
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Question Before 1990, Global players were allowed to enter and operate in Indian Market.
Correct Answer False
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Question Programme should not be closely integrated with objectives but to be developed from year
to year.
Correct Answer False
Philosophy of scientific management Development of each man to his capacity and ability
Four supervisors at implementation department Gang boss, speed boss, repair boss, inspector
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Question Direction initiates at the bottom level in the organisation and follows to top through the
hierarchy.
Correct Answer False
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Question Abraham Maslow, an eminent US Psychologist, offered a general theory of motivation called
the 'Need Hierarchy Theory'
Correct Answer True
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Question The essence of MBO is mutual consultation, mutual understanding and self-motivation to
work as a part of the team to achieve objectives.
Correct Answer True
Question The old control techniques which were used through years are
Correct Answer Unity of policies , break-even analysis , budgetary control
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Question You should never measure the process and develop tools that will measure your progress.
Correct Answer False
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Question The strategic factor in social integration is the development and selection of leaders.
Correct Answer True
Delegation This means to give, offer, confer and allot a major part to subordinates
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Question MBO method has been evolved by Peter Drucker (1955).
Correct Answer True
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Question In delegation a superior transfer some duties and responsibilities to his subordinates.
Correct Answer False
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Question Management is the combination of Arts, Science and profession.
Correct Answer True