Adminitration and Management in Education

  91. This type of leader lets subordinates know what is expected of them by setting performance standards.

A. Supportive
B. Participative
C. Directive
D. Achievement-oriented
Ans: C. Directive

92. According to Fayol, administrative behaviour consists of:
A. Planning, organizing, leading, controlling
B. Planning, organizing, leading, controlling, commanding
C. Planning, organizing, coordinating, controlling, commanding
D. Planning, organizing, coordinating, controlling
Ans: C. Planning, organizing, coordinating, controlling, commanding

93. Who coined the new term “POSDCORB”?
A. Luther Gulick
B. Henry Fayol
C. W. Taylor
D. Cooke
Ans: A. Luther Gulick

Explanation: POSDCORB stands for Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting, and Budgeting, formulated by Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick in 1937.

94. To the administrative managers, the basic principle of organization was the:
A. Chain of command
B. Division of labour
C. Span of control
D. Homogeneity
Ans: B. Division of labour

95. The number of workers supervised directly is a definition of:
A. Chain of command
B. Division of labour
C. Span of control
D. Homogeneity
Ans: C. Span of control

96. __________ is information about the system that enables the organization to correct itself.
A. Feedback
B. Opinion
C. Census
D. None
Ans: A. Feedback

97. The process by which a group of regulators acts to maintain a steady state among the system components is called:
A. Homogenises
B. Homeostasis
C. Equilibrium
D. None
Ans: B. Homeostasis

98. Chester Barnard was one of the first proponents of:
A. Open system
B. Closed system
C. Social system
D. Natural system
Ans: A. Open system

99. Herbert Simon used the concept of organizational __________ as a focal point for a formal theory of work motivation.
A. Homogenises
B. Homeostasis
C. Equilibrium
D. None
Ans: C. Equilibrium

100. The school organization as we know it today can accurately be described as a highly developed bureaucracy concluded by:
A. Max Abbot
B. Hoy
C. Kolesar
D. Caracheo
Ans: A. Max Abbot

101. SOI stands for:
A. Social organization inventory
B. School organization inventory
C. Structural organization inventory
D. Statistics of income
Ans: B. School organization inventory

102. Studies indicate that there are two relatively distinct patterns of:
A. Social organization
B. Natural organization
C. Rational organization
D. Structural organization
Ans: C. Rational organization

103. Disciplined compliance to the rules, regulations, and directives is the basic principle of:
A. Power
B. Organization
C. School
D. Operation
Ans: D. Operation

104. Substantial decision making is delegated to the professional staff in:
A. Weberian structure
B. Authoritarian structure
C. Professional structure
D. Chaotic structure
Ans: C. Professional structure

105. Low degree of bureaucratization and professionalization is the main feature of:
A. Weberian structure
B. Authoritarian structure
C. Professional structure
D. Chaotic structure
Ans: D. Chaotic structure

106. Authoritarian structures are __________ in nature.
A. Mechanistic
B. Naturalistic
C. Materialistic
D. Humanistic
Ans: A. Mechanistic

107. It is a set of procedures that help employees deal more effectively within an inevitable environment.
A. Enabling formalization
B. Coercive formalization
C. Enabling centralization
D. Hindering centralization
Ans: A. Enabling formalization

108. One goal of all school administrators should be to make their school:
A. Mindful organization
B. Mindful institute
C. Open structure
D. Closed structure
Ans: A. Mindful organization

109. The notion of mindfulness to organizations, as they studied high-reliability organizations, was first introduced by:
A. Wildavsky
B. Hoy
C. Sutcliffe
D. Sweetland
Ans: C. Sutcliffe

110. It sees problems as opportunities and views successes as problems; it is both optimistic and skeptical.
A. Enabling
B. Mindlessness
C. Mindfulness
D. Hindering
Ans: C. Mindfulness

111. __________ offer a possible solution as they interpret formalization as an organizational technology and identify two types of formalizations.
A. Adler and Borys
B. Damanpour and Craig
C. Michaels and Senatra
D. Hoy and Sweetland
Ans: A. Adler and Borys

112. It seems wrong-headed at first, but it is not. It comes under:
A. Committed and resilience
B. Deferring to expertise
C. Focus on failure
D. Reluctant to accept simplification
Ans: C. Focus on failure

113. Mindful schools match expertise with problems and encourage a fluid decision-making system by:
A. Committed and resilience
B. Deferring to expertise
C. Focus on failure
D. Reluctant to accept simplification
Ans: B. Deferring to expertise

114. Beliefs, symbols, ideologies, behaviours, assumptions, and feelings are components that make a unique system of:
A. Organizational environment
B. Organizational culture
C. Organizational environment and culture
D. Organizational system
Ans: B. Organizational culture

115. When organization members interact and share their feelings with each other, they use some common terminologies and ceremonies which are altogether referred to as:
A. Dominant values
B. Feelings
C. Norms
D. Observed behaviour regularities
Ans: C. Norms

116. All of the following are examples of administrative processes except:
A. Communication
B. Leadership
C. Motivation
D. Rewarding
Ans: D. Rewarding

117. The socialization process starts from:
A. Adherence to values
B. Job mastery
C. Reward and control
D. Selection of entry-level candidates
Ans: D. Selection of entry-level candidates

118. An example of triggering events is:
A. A surplus of change
B. Environmental calamities
C. Minimum coupling
D. Pressure by stakeholders
Ans: B. Environmental calamities

119. __________ sometimes leads to agents engaging in cultural visioning as part of the change cycle.
A. First
B. Third
C. Fifth
D. Eighth
Ans: C. Fifth

120. The step involved in anticipation of the future is cultural:
A. Visioning
B. Change action plan
C. Change strategy
D. Formulation of values
Ans: A. Visioning