Adminitration and Management in Education

63. ____ is the primary objective of the business firm, and all sub-objectives are compatible with it:

A. Profit (Answer)
B. Growth
C. Market penetration
D. Good position

64. Several studies have shown that administrators spend most of their time on:

A. Setting objectives
B. Making decisions
C. Organizing tasks
D. Communication (Answer)

65. The encoding step in the communication process is:

A. Not necessary for verbal communication
B. Difficult for the receiver to understand
C. Necessary to convert the idea into a message (Answer)
D. None of the above

67. ____ is an important nonverbal component of communication:

A. Electronic written memo
B. Eye contact (Answer)
C. E-mail
D. Elbow direction

68. Bulletins, notice boards, and circulars are considered examples of ____ communication:

A. Upward
B. Downward
C. Horizontal
D. Lateral (Answer)

69. Suggestion boxes, employee attitude surveys, and grievance procedures are examples of ____ communication:

A. Downward
B. Horizontal
C. Upward (Answer)
D. Lateral

70. The actual patterns and flow of communication connecting the sender and receiver are jointly called communication ____:

A. Network (Answer)
B. Channel
C. Design
D. Model

71. In a ____ network, all communication is channeled through one person:

A. Star
B. Chain
C. Circle
D. Wheel (Answer)

72. In a school with a hierarchy of staff from diverse backgrounds, ____ communication barriers are more likely to occur:

A. Frame of reference (Answer)
B. Filtering
C. Structure
D. Information load

73. The step that determines whether understanding has been achieved during the communication process is:

A. Decoding
B. Feedback (Answer)
C. Channel
D. Encoding

74. When the decision-maker selects a particular course of action, it is a/an:

A. Intelligent Activity
B. Design Activity
C. Alternate Activity
D. Choice Activity (Answer)

75. According to the ____ model, the decision-making process can be broken down into logical steps:

A. Classical (Answer)
B. Behavioral
C. Both
D. None of the above

76. An alternative that has a high probability of both positively and negatively valued outcomes is:

A. Good Alternative
B. Bland Alternative
C. Mixed Alternative (Answer)
D. Poor Alternative

77. Which model of decision-making is suitable for school conditions?

A. Rational Bounded Model
B. Classical Model
C. Vroom-Vetton Normative Model
D. Garbage Can Model (Answer)

79. Vroom and Yetton identified ____ decision-making styles:

A. Four
B. Five (Answer)
C. Six
D. Seven

80. Which of the following is NOT a shared decision-making technique?

A. Risk Shift (Answer)
B. Brainstorming
C. Delphi Technique
D. Devil’s Advocacy

81. We get information from distant experts for making shared decisions; this technique is called:

A. Delphi Technique (Answer)
B. Devil’s Advocacy
C. Brainstorming
D. Dialectical Inquiry

82. The power that is vested in the leader’s position is:

A. Reward
B. Legitimate (Answer)
C. Coercive
D. Expert

85. It measures the degree to which a leader is sociable, assertive, and withdrawn:

A. Emotional stability
B. Agreeableness
C. Intelligence
D. Surgency (Answer)

86. Effectively interacting with a group to guide them to accomplish a task is known as:

A. Administration
B. Communication
C. Leadership (Answer)
D. Monitoring

87. A leadership style in which policy is determined solely by the leader is:

A. Authoritarian (Answer)
B. Laissez-Faire
C. Democratic
D. Shurai

88. It refers to the extent to which a leader exhibits trust, warmth, and concern for the welfare of subordinates:

A. Intellectance
B. Surgency
C. Agreeableness
D. Consideration (Answer)

89. No appraisal-spontaneous evaluation by other group members is a style of ____ leadership:

A. Authoritarian
B. Laissez-Faire (Answer)
C. Democratic
D. Shurai

90. According to the ____ theory, effective leadership depends on the interaction of the leader’s personal traits, behavior, and factors in the leadership situation:

A. Contingency (Answer)
B. Trait
C. Bureaucracy
D. Path-Goal