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What is meant by 'Management'?

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Management is the function of an organisation which is primarily responsible for achieving its desired goals in a given period of time in a time- and cost-efficient manner.

 

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Concept of Management
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2015-2016 (March) All India Set 1

संबंधित प्रश्न

Explain how management helps in the development of society.


Ashita and Lakshita are employees working in Dazzling  enterprises dealing in costume jewellery. The firm secured  an urgent order for 1,000 bracelets that were to be delivered  within 4 days. They were assigned the responsibility of  producing 500 bracelets each at a cost of Rs 100 per bracelet. Ashita was able to produce the required number within the  stipulated time at the cost of Rs 55,000 whereas, Lakshita was able to produce only 450 units at a cost of Rs 90 per unit.  State whether Ashita and Lakshita are efficient and effective.  Give reasons to justify your answer.


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


"Management is universal" Comment.


Answer the following question.
Mita has a successful ice cream business at Bikaner, namely "Smart flavours' ice creams are utterly delicious. She makes ice creams from fresh milk and the same are available in a wide range of flavours and packs. She sets viable business objectives and works with the same in mind in order to ensure that the customers will come back for purchasing.
Having the first-mover advantage, her business was doing well. To earn higher profits, she started cutting costs. This would sometimes lead to delay in delivery and the ice cream was not reaching the market in time. Over a period of time, the demand for her ice cream declined and because of it, the competitors entered the market. She lost some of her market share to competitors.
At the beginning of the summer season, she got back to backorder for the supply of 4,000 ice cream packs of different flavors for special occasions. To ensure that the task was completed and orders delivered in time she hired additional workers. She was, thus able to produce and deliver the ice cream packs but at a high production cost. While completing activities and finishing the given task for achieving goals, Mita realized that she was ignoring one of the important aspects of management.
Identify the aspects of management that has been ignored by Mita. Also, explain the same with the help of an example.


Management is what a _______ does?


What is Management?


List out the management tools.


Management ensures ______.


Silico Ltd. has appointed the former Consulting executive of Shri Shakti Ltd. Rajan Bahl as its Vice President. What will be his basic task?


Unlike professions such as medicine or law which require a practising doctor or lawyer to possess valid degrees, nowhere in the world is it mandatory for a manager to possess any such professional degree. Identify the characteristic of the profession being discussed above which is not being strictly met by management.


Management translates the works to be carried out in terms of goals to be achieved and assigns the means to achieve it. This statement relates to ______.


Discuss the basic features of management as a profession.


______ is used extensively for all types of activities and mainly for taking charge of different activities in any enterprise. 


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 did the analysis by Vinay reveal?


Management is concerned with which of the following:


Unemployment can be described as ______ 


The management of a bag manufacturing company has recently changed. Due to this, an improvement can be felt in the way company functions. Now, targets are met according to plans, whereas, earlier deadlines were never given importance. Now there is orderliness, instead of chaos in the organisation and the employees are happy and satisfied.

From the following identify the characteristic of management which is highlighted in the above case:


Akash works as a production manager in ‘Elite Enterprises’ manufacturing LED lights. Due to festive season, there is lot of demand for their lights. Akash was given the task of producing 100 units of LED lights @ ₹ 200 per unit within 5 days for an urgent order. Akash was able to achieve the target of 100 units of LED lights within 5 days @ ₹ 220 per unit.

Identify from the following whether Akash 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.


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