DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2018.
PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — x 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
1. Define Management and write a short note on different
levels of management.
2. What are the types of managerial skills?
3. List the three levels of hierarchy in organization.
4. What is planning?
5. Define Decision making. Why decision making is
important in organization.
6. What is Organizational Structure?
7. List down the forms of Communication.
8. What is controlling?
SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. Explain the details of functions of management.
10. Explain the contributions of modern approach towards
management.
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11. Elucidate the steps involved in the process of Decision
Making. Why decision making is so important in day to
day life?
12. Bring out the factors that influence the amount of
centralization and the amount of Decentralization in an
organization.
13. Discuss the details of Maslow's Needs Hierarchy theory of
motivation.
14. What are the barriers of effective communication and
suggest ways to overcome those barriers?
15. What is the nature of controlling? Explain the process of
controlling.