Management of education and school administration UE Past Papers Questions.

Which of the following statements is not an assumption of scientific management theory in organization management and administration?

1. Use of time-motion study in standardizing work activities
2. Optimum performance
3. Low payment to lazy workers
4. Decision making should rely on intuition

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One of the following lacks logical clarity since it suggests nothing about the primacy of certain principles or the causality of the principles that often leads to confusion in educational management.

1. Behavioral management school of thought
2. Participatory leadership
3. Administrative management theory
4. Contingency management theory

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One among the following may be analyzed in terms of four dimensions namely base, means, scope and amount as reflected in Gergen (1968) ;

1. Goal oriented budget
2. Achievement
3. Power
4. Charismatic authority

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The scalar chain spells out;

1. Who is who in an organization?
2. Who reports to who and why?
3. Who supervises who?
4. Who is responsible for what?

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One of the following statements does not truly reflect assumptions developed by the behavioral school of management in the education organizations;

1. Man gets satisfaction in ascending order of his needs
2. Man is essentially lazy , different and willing to take responsibility but not made by the bureaucratic nature of the organization
3. If given opportunity , man responds to the influence of his organizational environment positively
4. If frustrated, man is behavior reverts to the basic needs, level of hunger, apathy and alienation.

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