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Business Studies · 2023 · 6 marks
CBSE 2023 · Region 5 · Set 2 · Q31
(a) Explain 'Harmony, Not Discord' as a principle and 'Motion-Study' as a technique of scientific management.
(a)
Explain 'Harmony, Not Discord' as a principle and
'Motion-Study' as a technique of scientific management.
OR
(b)
Explain Universal Applicability' as a feature of principles of
management and:
(i)
Optimum Utilisation of resources and effective
administration and
(ii)
Scientific decisions, as significance of principles of
management.
Marking-scheme solution
Harmony Not Discord
§ The principle emphasises that there should be complete
harmony between the management and the workers.
§ This requires ‘Mental revolution’ on the part of both
management and workers. Both management and the workers
should transform their thinking.
§ Management should share gains of the company if any with the
workers and workers should work hard and be willing to
embrace change for the good of the company.
Motion Study
§ It is a technique to study the movements which are undertaken
while doing a well defined job.
§ The movement could be productive, incidental and
unproductive.
§ It seeks to eliminate unnecessary and wasteful movements so
that it takes less time to complete the job efficiently.
Universal applicability:
§ The principles of management are intended to apply to all types
of organisations
(business as well as non-business, small as well large, public sector as well as private sector, manufacturing as well as the services sectors).
§ However, the extent of their applicability would vary with the
nature of the organisation, business activity, scale of operations
and the like.
(i)
Optimum Utilisation of resources and effective administration
§ Principles of management help in optimum utilisation of
resources by equipping managers to foresee the cause and effect
relationships of their decisions and actions thereby reducing the
wastages associated with trial and error approach.
§ Principles of management help in effective administration by
limiting the boundaries of managerial discretion so that decisions
are free from personal prejudices and biases.
(ii)
Scientific decisions
§ Principles of management help in taking scientific decisions
because the decisions based on principles are free from bias.
§ They are based on the objective assessment of the situation.
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