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In project schedule management, the maximum time an activity can be delayed without delaying the early start of any immediate successor is:
AFree Float
BTotal Float
CIndependent Float
DInterfering Float
In corporate governance, Agency Theory primarily addresses potential conflicts of interest between:
AShareholders (Principals) and Managers (Agents)
BEmployees and Direct Supervisors
CSuppliers and Customers
DGovernment Regulators and Board Members
Chester Barnard postulated the ‘Zone of Indifference’, which refers to a range within which subordinates will:
AReject managerial authority completely
BAccept directives without conscious questioning or challenge
CDemotivate themselves due to lack of monetary incentives
DResist structural organizational change
The systematic evaluation process of comparing an organization’s operational metrics and best practices against industry leaders is called:
AReengineering
BBenchmarking
COutsourcing
DDownsizing
Which classic principle of management, formulated by Henri Fayol, establishes that authority must flow vertically in a clear, continuous line from top management to frontline workers?
AUnity of Command
BScalar Chain
CSpan of Control
DDivision of Labor
B.F. Skinner’s Operant Conditioning Theory (Reinforcement Theory) asserts that human behavior is primarily governed by:
AInternal subconscious drives
BExternal environmental consequences
CHierarchical need satisfaction
DCognitive goal evaluation
David McClelland’s Acquired-Needs Theory proposes that human behavior is motivated by which trio of learned needs?
APhysiological, Safety, and Esteem
BNeed for Achievement (nAch), Need for Affiliation (nAff), and Need for Power (nPow)
CExistence, Relatedness, and Growth
DExpectancy, Instrumentality, and Valence
The sequence of dependent project activities that exhibits zero total float (slack) and dictates the earliest possible project completion date is the:
ACritical Path
BSub-critical Path
CFast-track Path
DDummy Path
Total Quality Management (TQM) centers heavily upon continuous operational improvement. What Japanese term is widely used to denote this continuous improvement philosophy?
AKanban
BKaizen
CPoka-Yoke
DMuda
Who introduced and popularized Management by Objectives (MBO) in his 1954 classic work ‘The Practice of Management’?
APeter Drucker
BPhilip Kotler
CMichael Porter
DChester Barnard