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School management MCQ with Answers

18 questionswith explanationsfor RPSC School Lecturer (Special Education)

Questions

Q1

Who is known as the 'Father of Scientific Management'?

  1. (1)Henri Fayol
  2. (2)F.W. Taylor
  3. (3)Max Weber
  4. (4)Peter Drucker

Answer: (2) F.W. Taylor

Explanation

Frederick Winslow Taylor is called the father of scientific management.

Q2

In SWOT analysis, what does 'T' stand for?

  1. (1)Targets
  2. (2)Tasks
  3. (3)Threats
  4. (4)Techniques

Answer: (3) Threats

Explanation

SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.

Q3

A school record that keeps comprehensive, continuous information about a student's progress over the years is called:

  1. (1)Anecdotal record
  2. (2)Log book
  3. (3)Attendance register
  4. (4)Cumulative record

Answer: (4) Cumulative record

Explanation

A cumulative record accumulates a student's academic, health, personal and co-curricular information year after year.

Q4

Planning done by a school itself on the basis of its own needs and available resources is called:

  1. (1)Institutional planning
  2. (2)National planning
  3. (3)Regional planning
  4. (4)Perspective planning

Answer: (1) Institutional planning

Explanation

Institutional planning is prepared at the institution level using its own resources for its improvement.

Q5

The acronym POSDCORB was given by:

  1. (1)Henri Fayol
  2. (2)Elton Mayo
  3. (3)Luther Gulick
  4. (4)F.W. Taylor

Answer: (3) Luther Gulick

Explanation

Luther Gulick (1937) coined POSDCORB: Planning, Organising, Staffing, Directing, Co-ordinating, Reporting, Budgeting.

Q6

How many principles of management were given by Henri Fayol?

  1. (1)8
  2. (2)10
  3. (3)12
  4. (4)14

Answer: (4) 14

Explanation

Henri Fayol gave 14 principles of management, such as division of work and unity of command.

Q7

The leadership style in which the leader gives almost complete freedom to group members is:

  1. (1)Autocratic
  2. (2)Laissez-faire
  3. (3)Democratic
  4. (4)Bureaucratic

Answer: (2) Laissez-faire

Explanation

In laissez-faire leadership the leader interferes minimally and members take most decisions themselves.

Q8

The concept of 'Management by Objectives (MBO)' was popularised by:

  1. (1)Peter Drucker
  2. (2)Henri Fayol
  3. (3)Max Weber
  4. (4)Abraham Maslow

Answer: (1) Peter Drucker

Explanation

Peter Drucker introduced MBO in his book 'The Practice of Management' (1954).

Q9

The bureaucratic model of organisation, based on hierarchy and formal rules, is associated with:

  1. (1)F.W. Taylor
  2. (2)Elton Mayo
  3. (3)Luther Gulick
  4. (4)Max Weber

Answer: (4) Max Weber

Explanation

German sociologist Max Weber proposed the ideal-type bureaucracy model.

Q10

Samagra Shiksha, which subsumed SSA, RMSA and Teacher Education, was launched in which year?

  1. (1)2016
  2. (2)2017
  3. (3)2018
  4. (4)2019

Answer: (3) 2018

Explanation

Samagra Shiksha was launched in 2018 as an integrated scheme for school education from pre-school to Class 12.

Q11

In 2021, the Mid-Day Meal scheme was renamed as:

  1. (1)PM SHRI
  2. (2)PM POSHAN
  3. (3)PM eVIDYA
  4. (4)NIPUN Bharat

Answer: (2) PM POSHAN

Explanation

In September 2021 the Mid-Day Meal scheme was renamed PM POSHAN (Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman).

Q12

According to Henri Fayol, the principle of 'unity of command' means:

  1. (1)Activities with the same objective should have one head and one plan
  2. (2)Authority and responsibility should go together
  3. (3)Employees should be paid fairly
  4. (4)An employee should receive orders from only one superior

Answer: (4) An employee should receive orders from only one superior

Explanation

Unity of command means each employee receives orders from one superior only; one head and one plan is 'unity of direction'.

Q13

Consider the following statements about Total Quality Management (TQM) in education: 1. It treats students, parents and society as 'customers' whose needs define quality. 2. It relies mainly on final inspection to detect defects after the work is done. 3. The 'quality trilogy' of quality planning, quality control and quality improvement was given by Joseph Juran. Which of the statements given above are correct?

  1. (1)1 and 2 only
  2. (2)2 and 3 only
  3. (3)1 and 3 only
  4. (4)1, 2 and 3

Answer: (3) 1 and 3 only

Explanation

TQM is customer-focused and builds quality in through continuous improvement rather than end inspection; the trilogy is Juran's.

Q14

In Total Quality Management, the Japanese term for continuous, step-by-step improvement involving everyone in the organisation is:

  1. (1)Kanban
  2. (2)Poka-yoke
  3. (3)Muda
  4. (4)Kaizen

Answer: (4) Kaizen

Explanation

Kaizen means continuous incremental improvement; Kanban is a workflow signal system, Poka-yoke is error-proofing and Muda means waste.

Q15

Consider the following statements: 1. Modern educational supervision is democratic and cooperative, and aims at improving the teaching-learning process. 2. Traditional inspection was largely authoritarian, evaluative and fault-finding. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. (1)1 only
  2. (2)2 only
  3. (3)Both 1 and 2
  4. (4)Neither 1 nor 2

Answer: (3) Both 1 and 2

Explanation

Supervision is guidance-oriented and developmental, whereas traditional inspection focused on checking and finding faults.

Q16

'Clinical supervision', in which the supervisor and teacher plan together, the lesson is observed and then analysed in a follow-up conference, was developed by:

  1. (1)Kurt Lewin
  2. (2)Morris Cogan
  3. (3)Elton Mayo
  4. (4)Chester Barnard

Answer: (2) Morris Cogan

Explanation

Morris Cogan developed clinical supervision to improve a teacher's classroom performance using data from actual lessons; Goldhammer later gave a five-stage model.

Q17

A principal gives a highly competent and fully committed senior teacher complete charge of organising the annual science fair, with little direction or support. In Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership model, this style is:

  1. (1)Telling
  2. (2)Selling
  3. (3)Participating
  4. (4)Delegating

Answer: (4) Delegating

Explanation

For followers with high competence and high commitment, the model prescribes delegating, with low direction and low support.

Q18

Who described the school as an 'embryonic community' – a simplified society that should reflect the life of the larger society?

  1. (1)John Dewey
  2. (2)Emile Durkheim
  3. (3)Herbert Spencer
  4. (4)Talcott Parsons

Answer: (1) John Dewey

Explanation

In 'The School and Society' (1899) John Dewey called the school an embryonic community, a miniature of the larger society.