Q.Name which principle of Henry Fayol is violated in the following situations:

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1. CBSE 2026Set ANNUAL1 markMCQ
   Q.School Time is a company engaged in manufacturing stationery items, school bags and school uniforms. The company has the same unit producing all the three products. This leads to confusion among the employees regarding the reporting as well as differentiation of work. Which principle of Henri Fayol is violated here?

   (a) Unity of command

   (b) Unity of direction

   (c) Initiative

   (d) Order

   ›Reveal solutionSolution

   School Time has violated Fayol's principle of Unity of Direction.

   Henri Fayol's principle of Unity of Direction states that all activities having the same objective should be directed by one manager, using one plan — this ensures unified action, coordination and focused effort. It is different from Unity of Command (one employee, one boss for giving orders); Unity of Direction is about one head/plan per objective (i.e., per product line or department), not about reporting lines for an individual.

   In School Time's case, stationery, school bags and school uniforms are three distinct product lines — each ideally needs its own objective, plan and directing head. Because the same single unit/department handles all three without differentiated plans or leadership for each, employees become confused about:

   • which plan/targets they are working to,
   • how work should be divided among the three product lines, …

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2. CBSE 2025Set ANNUAL1 markMCQ
   Q.The number of principles given by Fayol is:

   (a) 8

   (b) 10

   (c) 12

   (d) 14

   ›Reveal solutionSolution

   Fayol gave 14 principles of management.

   Henri Fayol, the father of general/administrative management, propounded 14 principles of management — including division of work, authority and responsibility, discipline, unity of command, unity of direct …

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3. CBSE 2024Set MARCH1 mark
   Q.Fill in the blank by choosing appropriate answer from those given in the brackets: (Business finance, General, Discount, Rebate, Superior, Motivator) One subordinate should receive orders from and should be responsible to only one ————

   ›Reveal solutionSolution

   The word for the blank is 'Superior' (principle of unity of command).

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4. CBSE 2024Set ANNUAL1 markMCQ
   Q.The "principle of unity of command" was developed by :

   (a) H. Fayol

   (b) F. W. Taylor

   (c) H. L. Gantt

   (d) P. F. Druker

   ›Reveal solutionSolution

   Unity of command is one of Henri Fayol's 14 principles, so the answer is (a).

   Henri Fayol propounded 14 principles of general management, one of which is unity of command: each subordinate should receive orders from and report to only one boss. This avoids confusion, conflicting instructions and divided loyalty. (It is distinct from Fayol's 'unity of direction', which means one head and one plan for a group of activities with the same objective.)

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5. CBSE 2024Set ANNUAL1 markMCQ
   Q.The propounder of administrative management was (A) Fayol (B) Taylor (C) Terry (D) None of them

   ›Reveal solutionSolution

   Henri Fayol propounded administrative (general) management and its 14 principles, so he is the answer.

   Henri Fayol, a French mining engineer and administrator, looked at management from the top-management viewpoint and gave the theory of general or administrative management. He identified the functions of management and framed 14 principles of management — including division of work, unity of command, unity of direction, scalar chain, order and discipline — that apply to the administration of …

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   Q.Henry Fayol was born in (A) Japan (B) France (C) Germany (D) America

   ›Reveal solutionSolution

   Henri Fayol, the father of administrative management, was born in France.

   Henri Fayol (1841-1925) was a French mining engineer and administrator who headed a large mining-and-metallurgy company and later set down the general theory of administrative management, including the 14 principles of management. He was born in France. This distinguishes him from Ta …

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7. CBSE 2024Set ANNUAL1 markMCQ
   Q.Henry Fayol was a / an (A) Scientist (B) Mining Engineer (C) Accountant (D) Production Engineer

   ›Reveal solutionSolution

   Fayol was a mining engineer by profession, so the answer is (B).

   Henri Fayol joined a French mining and metallurgical firm as a mining engineer and rose to become its managing director. From this managerial experience he developed the 14 principles of management (such as unity of command, scalar chain and division of work) and is known as the father of general or administrative management.

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8. CBSE 2024Set ANNUAL1 markMCQ
   Q.Unity of command insists on

   (a) one boss one employee

   (b) orders from a single superior

   (c) match between orders of different bosses

   (d) All of the above

   ›Reveal solutionSolution

   Unity of Command (Henri Fayol) insists an employee should receive orders from, and report to, only one superior — not that every boss has one employee, and not that orders can come from several bosses at once.

   Fayol listed Unity of Command among his 14 principles of management. The idea is simple but important: if a subordinate takes instructions from more than one superior at the same time, the instructions may conflict, authority gets diluted, discipline suffers, and the subordinate ends up confused about whose order to follow. The principle therefore fixes responsibility clearly — one person, one boss — which makes it easier to know who is accountable for what.

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9. CBSE 2023Set ANNUAL1 markMCQ
   Q.The number of management principles suggested by H. Fayol is :

   (a) 10

   (b) 12

   (c) 14

   (d) 16

   ›Reveal solutionSolution

   The number of management principles suggested by Henri Fayol is fourteen — a standard fact in the CHSE Odisha +2 Class-12 Commerce Principles of Management unit.

   Henri Fayol, a French mining engineer and administrator, is regarded as the father of modern (administrative) management. From his practical experience he set out fourteen general principles of management as broad, flexible guidelines for managers.

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10. CBSE 2023Set ANNUAL1 markMCQ
    Q.What means 'one plan, one boss' ? (A) Unity of command (B) Unity of direction (C) Gang plank (D) Centralisation

    ›Reveal solutionSolution

    'One plan, one head' is Fayol's principle of Unity of Direction.

    Unity of Direction states that all activities having the same objective should be grouped under one head and guided by one plan, so that effort is coordinated toward a single goal. This is captured as 'one head, one plan'. It should not be confused with Unity of Command, which means one subordinate should receive …

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11. CBSE 2022Set ANNUAL1 markMCQ
    Q.The 'Principle of unity of command' was advocated by :

    (a) F.W. Taylor

    (b) Philip Kotlor

    (c) Henry Fayol

    (d) G.R. Terry

    ›Reveal solutionSolution

    Unity of command is Fayol's principle.

    Unity of command states that an employee should receive orders and be answerable to only one boss at a time. Dual command creates confusion, conflicting orders and divided loyalty, and undermines discipline. It is one of Henri Fayol's fourteen principles.

    • (a) F. W. Taylor is linked with scientific management techniques, not this principle. …

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    Q.Henri Fayol was – (A) Accountant (B) Mining engineer (C) Production engineer (D) Manager

    ›Reveal solutionSolution

    The correct option is (B) Mining engineer.

    Henri Fayol (the 'father of general / administrative management', studied in RBSE / Class-12 Business Studies) was a French mining engineer who joined a coal-mining company and rose to become its managing director. Drawing on his long managerial experi …

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