Test Your Logic with Assertion–Reason MCQs – Chapter 1: Nature and Significance of Management

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This Assertion–Reason Based Mock Test on “Nature and Significance of Management” is designed to sharpen your critical thinking and conceptual clarity for Class 12 Business Studies, following the latest CBSE syllabus (2025–26).

Through carefully selected Assertion–Reason questions, you’ll test how well you can connect principles, justify statements, and reason out key managerial concepts like objectives, coordination, management as an art, science & profession, and much more.

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Exclusively focused on Assertion–Reason type questions
Enhances analytical and logical reasoning skills
Covers all high-weightage topics from Chapter 1
Helps you prepare for both board and school-level exams
Strengthens conceptual understanding for case-based questions too

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1. Assertion (A): Management meets the exact criteria of a profession.
Reason (R): Anyone can be called a manager irrespective of the educational qualifications possessed.

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false

Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true

2. Assertion (A): Coordination is required at all levels of management.
Reason (R): Coordination has to be achieved in a conscious manner; it does not happen on its own.

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false

Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true

3. Directions: In the given question two statements are given. One is labelled as ‘Assertion (A)’ and the other as ‘Reason (R)’. You are to examine these two statements carefully and select the answers using the codes given below:

Assertion (A): Management is an intangible force.

Reason (R): Management has to adapt itself to its changing external environment, which consists of various social, economic and political factors.

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true but Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false

Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true

4. Assertion (A): Management is an inexact science.
Reason (R): The outcomes of experiments in management cannot be accurately predicted as it deals with human beings and human behaviour.

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false

Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true

5. Directions: In the given question two statements are given. One is labelled as ‘Assertion (A)’ and the other as ‘Reason (R)’. You are to examine these two statements carefully and select the answers using the codes given below:

Assertion (A): Efficiency aims at performing task with least wastage of time and effort.

Reason (R): Efficiency is about doing the job in cost effective manner, i.e., getting maximum output with minimum input.

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true but Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false

Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true

6. Assertion (A): Management is termed as a ‘Process’.
Reason (R): Management involves a series of interrelated functions, such as Planning, Organising, Staffing, Directing and Controlling.

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false

Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true

7. Assertion (A): Management is an intangible force.
Reason (R): Management cannot be seen but its presence can be felt in the way the organisation functions in an orderly way.

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false

Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true

8. Assertion (A): Art is the skillful and personal application of existing knowledge to achieve desired results.
Reason (R): If an organisation has good management team which is efficient and effective, it automatically serves society by providing good quality products at reasonable prices.

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false

Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true

9. Assertion (A): Management has to reconcile personal goals with organisational objectives.
Reason (R): It is necessary to do so for bringing harmony in the organisation.

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A)

Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false

Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true

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