Which management activity is most directly concerned with reducing uncertainty about future organisational conditions?
Correct answer: D. Planning alternative courses of action
- A. Checking attendance after work begins
- B. Issuing daily instructions to employees
- C. Recording completed financial transactions
- D. Planning alternative courses of action
Explanation
Planning examines expected conditions and prepares suitable courses of action before work is undertaken. The other activities deal mainly with directing, recording, or monitoring current operations.
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Management principles explain how organisations set objectives and coordinate people and resources to achieve them. Coverage includes planning, organising, staffing, directing, coordinating and controlling, along with authority, responsibility, delegation, span of control and the levels of management. These functions are related but not interchangeable, especially planning and controlling.
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