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Management is the process of planning, organising, staffing, directing and controlling the enterprise resources efficiently and effectively for achieving the goals of the organisation. Effectiveness in Management is concerned with doing the right task, completing activities and achieving goals. Efficiency means doing the task correctly with minimum cost.

Answer the following questions on the basis of above case.

Company's target production is 10,000 units in a year. To achieve this target the manager has to operate on double shifts due to power failure most of the time.

In the above case manager was:

Solution

Correct Option: 4

The target of 10,000 units was achieved, so the manager is effective. However, since double shifts had to be operated (incurring higher costs), the task was not done with minimum cost, hence not efficient. Therefore, effective but not so efficient.

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