List of top Business Studies Questions asked in CBSE CLASS XII

State any three protective functions of 'Securities and Exchange Board of India'.

Identify from the following - what is shown in the picture of refrigerator given below?

Many reputed business organisations keep a database of unsolicited applicants in their offices. Such job seekers can be a valuable source of manpower. A list of such job seekers can be prepared and can be screened to fill the vacancies as they arise. The source of recruitment discussed above is :

(a) Explain the following functions of marketing:
(i) Product Designing and Development.
(ii) Standardisation and Grading
OR
(b) Explain the four important elements of marketing mix.

Inspired by the success of Chandrayaan-3, the Chief Scientist at 'Space Rover' a private research group, decided to send some innovative ideas regarding the mission to the Chief Scientist of Chandrayaan-3. The Chief Scientist at 'Space Rover' formed four groups for the same. As it was an intellectual activity of thinking rather than doing, these four groups started interacting with each other and friendships developed. On the basis of their interaction and friendship, some members from each group formed 'Entertainment Through Reading' group which showed conformity in terms of their interest. 'Entertainment Through Reading' group had no written rules, was unstable in form and scope and had no fixed lines of communication. The members of this group enhanced the morale of each other, enjoyed drinking coffee together, read books, served different issues of their work areas and provided support to each other. Ultimately this group developed some innovative ideas which were sent by 'Space Rover' to the Chief Scientist of Chandrayaan-3. Though this group was formed for recreation but it contributed towards fulfillment of organisational objectives. (a) Identify and explain the type of organization which emerged as 'Entertainment Through Reading'. (b) State any three advantages of the type of organisation identified in (a) above.

'Memo Builders' was constructing a five star hotel for a leading hotel chain. The hotel had to be given possession by next year but the construction of the hotel was running six months behind schedule. The Chief Executive Officer of 'Memo Builders' was concerned as Memo Builders was known for its quality and timely completion of projects. He asked Nitin, the senior of the Project Head for a thorough investigation. Nitin investigated and reported to the Chief Executive Officer that inspite of huge absenteeism of workers, additional workers were not called. Nitin also reported to the Chief Executive Officer that three of the ten machines being used by the workers were defective. Nitin ordered for repair of the machines and asked the Project Head to appoint additional workers with attractive wages to ensure that the deadline is met.
(a) Identify the function of management. Quoting the lines from the above para, explain the steps of the process of the function of management discussed.
(b) Also explain any two points of importance of the function of management identified in (a) above.

The G20 Summit was organised in India. The government left no stone unturned to make G20 summit a success. At the higher level, the work to be performed was identified and grouped to enable people to work most effectively together for accomplishing objectives. This involved building infrastructure, beautification of the city, hospitality, security arrangements etc. Duties were assigned to different job positions which led to establishment of clear relationships. This helped in creating a hierarchical structure and in co-ordination amongst all working for the summit.
(a) Identify and explain the function of management discussed in the above para.
(b) Explain any four points of importance of the function identified in (a) above.

(a) Explain the following factors affecting the working capital requirements of a business:
(i) Operating efficiency
(ii) Credit availed
(iii) Level of competition

OR
(b) Explain the following factors affecting the dividend decision of a company:
(i) Stability of dividends
(ii) Contractual constraints
(iii) Stock market reaction

(a) Explain the following characteristics of Principles of Management:
(i) General guidelines
(ii) Flexible
(iii) Cause and effect relationship
OR
(b) Explain the following techniques of Scientific Management:
(i) Method Study
(ii) Differential Piece Wage System
(iii) Fatigue Study

Kewalram started a sweets shop 'Karamati Sweets' in 1950. The sweets were famous all over India for their good quality and people would come from far and wide to purchase sweets from him. As he grew old, he could no longer run the shop. So, he sold the shop to one of his neighbours 'Bholaram'. After a few months, to further increase the revenue, 'Bholaram' started engaging in unfair trade practices like using adulterated khoya and paneer. He thought that no one would know about it as 'Karamati Sweets' had a good image in the eyes of the people. Slowly, people started falling sick after consuming sweets purchased from 'Karamati Sweets' but they did not know where to go and to whom to complain. Raghav, a resident of the village had recently completed his studies. He was also a member of a non-governmental organisation. 'Meri Voice'. He felt that the villagers should be made aware about the rights and reliefs available to them. He started creating awareness about consumer rights among the villagers to protect their interest through a series of talks and presentations in the village. (a) Identify and explain the consumer right discussed in the above para. (b) Also, identify and explain the consumer right violated by 'Bholaram' in the above case.

A Business Process Outsourcing centre, 'Chromosome' which deals in conversion of voice reports dictated by physicians and other healthcare providers into text format has 40 employees. They ensure that their employees are well versed in at least one foreign language and one Indian language. The employees are also given the required training to ensure that the reports are processed correctly as they are the backbone of the patients' medical history. On frequent complaints about some of its employees, it was observed that they were facing problems in decoding the message as they were not very proficient with the language in which the voice message was received. As a result, they would make mistakes causing different meaning to the message. Not only this, sometimes there were technical words used in voice reports, the actual meaning of which was also not understood by the employees. Due to this, 'Chromosome' was slowly losing its business to competitors. The above case highlights two communication barriers. Identify and explain these barriers.

'Cortico Fabrics' was started by Ashish in 2001 to sell bed sheets, towels, comforters, pillows, cushions, bath mats etc. It is now a famous name and its branches are across India. To manage the work all over India, it has eight teams-two each for North, South, East and West India. Ashish spends a considerable amount of time to develop an orderly pattern of group efforts among different teams and to secure unity of action in pursuit of a common purpose. To ensure suitable allocation of tasks to the various members of the teams and to see that the tasks are performed with harmony among the members, he tries to balance the different teams at different locations. (a) Identify and explain the concept of management discussed in the above para. (b) Also, explain any one point of importance of the concept identified in (a) above.

State any three points of importance of staffing function of management.

(a) State any four limitations of planning.
OR
(b) Explain the following types of plans: (i) Strategy (ii) Procedure

'Caro', a car manufacturing company was manufacturing high cost, good quality luxury cars. For the last few years, the company was not earning good profits as the demand for the cars was very low. Chief Executive Officer of the company, Piyush had a meeting with the Production and Sales Managers to discuss how to increase the revenue of the company. They found that nowadays instead of purchasing luxury cars people prefer to have such cars on rental basis. So they decided to start 'Car rental service'. The Production Manager also suggested that as these cars were sophisticated and each spare part was very costly it would be better to provide these cars for rental service along with trained drivers so that there would be less wear and tear. Piyush agreed and a training unit was started. Two of the available cars were used for training the drivers. People were very happy as they were getting these cars on rental basis with trained drivers. The idea was a big hit and the company was able to surpass its profit targets of the last 20 years. (a) Identify and explain the method of training given by 'Caro' to its drivers. (b) Also, state any two advantages the drivers will get after this training.

State any three protective functions of 'Securities and Exchange Board of India'.

Differentiate between 'Production concept' and 'Marketing concept' of marketing management philosophies on the basis of: (a) Meaning (b) Main focus (c) Means (d) Ends

_______ means doing the task correctly and with minimum cost.

Which of the following is NOT a factor affecting 'financing decision' ?

For holding securities in an electronic form, the investor has to open a demat account with an organisation called _______.

Which of the following is the function of Top level management ?

Choose the incorrect statement about 'Money market' :

The activities involved in managing the enterprise are common to all organisations whether economic, political or social. Identify the feature of management :