Office Practice Questions and Answers

Supervisory relationship is merely a way of connecting a supervisor who is more experienced or an expertise, with a supervisee who lacks this experience.Both of them have some common goals and work together to acheive these goals.

Lateral relationship/structural arrangement consists of a decentralized structure in which departments works together to achieve a common goal rather than operate as separate and distinct entities.

Duplicating machine is a device for making dupicate copies from a master copy of printed, typed, drawn, or other material and utilizing various reproduction techniques to this end

Date of dispatch is one of the heading in a postage book (petty cash book)

Price list shows the current prices of the various products of a firm.It is sent by a wholesaler to retailer to inform him of details of goods,such as price and delivery terms

The disadvantages of office machine are: huge investments, lesser flexibility of office systems, chances for obsolescence, uneconomical, specialised staff, dominace in machine, breakdown of machine. problem of training office workers, recurring expenses etc

Memorandum is a written message that may be used in a business office.It is used for internal communications regarding procedures or official business within an organization

Hard copy is a printed version on paper of data held in a computer

Deparmental meeting is the activities, responsibilities, or possessions of a department in a government, or company or other organization. It is meeting who have the same interests or belong to the same organization

Microfilming are scaled-down reproductions of documents,typically either films or paper, made for the purpose of transmission, storage, reading and printing