Organizational Behaviour-3

Organizational Behaviour  

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Question Situation where individual differences are unimportant
Correct Answer Earthquake, Drought, Flood
Your Answer Earthquake, Drought, Flood

True/False
Question The super ego acts as a censor on the individual.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer False

True/False
Question Values and attitudes are acquired and learned from experience with people and objects.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True

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Question Some of the attitudes are developed through imitation.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True

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Question Organizational commitment by employees does not lead to loyalty.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False

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Question Perception is
Correct Answer It is a Process
Your Answer It is human behaviour

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Question Needs are the result of
Correct Answer imbalance
Your Answer wants

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Question Physical surrounding affects
Correct Answer Production
Your Answer Production
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Question Conflict the result of
Correct Answer In compatible goals
Your Answer In compatible goals

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Question There are five primary levels of conflicts.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False

True/False
Question If organizations' interests suffer, it does not impact employees interest
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False

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Question Correct Answer Your Answer

Organization helps people achieve their own personal objectives

At the sometime people help organizations achieve its objectives

At the same time people help organizations achieve its objectives

Performance results are minimum

In autocratic model of organization

In autocratic model of organization

Managers do not bother to motivate, guide, develop employees organization
In custodial model of organization

In custodial model of organization

HR manager comes late frequently

He is reluctant to talk on time management

 He is reluctant to talk on time management

Employees who are regular and punctual

 To be rewarded by organization in order to encourage desired behavior

To be rewarded by organization in order to encourage desired behavior

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Question Change takes place in all part of organization.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True

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Question Human beings are
Correct Answer Susceptible to stress
Your Answer Susceptible to stress


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Question Stress is non specific response of the body to
Correct Answer Stimulations
Your Answer Work

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Question Ego i.e attachment to self temptations envy or hate, or the ,main organizational stressors
Correct Answer False
Your Answer True

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Question Correct Answer Your Answer

Organization culture

Employee behaviors

Employee behaviors

Procedures and policies

Shapes organization culture

Shapes organization culture

Reward system and measurement

Affect organization culture

Affect organization culture

Bureaucratic culture

Values rules and regulation

 Values rules and regulation

Tradition, loyalty

Attributes of clan culture

Attributes of clan culture

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Question Extra - organizational activities influence human behavior act
Correct Answer Work
Your Answer Work

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Question Free rein leaders avoid power and
Correct Answer Responsibility
Your Answer Responsibility

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Question The authoritarian leader encourages group discussion and decision- making
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False

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Question Organization shows
Correct Answer Hierarchy of authority
Your Answer Hierarchy of authority

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Question Perhaps the most ________ factor that contributes to________ is the physical stature of an individual
Correct Answer outstanding
Your Answer outstanding
Correct Answer personality
Your Answer personality

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Question 1) Organizations are the grand strategies created to bring________ to a concerted effort for the achievement of certain ________ .
Correct Answer order
Your Answer disciplines
Correct Answer objectives
Your Answer objectives

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Question Manager is not the ________ but a leader in ________ model
of organization.
Correct Answer boss
Your Answer boss
Correct Answer supportive
Your Answer supportive

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Question ________ can be high in spite of morale being low because of________ systems and controls imposed by management
Correct Answer Productivity
Your Answer Productivity
Correct Answer rigid
Your Answer rigid

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Question ________ means the ________ of employees and group towards their work environment
Correct Answer Morale
Your Answer ethics
Correct Answer attitude
Your Answer attitude

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Question Procedures and policies provide foundation for developing
Correct Answer A good work culture in the organization
Your Answer A good work culture in the organization

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Question Organizational ________ is still a relatively new,________and little understood management concept
Correct Answer culture
Your Answer culture
Correct Answer controversial
Your Answer controversial

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Question Finding the most ________ sub ________ in the organization and using it as an example from which employee can learn.
Correct Answer effective
Your Answer effective
Correct Answer culture
Your Answer process

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Question Pressure for ________ are created both outside and ________the organization
Correct Answer change
Your Answer change
Correct Answer inside
Your Answer inside

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Question Management of ________ is incomplete without proper ________

Correct Answer change
Your Answer change
Correct Answer follow up.
Your Answer follow up.

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Question Effective group has
Correct Answer Shared goals
Your Answer Shared goals

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Question Organizational communication is of different
Correct Answer types and forms
Your Answer types and forms

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Question A purpose, expressed as a message to be conveyed, passes between a source ( the sender ) and a receiver
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True

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Question Hawthorne studies are of utmost significance as they form an honest and concerted attempt to understand
Correct Answer The human factor , Recognize the employee attitude , Workers social situation on the job
Your Answer The human factor , Recognize the employee attitude

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Question The cost of tensions and worries created by wrong kind of personalities are enormous in terms of.
Correct Answer Employee-employer relation. , Supervisor-subordinate relation. , Peers relations.
Your Answer Employee-employer relation. , Supervisor-subordinate
relation. , Peers relations. , Group relations

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Question According to Frend the human mind is composed of
Correct Answer Preconscious mind , Conscious mind , Unconscious
mind
Your Answer Preconscious mind , Conscious mind , Subconscious mind

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Question Secondary motives
Correct Answer Power , Affiliation , Achievement
Your Answer Power , Affiliation

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Question The hygiene factors are like
Correct Answer Technical supervision , Salary , Personal life
Your Answer Personal life , Achievement

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Question Characteristic of group think
Correct Answer Collective rationalization , Stereotypical views , Direct pressure
Your Answer Collective rationalization , Stereotypical views , Direct pressure
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Question Consultative leader
Correct Answer Shows confidence in subordinates , Retain control in his hands , Retain decision making in his hands
Your Answer Shows confidence in subordinates , Retain control in his
hands

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Question Theories of leadership
Correct Answer Trait theory , Fiedler's theory , Life cycle theory
Your Answer Trait theory , Fiedler's theory , Life cycle theory

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Question Kurt lewin suggested three phase process for change in people
Correct Answer Unfreezing , Changing , Refreezing
Your Answer Unfreezing , Changing , Refreezing

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Question Constantly changing external environment forces an organization to address
Correct Answer Mission , Long term goals , strategy
Your Answer Mission , Long term goals , Production practices

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Question Cultural diversity brings with it
Correct Answer Intra organizational conflicts , Communication difficulties , turnovers
Your Answer Communication difficulties , turnovers

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Question Improving communication at the individual level include
Correct Answer sending , choosing channels , receiving
Your Answer sending , choosing channels , receiving

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Question Working requires greater ________ and interaction ________workers
Correct Answer co-ordination
Your Answer co-ordination
Correct Answer among
Your Answer among

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Question The stage which relates to development of decision making abilities, interpersonal and technical competencies is known as :

Correct Answer Storming
Your Answer Storming

True/False
Question Feeling of insecurity usually makes a man under-productive.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True

Match The Following
Question Correct Answer Your Answer

Ideal self Roger Roger

Per sonare to sound through to sound through

Ego Frend  Frend

Traits All port All port

Physical structuring Sheldon Sheldon

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Question Individual initiative, flexibility and freedom are encouraged in________culture.
Correct Answer entrepreneurial
Your Answer entrepreneurial

True/False
Question OB is mainly concerned with the study of human behavior atwork.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True

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Question The great depression contributed to the rise of:
Correct Answer Human relations movement
Your Answer Human relations movement

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Question Resistance to Cultural Change is directly depends on:
Correct Answer Magnitude of change , Strength of the prevailing culture
Your Answer Magnitude of change , Strength of the prevailing culture

Match The Following
Question Correct Answer Your Answer

Wagner Act Labour movement Labour movement

Scientific Management movement Wage payment plans Wage payment plans

Hawthorne Experiments Human relations Human relations

Hugo Munsteberg Psychology and industrial efficiency Psychology and
industrial efficiency

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Question Hawthorne studies point out that:
Correct Answer The need for recognition and security exert greater impact on productivity than the physical working conditions.
Your Answer The need for recognition and security exert greater impact on productivity than the physical working conditions.

True/False
Question Maximum adaptation occurs during the stage of resistance.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True

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Question The blue print of human behavior at work is represented by
Correct Answer Procedures , Rules , Regulations
Your Answer Rules , Regulations , Procedures

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Question To be efficient every manager must try to
Correct Answer Understand human behaviour , Predict human behaviour, Control human behaviour
Your Answer Understand human behaviour , Predict human behaviour ,Control human behaviour

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Question If the stress persists, or the defensive reaction proves ineffective, the organism develops itself for the fight mechanism.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False

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Question A ________ person has a cause and an ideology to fight forachieving the set goal.
Correct Answer Self-actualized
Your Answer Self-actualized

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Question The first stage of alarm reaction includes an initial________ phase, in which the resistance is lowered.
Correct Answer Shock
Your Answer Shock

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Question Repetitive tasks give rise to the same degree of boredom in all persons.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False

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Question The philosophy that guides an organization's policies towards its employees and customers is an important part of
Correct Answer Organizational culture
Your Answer Organizational culture

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Question The ________ leadership style is an expression of the leader's trust in the abilities of his subordinates.
Correct Answer Participative
Your Answer Participative

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Question ________ in one form of dominance, in which the followers more or less willingly accept direction and control by another person.
Correct Answer Leadership
Your Answer Leadership

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Question Basic Organizational Behaviour concepts take into consideration
Correct Answer Nature of people , Nature of organization
Your Answer Nature of people , Nature of technology , Nature of
organization

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Question A manager can be effective by just having a sound knowledge of his area of work
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False

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Question During which phase it is seen that the adaptation energy is exhausted and the resistance level begins to decline in an irreversible manner?
Correct Answer State of exhaustion
Your Answer State of exhaustion

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Question According to Vroom's theory, ________ is the result of multiplication of valence and expectancy.
Correct Answer Motivation
Your Answer Motivation

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Question Name the groups of core needs identified by Alderfer
Correct Answer Existence , Relatedness , Growth
Your Answer Existence , Relatedness , Growth

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Question The storming stage relating to development of a team is characterized by which of the following aspects?
Correct Answer Emergence of conflicts , Seeking task related guidance from the leader , Deciding the responsibilities of each team member

Your Answer Emergence of conflicts , Seeking task related guidance from the leader , Deciding the responsibilities of each team member

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Question Which theory assumes that the manager's role is to coerce and control employees?
Correct Answer Theory X
Your Answer Theory X

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Question What are the principles of job enlargement?
Correct Answer Rotating the assignments , Challenging the employees
by increasing the expected production , Adding other tasks to the job
Your Answer Challenging the employees by increasing the expected
production , Adding other tasks to the job , Rotating the assignments

True/False
Question Rest pauses provide an opportunity to talk and think only
about job-related activities
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False

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Question The multinationals which come on the Indian scene enjoy
superior resources in terms of________technology as well as market network.
Correct Answer money
Your Answer money

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Question The major contributors to the development of Organizational
Behaviour are:
Correct Answer Industrial psychology , Scientific management
movement , Human relations movement
Your Answer Industrial psychology , Scientific management movement ,
Human relations movement
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Question The ________ motivator includes introducing new and more
difficult tasks to an employee, who will be doing them for the first time.
Correct Answer Growth and learning
Your Answer Growth and learning

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Question In Organizational Behaviour, 'caused behaviour' means
Correct Answer By his own behaviour, a manager can affect how an
employee behaves.
Your Answer By his own behaviour, a manager can affect how an employee
behaves.

True/False
Question Career development of employees facilitates development of
whole person concept.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True

True/False
Question Illumination Experiment is a part of Hawthorne experiments.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True

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Question The features of team empowerment are as follows:
Correct Answer Potency , Autonomy , Impact
Your Answer Potency , Autonomy , Impact

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Question Fiedler has described situational favorableness in terms of
three empirically derived dimensions, viz:
Correct Answer The leader member relationship , The degree of task
structure , The leader's positional power
Your Answer The leader member relationship , The degree of task
structure , The leader's positional power

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Question High competitiveness and profit orientation is a
characteristic of which type of organizational culture?
Correct Answer Market
Your Answer Market


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Question A communication media is said to rich when which of the
given parameters are satisfied?
Correct Answer It facilitates rapid feedback
Your Answer It facilitates rapid feedback

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Question Anand is the new CEO of ABC Ltd. Whatever suggestions or
recommendations are given by his subordinate managers, all are rejected by
Anand. What sort of role is being portrayed by Anand?
Correct Answer Negativist
Your Answer Negativist

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Question The communication process can be improved by ________.
Correct Answer Reducing status barriers
Your Answer Reducing status barriers

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Question ________ is caused because of the modern life and anxiety to
cope with them.
Correct Answer Distress
Your Answer Distress

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Question According to Likert, few variables characterize the
leadership style. Select these variables.
Correct Answer Casual , Intervening , End-result
Your Answer Casual , Intervening , End-result

True/False
Question Effective communication can be seen as the foundation of
modern organizations.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True

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Question Select the needs which are discussed by the need hierarch
theory.
Correct Answer Physiological needs , Security needs , Self
realization needs
Your Answer Physiological needs , Security needs , Self realization
needs

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Question Contribution of Walter Dill Scot towards industrial
psychology is:
Correct Answer He showed how psychology can be applied to
advertising and selling.
Your Answer He showed how psychology can be applied to advertising and
selling.

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Question In the discipline Organizational Behaviour the fundamental
concept is:
Correct Answer Based on the nature of people and organization
Your Answer Based on the nature of people and organization

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Question The communication between managers and workers located in
different functional divisions is known as ________ communication.
Correct Answer Diagonal
Your Answer Diagonal

LIST OF ATTEMPTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question The cost of tensions and worries created by wrong kind of
personalities are enormous in terms of.
Correct Answer Employee-employer relation. , Supervisor-subordinate
relation. , Peers relations.
Your Answer Employee-employer relation. , Supervisor-subordinate
relation.

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Question Commanlities and differences suggest in certain respects,
every person is like
Correct Answer All other people , Some other people , No other
person
Your Answer All other people , Some other people , No other person

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Question Major determinants of personality
Correct Answer Biological , Situation
Your Answer Biological , Cultural , Situation

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Question Identify the process influence personality development.
Correct Answer Socialization process , Identification process
Your Answer Socialization process , Identification process

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Question 'I' refers to the personal self and 'me' refers to the
social self in the theory of
Correct Answer Roger
Your Answer Roger

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Question Fundamental force motivating the human organism is
Correct Answer Self actualization
Your Answer Fulfillment of basic need

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Question Indicate the developmental stages that the teams are
required to go through.
Correct Answer Forming , Storming , Norming
Your Answer Forming , Storming , Norming

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Question The storming stage relating to development of a team is
characterised by which of the following aspects?
Correct Answer Emergence of conflicts , Seeking task related
guidance from the leader , Deciding the responsibilities of each team member

Your Answer Understanding the team goals , Seeking task related guidance
from the leader , Deciding the responsibilities of each team member

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Question The features of team empowerment are as follows:
Correct Answer Potency , Autonomy , Impact
Your Answer Potency , Autonomy , Impact

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Question The ________ teams are concerned with rotating tasks and
assignments amongst its members.
Correct Answer Self-managed
Your Answer Cross-functional

True/False
Question The self-managed teams usually consist of employees whose
work is related to manufacturing an entire product.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer False

True/False
Question Norms are often more liberally defined.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer True

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Question Identify the situations which reflect upward communication.
Correct Answer Performance reports of workers, to be reviewed by
the supervisor , Suggestion boxes kept in the worker's canteen , Employee
attitude surveys
Your Answer Performance reports of workers, to be reviewed by the
supervisor , Suggestion boxes kept in the worker's canteen , Employee
attitude surveys

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Question Identify the steps involved in achieving improvement in
communication within the organization.
Correct Answer Simple messages , Use of multiple channels ,
Promoting inter-group communication
Your Answer Simple messages , Use of multiple channels , Promoting
inter-group communication

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Question Face-to-face conversation is often regarded as the richest
communication media, because:
Correct Answer Handles multiple cues simultaneously
Your Answer It encourages people to communicate

True/False
Question The more successful the organization is, the less effective
is its internal communication.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False

True/False
Question Research has found that all communication channels are equal
in their capacity to convey information.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer False

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Question A non-specific response of the body to a situation is known
as ________.
Correct Answer Stress
Your Answer Perception

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Question The concept of organizational stress was first evolved in
the classic work of ________.
Correct Answer Kahn et al
Your Answer James Carter

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Question Decrease in productivity and increase in interpersonal
conflicts are some of the ________ symptoms of stress.
Correct Answer Behavioral
Your Answer Behavioral

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Question It is observed that ________has an adverse impact on
executive efficiency in the organizations.
Correct Answer Distress
Your Answer Distress

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Question Sidha Samadhi Yog is one of the modern therapies of
________.
Correct Answer Meditation
Your Answer Perception

True/False
Question Eustress is very harmful to the person suffering from it.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer True

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Question The ________ studies were the first to emphasize the
importance of task and human dimensions in assessing leadership.
Correct Answer Ohio State
Your Answer Ohio State

Match The Following
Question Correct Answer Your Answer

Katz and Kahn Advocated varied meanings of leadership Advocated varied
meanings of leadership

Keith Davis Defined leadership as human factor that binds people
together Series of motivation and leadership studies

Ronald Lippitt and Ralph K. Series of pioneering leadership studies
Series of pioneering leadership studies

Kurt Lewin Father of group dynamics Defined leadership as human
factor that binds people together

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Question Organizational Behaviour studies human behavior as well as
group________.
Correct Answer dynamics
Your Answer dynamics

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Question The results of bank wiring room study done under the
Hawthorne experiments were:
Correct Answer Small group of people emerge as a team , The group
is indifferent towards financial incentives , The group norms are more
important for the members
Your Answer Small group of people emerge as a team , The group is
indifferent towards financial incentives , The group norms are more
important for the members

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Question The major contributors to the development of Organizational
Behaviour are:
Correct Answer Industrial psychology , Scientific management
movement , Human relations movement
Your Answer Industrial psychology , Human relations movement

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Question The blue print of human behaviour at work is represented by
Correct Answer Rules , Regulations , Procedures
Your Answer Status

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Question The great depression contributed to the rise of:
Correct Answer Human relations movement
Your Answer Trade unionism

True/False
Question Fred Luthans is known as the father of "Scientific
Management".
Correct Answer False
Your Answer True

Match The Following
Question Correct Answer Your Answer

Scientific Management movement Wage payment plans Wage payment plans

Hawthorne Experiments Human relations Human relations

Hugo Munsteberg Psychology and industrial efficiency Psychology and
industrial efficiency

Wagner Act Labour movement Labour movement

Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
Question The four different models of organizational behaviour
denote:
Correct Answer The responses of the employees to the various
orientations of the managers , The general behavioural climate prevailing in
the manager-employee relationship , The evolution of the thinking and
behaviour of the management and the managers alike
Your Answer The general behavioural climate prevailing in the
manager-employee relationship , The evolution of the thinking and behaviour
of the management and the managers alike , The many roles that employees
perform have affect on the behaviours of each other

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Question In which organization models, managers did not bother to
create an atmosphere which was conducive to the development of the
employees?
Correct Answer Autocratic , Custodial
Your Answer Autocratic

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Question Select the needs which are discussed by the need hierarch
theory.
Correct Answer Physiological needs , Security needs , Self
realization needs
Your Answer Physiological needs , Security needs , Self realization
needs

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Question The ________ job loading is also known as job enlargement.
Correct Answer Horizontal
Your Answer Vertical

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Question Which of the given factors are also known as dissatisfiers?
Correct Answer Hygiene factors
Your Answer Social factors
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Question What is the other name for vertical job loading?
Correct Answer Job enrichment
Your Answer Job enrichment

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Question State the drawback of Vroom's theory.
Correct Answer Does not provide specific solution to the
motivational problems
Your Answer Does not provide specific solution to the motivational
problems

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Question which theory assumes that the manager's role is to coerce
and control employees?
Correct Answer Theory X
Your Answer Theory X

True/False
Question While physiological need have a reference to the future, the
safety needs take care of the present.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer True

True/False
Question the social needs are so strong that even the cruelest
criminals dread the punishment of solitary confinement.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True

True/False
Question According to Herzberg's factor, hygiene factor for one
employee is the hygiene factor for all the employees within the
organization.
Correct Answer False
Your Answer True

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Question Organizational________represents a complex pattern of
beliefs, expectations, ideas, values and attitudes shared by the members of
the organization.
Correct Answer culture
Your Answer culture

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Question Internal integration involves addressing the issue of:
Correct Answer Determining rules related to power and status
Your Answer Determining rules related to power and status

True/False
Question Organization culture and performance is directly related.
Correct Answer True
Your Answer True

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Question An important factor in implementing rest pauses lies in its-
Correct Answer placement
Your Answer placement