Organizational Behaviour - A07

   
 
   LIST OF ATTEMPTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
   
 Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
  Question   Factors important for creating a favourable work environment are
  Correct Answer   playing of soft music , adequate illumination , a soothing colour scheme
  Your Answer   playing of soft music , adequate illumination , a soothing colour scheme
 
 Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
  Question   The different types of fatigue are
  Correct Answer   mental , physical , psychological
  Your Answer   mental , physical , psychological
 
 True/False
  Question   A manager can be effective by just having a sound knowledge of his area of work
  Correct Answer   False
  Your Answer   False
 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  Question   Noise is regarded as a distracter, because it interferes with/affects-
  Correct Answer   work efficiency
  Your Answer   work efficiency
 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  Question   People always bring something of their own to the situation. This something is known as
  Correct Answer   Personality
  Your Answer   Personality
 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  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
 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  Question   It is important to study personality because it helps
  Correct Answer   To understand, predict and control behaviour in the organization.
  Your Answer   To understand, predict and control behaviour in the organization.
 
 Select The Blank
  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   behavior
 
 Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
  Question   Characteristics of entrepreneurial culture are
  Correct Answer   Taking risks , Dynamism , Creativity
  Your Answer   Taking risks , Dynamism , Creativity
 
 True/False
  Question   The challenge relating to management of change can be met only with effective leadership.
  Correct Answer   True
  Your Answer   False
 
 Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
  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
 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  Question   Structure of human mind which distinguish between mental images and actual sources of tension is known as
  Correct Answer   Ego
  Your Answer   Id
 
 Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
  Question   The features of team empowerment are as follows:
  Correct Answer   Potency , Autonomy , Impact
  Your Answer   Potency , Autonomy , Impact
 
 True/False
  Question   Organisations are defined as group of people, who come together to achieve uncommon objectives.
  Correct Answer   False
  Your Answer   True
 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  Question   A manager can take corrective action in time if he is able to understand which of the given indicators?
  Correct Answer   Morale
  Your Answer   Morale
 
 True/False
  Question   Whatever an individual does, there is always some sort and some amount of stress on him.
  Correct Answer   True
  Your Answer   True
 
 Match The Following
Question - Correct Answer, Your Answer

Some people tend to be problem oriented - When exposed to tension producing situation, When exposed to tensions and anxieties.

Some people deals with the emotional experience - When exposed to tensions and anxieties, Sympathy and supportive responses.

Some people arouse hospitality and aggression in their associates - Sympathy and supportive responses, While others swamp in the similar circumstances.

Some people encourage and others discourage -  Free and open communication in view of their personality traits, When exposed to tension producing situation

Some people tolerate severely stressful situation -  While others swamp in the similar circumstances, Free and open communication in view of their personality traits.

 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  Question   Which theory assumes that the manager's role is to coerce and control employees?
  Correct Answer   Theory X
  Your Answer   Theory X
 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  Question   One of the factors which plays critical role to develop personality is
  Correct Answer   Environment at home
  Your Answer   Environment at home
 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  Question   The great depression contributed to the rise of:
  Correct Answer   Human relations movement
  Your Answer   Human relations movement
 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  Question   Human being is described as “basically a battlefield” in the context to
  Correct Answer   Freud’s theory of personality
  Your Answer   Freud’s theory of personality
 
 Select The Blank
  Question   Decrease in productivity and increase in interpersonal conflicts are some of the ________ symptoms of stress.
  Correct Answer   Behavioral
  Your Answer   Behavioral
 
 Select The Blank
  Question   ________ are the rules of pattern and behaviour that are expected from all team members.
  Correct Answer   Norms
  Your Answer   Norms
 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  Question   Internal integration involves addressing the issue of:
  Correct Answer   Determining rules related to power and status
  Your Answer   Setting specific goals
 
 Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
  Question   Select the organizational stressors which are intrinsic to the job.
  Correct Answer   Boredom , Time pressures and deadlines , Exorbitant work demands
  Your Answer   Boredom , Time pressures and deadlines , Exorbitant work demands
 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  Question   Personality is the organization of
  Correct Answer   An individual’s “personal pattern of tendencies”.
  Your Answer   An individual’s “personal pattern of tendencies”.
 
 Select The Blank
  Question   According to Peter F.Drucker, the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise is ________.
  Correct Answer   Business leaders
  Your Answer   Business leaders
 
 Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
  Question   The broad categories of stressors are :
  Correct Answer   Organizational stressors , Personal stressors , Life stressors
  Your Answer   Organizational stressors , Personal stressors , Life stressors
 
 True/False
  Question   Negative style of leadership involves lesser human costs as compared to the other styles.
  Correct Answer   False
  Your Answer   False
 
 Select The Blank
  Question   On the managerial grid, a manager falling in the ________ category will have maximum concern for both people and production.
  Correct Answer   9.9
  Your Answer   9.9
 
 True/False
  Question   Over million of years, with change in the lifestyle, the body chemistry has also changed.
  Correct Answer   False
  Your Answer   True
 
 Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
  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
 
 Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
  Question   Behavioural scientists are focusing their attention on
  Correct Answer   Organizational adaptability , Relationship of organizational structure to human behaviour , Decision making
  Your Answer   Organizational adaptability , Relationship of organizational structure to human behaviour , Decision making
 
 Select The Blank
  Question   The hypo stress is often experienced by ________ people.
  Correct Answer   Retired
  Your Answer   Retired
 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  Question   Multiple Choice Single Response
  Correct Answer   Leader
  Your Answer   Philosopher
 
 True/False
  Question   The effects of hypo stress are faster than other types and are long lasting in nature.
  Correct Answer   False
  Your Answer   False
 
 Select The Blank
  Question   ________has stated twelve key casual factors that shape a company's culture.
  Correct Answer   David Drennan
  Your Answer   Keith Devis
 
 Match The Following
Question - Correct Answer, Your Answer

Process-oriented remedy to overcome groupthink-  Use subgroups to develop alternatives and compare solutions, Use subgroups to develop alternatives and compare solutions

Organisational remedy to overcome groupthink - Multiple groups examine same issue, Multiple groups examine same issue

Learner-oriented remedy to overcome groupthink - Encourage all members to evaluate ideas critically, Encourage all members to evaluate ideas critically

Member-oriented remedy to overcome groupthink - Make a decision only after all ideas have been evaluated, Make a decision only after all ideas have been evaluated

 
 Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
  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
 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  Question   All the unique traits and patterns of adjustment of the individual is known as
  Correct Answer   Personality
  Your Answer   Personality
 
 Select The Blank
  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
 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  Question   Multiple Choice Single Response
  Correct Answer   Negative
  Your Answer   Participative
 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  Question   Modern psychology personality mean
  Correct Answer   The dynamic organization with in the individual of those psycho-physical systems that determine his unique adjustment to his environment.
  Your Answer   The dynamic organization with in the individual of those psycho-physical systems that determine his unique adjustment to his environment.
 
 Multiple Choice Single Answer
  Question   In Supportive organization model at which level the employee needs are met?
  Correct Answer   Higher-order
  Your Answer   Higher-order
 
 Multiple Choice Multiple Answer
  Question   Select the factors which are treated as motivators by Herzberg in his theory of motivation.
  Correct Answer   Achievement , Possibility of growth , Responsibility
  Your Answer   Achievement , Possibility of growth , Responsibility
 
 True/False
  Question   Cultural elements and their relationships create a pattern that is identical in all organizations.
  Correct Answer   False
  Your Answer   False
 
 Select The Blank
  Question   The two dimensions of leadership which emerged from the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire were 'consideration' and '________'.
  Correct Answer   Initiating structure
  Your Answer   Contemplation
 
 
   Match The Following
Question - Correct Answer

Personality is a stable set of characteristics and tendencies -  That determine those commanlities and differences in the psychological behaviour of people

Monetary rewards, authoritarian leadership style and motivational strategies for performance are ineffective - When applied to intelligent, independent, confident worker.

It is interesting to know that the word “personality” by derivation should mean -  What an individual only appears to be not what he really is.

Personality is the organization of an individuals - Personal pattern of tendencies.

Event in the surrounding environment strongly influence - The way people behave at any particular time, The way people behave at any particular time.


   Question   The attributes such as pulling together related ideas and offering a decision for the group to accept or reject, are related to which of the given task oriented roles?
  Correct Answer   Summarizing
  Your Answer   Summarizing

True/False
  Question   Once the team reaches the performing stage, the team members become familiar with each other.
  Correct Answer   False
  Your Answer   False
 
 True/False
  Question   Only when the team is in the adjourning stage, the relationships between the team members are stabilised.
  Correct Answer   False
  Your Answer   False

Question
Differences in cultural contexts may pose a hurdle to ________ communication in organizations.
Correct Answer Interpersonal
 Your Answer Interpersonal

True/False
  Question   Impersonal written media such as formal reports and bulletins rate as richest communication media.
  Correct Answer   False
  Your Answer   False

  Question   Select the organizational stressors which are intrinsic to the job.
  Correct Answer   Boredom , Time pressures and deadlines , Exorbitant work demands
  Your Answer   Boredom , Time pressures and deadlines , Exorbitant work demands

  Question   The ability to think in terms of models, frameworks, and broad relationships is known as ________ skill.
  Correct Answer   Conceptual
  Your Answer   Technical

   Question   Usually, the subordinates prefer the democratic leader.
  Correct Answer   True
  Your Answer   False

 Question ________groups operating within the work settings exert strong social controls over the work habits and performance of the individual workers.
Correct Answer Informal
Your Answer Informal

 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 branched industrial psychology into guidance on vocational interests


Match The Following
Question Correct Answer Your Answer

Hugo Munsteberg - Industrial accidents

Waller Dill Scot - Industrial psychology

Fred Luthans - Human relations

Frederick Taylor - Scientific management


Question The ________ have failed to meet the goals of prediction and control of organizational behavior.
Correct Answer Expectancy models
Your Answer Procedural theories

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

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

Question Characteristics of entrepreneurial culture are
 Correct Answer Taking risks , Dynamism , Creativity
Your Answer Dynamism , Creativity , Profit orientation

Question Organizational socialization includes
Correct Answer Developing competencies , Developing organizational values , Developing social and working relationship