A study of human behavior in organizational settings is
1.Individual behavior
2.Group behavior
3.Organizational behavior
4.None of these
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According to Katz, when managers have the mental ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations, they possess skills.
1.Technical
2.Leadership
3.problem-solving
4.conceptual
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According to Mintzberg, one of management's interpersonal roles is.
1.spokesperson
2.leader
3.Negotiator
4.monitor
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According to operant conditioning, when behaviour is not reinforced, what happens to the probability of that behaviour occurring again?
1.It increases.
2.It declines.
3.It remains unchanged.
4.It becomes zero.
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According to _______ employees love work as play or rest
1.X theory
2.Y theory
3.Z theory
4.None of these
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As a manager, one of James's duties is to present awards to outstanding employees within his department. Which Mintzberg managerial role is James acting in when he does this?
1.leadership role
2.liaison role
3.monitor role
4.figurehead role
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As per Stimulus-Response Model, input for behaviour process is
1.Drive
2.Organism
3.Stimuli
4.Response
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Basis of "Collegial Model of OB is
1.Economic resources
2.Power
3.Leadership
4.Partnership
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Behaviour, power, and conflict are central areas of study for _________
1.sociologist
2.Anthropologists
3.Social psychologists
4.Operations analysts
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Believes, attitudes, traditions and expectations which are shared by group members is called
1.Group norms
2.Group communication
3.Group cohesiveness
4.Group structure
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Concept of MBO was introduced by:
1.Peter. F.Drucker
2.Mary Parker
3.Henry Fayol
4.Philip Kotler
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Dual structure approach of motivation is developed by
1.Maslow
2.F. Herzberg
3.Alderfer
4.Mc Gregor
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Employees needs met by Supportive Model is
1.Subsistence
2.Security
3.Status and Recognition
4.Self-actualization
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Experiments performed by Ivan Pavlov led to what theory?
1.classical conditioning
2.operant conditioning
3.social learning
4.behavior shaping
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If everyone who is faced with a similar situation responds in the same way, attribution theory states that the behaviour shows ______
1.Consensus
2.Similarity
3.Reliability
4.Consistency
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In attribution theory, what is distinctiveness?
1.whether an individual displays consistent behaviors in different situations
2.whether an individual displays different behaviors in different situations
3.whether an individual displays consistent behaviors in similar situations
4.whether an individual displays different behaviors in similar situations
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LMr. Manoj, Manager ABC Company found that skills of workers and machinery used by them as compared to the competitors in the market are obsolete within a year, which type of challenge ABC Company is facing?
1.High Quality and Low Quality
2.Globalization and Culture
3.Rapid Pace of Change
4.Multiple Stakeholders
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Managerial orientation of "Autocratic Model" of OB is
1.Authority
2.Money
3.Support
4.Teamwork
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Organization Behavior is
1.An interdisciplinary approach
2.A humanistic approach
3.Total system approach
4.All of these
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Organization Behavior is not a /an
1.A separate field of study
2.Applied science
3.Normative science
4.Pessimistic approach
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Path-goal model of Leadership was introduced by
1.Martin Evans & Robert House
2.Fred Fielder
3.Whetton
4.Cameron
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Porter Lawler Model is an extension of
1.Maslow's theory
2.Mc Clelland's theory
3.Stacy Adams theory
4.Vroom's theory
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Psychology's major contributions to the field of organizational behavior have been primarily at what level of analysis?
1.the level of the group
2.the level of the individual
3.the level of the organization
4.the level of the culture
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Raju believes that men perform better in oral presentations than women. What shortcut has been used in this case?
1.The halo effect
2.The contrast effect
3.Projection
4.Stereotyping
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Some people strongly believe that each person have control of his own life. This is
1.extroversion
2.conscientiousness
3.internal locus of control
4.external locus of control
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The application of reinforcement concepts to individuals in the work setting is referred to as
1.classical conditioning
2.self-management
3.Reengineering
4.OB Mod
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The subject of organizational culture has been most influenced by which behavioural science discipline?
1.Anthropology
2.Psychology
3.social psychology
4.political science
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What role did the meat play in Pavlov's experiment with dogs?
1.an unconditioned response
2.a conditioned stimulus
3.a conditioned response
4.an unconditioned stimulus
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What sort of actions is most likely to be attributed to external causes?
1.Actions that have high distinctiveness, high consensus and high consistency
2.Actions that have high distinctiveness, high consensus and low consistency
3.Actions that have high distinctiveness, low consensus and low consistency
4.Actions that have low distinctiveness, low consistency and high consensus
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What term is used for the extent to which an individual displays different behaviours in different situations?
1.continuity
2.integrity
3.flexibility
4.distinctiveness
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Which dimension of Big 5 personality traits represents artistically sensitive, refined etc.
1.Culture
2.Emotional stability
3.Conscientiousness
4.Extroversion
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Which of the following is an environmental force that shapes personality?
1.Gender
2.Height
3.Experience
4.Brain size
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Which of the following is most likely to be a belief held by a successful manager?
1.Technical knowledge is all that is needed for success.
2.It is not essential to have sound interpersonal skills.
3.Technical skills are necessary, but insufficient alone for success.
4.Effectiveness is not impacted by human behavior.
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Which of the following is not a contingency theory of leadership
1.LPC theory
2.Path Goal theory
3.Vroom-Yetton-Jago theory
4.Job centered Leadership
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Which of the following is NOT an important issue relating to goal-setting theory?
1.Goal specificity
2.Equity among workers
3.Feedback
4.Defining the goal
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Which of the following is/are not job related source of stress
1.Role ambiguity
2.Role overload
3.Ethical dilemmas
4.Career concerns
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Which of the following is/are not organizational factors causing stress
1.Task demand
2.Role demand
3.Role conflict
4.Satisfaction
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Which of the following is/are the key features of organization
1.Social invention
2.Accomplishing goals
3.Group efforts
4.All of these
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Which of the following OB topics is not central to managing employees' fears about terrorism?
1.Emotion
2.Motivation
3.Communication
4.work design
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Which organization theory can be understood by IF and THEN relationship
1.System approach
2.Contingency approach
3.Process approach
4.Scientific approach
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While the Functions, Roles, Skills, and Activities approaches to management all differ, they all recognize that effective and successful managers must develop which of the following?
1.People skills
2.technical skills
3.Efficiency
4.entrepreneurialism
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Who said "Give me a child at birth and I can make him into anything you want"?
1.B.F. Skinner
2.Ivan Pavlov
3.Sigmund Freud
4.James Emery
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____ refers to the network of personal and social relations that is developed spontaneously between people associated with each other.
1.Formal organization
2.Informal organization
3.Business organization
4.Government organization
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______ are social inventions for accomplishing goals through group efforts"
1.Management
2.Organization
3.Leadership
4.Behavior
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______ are those factors that exists in the environment as perceived by the individual
1.Physiological drive
2.Psychological drive
3.Cue stimuli
4.Reinforcement
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______ is "the reactions of individuals to new or threatening factors in their work environments"
1.Attitude
2.Stress
3.Dissonance
4.Disappointment
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______ is the process of screening out information that we are uncomfortable with or that contradict to our beliefs
1.Perceptual context
2.Selective perception
3.Halo effect
4.Stereotyping
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________ indicates the level of uncertainty that people can tolerate to work efficiently without experiencing undue stress
1.Risk propensity
2.Authoritarianism
3.Tolerance for ambiguity
4.Workahollism
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________ persons are easy going people and do not feel time urgency
1.Authoritarianism
2.Dogmatism
3.Type A
4.Type B
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__________ leader is self confident and can attract followers by his great influence
1.Charismatic
2.Autocratic
3.Laissez-faire
4.Bureaucratic
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