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Individual Behavioural Dynamics

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Assignment 0 2) Who are the potential beneficiaries of a course in Organizational Behaviour? 1 point
(assessment?
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Management Students
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Psychology students

Week 2 () All of the above

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False
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True
Week 9 ()
4) Perception, learning and personality are attributes of Individual Behavioural 1 point
Dynamics.
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True
Week 11 () False

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5) The process of giving meaning to sensory stimuli through organizing and 1 point
Books ()
interpreting is called:

Transcripts () Sensation
Perception
Sublimation
Organization

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Perception

6) Organizational structure is a part of Interpersonal and Group dynamics. 1 point

True
False

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False

7) People differ in their level of trustworthiness. 1 point

True
False

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True

8) Which field can be called as the mother of Organizational behaviour? 1 point

Anthropology
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Industrial Psychology
Law

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Industrial Psychology

9) Perception is highly objective. 1 point

True
False

No, the answer is incorrect.

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False

10) More output for less input or being able to provide optimal output for a given input is 1 point
called:

Effectiveness
Productivity
Efficiency
Motivation

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 Organizational Behaviour
Week 1 Assignment

1. Which of the following is not an organization?

a. TATA Steels
b. UNICEF
c. Facebook Inc.
d. Germany
Answer: d) Germany

2. Hawthorne experiments were a set of experiments conducted to study the impact of

assembly lines on the health of the workers.
a. True
b. False
Answer: b) False

3. Response of the organism or system to various stimuli or inputs, whether internal or

external, conscious or subconscious, overt or covert, voluntary or involuntary is called:
a. Organization
b. Behaviour
c. Resource
d. Productivity
Answer: b) Behaviour

4. The social expectation on an individual is called:

a. Role
b. Designation
c. Job
d. Task
Answer: a) Role

5. More output for less input or being able to provide optimal output for a given input is
called:
a. Effectiveness
b. Productivity
c. Efficiency
d. Motivation
Answer: c) Efficiency
6. Which field can be called as the mother of Organizational behaviour?
a. Anthropology
b. Economics
c. Industrial Psychology
d. Law
Answer: c) Industrial Psychology

7. In an experiment, the group in which you make no changes is called the:

a. Experimental Group
b. Focus Group
c. Control Group
d. Target Group
Answer: c) Control Group

8. The scientific management movement was pioneered by:

a. Walter Dill Scott
b. Edward K Strong Jr.
c. Hugo Munsterberg
d. Frederick W Taylor
Answer: d) Frederick W Taylor

9. Henry Ford first introduced the assembly line of production.

a. True
b. False
Answer: a) True

10. The process of breaking down the entire job into specific tasks and see how each of these
tasks are performed and how much time on an average a person will take to finish it is
called:
a. Time and Motion Study
b. Workplace management
c. Job Profile
d. Productivity
Answer: a) Time and Motion Study
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1) The tendency to attribute others’ action to internal causes while largely ignoring 1 point
external factors is called:
How does an
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Team-Halo effect
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Fundamental attribution error
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Similar-to-me effect
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Fundamental attribution error
Week 2 ()
2) The process of giving meaning to sensory stimuli through organizing and 1 point
Perception - interpreting is called:
Part 1 (unit?
unit=25&lesso Sensation
n=26)
Perception
Perception - Sublimation
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Organization
unit=25&lesso
n=27) Yes, the answer is correct.
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Part 3 (unit? Perception
unit=25&lesso
n=28)
3) Perception is highly objective. 1 point

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Perception - True
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False
unit=25&lesso
n=29) Yes, the answer is correct.
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Materials False
(unit?
unit=25&lesso 4) Which of the following is an internal factor that influence the principles of perceptual 1 point
n=30) selection?

Practice: Non- Contrast

Graded :
Repetition
Assignment 2
(assessment? Motion
name=145) Habit
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(assessment? Habit
name=159)

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In the above picture, we tend to see columns of dots due to a perceptual grouping effect called:
Week 4 ()
Similarity
Week 5 () Proximity
Continuity
Week 6 ()
Symmetry

Week 7 () Yes, the answer is correct.

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Week 8 () Proximity

Week 9 ()

Week 10 ()

Week 11 ()

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Books ()

Transcripts ()

In the above image, one can still perceive the opening door to be of a rectangle shape due to:

Figure-Ground Perception
Optical Illusions
Perceptual Constancy
Social Perception
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Perceptual Constancy

7) According to Kelley’s theory of causal attribution, the extent to which other people 1 point
behave in the same manner as the person we are judging is called:

Consensus
Consistency
Distinctiveness
Identity

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8) The word “Carpenter” immediately brings in to memory the image of a male 1 point
individual rather than a female individual. This is an example of a job stereotype.

True
False

Yes, the answer is correct.

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True

9) There are many women at the bottom and middle level management roles but only a1 point
very few make it to the top. This is due to:

Impression Management techniques

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Pygmalion effect
Glass-ceiling effect

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10) The process through which individuals attempt to determine the causes behind 1 point
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True
False

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 Organizational Behaviour
Week 3 Assignment

1. In social learning theory, the withdrawal of something which somebody likes to

strengthen a behaviour is called:
a. Negative Reinforcement
b. Positive Reinforcement
c. Reward
d. Punishment
Answer: a) Negative Reinforcement

2. In Johari’s Window model of self-awareness, the part of the self which is not known to
ourselves, but others know is called:
a. Open
b. Blind
c. Hidden
d. Unknown
Answer: b) Blind

3. The meaning of the Latin word ‘Persona’ from which the word Personality arises is:
a. Behaviour
b. Mask
c. Thought
d. Person
Answer: b) Mask

4. Many psychologists argue that one’s personality can be changed over a period of time
because those qualities are formed because of social factors.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a) True

5. According to Big Five Personality Theory, people who like to experiment and try and
find out new things and are less judgmental about people of other cultures are high on:
a. Adjustment
b. Agreeableness
c. Conscientiousness
d. Intellectual Openness
Answer: d) Intellectual Openness
6. According to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, the deepest level of consciousness
is:
a. Subconscious
b. Conscious state
c. Unconscious
d. Awareness
Answer: c) Unconscious

7. According to Sigmund Freud, reality principle is followed by:

a. Id
b. Super Ego
c. Dream
d. Ego
Answer: d) Ego

8. The main proponent of Self Theory was:

a. Sigmund Freud
b. Albert Bandura
c. Carl Rogers
d. B.F. Skinner
Answer: c) Carl Rogers

9. Employees with high self-esteem are more ready to take responsibilities.

a. True
b. False
Answer: a) True

10. People with _______ locus of control believe that others control their life and whatever
happens in their life is because of outside factors.
a. Internal
b. External
Answer: b) External
 Organizational Behaviour
Week 4 Assignment

1. In Pavlov’s Dog experiment, the food presented which makes the dog salivate is:
a. Unconditional stimulus
b. Unconditional response
c. Conditioned stimulus
d. Conditioned response
Answer: a) Unconditional stimulus

2. __________ are evaluative statements towards objects, people or events.

a. Learning
b. Attitudes
c. Memory
d. Personality
Answer: b) attitudes

3. A relatively permanent change in behaviour occurring as a result of experience is called

a. Thinking
b. Sensation
c. Learning
d. Prejudice
Answer: c) Learning

4. Providing more information can lead to change in attitude.

a. True
b. False
Answer: a) True.

5. In Operant conditioning, the process through which the responses that are no longer
reinforced tend to gradually diminish in strength is called:
a. Positive reinforcement
b. Negative Reinforcement
c. Punishment
d. Extinction
Answer: d) Extinction
6. After watching a Dance TV show, a kid starts to make dance moves. This is an example
of:
a. Operant conditioning
b. Classical conditioning
c. Observational learning
d. Negative Reinforcement
Answer: c) Observational learning

7. Opinion is primarily _______ in nature.

a. Affective
b. Cognitive
c. Behavioural
d. Unconscious
Answer: b) Cognitive

8. The intensity of an attitude or the magnitude/degree of its favorableness is called

a. Multiplexity
b. Relation to need
c. Centrality
d. Valence
Answer: d) Valence

9. When people do not provide honest answers to certain questions because they feel that it
is not right to give those answers, it is called:
a. Social Loafing
b. Fatigue
c. Social Desirability Effect
d. Sampling
Answer: c) Social Desirability Effect

10. Uncomfortable tension which comes from holding two conflicting thoughts in the mind at
the same time is called Cognitive Dissonance.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a) True
 Organizational Behaviour
Week 5 Assignment

1. When John failed his driving license test, he starts to remember how his friends used to
tease him saying he was not a good driver. This is an example of:
a. Work-family spillover effect
b. Emotional dissonance
c. Empathy
d. Mood congruence effect
Answer: d) Mood congruence effect

2. The stress which happens because of positive incidences is called:

a. Distress
b. Eustress
c. Hypo-stress
d. Hyper work stress
Answer: b) Eustress

3. An unfocused, relatively mild feeling that exists as background to our daily experience is
called:
a. Behaviour
b. Perception
c. Mood
d. Envy
Answer: c) Mood

4. The psychological effort involved in holding back one’s true emotions is called:
a. Emotional dissonance
b. Emotional labor
c. Emotional Attachment
d. Temperament
Answer: b) Emotional labor

5. Threat-based aggression can stem from both a real stimulus or a perceived stimulus.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a) True
6. ___________ is when you have a goal and you are moving towards that goal and you feel
that something or someone is stopping you from reaching that goal.
a. Threat-based aggression
b. Instrumental aggression
c. Irritable aggression
d. Frustration-based aggression
Answer: d) Frustration-based aggression

7. Fear of being rejected is one of the main reasons that make people non-assertive.
a. True
b. False
Answer; a) True

8. The feeling of completely tired and exhausted when you are stressed for a very long time
accompanied by lack of meaning is called:
a. Burnout
b. Absenteeism
c. Hypo stress
d. Alarm-reaction
Answer: a) Burnout

9. What are the behavioural symptoms of stress?

a. Low productivity
b. Interpersonal conflicts
c. Suicidal tendencies
d. All of the above
Answer: d) all of the above

10. __________ is a mild form of hate.

a. Guilt
b. Humiliation
c. Resentment
d. Shame
Answer: c) Resentment
 Organizational Behaviour
Week 6 Assignment

1. John had applied for several jobs after graduation. One day he received a job offer from
Tata Motors and Mahindra Group, both of which he loved to work. The conflict Mr. John
is facing in selecting one job is called:
a. Role Conflict
b. Approach-avoidance conflict
c. Approach-approach conflict
d. Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Answer: c) Approach-approach conflict

2. ___________ is the willingness of a person to put high levels of efforts to reach a goal.
a. Emotions
b. Motivation
c. Frustration
d. Incentives
Answer: b) Motivation

3. The need to be part of a group is categorized as:

a. Achievement motive
b. Affiliation motive
c. Power motive
d. Role conflict
Answer: b) Affiliation motive

4. Money is a form of extrinsic motivation.

a. True
b. False
Answer: a) True

5. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the highest level of needs one can achieve is:
a. Self-actualization
b. Social Needs
c. Esteem needs
d. Safety needs
Answer: a) Self-actualization
6. According to Herzberg’s two-factor theory of motivation, pay and security provided by a
job is a Motivator.
a. True
b. False
Answer: b) False

7. In Alderfer’s ERG theory of motivation, R stands for

a. Reputation
b. Regression
c. Resilience
d. Relatedness
Answer: d) Relatedness

8. ____________ means that employees feel that the organization treats its employees in a
fair manner and a just way.
a. Intra-personal conflict.
b. Self-esteem
c. Power motive
d. Organizational Justice Climate
Answer: d) Organizational Justice Climate

9. __________ is when you are moving towards a certain goal, but certain barriers are
stopping you from achieving that goal.
a. Goal conflict
b. Role conflict
c. Frustration
d. Satisfaction
Answer: c) Frustration

10. One of the drawbacks of using money as a motivator is that it can reduce extra-role
performance.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a) True
 Organizational Behaviour: Week 7 Assignment

1. Two parties working towards shared goals for mutual benefit

a. Cooperation
b. Altruism
c. Competition
d. All of the above
Answer: a) cooperation

2. The perceptions and expectations about mutual obligations in a relationship is called:

a. Legal Contract
b. Financial Contract
c. Psychological Contract
d. None of the above
Answer: c) psychological contract

3. The type of trust that is established based on the credibility of a person, for e.g. trusting
the doctor:
a. Trust based on familiarity
b. Swift trust
c. Trust based on similarity
d. Trust based on social networks
Answer: b) swift trust

4. In a transactional contract, the focus is on a long term and widely defined relationship
a. True
b. False
Answer: b) false

5. The characteristic of being kind and respectful towards others is:

a. Conscientiousness
b. Sportsmanship
c. Civic virtue
d. Courtesy
Answer: d) courtesy

6. People who focus on minimizing the difference in comparison to others

a. Individualists
b. Cooperators
c. Equalizers
 d. Competitors
Answer: c) Equalizers

7. Which of the following reasons can lead to conflicts between two parties or individuals :
a. Values
b. Individual differences
c. Job Design
d. All of the above
Answer: d) all of the above

8. Conflicts arising out of disagreement on strategy and sharing of responsibilities and

resources are called process conflicts
a. True
b. False
Answer: a) True

9. Which conflict handling style is the best for both the parties involved?
a. Competing
b. Avoiding
c. Accommodating
d. Collaborating
Answer: d) Collaborating

10. To empathize means trying to understand the problem from the other person’s point of
view
a. True
b. False
Answer: a) True
 Organizational Behaviour: Week 8 Assignment

1. Which of the following is a way to handle hidden profile paradigm?

a. Minimize status difference
b. Suspending initial judgement
c. Build trust
d. All of the above
Answer: d) All of the above

2. Converting a message into symbols is called:

a. Channel
b. Decoding
c. Encoding
d. Noise
Answer: c) Encoding

3. People with amiable communication style are very enthusiastic and use a lot of nonverbal
communication gestures
a. True
b. False
Answer: b) False

4. Which one of the following is not a communication style?

a. Receiver
b. Animated
c. Driver
d. Analytical
Answer: a) Receiver

5. The study of the role of body movements such as winking in communication:

a. Proxemics
b. Silence
c. Kinesics
d. Emphasis
Answer: c) Kinesics

6. In Western culture, silence is often interpreted as an inability to comprehend what is

being said
 a. True
b. False
Answer: a. True

7. Any disturbance that interfere with the transmission, receipt or feedback of the message
is
a. Vocal Cues
b. Inflection
c. Noise
d. Paralinguistic communication
Answer: c) Noise

8. The problematic scenario in information sharing in teams is

a. Distributed partial overlap
b. Fully shared case
c. Non overlapping case
Answer: a) Distributed partial overlap

9. Maintaining and distributing minutes of the meeting is helpful in reducing

miscommunication in team meetings
a. True
b. False
Answer: a) True

10. What is the minimum number of individuals required for a communication to take place?
a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. More than three
Answer: b) Two
 Organizational Behaviour: Week 9 Assignment

1. The tendency to be overly influenced by stereotypes in making judgements about the

likelihood of occurances
a. Prospect theory
b. Framing
c. Procrastination
d. Representativeness
Answer: d) Representativeness

2. Making the smallest response possible that will reduce the problem to at least a tolerable
level is called incremental approach
a. True
b. False
Answer: a) True

3. The concept of Bounded Rationality was introduced by

a. Daniel Kahneman
b. Frederick Taylor
c. Herbert Simon
d. none of the above
Answer: c) Herbert Simon

4. A false sense of satisfaction in the current state of affairs even when problems start to
show up is
a. Rationalization
b. Complacency
c. Panic
d. Buck Passing
Answer: b) Complacency

5. The tendency to be influenced by an initial figure, even when the information is largely
irrelevant is
a. Availability bias
b. Overconfidence
c. Anchoring and adjustment bias
d. Confirmation bias
Answer: c) Anchoring and adjustment bias
6. When a team comes together and is managed well, it can lead to the best output from
each of the team members. This is called synergy.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a) True

7. The correct serial order of stages in decision making is

i. Discussion
ii. Decision Making
iii. Orientation
iv. Implementation

a. iii, i, ii, iv
b. i, iii, iv, ii
c. iii, ii, i, iv
d. i, ii, iv
Answer: a) iii, i, ii, iv

8. Ringi Technique is a Japanese group decision-making technique

a. True
b. False
Answer: a) True

9. Symptom(s) of Groupthink are:

a. Overestimation
b. Close-mindedness
c. Pressures toward uniformity
d. All of the above
Answer: d) all of the above

10. When the sunk costs are very high, escalation of commitment decreases
a. True
b. False
Answer: b) False
 Organizational Behaviour: Week 10 Assignment

1. The type of leadership style where the leader encourages decision making from different
perspectives and tries to include everyone
a. Autocratic
b. Democratic
c. Laissez-faire
d. Paternalistic
Answer: b) Democratic

2. The capacity to change the behaviour of others in a desired manner is called Power
a. True
b. False
Answer: a) True

3. The source of power that is derived from rare skills and abilities acquired
a. Legitimate
b. Reward
c. Coercive
d. Expert
Answer: d) Expert

4. Which of the following is a form of political behaviour in an organization

a. Blaming
b. Impression management
c. Manipulating information flow
d. All of the above
Answer: d) all of the above

5. Some features of a leader as opposed to a manager are maintaining status quo, focusing
on bottom line and relying on control
a. True
b. False
Answer: b) False

6. The ideal case in Blake Mourton Managerial Grid of Leadership style is

a. Country Club
b. Impoverished
 c. Team Leader
d. Produce or perish
Answer: c) Team Leader

7. The three factors to be taken into consideration as per Fiedler’s theory are task structure,
leader member relations and positional power
a. True
b. False
Answer: a) True

8. The theory which states that the subordinates will be motivated to follow the leader only
when they perceive that the leader can help them to fulfil their goals
a. Fiedler’s Model
b. Path- goal Theory
c. Hersey and Blanchard’s situational leadership theory
d. Trait theory
Answer: b) Path- goal Theory

9. In Hersey and Blanchard’s theory, which leadership style should be adopted when the
subordinates are in an M3 level of maturity:
a. Delegating
b. Participating
c. Selling
d. Telling
Answer: b) participating

10. Mother Theresa is an example of servant leadership

a. True
b. False
Answer: a) true
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How does an Mundane Task

NPTEL Perceived low instrumentality
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course
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Yes, the answer is correct.

Week 0 () Score: 1
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Week 2 () 2) Groups are special type of teams where people work interdependently. 1 point

True
Week 3 ()
False
Week 4 () Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Week 5 () Accepted Answers:
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3) Which of the following is a reason for people to form groups? 1 point
Week 7 ()
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Week 8 () Affiliation
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4) According to Tuckman and Jensen (1977), which is the correct order in the evolution 1 point
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of teams over time:
Group
(i) Storming
Dynamics - (ii) Forming
Part 1 (unit? (iii) Performing
unit=94&lesso (iv) Norming
n=95) (v) Adjourning

Group
i, ii, iii, iv, v
Dynamics -
Part 2 (unit? i, iv, ii, iii, v
unit=94&lesso ii, i, iv, iii, v
n=96)
none of the above
Group Yes, the answer is correct.
Dynamics - Score: 1
Part 3 (unit? Accepted Answers:
unit=94&lesso ii, i, iv, iii, v
n=97)

Organizational 5) The stage of group development at which unwritten rules for teams are established: 1 point
Culture - Part
1 (unit? Norming
unit=94&lesso Storming
n=98)
Forming
Organizational Adjourning
Culture - Part
2 (unit? Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
unit=94&lesso
n=99)
Accepted Answers:
Norming
Lecture
materials 6) One main reason for free-riding in groups is the diffusion of responsibility 1 point
(unit?
unit=94&lesso True
n=100)
False
Practice: Non-
Yes, the answer is correct.
Graded : Score: 1
Assignment 11
Accepted Answers:
(assessment?
True
name=152)

Quiz: Week 11 7) Culture is defined as the ways of thinking, behaving, and believing that members of 1 point
: Assignment a social unit have in common.
11
(assessment? True
name=176)
False
Week 11 Yes, the answer is correct.
Feedback Score: 1
Form: Accepted Answers:
Organizational True
Behaviour

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(unit? 8) An Organization in which its culture is driven by the motive for control: 1 point
unit=94&lesso
n=101) Educational Institution
Community service organizations
Week 12 ()
Bureaucracy
Download Clubs
Videos () Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Books () Accepted Answers:
Bureaucracy
Transcripts ()
9) Which of the following is the source of organizational culture: 1 point

Selection Practices
Socialization Methods
Actions of top Management
Founder’s vision/mission/attitudes

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Founder’s vision/mission/attitudes

10) The choice of office furniture in an organization is an expression of its organizational 1 point
culture

True
False

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
True

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outline
1) The degree to which the authority to make discretionary choices is concentrated in 1 point
an individual, unit or level is called
How does an
NPTEL Formalization
online
Integration
course
Centralization
work? ()
Standardization
Week 0 () Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Week 1 () Accepted Answers:
Centralization
Week 2 ()
2) A change which happens very slowly and on its own is called revolutionary change. 1 point
Week 3 ()
True

Week 4 () False

Yes, the answer is correct.

Week 5 () Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Week 6 () False

Week 7 () 3) An organization is about to make a major change. However, a dispute arises 1 point
between the Finance department and the HR department of the organization as the former
Week 8 () supports the change while the latter opposes it due to the kind of new processes that has to
introduced. What level of resistance to change does this signify?

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Week 9 () Organizational Level

Group Level
Week 10 () Functional Level
Individual Level
Week 11 ()
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Week 12 ()
Accepted Answers:
Functional Level
Organizational
Change (unit? 4) Indian Railways having different zones like Northern Railway, Central Railway, etc., 1 point
unit=102&less is an example of:
on=103)
Horizontal Differentiation
Organizational
Structure - Spatial Differentiation
Part 1 (unit? Vertical Differentiation
unit=102&less
None of the above
on=104)
Yes, the answer is correct.
Organizational Score: 1
Structure -
Accepted Answers:
Part 2 (unit?
Spatial Differentiation
unit=102&less
on=105)
5) Setting up more common resources like common mess area for all employees will 1 point
Organizational help to create
Structure -
Part 3 (unit? Horizontal coordination
unit=102&less
Vertical Coordination
on=106)
Spatial Coordination
Lecture
Span of control
materials
(unit? Yes, the answer is correct.
unit=102&less Score: 1
on=107) Accepted Answers:
Horizontal coordination
Week 12
Feedback
6) Formalization is the existence of written policies, rules, procedures, job descriptions 1 point
Form:
Organizational
and other process documents in an organization
Behaviour
True
(unit?
unit=102&less False
on=108)
Yes, the answer is correct.
Practice: Non-
Score: 1
Graded : Accepted Answers:
Assignment 12 True
(assessment?
name=153) 7) Decentralization can provide more input into decision-making 1 point

Quiz: Week True

12 :
Assignment
False
12 Yes, the answer is correct.
(assessment?
name=182)
S 1

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Score: 1
Download Accepted Answers:
Videos () True

Books () 8) The first stage of an organization according to life-cycle perspective is 1 point

Collectivity stage
Transcripts ()
Formalization-and-control stage
Elaboration-of-structure stage
Entrepreneurial stage

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Entrepreneurial stage

9) An important feature of life-cycle perspective is that it sees organization as an 1 point

organism

True
False

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
True

10) A set of interrelated and interdependent parts arranged in a manner that produces a 1 point
unified whole is called

Differentiation
Norms
System
Formalization

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
System

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