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MBA executive (Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad)

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1. Which of the following statements is most correct?

Persons with an internal locus of control make more ethical decisions than
others.

2. When an employee remains with a firm because he or she faces

significant exit barriers, this can be characterized as:
Continuance Commitment

3. Which of the following would not be considered a weakness of

expectancy theory?
The values for each construct have been relatively stable over time.

4. Susan was reflecting on Jim's behavior in her recent meeting with Jim regarding
his performance review. Normally Jim is outgoing, sure of himself, and Susan
would consider him high on indicators of CSE. Jim however, was rather subdued
and quiet during the review. Jim's behavior could best be explained as a result of
Jim is a high self-monitor

5. The JDI measures:

Job Satisfaction

6. People may engage in immoral acts or even violent behavior as committed

members of their group when:
There is a loss of individuality

7. Which of the following is considered a key benefit of diversity?

Flexibility and adaptation

8. An ethical theory that emphasizes the nature and characteristics

of an act is:
rule-based

9. Research focusing on the variety of roles within a society or culture highlights

which disciplines contribution to organizational behavior?
Sociology

10. The first discipline to take the modern corporation as the unit of analysis and
emphasize the design, implementation, and coordination of various administrative
and organization systems was:
Management

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11. According to the MBTI a successful top executive is likely to be a/an:

extrovert, sensor, thinker and judger

12. Values reflected in the way individuals actually behave are called:
enacted values

13. Individuals who make external attributions will be more likely to:
develop feelings of incompetence which may lead to depression

14. The belief that performance is connected to rewards is known as:

Instrumentality

15. Equity theory is a/an:

Process approach to motivation

16. When you encounter a warm and personable car salesperson and don't assume
that this behavior reflects the salesperson's personality, you are using which
principle in social perception?
Discounting principle

17. At what stage of group development is the leader's role primarily one of
recognition of the group's achievements?
Performing

18. According to Edgar Schein, the essence of culture is:

Assumptions

19. The primacy effect is also known as:

First-impression error

20. Which of the following personality types would most likely display the most
consistent behavior "across situations"?
Low self-monitor

21. Reinvention is the term for creatively applying new technology.

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22. The dynamic process through which the emotions are transferred from one person
to another is called
emotional contagion

23. Corporations and business enterprises tend to subscribe to:

consequential ethics

24. Which of the following conditions would LEAST encourage political activity?
Abundant resources

25. When employees view managers as being overpaid, workers may:

reduce their commitment

26. The establishment of new attitudes, values, and behaviors as the new status quo
is consistent with what stage in Lewin's change model?
Refreezing

27. As a manager that understands the implications of self-esteem on work behavior,

you should:
give them appropriate challenges and opportunities for success

28. Some experts believe that only indivichuals within a team can be creative, but a
professor at Northwestern University suggests that team creativity can be
achieved. Which of the following practices would NOT enhance team creativity?
Conformity

29. Assume you are a senior accounting major. A friend who is taking a Principles of
Accounting course seeks you out for tutorial assistance. This is an example of
Expert power

30. Instrumental values includes

a. Ambition
b. Honesty
c. Self sufficiency
d. All of these

31. The two sets of social benefits available to team or group members includes:
psychological intimacy and integrated involvement

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32. Denise and Teresa are two students in a course on organizational behavior. Denise
outperforms Teresa on the first exam in OB, and Teresa convinces herself that
Denise is not really a good person to compare herself to because Denise is a
psychology major and Teresa is majoring in accounting. Which of the following is
the best explanation for Teresa's reaction?
Teresa's high self -esteem is protecting her from this unfavourable comparison.

33. An effective team exhibits:

Shared Leadership

34. According to the Jungian approach to personality, the basic preference that
reflects what we pay attention to or how we prefer to gather information is:
sensing/intuiting

35. The fit perspective is useful in explaining:

short-term performance

36. The belief that performance is connected to rewards is known as:

instrumentality

37. Modern management practices such as employee management recognition

programs, flexible benefit packages, and stock ownership plans emphasize:
external incentives

38. A "wild turkey in the top management team is:

a devil's advocate who challenges the thinking of the CEO and other top
executives

39. A problem with the behavioral measure for personality would be

the observer's ability to stay focused

40. The study of individual behavior and group dynamics in organizational settings
describes the content of study in:
organizational behavior

41. If you use calculated involvements as a basis for understanding a person's

relationship with a work organization, which of the following would be the best
framework?
Social exchange

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42. Individuals who make external attributions will be more likely to:
develop feelings of incompetence which may lead to depression

43. In research on styles of conflict management, the

Avoiding style was least effective.
44. Job satisfaction and employee performance are likely to be positively related
when:
rewards are valued by employees and are tied directly to performance

45. According to the strategic contingency perspective, which one of the following
factors is NOT a primary factor used to explain differences in power between
departments?
Amount of formal authority given departments
46. Attributional biases implies that managers must:
know as much as possible about individual differences and determine the cause of
behavior and perceived source of responsibility

47. The importance and value placed on a reward in expectancy theory is known as:
Valence

48. Increasing workforce diversity is likely to reduce stereotyping as a barrier to

social perception.

49. A technique that is valuable in its ability to generate a number of independent

judgements without the requirement of a face-to-face meeting is:
the Delphi technique

50. The theories of leadership concerned with identifying the specific leader behaviors
that are most effective in specific leadership situations would be:
Contingency theories

51. As a supervisor of a group of employees, all of whom have an internal locus of

control, you should
allow them considerable leeway in determining how to perform their work.
52. Authentic leaders are characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:
benevolence

53. Escape from conflict by daydreaming is known as:

Fantasy

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54. A defense mechanism in which an individual continues dysfunctional behavior that

will clearly not solve a conflict is known as:
Fixation

55. An example of an internal force for change is:

an increased grievance rate

56. Attribution theory helps to explain causes of behavior in organizations.

57. Self-managed teams are sometimes called autonomous work groups

58. A deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgement resulting
from in-group pressures defines:
groupthink

59. A key understanding to the relationship between hygiene and motivation factors is:
they are independent

60. In the case of repeated failure under expectancy theory, an employee may,
reduce effort

61. Emotional Intelligence (ET) relates to the ability to manage

conceptual skills

62. The development of group cohesiveness is negatively influenced by:

Internal competition

63. A method for countering social loafing includes:

Formal evaluation of member contributions

64. When two departments are in conflict but are also facing a common threat, the
Collaborating style of conflict management is most appropriate.

65. If a manager asks an employee to purchase a gift for his wife, the employee
would think this request.
Falls outside his zone of indifference

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66. The close linkage of valence to performance under expectancy theory is crucial
for enhancing motivation
.

67. The basic idea behind leader-member exchange theory is:

leaders form two groups of followers (in-groups and out-groups)

68. A manager who is considered Machiavellian would rely on what type of power?
Personal

69. Under equity theory, people are motivated when

they are in equilibrium with perceptions of inputs and outcomes

70. The motivation theory that holds that employee motivation is determined by the
belief that a valued outcome will result from effort is called
expectancy theory

71. An example of a rite of enhancement is a/an:

employee of the month award

72. Upper echelon theory argues that:

characteristics of the top management team can predict organizational
characteristics

73. The webike strutures that contract some or all of their operating functions to other
organisations and then coordinate their activities through managers and other
employees at their headquarters are called
Networked Organisation

74. Persons who have a strong desire to control others are high in:
need for power

75. Projection occurs most often when you:

surround yourself with others similar to you

76. All of the following would be consistent with new ideas in motivation except
individuals need to be activated by unmet needs

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77. Which trait is associated with less absenteeism at work?

Positive Effect

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