Final Term Preparation MGT501

Objective
Idea Mcqs
1. A psychological condition in which a person is put into a deep sleep-like state,
whilestill remaining awake. It can be used to relieve pain & stress is called:
Hypnosis
Biofeedback
Transcendental meditation
Burnout
2. Employees quit the
organizations at their
own choice through:
Outplacement,
restructuring
Discharging, layoff
Transfer, demotion
Resigning, retirement

3. According to which of the following it is better to convince/encourage the

employees to abide by the company’s rules, rather than promptly responding with
written or oral warnings toemployees?
Hot stove rule
Positive discipline
Progressive discipline
Implied discipline
4. General practice carried out by Mr. Aslam is to encourage the participation of his
Subordinates while making departmental decisions. He is therefore said to be:

Involved in practicing his referent power

Involved in practicing legitimate power
Involved in a leadership process
Involved in making efforts to get favors from employees

5. The CEO has appointed Amjad to lead the current project as he has the talent to
handlecritical situations with an ease which enhances the followers’ morale as well.
He is saidto be a successful leader as per:
Leadership Theory
Trait Theory
Behavioral Theory
Motivational Theory
6. Employee handbook is a tool used for:

Communicating rules & policies within an organization

Providing information to stakeholders outside the organization
Manipulating the competitors with false information
Providing information about salary scale only

7. Organizational guarantee about the job security is a functional form of:

Statutory law
Contractual law
Public policy
Management rights

8. Ahmed has provided the personal contact numbers of his subordinates to one of his
friend who is working as an insurance agent in a private insurance firm, to help him
inachieving his monthly sales target. This practice is:

Clear violation of labor laws

Implementation of discrimination law
Prohibited by the privacy rights
Violation of employment at will

9. The physical or psychological condition induced in workers by overwork or

overexposure to stress in the workplace, is known as:

Exhaustion
Burnout
Collapse
Fatigue

10. Which one of the following does NOT categorized as 'pay-for-performance'

program?

Piecework plan
Scanlon plan
Gain sharing plan
Profit sharing plan

11. An employee’s compensation usually

comprises of:High monetary rewards

 Quality rewards requested by employees
Benefits like medical & transport allowances
Financial and non-financial

12. To make the 'Ranking Method' of job evaluation more effective:

Perform performance appraisals on regular basis

Train employees prior to appraisals
Develop high compensation packages
Clearly define job description initially

13. Which is the best time or occasion to discuss career-related issues with an employee?

Weekly staff meeting

Social lunch
Employee’s annual appraisal
Career success team meeting

14. Amjad has reached the age of full retirement, but he still wants to continue his job.
Moreover, organization has not yet found any replacement to him. In such situation
Amjad should pursue:

Counseling to utilize his leisure time

Search careers outside the company
Psychological counseling to prepare for retirement
Extension of current job within company

15. Which of the following force makes an individual eligible to make decisions,
giveorders & directing work activities of others?
Power
Influence
Authority
Command
16. As an HR manager, what should be your main focus while recruitment?

The potential candidate must posses interpersonal and analytical skills

The potential candidate should be very confident and sharp
The potential candidate must be attractive enough to fit in the position
The potential candidate should match the requirements of the job

17. What could be the main consideration of an HR manager during recruitment?

Outsource the employee selection to recruiting agencies

Screen the pool of appropriate applicants
Attract a large number of applicants
Only hire the experienced candidates
 18. Rating a person high or low on all items because of one characteristic during
performance appraisal, is known as:
Halo effect
Central tendency
Stereotyping
Biasness
19. Mr. Faisal is generally considered unfriendly at work. His supervisor rates him
low on the trait interpersonal relationships but also rates him lower on other traits
like hardworking, work devotion, pressure handling etc . Faisal s performance
appraisal may be effected due to:

Biasness
Stereotyping
Halo effects
Strictness

20. Some supervisors, when filling in rating scales, tend to avoid the highs and lows on
the
scale and rate most people in the middle. This type of evaluation is said to be effected
by:

Stereotyping
Central tendency
Strictness
Leniency

21. People can be more productive while working in:

Isolation
Groups
Crowd
None of the given options

22. 'Career counseling' is part of which of the following functions of HRM?

Compensation & benefits

Planning & selection
Training & development
Maintainence of HRIS
23. Being a cashier, Ahmed is discontented with his job, why it is so?

Job does not suit his preferences

 Job involves physical toughness
Job requires mental toughness
Job involves extensive customer interaction

24. A power base that depends on fear comes under which of the following category of
power?

Reward power
Coercive power
Referent power
Legitimate power

25. Asif has punished his subordinate for the reason that he had refused to drop Asif's
children at school. What type of power Asif practiced over his subordinate?
Referent power
Social power
Coercive power
Charismatic power

26. Unilever comes under which of the following categories while conducting its
businessglobally?

Domestic
International
Multinational
Transnational

27. Overstating the performance records by an employee in front of management is

considered which of the following?

Dishonesty
Damage
Theft
Insubordination

28. Which of the following can be an alternative decision to employee termination?

Demotion
Retirement
Resignation
Lay-off

29. Which of the following term is used to represents the employee’s disappointment
withtheir management & employers?
Arbitration
Mediation
Boycott
Grievance

30. Which of the following is a part of non-financial compensation?

Monthly commission
Employee autonomy
Stock option
Medical allowance

31. 'Organizational politics' leads to which of the following?

Employee anxiety
Employee interrelationship
Efficient production
Job satisfaction

32. In the negotiation process, bargaining issues like wages, working hours, terms &
conditions of employment etc. all comes under:

Labor issues
Mandatory
issuesPermissive
issues
Prohibited issues

33. Mr. Yoong is a Chinese executive working in Zong Telecom Pakistan, a China based
Telecommunication Company. Mr. Yoong is therefore be classified as a/an:
Expatriate
Third-country national
Home-country national
Host-country national

34. The CEO has appointed Amjad to lead the current project as he has the talent to
handle critical situations with an ease which enhances the followers morale as well.
He is said to be a successful leader as per:

Leadership Theory
Trait Theory
Behavioral Theory

35. Which demographic group MOSTLY experiences the difficulty with career
 progresswithin Pakistan?

Women
Old men
Professionals
Young men
36. Miss. Fouzia wants to excel herself in the banking field by clearing the IBP
Superior Qualification (ISQ) examination. But her current job is strict timings do
not allow her tofulfill her plans. To address this problem, the bank could help her
by:
Providing her with a career coach
Encouraging her to join a career success team
Facilitating her with flexible working hours
Suggesting her a better occupation to adopt

37. Higher efforts should be rewarded with higher rewards"; which of the following
theory focuses this statement?

Motivational theory
Performance theory
Competancy theory
Equity theory
38. Shaukat was accused of using organizational resources for personal use. He was
caughtred-handed thrice by his manager while misusing the company resources.
If you were in place of his manager what actions will you take against him?
Warn him in writing
Suspend him for some time
Dismiss him permanently
It is too early to take any action

39. Which of the following is part of an employee s role regarding his or her own career
development?

Providing timely performance feedback

Participating in career development discussions
Establishing goals and career plans
Offering a variety of career options
41. Ali is dissatisfied with his current job, therefore is considering to change his
career.What should he do before changing the occupation?

Monitor the salary difference of the alternative jobs

Compare his ideal job to his current job
Adjust with the current job, as switching could be risky
Directly switch the occupation, nothing need to be done
40. Which of the following depicts today's major barrier to career advancement
of theworking ladies?
Top management is usually male oriented Lack of
educational opportunities for women
Common perception that woman can never be a better boss
Difficulty in balancing the work and family life

41. If B is dependent on A , it means that:

A has the power to influence B s behavior

B has the power to influence A s behavior
A is also dependent on B
A cannot influence B by any means
42. system designed to solve employees physical, mental and emotional problems is
known as:

EAP (Employee Assistance Programs)

ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act)
PBGC (Pension Benefit Gauranty Corporation)
OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration)

43. Federal law' requiring employers to give 60 days notice prior to plant closing or
majorlayoff, as stated by:

Statutory right of employees

Employer itself
Due process by an employer
Union recommendations
44. Involuntary bodily pressures like heart beat rate are controlled through:

Biofeedback
Transcendental meditation
Hypnosis
Burnout

45. The system designed to solve employees’ physical, mental and emotional
problems isknown as:

OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration)

EAP (Employee Assistance Programs)
ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act)
PBGC (Pension Benefit Gauranty Corporation)

46. If the mood of an employee keeps on changing rapidly and finds him self
helpless, heexhibits:
 Short term Physical symptoms
Long Term Physical symptoms
Internal symptoms
Behavioral symptoms

47. Aslam who is a poor candidate and management mistakenly considered him much
better for the available position at that time when there are many outstanding
candidates in the applicant pool. This error is known as:

Contrast error
Negative emphasis
Hallo effect
Snap judgment

48. The behavior of Ms Noreen has got totally and permanently changed after getting
thejob and training in the organization. This is an example of:

Training
Learning
Developing
None of the these

49. Which of the following benefits given by the organization enable employees to better
meet the demands of their family and work lives?

Pay incentives
Sick leave
Golden shake hand
Family-friendly benefits

50. XYZ is an organization that regularly arranges seminars and meetings with the
employees to update them about ways that can help them move to higher ranks with
inthe organization and establish a life long relation with the organization. It is an act
of:

Career Planning
Career Development
Career Counseling
Career Path
51. MR Ali works in an organization XYZ from the last so many years and gets aremuneration of
Rs 100 on per hour basis. This refers to the concept of:
Wage
Salary
 Commission
Bonus

52. While working in an organization XYZ, if employees suddenly get his hands cold
andincrease sweating. He is exhibiting the symptoms of stress.

Short term Physical symptoms

Long Term Physical symptoms
Internal symptoms
Behavioral symptoms

53. Which of the following depicts today's major barrier to career advancement
of theworking ladies?

Top management is usually male oriented

Lack of educational opportunities for women
Common perception that woman can never be a better boss
Difficulty in balancing the work and family life

54. Under which of the following methods of jobs evaluation, jobs are arranged in an
order?

Ranking method
Classification method
Factor comparison method
Point factor method

55. Which of the following is NOT included in direct financial payments?

Wages
Insurance
Commissions
Incentives
56. A practice used by different companies to reduce costs by transferring portions of
workto outside provider rather than completing it internally is termed as:

Planning
Decentralization
Restructuring
Outsourcing

57. Ms. Ayesha was selected as the best employee of the month for April as she had
contributed maximum in the organization s sale but no special consideration was
 madeby management on her efforts, this practice of the organization may:

Decrease the importance of performance appraisal system of organization

Increase the motivational level of employees of organization
Increase the focus of employees towards their career development
None of the given options

58. According to which of the following view,"conflict should be encouraged and

managed"?

Traditional View
Human Relations View
Interactionist View
Behavioral view

59. Smoking is strictly prohibited in all organizations & public places according to
rulesimposed by federal government as part of:

Contractual rights
Employee rights
Management rights
Statutory rights

60. A special form of recruitment that involves placing a student in a temporary job with
noobligation either by the company to hire the student permanently or by the
student to accept a permanent position with the firm following graduation, is
known as:

Cooperative work
Student placement
Internship program
Student leasing
61. Management has pointed out Mr. Haseeb as a low performer & shows their
dissatisfaction with his performance, Mr. Haseeb had tried a lot to put more &
more efforts but still unable to satisfy the management, after some time he started
overlookedthe appraisal reports as he perceived that management is habitual of
criticizing the employees performance. This reaction by Haseeb is resulted due to:

Lack of trained raters

Unserious attitude towards appraisal
Lack of proper feedback
Management is biased
62. Suppose you have five employees to rate. You make a chart of all possible
couples of employees for each trait being evaluated. Then, you indicate the better
 employee fromeach couple. Finally, you add up the number of positives for each
employee. In this case, which of the following method of performance appraisal
you are going to use?

Graphic ranking scale

Alternation ranking
Paired comparison
Forced distribution
63. In order to make recruitment process more efficient, organizations shift this
responsibility to outside firms with expertise in the recruitment services. Which of
thegiven term represents this shifting of responsibility by an organization?

Outsourced hiring
Employee referrals
Employee leasing
Job advertising

64. The compensation philosophy; "higher pay for higher contribution" is known as:

Competency-based pay
Skilled-base pay
Merit-based pay
Seniority-based pay

65. A power base that depends on fear comes under which of the following category of
power?

Reward power
Coercive power
Referent power
Legitimate power
66. Asif has punished his subordinate for the reason that he had refused to drop Asif's
children at school. What type of power Asif practiced over his subordinate?

Referent power
Social power
Coercive power
Charismatic power

67. According to which of the following view, "conflict is bad and should be avoided"?

Behavioral view
Traditional View
Human Relations View
Interactionist View
 68. 'Honda Pakistan', implemented a safety & health program for its employees after
consulting experts and management in the organization. But, no reduction in the
accidents or injuries is observed. Identify a reason which is least possible to the
failureof this Safety & Health program?

Company is not considering inputs of employees regarding safety decisions

Safety & health program is not communicated properly to all employees
Proper safety & health training has not been provided to the employees
Proper budget is not allocated to safety and health program as required

69. The 2 factors used by Hertzberg in Two factor theory

are:Expectancy & relatedness

Hygiene & motivators
People X & people Y
Self-esteem & securit

70. Self-motivated & result oriented individuals with sound knowledge of combined
cyclegas turbine power plant operations and practical experience of mechanical,
electrical and I&C maintenance of plant.
Should have working experience in integrated management system environment &
have an understanding of the commercial aspects of IPPs. Must possess managerial
skills to lead & deliver. This section of job advertisement represents which of the given
term?

Job evaluation
Job analysis
Job description
Job specification
71. Rewards offered to individuals serving at the managerial positions on monthly
basis aretermed as:

Commission
Salary
Wage
Bonus

72. Suppose you are representing the company s management while collectively
bargaining with the union. As a company s representative you are trying to reach a
mutually acceptable solution by putting multiple alternatives to the union
representative. In such situation you are indulged in which of the following phase?

Negotiating with the union leader

 Agreeing on the union's proposed solution
Signing the contract with the union
Arranging negotiation with the union
Host-country national

73. Mr. Ali is perceived to be the best counselor among all of his followers. Thus, what
kindof a leader Ali is?

Influential
Self-confident
Charismatic
Knowledgeable

74. Ali was working as MTO in ABL & getting the package of Rs.20.000, few weeks
ago heresigned from ABL & joined HBL which is offering him Rs.30,000 at the
same post of MTO. In this situation HBL is adopting the pay strategy.

Above market rate

Below market rate
At market rate
All of the given options

75. Miss. Fouzia wants to excel herself in the banking field by clearing the IBP
Superior Qualification (ISQ) examination. But her current job’s strict timings do not
allow her tofulfill her plans. To address this problem, the bank could help her by:

Providing her with a career coach

Encouraging her to join a career success team
Facilitating her with flexible working hours
Suggesting her a better occupation to adopt
76. Amjad has reached the age of full retirement, but he still wants to continue his job.
Moreover, organization has not yet found any replacement to him. In such situation
Amjad should pursue:

Counseling to utilize his leisure time

Search careers outside the company
Psychological counseling to prepare for retirement
Extension of current job within company
77. If being a manager you have the power to dismiss, suspend or demote your
subordinates, you are said to have which of the following power?

Charismatic power
Referent power
Coercive power
Legitimate power
 78. 'Federal law' requiring employers to give 60 days notice prior to plant closing or
majorlayoff, as stated by:

Statutory right of employees

Employer itself

Due process by an employer

Union recommendations
79. All the employees working in the department emphasize on relationship with
Mr. Alimore than their output because he gives favors to those who have good
relationships with him. He enjoys this status because of:

Expert power
Legitimate power
Coercive power
Reward power

80. The management is taking feedback from customers, suppliers and peers of
Employeesfor their performance evaluation, which one of following method is
being used by the management?

Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales

360-degree feedback
Results-Based Systems
Work Standards

81. In Vroom's theory of motivation, motivation is equal to E * I * V, where I represents ________.

A) intrinsic needs
B) internalization
C) instrumentality
D) incentives

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