Organizational Behavioral
(OB)
MCQs
1. The subject of organizational culture has been most influenced by which behavioral science?
(A) Anthropology
(B) Political Science
(C) Psychology
(D) Social Psychology
2. Which of the following statement is inconsistent about 'Attitudes'?
(A) Represents a single belief that guides actions and judgments across objects and situations.
(B) Are derived from personal experiences.
(C) Are pre-dispositional.
(D) Are relatively less enduring
3. State whether the following statements are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F) by selecting the correct option.
(I) The field of OB is useful for maintaining cordial relations.
(II) The three levels of OB are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
(III) OB emphasizes on achievement of individual objective at the cost of organizational objectives.
(IV) Considerable investigation by social psychologists has been 'Change'- how to reduce the barriers arid implement it.
(A) (I) F; (II) T; (III) T; (IV) T
(B) (I) T; (II) T; (III) F; (IV) F
(C) (I) T; (II) T; (III) F; (IV) T
(D) (I) T; (II) F; (III) T; (IV) F
4. Team dynamics, communication, Transactional Analysis & the like mostly come under the scope of
(A) Interpersonal Behavior
(B) Interimpersonal behaviour
(C) Intrapersonal Behaviour
(D) Design approaches
5. Mary wishes to continue being an employee at Wipro as she likes to be identified with the company and the goal of Wipro. This is known as ________.
(A) Job satisfaction
(B) Psychological empowerment
(C) Organizational commitment
(D) all of the above
6. Women won't relocate for promotion, men aren't interested in child care' This statement illustrates
(A) Stereotyping
(B) Projection
(C) Halo effect
(D) all of the above
7. Values have
(A) Content and intensity attributes
(B) Content attributes only
(C) Intensity attributes only
(D) None of the above
8. Strategy for achieving change are _________.
(A) People approach
(B) technological approach
(C) Design approach
(D) all of the above
9. _______ employees understand what effects their own behaviour before attempting to influence the behavior of others.
(A) Disciplined
(B) Honored
(C) Effective
(D) All of the above
10. Which of the following statement is irrelevant to the fact that "OB is a field of study"?
(A) It draws concepts and principles from other behavioral sciences.
(B) it is not a discipline or even an emerging discipline.
(C) It is basically an interdisciplinary approach.
(D) OB follows a total system approach.
11. Interests, unfulfilled needs and attitude pertain to the characteristics of ________ influencing perception.
(A) perceived
(B) perceiver
(C) target
(D) situation
12. How are professional codes enforced by various sanction/s?
(A) By appreciation
(B) By expulsion of deviant member
(C) Both (A) & (B)
(D) Neither (A) or (B)
13. Read the following statements carefully and state whether you 'AGREE' or 'DISAGREE' by selecting the correct option
(I) Can there be various institutions in the society which inculcates values in an individual?
(II) Is affective component the opinion or belief segment of attitude?
(A) Statement (I) Agree but Statement (II) Disagree
(B) Statement (I) Agree & Statement (II) Agree
(C) Statement (I) Disagree but Statement (II) Agree
(D) Statement (I) Disagree & Statement (II) Disagree
14. ______ is a scientific study of accumulating knowledge about man's social behaviour.
(A) Psychology
(B) Sociology
(C) Physiology
(D) Anthropology
15. _______ nature of GB prescribes how the various findings of the researchers can be applied to get organizational results which are acceptable to the society.
(A) Applied Science
(B) Orientation towards organizational objectives
(C) Interdisciplinary approach
(D) Normative and value centred
16. Studying aspects as personality, attitude, perception, learning, job satisfaction & stress - management is covered under __________ behavior.
(A) Interpersonal
(B) Introspectual
(C) Interim personal
(D) Intrapersonal
17. _______ consists of redesigning individual jobs.
(A) People approach
(B) Task approach
(C) Design approach
(D) Cultural approach
18. Which of the following statement best supports the need for study of GB?
(A) OB is an applied behavioral science that is built upon contributions from a number of behavioral science disciplines.
(B) Actions of employees influence and arc influenced not only by groups but by. organizations they belong to.
(C) It provides unique opportunities to enhance personal and organizational
effectiveness
(D) None of the above
19. Read the following statements carefully:
(I) Personality is a predisposition to react to a given stimulus in a particular manner.
(II) Personality does not include inner awareness of self as a permanent organizing force.
Which of the above statement/s is/are false?
(A) Only I
(B) Only II
(C) Both I & II
(D) none of the above statement are false
20. In _______ our reaction to one person is influenced by other persons we have recently encountered.
(A) Projection
(B) Halo effect
(C) Stereotyping
(D) None of the above
21. In ______, a person considers performance of a job important to self - worth.
(A) Job involvement
(B) Job description
(C) job satisfaction
(D) Normative commitment
22. Attitudes that individuals consider _______ tend to show _________ relationship to behaviour.
(A) important weak
(B) weak; important
(C) strong; important
(D) important; strong
23. Identify the false statement:
(A)Traits such is shyness, fear and distress are most likely caused by inherited genetic characteristics.
(B) Personality characteristics arc not completely dictated by heredity.
(C) Varying demands of different situations call forth different aspects of one's personality.
(D) Personality is made of both heredity and environment factors unmoderated by situational conditions.
24. Read the following statements carefully and state whether you 'AGREE' or 'DISAGRFF' by selecting the correct option
(I) Attitude-behaviour relationship is likely to be much weaker if the attitude refers to something with which the individual has direct personal experience.
(II) Attitude-behaviour relationship is likely to be much stronger if the attitude refers to something with which the individual has indirect experience
(A) Statement (I) Agree but Statement (II) Disagree
(B) Statement (I) Agree & Statement (II) Agree
(C) Statement (I) Disagree but Statement (II) Agree
(D) Statement (I) Disagree & Statement (II) Disagree
25. Anthropology: Cross-Cultural analysis
(A) Sociology :: Performance appraisal
(B) Political science :: Work teams
(C) Psychology :: Organizational change
(D) Social Psychology :: Group decision making
26. _______ is a process of screening out information that we are uncomfortable with or that contradicts our beliefs.
(A) Perceptual context
(B) Hale effect
(C) Selective perception
(D) Distortion
27. Characteristics of the target influencing perception include
(A) Novelty, Past experiences
(B) Novelty, Proximity
(C) Proximity, Past experiences
(D) Past experiences, Unfulfilled needs
28. The shortcuts frequently used in judging others
(A) provide valid data for making accurate predictions.
(B) allow us to make accurate perceptions about others.
(C) can and do get us into trouble.
(D) are full proof.
29. When social pressures to behave in a certain way hold exceptional power, then
(A) discrepancies between attitude and behaviour are uncognizable
(B) discrepancies between attitude and behaviour are connective in nature.
(C) discrepancies between attitude and behaviour are unlikely to occur.
(D) discrepancies between attitude and behaviour are likely to occur.
30. David feels that if he quits the organization abruptly, he would, he was doing injustice to his employer. This shows _______ commitment of David.
(A) Normative
(B) Continuance
(C) Affective
(D) None of the above
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