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Status comes under the following type of Barrier:
a) Semantic Barrier
b) Oganisational Barrier
c) Personal Barrier
d) Psychological Barrier
Ans – b)
The function of management which initiate action is:
a) Planning
b) Organising
c) Staffing
d) Directing
Ans – d)
It is concerned with designing jobs that include greater variety of work content:
a) Employee Recognition Programme
b) Job Enrichment
c) Career advancement opportunity
d) Promotion
Ans – b)
Grapevine is related to:
a) Horizonatal Communication
b) Diagonal Communication
c) formal Communication
d) Informal Communication’
Ans – d)
Motivation means to:
a) Coordinate people to work together
b) Guide people to Work efficiently
c) Induce people to work willingly
d) Help employees to learn more about a job
Ans – c)
Which of the following is a process of making an employee act in a desired manner to achieve
organisational goal
a) Motivation
b) Supervision
c) Leadership
d) Communication
Ans – a)
Which style of leadership does not believe in use of power, unless it is absolutely essential.
a) Autocratic Leadership
b) Democratic Leadership
c) Laissez Faire Leadership
d) None of the above
Ans – c)
Which element of directing is concerned with making subordinate to act in a desired manner to achieve organisational goals?
a) leadership
b) communication
c) Motivation
d) None of these
Ans – d)
which of the following is a financial incentive?
a) promotion
b) stock Incentive
c) Perquisites
d) Employee participation
Ans – b), c)
In an organisation, employees always feel that they are under stress, as the manager does not
discuss anything with them but simply instruct them what to do. He never listen to any
of the suggestions given by them. State the manager’s style of leadership.
a) Autocractic
b) Participative
c) Laissez Faire
d) All of the above
Ans – a)
Ram informed about the new recruitment policy of HR dept. to Mohan during the birthday party
of his son. This is
a) Formal Communication
b) Informal Communication
c) Both a) and b)
d) None of the above
Ans – b)
Mayank always communicates useful ideas regarding reduction of cost to his superior Ankit. Ankti implements his suggestions and has always found favorable results,
but he never appreciates Mayank for his suggestions. Now, Mayank has decided not to communicate any idea to Ankit. Which type of communication barrier is being highlighted?
a) Personal Barrier
b) Organiastional Barrier
c) Psychological Barrier
d) Semantic Barrier
Ans – a)
The process of converting the message into communication symbols is known as:
a) Media
b) Encoding
c) Feed Back
c) Decoding
Ans – b)
To get the real feedback of employees the manager must make use of:
a) Formal communication
b) Informal Communication
c) Both a) and b)
d) None of the above
Ans – b)
Which of the following is not semantic barrier.
a) Lack of Attention
b) Premature evaluation
c) Distrust
d) All of the above
Ans – d)
The motivation theory, which classifies needs in hierarchical order, is developed by:
a) Fred Luthans
b) Scott
c) Abraham Maslow
d) Peter Drucker
Ans – c)
Stric obedience of order and discipline is find in:
a) Free Rein Leadership
b) Democratic Leadership
c) Autocractic Leadership
d) Both b) and c)
Ans – c)
Lack of proper incentive is what type of Barrier:
a) Personal Barrier
b) organisational barrier
c) Psychological barrier
d) Semantic barrier
Ans – a)
Directing
a) Is a primary function of management
b) Initiates action
c) Recruits and Selects employees
d) Identifies and groups the activities
Ans – b)
Out of the following leadership styles, which one has the advantage of highest level of delegation?
a) Democratic Leadership Style
b) Free Rein Leadership Style
c) Autocractic Leadership Style
d) None of these
Ans – b)
Directing takes place wherever superior-subordinate relationship exists. Which feature of directing is highligeted in the given statement?
a) It is a continous process
b) If flows from top to bottom
c) It takes place at every level of management
d) It initiates action
Ans – c)
Directing is performed at
a) Top level
b) Middle level
c) Supervisory level
d) All levels
Ans – d)
To build up the morale of employees and to develop interest in the job, manager uses the
following element of directing.
a) Supervision
b) Leadership
c) Motivation
d) Communication
Ans – c)
Which of the following is not an assumption of Maslow’s Need Hierarchy Theory?
a) People’s behaviour is based on their needs
b) People’s needs are in hierarchical order
c) People are motivated by unfulfilled needs
d) A person moves to next higher level need even if lower need is not satisfied
Ans – d)
Poor telephone connection during the process of communication is an example of:
a) Decoding
b) Media
c) Encoding
d) Noise
Ans – d)
Motivators can be
a) Positive only
b) Negative only
c) Positive as well as negative
d) None of the above
Ans – c)
safety from illness, accident, fire, etc. is included in
a) Physical security
b) Economic Security
c) Social security
d) None of the above
Ans – a)
Which leadership style given complete freedom to subordinates?
a) Democractic Leadership
b) Free Rein Leadership
c) Autocratic Leadership
d) Both a) and b)
Ans – b)
Which of the following describes ‘Democractic Leadership Style’?
a) Leader Develops action plan in consultation with subordinates
b) Communication is only one way with subordinates
c) Manager is only to support and provide information
d) Followers have high degree of independence
Ans – a)
Respect and recognition is part of
a) Physiological need
b) Social need
c) Safety Security need
d) Esteem need
Ans – d)
Informal organisation and informal communication tries to fulfil
a) Physiological need
b) Social need
c) Safety security need
d) Self-actualisation need
Ans – b)
Out of the following, which need is concerned with sense of belongingness?
a) Esteem Need
b) Self Actualisation Need
c) Affiliation Need
d) Safety Need
Ans – c)
Which of the following is not a measure to improve communication affectiveness?
a) Convey things of help and value to listeners
b) Communicate according to the needs to receiver
c) Unclarified Assumptions
d) Consult others before communicating
Ans – c)
The incentive to provide company’s share at very low price or free to employee workers is called
a) Profit sharing
b) Commission
c) Retirement benefit
d) Co-partnership stock option
Ans – d)
The leader who does not welcome suggestions of employees is called
a) Autocractic leader
b) Democratic leader
c) Free Rein leader
d) None of the above
Ans – a)
Which of the following statement is not correct?
a) Motivation is an external feeling
b) Motivation produces goal directed beheviour
c) Motivation is a complex process
d) Motivation is only positive
Ans – a), d)
Which of the following is not an advantage of formal communication?
a) Ensures orderly flow of information
b) Provides social satisfaction
c) Facilitates control
d) Helps in fixing responsibility
Ans – b)
Giving a special rank, position, or authority ot employees is part of
a) Monetary Incentive
b) Non-Monetary Incentive
c) Profit sharing
d) Compartnership
Ans – b)
Informal communication tries to fulfil:
a) Safety Need
b) Basic Physiologincal Need
c) Social Need
d) Self-Actualisation Need
Ans – c)
Out of the following, which one depicts the correct sequence of process of motivation?
a) Tension – Unsatisfied Need – Drives – Search Behaviour – Reduction of Tension – Satisfied Need
b) Unsatisfied Need – Tension – Satisfied Need – Drives – Search Behaviour – Reduction of Tension
c) Unsatisfied Need – Tension – Drives – Search Behaviour – Satisfied Need – Reduction of Tension
d) Drives – Search Behaviour – Unsatisfied Need – Tension – Satisfied Need – Reduction of Tension
Ans – c)
The leader who encourages the employees to give suggestion and allots the work after consulting
the employees is called
a) Autocractic leader
b) Free Rein leader
c) Democratic leader
d) None of the above
Ans – c)
Karan’s job in the Mercury Ltd. is to make sure that work goes on smoothly and there is no interruption in production. To achieve this, he always gives orders and insists that they
obeyed. He belives that reward or punishment both can be given depending upon the performance. Which leadership style is being followed by Karna?
a) Autocratic Leadership Style
b) Participative Leadership Style
c) Free Rein Leadership Style
d) None of these
Ans – a)
_ involves stimulating and inspiring the employees to perform.
a) Motivation
b) Leadership
c) Communication
d) None of these
Ans – a)
The barrier due to lack of vocabulary, wrong grammer or use of wrong words is called
a) Badly expressed message
b) Technical Jargon
c) Faulty Translation
d) Symbol with different meaning
Ans – a)
The communication gap due to size and complexity of organisation’s structure comes under the
following category.
a) Semantic Barrier
b) Psychological Barrier
c) Organisational Barrier
d) Personal Barrier
Ans – c)
Manager uses the following element of directing to build up the morale of employees.
a) Leadership
b) Communication
c) Motivation
d) None of these
Ans – c)
Which of the following is the appropriate order of hierarchy of needs as per Abraham Maslow?
a) Safety Needs – Basic Physiological Needs – Social Needs – Esteem Needs – Self Actualisation Needs
b) Basic Physiological Needs – Safety Needs – Esteem Needs – Social Needs – Self Actualisation Needs
c) Social Needs – Safety Needs – Basic Physiological Needs – Esteem Needs – Self Actualisation Needs
d) Basic Physiological Needs – Safety Needs – Social Needs – Esteem Needs – Self Actualisation Needs
Ans – d)
According to Maslow, how many level of needs are there in every human being?
a) 3
b) 5
c) 4
d) 6
Ans – b)
Full utilisation of potential and capacity of employees can be seen in
a) Autocractic leadership
b) Democractic leadership
c) Free rein leadership
d) Paternalistic leadership
Ans – c)
Which of the following is a non financial incentive?
a) Job security
b) Career Advancement Opportunity
c) Employee Recognition Programmes
d) All of these
Ans – d)
The process of converting the message into communication symbols is known as:
a) Media
b) Encoding
c) Feedback
d) Decoding
Ans – b)
Directing takes place wherever superior-subordinate relations exist. Identify the characteristic
highlighted in the above statement?
a) Directing is a continous process
b) Directing flows from top to bottom
c) Directing takes place at every level
d) Directing initiate action
Ans – c)
Which need is satisfed when one becomes what he really wants to become?
a) Esteem Needs
b) Belonging Needs
c) Security Needs
d) Self-Actualsiation Needs
Ans – d)
Function of Directing is performed at:
a) Top Level
b) Middle Level
c) Operational Level
d) All of these
Ans – d)
Jagan, who was working in a big company resigned on the ground of ‘lack of recognition and
attention’ in the organization towards his work and performance. Identify the hierarchy
need according to Maslow which was not satisfied for Jagran.
a) Psychological needs
b) Safety needs
c) Affiliation needs
d) Esteem needs
Ans – d)
‘Presence of more managerial levels’. Which type of communication berrier is being highlighted?
a) Personal Barrier
b) Organisational Berrier
c) Psychological Barrier
d) Semantic Barrier
Ans – b)
At support.com, there is no reward or appreciation for a good suggestion. Thus, the subordinates are not willing to offer any useful suggestions to their superiors. Identify the type of barrier
to communication that has been created in the firm due to this.
a) Semantic Barrier
b) Personal Barrier
c) Organisational Barrier
d) Psychological Barrier
Ans – b)
Use of ‘Technical jargon’ is which type of communication barrier?
a) Organisational barrier
b) Psychological barrier
c) Semantic barrier
d) Personal barrier
Ans – c)
The lowest level need in the need hierarchy theory of Abraham Maslow is
a) Safety need
b) Belongingness need
c) Esteem need
d) Phsyiological need
Ans – d)
M. R. Sarthi, the Ex-chairman of Swadesh Ltd., built up his successor before retiring. Following the norms set up by himself, he handed over the reins of the company to the co-founder
Mr. Shravan, who had the potential to bring about change in the behaviour of others. Name the concept of management which was the reason why Mr. Sarthi chose Mr. Shravan to be his successor.
a) Motivation
b) Leadership
c) Communication
d) Staffing
Ans – b)
Which of the following is not an element of communication process?
a) Decoding
b) Grapevine
c) Channel
d) Receiver
Ans – b)
