BUSINESS QUIZ PACK - 12

Q No.01 : ASA Framework was developed by Ben Schneider, a researcher from University of Maryland, and used in selection of personalities. What does ASA stand for?
ANS : Attraction – Selection - Attrition
Q No.02 : What is known as the relationship between what a worker gets from the job and what he contributes to the job according to the Equity Theory?
ANS : Outcome/Input Ratio
Q No.03 : In Clayton Alderfer's ERG Theory, R stands for Relatedness and G for Growth then what does E mean?
ANS : Existence
Q No.04 : Employees hired or contracted by organisations on a temporary basis to fulfill the needs of the labor for a specific period are known as what?
ANS : Contingent Workers
Q No.05 : What is the tendency of the personnel to experience and express their negative emotional attitude and generally perceive themselves and others surrounding them negatively called?
ANS : Neuroticism
Q No.06 : Who introduced the modern concept of 360 Degree Appraisal?
ANS : General Electric Company
Q No.07 : What is a 'Career Plateau'?
ANS : A chance of obtaining a promotion or a position with more job responsibilty is very small
Q No.08: Which internationally acclaimed Indian movie has been included as a case study for 'Human Behavior at Work' by Indian Institute of Management, Indore?
ANS : Lagaan
Q No.09 : Elton Mayo, one of the pioneers in human behavior studies, called the assumptions of McGregor as "Rabble Hypothesis". What are they?
ANS : Theory X and Theory Y
Q No.10 : Who is known as the "Father of 401k"?
ANS : Ted Benna
Q No.11 : What is MBGO and who proposed it?
ANS : Management By Group Objectives by Likert & Fisher
Q No.12 : Richard Beckhard developed a concept known as 'Beckhard's Confrontation Meeting'. What is the concept?
ANS : One day meeting of entire management of an organisation in which they take the reading of their original health
Q No.13 : Name the personality who introduced the concept of 'Bureaucracy' in 1922?
ANS : Max Weber
Q No.14 : Name the title of the book in which Douglas McGregor described his famous Theory X and Theory Y?
ANS : The Humanside of Enterprise
Q No.15 : We all are familiar with the concept ESOP, thanks to the IT revolution. But in HR what is ETOP?
ANS : Environmental Threat and Opportunity Profile
Q No.16 : In McKinsey's 7S Framework there are four 'soft variables', Staff, Skills, Style and Shared Values. What are the other three 'hard variables'?
ANS : Strategy, Structure and System
Q No.17: Fill in the blank. In Expectancy theory Force = ________ x Expectancy?
ANS : Valency
Q No.18 : What is known as 'Great man Theory'?
ANS : Leaders are Born and not Made
Q No.19 : Who proposed the "Surplus Value Theory of Wages". The theory states the labor was an article of commerce, which could be purchased on payment of 'Subsistance Theory'?
ANS : Karl Marx
Q No.20 : Where is the famous 'Western Career Fair' take place annualy?
ANS : Silicon Valley
Q No.21 : Which theory is commonly referred as the 'Hierarchy of Human Needs'?
ANS : Maslow Theory
Q No.22 : Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham developed a framework to improve the effectiveness of communication. Name it?
ANS : Johari Window
Q No.23 : Name the person who called for the scientific selection of workers and 'Harmonious Cooperation' between labour and management?
ANS : Henry L. Gantt
Q No.24 : Where did Elton Mayo and F.J.Roethlisberger conduct their famous studies which dealt the influence of work groups on performance?
ANS : Hawthorne Plant at Western Electric Company
Q No.25 : In HR parlance what is known as an 'Agency Shop'?
ANS : The union where employees do not have to join but they must pay union dues to keep their jobs alive
Q No.26 : Who is known as ' The Father of Social Systems Approach ' to organisation and management?
ANS : Vilfredo Pareto
Q No.27 : The degree to which a person prefers doing two or more things simultaneously is known as what?
ANS : Polychronic
Q No.28 : Name the creativity-simulation technique which tries to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange?
ANS : Synectics
Q No.29 : An illegal strike called by employees who refuse to work during the term of a binding contract is known as 'Wildcat Strike'. State True or False?
ANS : True
Q No.30 : What does 'Theory X' and 'Theory Y' argue?
ANS : View of Human Nature and Motivation