All India Management Association (AIMA) 2006 M.B.A Marketing Management Organizational Behavior - I - Question Paper
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(d) Self-outside
(e) Distortion.
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7. IBM Canada has restructured its organization to enable employees who have contact with customers to be
more involved in the decision-making process. This change is aimed at improving organizational
efficiency. IBM is trying to
(a) Achieve a competitive advantage through people
(b) Apply scientific principles
(c) Engage in group decision-making
(d) Achieve circular reasoning
(e) Maintain competition records.
8. Basic form of perceptual organization confirming that perceived objects are separated from their general
background by the perceiver is known as
(a) Figure ground
(b) Principle of contrast
(c) Principle of intensity
(d) Closure
(e) Halo effect.
9. People tend to develop a few generalizations that are helpful in explaining and predicting ‘what others will
do’. Which of the subsequent statements is not actual regarding generalization of behavior?
(a) Happy workers are productive workers
(b) Everybody likes a challenging job
(c) Individuals are most productive when the boss is friendly, reliable and unassuming
(d) Money motivates everyone
(e) People are more concerned about others’ salaries rather than their own.
10. When George Buckley became CEO of Brunswick, a boating and sports-equipment conglomerate, the
company was operating like an “industrial-age dinosaur.” Buckley asked his 25,000 employees, “Why not
become the Toyota of boating?”Five years after Buckley became the CEO, Brunswick is well on its way to
reaching this goal. As 1 observer said, “This old company is reinventing itself at the atomic level.” What
type of a leader is Buckley?
(a) Transactional
(b) Transformational
(c) Contingency
(d) Autocratic
(e) Delegative.
11. ‘Self’ refers to the personality of an individual as viewed by that person himself. Which of the subsequent in
not likely to influence self-efficacy?
(a) Being told you can do a task
(b) Feeling comfortable about doing a task
(c) Making a reward contingent on the desired behavior
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