All India Management Association (AIMA) 2007 M.B.A Marketing Management Organizational Behavior – I - Question Paper
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(a) Contextual attribution
(b) Defensive attribution
(c) Situational attribution
(d) Stereotyping attribution
(e) Dispositional attribution.
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86. Which of the subsequent statements is/are actual regarding Alderfer’s ERG Theory?
I. Alderfer proposed ERG theory as an extension of Herzberg’s theory and Maslow’s needs hierarchy.
II. Alderfer proposed a continuum of needs, rather than hierarchical levels as proposed by Maslow.
III. According to ERG theory a person’s background or cultural environment may reason the relatedness needs to
predominate over unfulfilled existence needs.
(a) Only (I) above
(b) Only (II) above
(c) Only (III) above
(d) Both (II) and (III) above
(e) All (I), (II) and (III) above.
87. Adaptation to a new culture requires an expatriate manager to overcome several obstacles in the form of differences
at the level of the individual, parochialism, ethnocentrism, cultural distance and culture shock. In this context, which
of the subsequent statements is/are actual regarding ethnocentrism?
I. A person who is ethnocentric obtains it difficult to adapt to a culture various from his/her own.
II. Having an ethnocentric view makes it easy for a manager to understand the behavior of people from other
cultures.
III. Ethnocentrism is also known as the self-reference criterion.
(a) Only (I) above
(b) Only (II) above
(c) Both (I) and (II) above
(d) Both (I) and (III) above
(e) All (I), (II) and (III) above.
88. Anusha is a manager for the child welfare department in the city government. Her subordinates receive raises and
promotions based on their seniority, rather than on job performance. The employees are social workers who
investigate allegations of child abuse. Anusha is not a social worker herself. She was transferred to the child welfare
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