All India Management Association (AIMA) 2007 M.B.A Marketing Management Organizational Behavior – I - Question Paper

decision-making process
? It is a socially responsible entity, and supports other institutional
efforts to do away with all forms of social oppression.
Collateral organization: It is a supplemental organization coexisting with the
usual, formal organization.
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43. D According to Holland’s typology of personality, a person who prefers verbal
activities where there are opportunities to influence others and attain power is
stated to be Enterprising.
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44. A Flextime provide more autonomy to employees with respect to their work timings. < TOP >
45. B Affirmative action refers to a set of policies and initiatives designed to eliminate
past and current discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national
origin.
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46. C The halo effect: At times, people draw a general impression about an individual
based on a single characteristic, such as intelligence, sociability, aggressiveness,
etc.
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47. C ERG theory and Two-Factor theory comes under the content theories of
motivation. The Porter-Lawler model and Expectancy theory comes under the
process theories. Attribution theory comes under the contemporary theory of
work motivation.
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48. B Violation of privacy: Because the supervisor had accessed to employees personal
email, which was not addressed to him. In such case they sued the company for
violation of their privacy. Privacy violation problems in West have gained
significant importance in latest years with increased number of cases wherein
employers have access to employees email so as to keep a track of their activities
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49. A People who exhibit the 9,1 style of leadership have high concern for production
and low concern for people. This is referred to as authoritarian style of
leadership.
Impoverished style, exhibit no concern for people or for work.
Country club style has high concern for people but low concern for production.
Team management style show high concern for both people and production.
Middle of road management: Adequate organization performance is possible
through balancing the necessity to get out work with maintaining morale of
people at a satisfactory level.
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50. C Equity theory states that the degree of equity or inequity perceived by an
employee with reference to his work situation plays a major role in work
performance and satisfaction. Employees generally compare of their outcomeinput

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