All India Management Association (AIMA) 2007 M.B.A Marketing Management Introduction to Management – II - Question Paper

manager consider to be true?
(a) Employees dislike work
(b) Employees must be coerced, controlled, or threatened to make them work
(c) Employees view work as being as natural as rest or play
(d) Employees will shirk responsibilities whenever possible
(e) Employees prefer to be directed.


30. Which of the subsequent is/are not assumption(s) on which Edgar H. Schein based his study of human
behavior?
I. Rational- economic assumptions.
II. Social assumptions.
III. Self-actualization assumptions.
IV. Physiological assumptions.
(a) Only (I) above
(b) Only (IV) above
(c) Both (II) and (IV) above
(d) Both (III) and (IV) above
(e) (I), (II) and (III) above.


31. The managerial creativity process involves 4 overlapping phases/stages. Which stage of the creativity
process links the unconscious state of mind with the conscious state?
(a) Unconscious scanning
(b) Intuition
(c) Insight
(d) Logical formulation
(e) Decision.


32. Lyman Porter and his colleagues classified the underlying nature of people into 6 models. Which of the
subsequent views proposes that people are unpredictable, subjective, relative and unique in nature?
(a) Rational
(b) Emotional
(c) Behavioristic
(d) Self-actualizing
(e) Phenomenological.


33. Thomas has needs that are highly relevant to him. These needs include the need for sense of belonging,
friendship and supervisory support. Thomas’ needs reflect which needs in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
(a) Physiological needs
(b) Social needs
(c) Self-actualization needs
(d) Safety needs
(e) Esteem needs.


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34. Which of the subsequent needs are at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
(a) Physiological needs
(b) Social needs
(c) Security needs
(d) Esteem needs
(e) Self-actualization needs.

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