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WorksheetsBA 24-Organizational Behavior
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 23mins
Which among the following is a significant contribution of Andrew Ure?
Sickness Payment
Refuse to employ young children
Reduce the number of working hours
provide meals to employees
Who is the father of scientific management?
Elton Mayo
Robert Owen
Frederick Taylor
Henri Fayol
Who is father of human relations?
Frank Gilbreth
Andrew Ure
Henry Gantt
Elton Mayo
It is the tendency of people to behave differently when they receive attention because they respond to the demands of situation.
Thorndike Law of effects
Law of individual differences
Hawthorne Effect
Organizational Behavior
Who is the proponent of the 14 management principles?
Elton Mayo
Robert Owen
Max Weber
Henri Fayol
It is a set of traditional assumptions about people which prompt managers to believe that people dislike work, seek to avoid responsibility and are not ambitious and must be supervised closely.
Theory I
Theory X
Theory Y
Theory Z
It is an approach to management which is based on the belief that there is an important link among managerial practices, morale and productivity
Scientific Management
Administrative Management
Contingency Approach
Human relations movement
This theory focuses on humanistic philosophy, teamwork and consensus decision making.
Theory I
Theory X
Theory Y
Theory Z
A school of management thought concerned primarily with how organizations should be structured and managed.
Scientific Management
Administrative Management
Contingency Approach
Human Relations Movement
Who is the proponent of Theory X & Y?
Glasdour McGregor
Conor McGregor
Douglas McGregor
Don McGregor
Human Relations movement emphasizes focusing on strengths and capacities that can be measured.
TRUE
FALSE
He was an engineer by background and used scientific analysis and experiments to increase worker output.
Elton Mayo
Robert Owen
Frederick Taylor
Henri Fayol
Which of the following is not part of the four principles of Scientific Management?
Selection of each worker using scientific principles of personnel selection
Careful study of the jobs to develop standard work practices
Plans and task assignments by managers which workers should carry out.
Leadership practices and work-group pressures profoundly influence employee satisfaction and performance.
The major limitation of contingency approach is that it sometimes ignore differences among people and situations.
TRUE
FALSE
It is the study of and application of human resource strengths and psychological capacities that can be measured, developed and managed for performance improvement.
Administrative Management
Positive Organizational Behavior
Contingency Approach
Human Relations Movement
He suggested that bureaucracy is the best form of organization because it makes highly efficient management practices possible.
Elton Mayo
Robert Owen
Max Weber
Henri Fayol
The viewpoint that there is no one best way to manage people of work but the best way depends on certain situational factors.
Positive Organizational Behavior
Administrative Management
Contingency Approach
Human Relations Movement
Which of the following is one of the key findings in Hawthorne experiment?
Cooperation between worker and management will ensure work is accomplished.
Developing standards of work will boost productivity
Employees perform better when they are part of any program.
Workers when rewarded with financial incentives increase their productivity
To use the contingency approach to management, a manager must:
Exercise strong leadership over group
Believe that Theory X assumptions are valid
Diagnose the influential variable in a situation
Assume that something will go wrong
What is not true about scientific management?
There is a division of work between managers and workers
Focuses on developing human strengths
Manager plan and design work, assign task and set performance goals
Workers are rewarded with financial incentives when they increase their productivity
This theory emphasized on the human needs of people and worker demands for their work standard
Theory W
Theory X
Theory Y
Theory Z
This theory has a huge emphasis on the need for affiliation and achievement
Theory W
Theory X
Theory Y
Theory I
This theory holds that people do accept responsibility, can exercise self-control, have the capacity to innovate and consider work to be as natural as rest or play
Theory W
Theory X
Theory Y
Theory Z
Given the proper working conditions and environment, virtually all workers would be highly productive.
TRUE
FALSE
The strength of the classical school of management is that it encourages managers and professionals to examine individual and situational differences before deciding on a course of action.
TRUE
FALSE
