MCQ Bank
Hafeez is 50 years old, extremely wealthy and works because he enjoys it. Which of the following do you think would motivate Hafeez the most?
- A) A greater sense of inner peace
- B) More vacation time
- C) Greater discretion over his job
- D) A high amount of remuneration
Trust and trustworthiness affect a leader’s access to:
- A) Power and influence
- B) Dedication and achievement
- C) Persuasion and control
- D) Knowledge and cooperation
There are ________ sources of power.
- A) Three
- B) Four
- C) Six
- D) Five
In leader-follower dyad the individuals who belong to out-group have:
- A) Low quality relation
- B) Moderate quality relation
- C) None of the given
- D) High quality relation
Which of the following refers to establish effective relationships with key people inside or outside an organization?
- A) Lobbying
- B) Politicking
- C) Interest group
- D) Networking
The Fiedler model proposes:
- A) Changing the leader
- B) Matching leaders and situations
- C) Changing the employees
- D) Changing the situation
The Grapevine communication refers to:
- A) Interference in the flow of a message from a sender to a receiver
- B) Messages that use formally established channels
- C) Messages sent with body posture, facial expressions, and head and eye movements
- D) The Spontaneous communication occurring without regard for the formal channels of communication
All of the following are characteristics of trait theories of leadership EXCEPT:
- A) Intelligence
- B) Job relevant knowledge
- C) Employee Orientation
- D) Self Confidence
A small team of employees working voluntarily within company’s time to address work-related problems is known as:
- A) Virtual Team
- B) Project Team
- C) Quality Circle
- D) Quality Team
The categories of causes or sources of conflict include all of the following EXCEPT:
- A) Personal variables
- B) Communication
- C) Group interaction
- D) Structure
Which of the following sources of power is identical to the authority?
- A) Legitimate power
- B) Referent power
- C) Information power
- D) Expert power
A form of negotiation to divide up a fixed amount of resources is:
- A) Arbitration
- B) None of above
- C) Integrative Bargaining
- D) Distributive Bargaining
When your work group disagrees, the disagreements usually concern how the group’s work should be accomplished. The type of conflict experienced by your group is:
- A) Relationship conflict
- B) Process conflict
- C) Reactive conflict
- D) Task conflict
Which of the following is NOT an organizational factor that contributes to political behavior in an organization?
- A) Need for power
- B) Zero-sum allocation
- C) Role ambiguity
- D) Low trust
Which of the following leadership is based on leaders’ shifting the values, beliefs and needs of their followers?
- A) Transformational leadership
- B) Visionary leadership
- C) Transactional leadership
- D) Charismatic leadership
Which of the following is a structured voting process used to prioritize responses to a nominal question:
- A) Consensus
- B) Nominal group technique
- C) Brainstorming
- D) Delphi technique
The process of being properly guided and directed by a leader in a working environment is known as:
- A) Leadership
- B) Followership
- C) Sponsorship
- D) Internship
Which of the following characteristics DOES NOT belong to behavioral theories?
- A) Production Orientation
- B) Ambition and Energy
- C) Employee Orientation
- D) Consideration
In the modern work world, where higher-level trust has been largely destroyed because of broken promises, it is likely to be replaced with which of the following type of trust?
- A) Identity-based
- B) Knowledge-based
- C) Reliance-based
- D) Dependence-based
Asad and Saad are working in a company. There occurs a conflict between the two due to different views on some decisions. Both are indulging in what type of conflict?
- A) Intergroup Conflict
- B) Interorganizational Conflict
- C) Interpersonal Conflict
- D) Person-role Conflict