MCQ Bank
Which one of the following is an observable part of a culture?
- A) Behaviour
- B) Values
- C) Feelings
- D) All of the given options
At which stage of organization life cycle development, need for delegation of power remains very high in the organization?
- A) Collectivity stage
- B) Formalization stage
- C) Elaboration stage
- D) Entrepreneurial stage
Which one of the following will improve with the proper application of human resource management?
- A) Production
- B) Productivity
- C) Power
- D) Profits
At which stage of organization life cycle development, red tape crisis becomes pertinent in the organization?
- A) Formalization stage
- B) Collectivity stage
- C) Elaboration stage
- D) Entrepreneurial stage
Which of the following may be the important external stake holders of an organization?
- A) All of the given options
- B) Special interest groups
- C) Government agencies
- D) Customers
Which of the following pair refers to the levels of organizational culture?
- A) Invisible artifacts and observable behaviors
- B) All of the given options
- C) Visible actions and observable beliefs
- D) Visible artifacts and observable behaviors
In which type of organizational culture, organization remains concerned for serving specific customers in the external environment but without the need for rapid change?
- A) The Adaptability Culture
- B) The Bureaucratic Culture
- C) The Mission Culture
- D) The Clan Culture
If the owner of distribution shop offers a gift of new mobile to the manager of its product supplier group for some favour in getting the purchased equipment before other customers in his waiting list, then what should be the manager’s response on ethical ground?
- A) Manager should politely turn it down and should report his supervisor
- B) None of the given options
- C) Manager should see the market trend by other managers
- D) Manager should accept the gift
Which of the following claims that the good we do is our duty?
- A) American pragmatism theory
- B) Utility theory
- C) Consequentialist View
- D) Non-Consequential View
Which of the following views claims that when we remove some obstacle from the pave of pedestrians as it provides inner satisfaction to us?
- A) Consequentialist View
- B) American pragmatism theory
- C) Non-Consequential View
- D) Utility theory
Which of the following provides members with a sense of organizational identity and generates a commitment to beliefs and values that are larger than themselves?
- A) Strategies and plans
- B) Policy
- C) Environment
- D) Culture
Which one of the following stages is the first stage in the development of the organization?
- A) Entrepreneurial Stage
- B) Elaboration Stage
- C) Formalization Stage
- D) Collectivity Stage
Which one of the following allows companies to combine all their data into huge databases for easy access?
- A) Data source
- B) Data mining
- C) Data collection
- D) Data warehousing
Which of the following may be the best description for a learning organization?
- A) An organization which develops a culture of constant learning from the past experiences
- B) An organization where training costs are minimum
- C) An organization that is less towards incorporating frequent changes
- D) An organization where employees are not much aligned with business strategy
When a new organization is created then the emphasis remains on creating a new product and surviving in the market place. Which stage of organizational life cycle has been depicted in above statement?
- A) Collectivity stage
- B) Leadership Stage
- C) Formalization stage
- D) Entrepreneurial stage
Which of the following is a mechanism of tacit knowledge management in which the individuals who are informally bound to one another for sharing their knowledge though exposure to a similar set of problems and a common pursuit of solutions?
- A) Completed learning history
- B) Storytelling
- C) Dialogue
- D) Communities of Practice
The phenomenon of the use of specific saying, slogan, metaphor, or other form of language to convey special meanings to the employees in an organization is known as:
- A) Rite
- B) Ritual
- C) Language
- D) Ceremonial
What is the desired approach for risk taking in the learning organization?
- A) Risk taking is dangerous
- B) Risk is minimum
- C) Risk taking is encouraged
- D) Risk taking discouraged
General Electric recently adopted a division structure for having a structural simplicity and flexibility like a small company while having the resource and reach as earlier like as a large company. Which of the following approaches this company is using?
- A) None of the above
- B) Large Size Company
- C) Bio Company / Small Company Hybrid
- D) Small Size Company
For which type of culture, managers tend to be somewhat isolated, political and bureaucratic and as a result, they do change their strategies quickly to adjust for taking advantage of changes in their business environments?
- A) Unadaptive Corporate Culture
- B) Unique Corporate Culture
- C) Adaptive Corporate Culture
- D) Flexible Corporate Culture