MCQ Bank
Interventions are aimed at diagnosing and addressing important organizational level processes, such as conflict, the coordination of organizational units and diversity is known as __________.
- A) Large-group intervention
- B) Blake and Mouton’s Grid
- C) Inter-group relations
- D) Confrontation meeting
Planning for appropriate intervention occurs in :
- A) Three timeframes
- B) Medium timeframe
- C) Two timeframes
- D) Long-run and short-run
Team development may not be necessary:
- A) Where accountability is not required
- B) Where there is task-interdependence
- C) When all members are involved in decision-making
- D) When none of the members are involved in decision-making
Key feature of an organization’s strategic orientation is:
- A) Structural Design
- B) Reengineering
- C) OD intervention
- D) Downsizing
A temporary task team does NOT involve:
- A) Group that dissolves after completing project
- B) Group formed for limited time period
- C) Group that has limited time period to achieve its goal
- D) Team constantly working on different temporary projects
Which of the following is a set of norms that manage the application of open-space methods?
- A) Two principles
- B) Law of Two Hands
- C) Law of Two Feet
- D) Law of Four Feet
Pattern of team-building cycle is :
- A) Problem ? Diagnosis ? Data gathering ?Planning?Implementation?Evaluation
- B) Data gathering? Problem?Diagnosis?Planning?Implementation?Evaluation
- C) None of the above
- D) Problem ? Data gathering ?Diagnosis?Planning?Implementation?Evaluation
Which of the following is part of the team-building process
- A) Family Group Team-Building Meetings
- B) Team-Building Activities
- C) Results of Team Building
- D) Team Building Process
The norms of working in "Shadow structures" are entirely different from ______
- A) Formal organization
- B) Self-contained unit organization
- C) Parallel structure
- D) Matrix form organization
ABN Co. provides business solutions through software development, however, the company has to deal with vague demands and environments. This is a contingency of
- A) Self-contained unit organization
- B) Matrix form organization
- C) Functional organization
- D) Network-based organization
__________ Organization is highly flexible and adaptable to changing conditions.
- A) Informal structure
- B) Complex structure
- C) Network structure
- D) Formal structure
“May reward political skills as opposed to technical skills” is the disadvantage of:
- A) Matrix organization
- B) Functional organization
- C) Self-Contained-Unit Organization
- D) Process base formed organization
Total quality management is the set of guiding principles for continuous improvement based on:
- A) Teamwork
- B) Customer satisfaction
- C) Empowerment of individual
- D) All of the given options
iDea would like to introduce innovation in its products, for which it requires the operation and design department members to pool resources that would best develop team members’ problem-solving skills. Which team management style has been used by iDea:
- A) Participative management
- B) Transactional approach
- C) Transformational approach
- D) Consultative approach
__________ is a packaged program that organizations can purchase and train members to use.
- A) Inter-group relations
- B) Confrontation meeting
- C) Blake and Mouton’s Grid
- D) Large-group intervention
__________ operate in conjunction with the formal organization.
- A) Parallel Structures
- B) Vertical structures
- C) Line structures
- D) Horizontal structures
The identifying group problem is aim of:
- A) Family group team building meeting
- B) Family group diagnostic meetings
- C) Family group third party intervention
- D) Family group third party implementation
Convene the group is the application of:
- A) Large-group intervention
- B) Inter-group relations
- C) Blake and Mouton’s Grid
- D) Confrontation meeting
iDea would like to introduce innovation in its products, for which it requires the operation and design department members to pool resources. Team building is applicable in this situation because :
- A) Operation members are difficult to convince about innovation
- B) Task requires interaction among members
- C) Conflict needs to be reduced between the two departments
- D) Management feels it is a formality
Team building is NOT appropriate when:
- A) • Team building does not have to be similar with the leader’s personal style and philosophy
- B) There are boradly defined problems
- C) To allow members to grow based on new skill and experience
- D) Building harmony and commitment on a controversial issue