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Which of the following is not example of group decision making?

  1. Decision of board meetings

  2. Decision of staff meetings

  3. Decision of managing director

  4. Decision of commitees


Correct Option: C

Identify correct steps in decision making.
I. Identifying the real problem
II. Discovery of alternatives
III. Analysis of available alternatives
IV. Selection of alternatives
V. Communication of decision
Select the correct answer from the options given.

  1. II, IV, I, III, V

  2. III, I, II, IV, V

  3. I, III, II, IV, V

  4. I, II, III, IV, V


Correct Option: D

Managerial Grid suggests which of the following as the best leader behavior?

  1. High structure and high consideration

  2. Low structure and low consideration

  3. High concern both for production and people

  4. Low concern both for production and people


Correct Option: C

If trait research had been successful, we would _______ whereas if behavioral studies were correct, we would _______.

  1. only hire women: hire either men or women

  2. teach people managerial principles: teach people certain behaviours

  3. change job to suit people: change people to suit jobs

  4. select the right person for the job: train leaders


Correct Option: D

The two dimensions of leadership behaviour identified in the University of Michigan studies are __________.

  1. consideration and influence

  2. employee-oriented and production-oriented

  3. initiating structure and consideration

  4. structured coercion and respect initiation


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
A series of studies on leadership were done in Michigan University, starting in the 1950s. Under the general direction of Rensis Likert, the focus of the Michigan studies was to determine the principles and methods of leadership that led to productivity and job satisfaction. Two types of leadership behaviours were identified:
1.Employee orientation (stress the human-relations aspect, employees are viewed as human beings with personal needs)
2.Production orientation (stress on the technical and production aspects of the job, employees viewed as the means of getting the work done).
Leaders with an employee orientation showed genuine concern for interpersonal relations. Those with a production orientation focused on the task or technical aspects of the job.

___________ is concerned with the persons, or organizational groups making the decision, or with the analysis of the decision making process.

  1. Empirical Approach

  2. Group Behaviour Approach

  3. Interpersonal Behaviour Approach

  4. Decision Theory Approach


Correct Option: D

Which of the following type of skill involves the ability to visualize the organisation as a whole? 

  1. Conceptual skills

  2. Technical skills

  3. Interpersonal skills

  4. Administrative skills


Correct Option: A

Managers are leaders because they have the ___________ to direct,motive and lead people.

  1. informal authority

  2. formal responsibility

  3. formal authority

  4. informal responsibility


Correct Option: C

The studies conducted at__________ revealed two kinds of style viz., production centered and employee-centered, which are similar to 'initiating structure' and 'consideration' leadership styles as researched by Ohio state university studies .  

  1. University of michigan

  2. Oxford university

  3. London university

  4. Delhi university


Correct Option: A

One of the most widely known approaches to dramatizing leadership style is the managerial grid, developed during the sixties by __________.

  1. Robert Mouton & Jane Blake

  2. Robert Blake & Jane Mouton

  3. Robert Marshall & Jane bold

  4. Lewin, Lippitt and white


Correct Option: B