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Professional Knowledge HR Quiz For Upcoming Exam

1. Which of the following is/are essential to delegate authority in an organization?
1. Establish feedback channels
2. Others must not know that delegation has occurred
3. Delegate‘s range of discretion should not be specified Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) Only 1 
(b) Only 2 and 3 
(c) Only 1 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3

2. Which one of the following statements is not correct? Wider span of control is consistent with efforts of the organizations to
(a) get closer to customers
(b) speed up decision making
(c) reduce cost
(d) improve supervision

3. Consider the following statements: Computer technology has made the concept of:
1. authority more relevant
2. authority less relevant
3. chain of command more relevant
4. unity of command less relevant
Which of the statements given above is/are correct? 
(a) l and 3
(b) Only 3 
(c) 2 and 4
(d) 1 and 4

4. Consider the following statements: 
Human diseconomies from increasing work specialization beyond a limit surface in the form of:
1. stress
2. poor quality of output
3. increased absenteeism
4. high turnover from the organization
Which of the statements given above is/are correct? 
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(b) Only 1 and 4 
(c) Only 2 and 3 
(d) Only 1

5. Who among the following developed the classic three- step model of organizational change? 
(a) Kurt Lewin
(b) H. Simon 
(c) J.P. Kotter 
(d) L.R. Murphy 

6. Who developed the concept that tension between worker‘s logic of sentiment‘ and manager‘s
logic of cost and efficiency‘ could lead to conflict within the organization?
(a) Herbert Simon 
(b) Chester Barnard 
(c) Fredrick W. Taylor 
(d) Elton Mayo

7. Consider the following statements:
1. Through the Hawthorne Studies, Elton Mayo could support Mary Parker Follett‘s theory that the
lack of attention to human relationships was a major flaw in other management theories.
2. The book – The Human Problems of an Industrialized Civilization was written by Mary Parker
Follett.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct? 
(a) Only l
(b) Only 2
(c) Both 1 and 2 
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

8. Match List- I (Leadership Type) with List-II (Main idea/ Model) and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:
List -I (Leadership Type)    List-II (Main idea/Model)
A. Participative                   1.Vroom and Yettons Normative Model
B. Contingency                   2. The Managerial Grid
C. Behavioral                      3. Likerts Leadership Style
D. Situational                      4. Fiedler‘s Least Preferred Co-worker (LPC) Theory
Code: ABCD
(a) 2 4 3 1 
(b) 3 1 2 4
(c) 2 1 3 4 
(d) 3 4 2 1

9. Which of the following are among the 14 principles of management in the classical management work of Henri Fayol?
1. Personnel tenure
2. Unity of command
3. Core competence
4. Scalar chain
Select the correct answer using the code given below: 
(a) Only 1, 2 and 3
(b) Only 2 and 4 
(c) Only l and 3 
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4

10. Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched? Scholar Viewpoint
1. F. Riggs In developing countries, bureaucracy also performs political roles
2. Harold Laski Bureaucracy is a threat to democratic government
3. S. Eisenstadt Bureaucracy is the most rational form of organization
Select the correct answer using the code given below: 
(a) 1 and 2
(b) Only 1 
(c) Only 2 
(d) 1 and 3

Answer :-

Q. 1 (A)
Q. 2 (D)
Q. 3 (C)
Q. 4 (A)
Q. 5 (A)
Q. 6 (D)
Q. 7 (A)
Q. 8 (D)
Q. 9 (B)
Q. 10 (A)

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