Management Practice MCQ Page 15

Multiple Choice questions for Management in the sets of 10 each on one page with questions and answers. All sets are useful in the preparation of subject tests for employment or admission.
Question: 893   Dysfunctions are best defined as :
  1. informal organization characteristics that permit non-formal behaviour to exist
  2. formal organization characteristics that permit formal behaviour to exist
  3. formal organization characteristics that permit behaviour to exist
  4. informal organization characteristics that permit formal behaviour to exist.
Question: 894   Personal problems exist:
  1. only in large firms
  2. in all firms regardless of size
  3. only in firms that have no personal departments
  4. only in unionized firms.
Question: 895   Staffing function of management comprises the activities of :
  1. selecting the suitable person for positions
  2. defining the requirements with regard to the people for the job to be done
  3. training and developing staff to accomplish their task more effectively
  4. all of these.
Question: 896   The employee services department would probably NOT have responsibility for :
  1. publications
  2. recreation programs
  3. safety
  4. grievance handing.
Question: 897   The process involved in terminating an employee would most likely be handled by:
  1. employment
  2. employment services
  3. labour relations
  4. training.
Question: 898   Suppose you are the General Manager of a company and as such have to deal with people and resources.An idea strikes your mind which is bound to improve the productivity of the organization ,but you know that employees will resent it.
  1. try to implement the idea inspite of their resentment
  2. drop the idea since you know that they will not welcome it
  3. educate your employees gradually and wait for such a time when it might be implemented conveniently
  4. none of these.
Question: 899   Of the following ,the poorest advice for a job seeker is to :
  1. prepare a professional resume
  2. identify potential employee through classified advertisement s
  3. make potential job contacts through your friends
  4. establish career and pursue them flexibly.
Question: 900   The selection interview often focuses on all but the candidate's
  1. ability to communicate
  2. age
  3. education
  4. work experience.
Question: 901   The proportion of terms using selection tests today is approximately:
  1. none
  2. 25%
  3. 50%
  4. 75%
Question: 902   Psychological tests for executive selection are helpful ,but have a serious imitation ,which is :
  1. cost in terms of time and of interpretative grading
  2. lack of agreement on what traits should be included
  3. dislike of many competent managerial candidates in being subjected to them
  4. none of these.
Question: 903   One of the main reasons for obtaining a manager from outside an enterprise is :
  1. to obtain fresh idea and new applications of management
  2. to enhance the public image of the enterprise being good place to work
  3. to avoid a moral problem among old employees
  4. none of these.
Question: 904   The favouring of relatives of the firm's excutives when promotions come up is known as:
  1. partiality
  2. patronage
  3. nepotism
  4. red tappism.