1. What approach is used in organizations hiring hundreds of new employees every year towards the recruiting process?
(A) Systematic approach
(B) Casual approach
(C) Random approach
(D) Reactive approach
2. Monthly Market Report is an analysis of business done during the:
(A) Whole day
(B) None
(C) Whole month
(D) Whole week
3. Screening stage, stage, and final stage are the three stages of the interview process:
(A) Selection
(B) Collection
(C) None
(D) Opportunity
4. The effectiveness of a leader is dependent upon meeting areas of need within the workgroup:
(A) None of the above
(B) Five
(C) Three
(D) One
5. Needs, setting standards and maintaining discipline, and appointing sub-leaders according to Adair’s approach, are called as:
(A) Work functions
(B) Team functions
(C) Individual functions
(D) Task functions
6. The Ohio State Leadership Studies revealed ___ and initiating structure as two major dimensions of leadership behaviour:
(A) Consideration
(B) Control
(C) Communication
(D) Collaboration
7. Who used the terms “employee-centred” and “production-centred” to describe leader behaviour?
(A) Blake and McCanse
(B) Fiedler
(C) Likert
(D) McGregor
8. Identify the four main styles of leadership displayed by the manager which are identified in Tannenbaum and Schmidt’s continuum:
(A) Tells, help, joins and leads
(B) Tells, sells, consults and joins
(C) Commands, sells, consults and resists
(D) Commands, help, joins and leads
9. Contingency theories of leadership are based on the belief that:
(A) One leadership style suits all
(B) Leadership is always context-free
(C) Autocratic style is superior
(D) There is no single style of leadership appropriate to all situations
10. Leaders with a low LPC score gain satisfaction from according to Fiedler’s LPC scale:
(A) None
(B) Developing team relationships
(C) Both
(D) Achieving objectives
11. The model of leadership by Vroom and Yetton’s contingency is based on which aspects of a leader’s decision?
(A) Both of these
(B) Decision acceptance
(C) Decision quality
(D) None
12. An individual’s motivation is dependent on:
(A) Effective performance
(B) Provided support
(C) Path-goal relationships
(D) Expectations of successful effort → performance
13. The best example of a firm following a cost-leadership business strategy is:
(A) Rolls Royce
(B) Wal-Mart
(C) Mercedes Benz
(D) Macy's
14. Cost-leadership and product-differentiation strategies are often called:
(A) Common business strategies
(B) Generic corporate strategies
(C) Generic business strategies
(D) Common corporate strategies
15. Cost leadership as a strategy requires a firm to:
(A) Search for efficiencies
(B) Unique product
(C) Niche market advantage
(D) Imitate competition
16. Firms implementing cost-leadership strategies will generally adopt a:
(A) Functional
(B) Multidivisional
(C) Product divisional
(D) Matrix
17. Firms implementing cost-leadership strategies will have layers in their reporting structure:
(A) Complex
(B) Many
(C) Few
(D) Simple
18. The typical risk of a cost leadership strategy includes:
(A) Obsolete processes
(B) Inability to balance low price & high quality
(C) Excessive differentiation
(D) Loss of customer loyalty
19. Firms pursuing a cost-leadership strategy are typically characterized by:
(A) Loose control
(B) Both A and B
(C) Close cost supervision
(D) De-emphasis on cost goals
20. What must a cost-leadership strategy accomplish to be successful?
(A) Both A and B
(B) Increase cost and offer value
(C) Reduce cost and offer superior value
(D) Reduce cost and offer adequate value
21. In the leadership theories of management, being a leader would mean:
(A) Motivate with vision
(B) All of these
(C) Possess leadership traits
(D) Prioritize needs of followers