MGT501 Final Term Past Paper 3

FINALTERM EXAMINATION

Fall 2008

MGT501- Human Resource Management (Session - 3) Time: 120 min Marks: 85

Q1. Which of the following employee benefits are legally imposed on organizations? (1 marks)

1. Social security
2. Stock options
3. Care centers
4. Flexible hours

Correct answer: Social security

Q2. Leadership will mostly be considered failed if: (1 marks)

1. Leaders are appointed by top management
2. Leader established high goals to be achieved
3. Leader also plays the role of a manager in an organization
4. Followers stop sharing their issues with a leader

Correct answer: Followers stop sharing their issues with a leader

Q3. Usually it is observed that after becoming the team’s captain the player’s own performance declines. What could be the reason behind it? (1 marks)

1. Unable to handle extra pressure
2. Absence of task related knowledge
3. Lack of high energy level
4. Imposed on a team by management

Correct answer: Unable to handle extra pressure

Q4. ‘Unilever’ comes under which of the following categories while conducting its business globally? (1 marks)

1. Domestic
2. International
3. Multinational
4. Transnational

Correct answer: Transnational

Q5. Which group of employees may also be known as expatriate? (1 marks)

1. Parent-country nationals
2. Host-country nationals
3. Third-country nationals
4. Local-country nationals

Correct answer: Parent-country nationals

Q6. __________________ are citizens of the country in which the multinational company has its headquarters. (1 marks)

1. Expatriates
2. Third-country nationals
3. Home-country nationals
4. Host-country nationals

Correct answer: Expatriates

Q7. Neither an organization nor any organizational member can provide the employee database information to any person/organization without the permission of the concerned employee. This restriction is supported by: (1 marks)

1. Employment at will
2. Discrimination law
3. Rights to privacy
4. Labor law

Correct answer: Rights to privacy

Q8. Communication in which information flows from the top of the organizational management hierarchy to the employees telling them what is the mission and what are the policies of the organization is known as: (1 marks)

1. Diagonal communication
2. Horizontal communication
3. Upward communication
4. Downward communication

Correct answer: Downward communication

Q9. All of the following would be considered as sources of conflicts, EXCEPT: (1 marks)

1. Goal incompatibility
2. Different values and beliefs
3. Lack of resources and finances
4. Strengthened team dynamics

Correct answer: Strengthened team dynamics

Q10. The labor union of 'SAGA Trading Pvt Ltd' is demanding company to buy resources from their settled place. Company didn’t bother about raising such issue by the union, as the issue comes under: (1 marks)

1. Labor issues
2. Mandatory issues
3. Permissive issues
4. Prohibited issues

Correct answer: Prohibited issues

Q11. According to which of the following view, "conflict should be encouraged and managed"? (1 marks)

1. Traditional View
2. Human Relations View
3. Interactionist View
4. Behavioral view

Correct answer: Human Relations View

Q12. Asif has punished his subordinate for the reason that he had refused to drop Asif's children at school. What type of power Asif practiced over his subordinate? (1 marks)

1. Referent power
2. Social power
3. Personal power
4. Charismatic power

Correct answer: Personal power

Q13. If being a manager you have the power to dismiss, suspend or demote your subordinates, you are said to have which of the following power? (1 marks)

1. Charismatic power
2. Referent power
3. Coercive power
4. Legitimate power

Correct answer: Legitimate power

Q14. Performance measures include all of the following, EXCEPT: (1 marks)

1. Individual’s productivity
2. Team's productivity
3. Departmental productivity
4. Market productivity

Correct answer: Market productivity

Q15. Which of the following is NOT included in time-off benefits? (1 marks)

1. On-the-job breaks
2. Annual holidays
3. Flexi time
4. Paid leaves

Correct answer: On-the-job breaks

Q16. For which of the following reason, organizations consider employee benefits important? (1 marks)

1. To attract new blood in the organizations
2. To retain the valuable employees
3. To create good reputation in the market
4. All of the given options

Correct answer: All of the given options

Q17. Which of the following is NOT included in direct financial payments? (1 marks)

1. Wages
2. Insurance
3. Commissions
4. Incentive

Correct answer: Incentive