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  • A. sociable
  • B. trusting
  • C. compliant
  • D. both b and c

Explanation: Agreeableness reflects a cooperative interpersonal style, including trust, compliance and a tendency to accommodate others.

Correct answer: both b and c
  • A. behavior
  • B. benchmarking
  • C. best supporting team
  • D. bearing peer pressure

Explanation: In the ABC model, B represents the observable behavior being examined, while A commonly refers to the antecedent and C to the consequence.

Correct answer: behavior
  • A. Perception
  • B. Personality
  • C. Attitude
  • D. Ability

Explanation: Perception is the mental process through which people select, organize, and interpret environmental information according to their own…

Correct answer: Perception
  • A. Informational role
  • B. Interpersonal role
  • C. Decisional role
  • D. Conceptual roleSubmit Mcqs Platform

Explanation: Motivating employees is part of a manager’s leader role, which belongs to Mintzberg’s interpersonal roles.

Correct answer: Interpersonal role
  • A. Affective component
  • B. Cognitive component
  • C. Behavioral component
  • D. Objective component

Explanation: The cognitive component of an attitude consists of beliefs, opinions, knowledge, and information about an object or situation.

Correct answer: Cognitive component
  • A. Scientific approach
  • B. Rational approach
  • C. Human relations approach
  • D. Systematic approach

Explanation: The human relations approach highlights how social relationships, motivation, morale, and other psychological factors influence employee…

Correct answer: Human relations approach
  • A. Frederick Herzberg
  • B. Abraham Maslow
  • C. Sigmund Freud
  • D. John Dale

Explanation: Herzberg's two-factor theory separates motivators, which create satisfaction, from hygiene factors, which mainly prevent dissatisfaction.

Correct answer: Frederick Herzberg
  • A. satisfiers and dissatisfies
  • B. formal and informal
  • C. regular and irregulars
  • D. all of the above

Explanation: Herzberg’s two-factor theory divides job factors into satisfiers, or motivators, and dissatisfiers, or hygiene factors.

Correct answer: satisfiers and dissatisfies
  • A. physiological needs
  • B. social and safety needs
  • C. esteem needs
  • D. self-actualization needs

Explanation: Food, shelter, and clothing are basic requirements for physical survival, so Maslow places them at the physiological level.

Correct answer: physiological needs
  • A. physiological needs
  • B. social needs
  • C. safety needs
  • D. esteem needs

Explanation: Recognition, prestige, and status satisfy the desire to feel valued and respected, so they belong to esteem needs.

Correct answer: esteem needs
  • A. physiological needs
  • B. social needs
  • C. self-actualization needs
  • D. esteem needs

Explanation: Self-actualization is the highest level in Maslow’s hierarchy and represents realizing one’s potential, personal growth, and…

Correct answer: self-actualization needs
  • A. physiological needs
  • B. social needs
  • C. safety needs
  • D. esteem needs

Explanation: Belonging, friendship, affection, and group acceptance are social needs in Maslow’s hierarchy.

Correct answer: social needs
  • A. comparison
  • B. analysis
  • C. benchmarking
  • D. return analysis

Explanation: Benchmarking means comparing an organisation's performance or practices with those of leading or best-performing firms.

Correct answer: benchmarking
  • A. Comparison
  • B. Analysis
  • C. Bench marking
  • D. Return analysis

Explanation: Benchmarking is the systematic comparison of an organisation's performance or processes with leading firms to identify performance gaps…

Correct answer: Bench marking
  • A. Sole-proprietorship
  • B. General Partnership
  • C. Limited Partnerhsip
  • D. Corporation

Explanation: In a general partnership, every general partner shares profits and losses and has unlimited personal liability for the firm’s debts.

Correct answer: General Partnership
  • A. Budget
  • B. Target
  • C. Rule
  • D. Qouta

Explanation: A rule is a standing plan that prescribes a standard course of action for recurring situations.

Correct answer: Rule
  • A. personal competencies
  • B. interpersonal competencies
  • C. business management
  • D. Both A and C

Explanation: Supply chain management deals with coordinating purchasing, production, distribution and logistics, so it falls under broader business…

Correct answer: business management
  • A. linking performance and pay
  • B. scientific management movement
  • C. performance based system
  • D. low-performance work system

Explanation: Scientific management uses systematic observation, work measurement and analysis to find more efficient work methods.

Correct answer: scientific management movement
  • A. Set an objective
  • B. Evaluate alternatives
  • C. Determine strength and weaknesses
  • D. none of aboveHuman Resources

Explanation: After objectives are set, managers examine internal strengths and weaknesses to understand the organisation’s current position before…

Correct answer: Determine strength and weaknesses
  • A. Horizontal integration
  • B. Vertical integration
  • C. Geographic expansion
  • D. none of above

Explanation: Operating in additional countries expands the firm's geographical reach without necessarily changing its production stages or ownership…

Correct answer: Geographic expansion