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This set of Performance Management Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Performance Management Set 5

Q1 | The process of giving employees the authority, skills and freedom to perform their task isknown as.
  • delegation of authority
  • empowerment
  • socialization
  • decentralization of power
Q2 | Organizational commitment is
  • employee’s involvement in the organization
  • employee’s involvement in the job
  • employee’s performance in the organization
  • employee’s continuity in the job
Q3 | The anxiety a person experiences when two sets of knowledge are contradictory orincongruent lead to.
  • cognitive dissonance
  • negative attitude
  • stress
  • perception disorder
Q4 | Which of the following denotes the predisposition to respond in a positive or negativeway to someone to something in one’s environment?
  • attitude
  • stress
  • belief
  • personality
Q5 | Power that has been legitimized within a specific special context.
  • power
  • authority
  • delegation
  • decentralization
Q6 | A person’s motivation to gain power and control the behaviour of others.
  • authority
  • focus of control
  • machiavellianism
  • power
Q7 | Which theory hold the authority inherent in a managerial position is achieved bydelegation from the higher position?
  • classical theory
  • acceptance theory
  • competence authority
  • operant theory.
Q8 | A mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved cohesive in group, when the members’ strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realisticallyappraise alternative courses of action.
  • group think
  • group process
  • group shift
  • group loafing
Q9 | Group established by the organisation to do its work and usually identifiable on anorganisation chart.
  • task group
  • primary group
  • formal group
  • informal group
Q10 | A technique for stimulating imaginative and novel ideas.
  • nominal group techniques
  • delphi technique
  • brain storming
  • dialectic decision method
Q11 | Dialectic decision method
  • organisational stressors
  • individual stressor
  • group stressor
  • role stressor
Q12 | The overall feeling of exhaustion a persons feels when simultaneously experiencing toomuch pressure is called.
  • job dissatisfaction
  • burnout.
  • absenteeism
  • role conflict
Q13 | The physical or psychological demands from the environments that cause stress areknown as.
  • burnout
  • emotional intelligent
  • negative attitude
  • stressors
Q14 | When the role of a person occupies goes against his self concept, then this would happen.
  • roles space
  • role overload
  • role set
  • self role distance
Q15 | When the role occupant feels that there are too many expectations from the significantrole in his role set, then it is felt like this.
  • role conflict
  • role under load
  • role overload
  • role mapping
Q16 | A situation that occurs when it is unclear or uncertain what behaviour is expected of roleoccupants.
  • role conflict
  • role ambiguity
  • role analysis
  • role overload
Q17 | The clusters of task and behaviours that others expect a person to perform while doing ajob is known as.
  • role
  • position
  • norms
  • organizational culture
Q18 | When expectations about a person’s role in the group contradict one another, it becomes.
  • down ward conflict
  • up ward conflict
  • role conflict
  • role ambiguity
Q19 | The system of various roles that a person takes and performs is called as.
  • role space
  • role mapping
  • role set
  • role analysis
Q20 | The person holding a performing the focal role is known as.
  • focal roller
  • role occupant
  • role setter
  • leader
Q21 | Behaviour expected from the focal role occupant by other members of the role set.
  • norms
  • values
  • conformity
  • position
Q22 | The study of human behaviour in organisational setting, the interface between humanbehaviour and the organisational context.
  • scientific management
  • organisational behavior
  • hawthorn studies.
  • behavioural studies
Q23 | Under which role, three general categories of managerial including the monitor, thedisseminator, and spokes person roles comes.
  • decision making role
  • information role
  • interpersonal role
  • controlling role
Q24 | Failure to report work is called
  • lack of commitment
  • absenteeism
  • burnout
  • immoral activity