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1.

In HR parlance, who are 'Whistle-Blowers' ? Individuals who report

unethical practices by their employers to outsiders
Answer

2.

Expand MPS, a scale used to measure the overall potential of workers'

intrinsic motivation and used in the Job Diagnostic Survey developed by
Richard Hackman and Greg Oldham? Motivating potential score
Answer

3.

How do we better know the employment agencies and executive recruiters

who locate suitable candidates?head hunters
Answer

4.

What's the term used to describe an employee who is not tied to one
country or company but moves around? Mobile worker
Answer

5.

Name the Process of Certifying the competence of a person, an employee,

in an area of capability? accreditation
Answer

6.

What are "Blind Ads" in HR parlance? Recruitment advertisements

that does not have the name or identity of the Employer
Answer

7.

Boulwarism is a popular negotiation strategy. Who developed this concept?

GE company
Answer

8.

We all familiar with Buyback of shares. But while managing people what is
'Buyback'? Buying back of a personnel, who attempts to resign,
with an offer of increase in salary or wages and/or other benefits.
Answer

9.

Who proposed the 'Equity Theory' in the year 1960? J.Stacy Adam
Answer

10. What

are 'Cafetaria Benefit Programs'? Flexible benefits that allow

employee to select the fringe benefits and services that satisfy their needs.
Answer

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11. ASA

Framework was developed by Ben Schneider, a

researcher from University of Maryland, and used in
selection of personalities. What does ASA stand for?attraction-selection-attrition
Answer

12. What

is known as the relationship between what a worker

gets from the job and what he contributes to the job
according to the Equity Theory? Output/input ration
Answer

13. In

Clayton Alderfer's ERG Theory, R stands for Relatedness

and G for Growth then what does E mean? Existence
Answer

14. Employees

hired or contracted by organisations on a

temporary basis to fulfill the needs of the labor for a
specific period are known as what? Contigent workers
Answer

15. What

is the tendency of the personnel to experience and

express their negative emotional attitude and generally
perceive themselves and others surrounding them
negatively called? Neuroticism
Answer

16. Who

introduced the modern concept of 360 Degree

Appraisal? GE
Answer

17. What

is a 'Career Plateau'? A chance of obtaining a

promotion or a position with more job responsibilty
is very small
Answer

18. Which

internationally acclaimed Indian movie has been

included as a case study for 'Human Behavior at Work' by
Indian Institute of Management, Indore? Lagaan
Answer

19. Elton

Mayo, one of the pioneers in human behavior studies,

called the assumptions of McGregor as "Rabble
Hypothesis". What are they? Theory X and Theory Y
Answer

20. Who

is known as the "Father of 401k"? Ted Benna

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21. What

is MBGO and who

proposed it? Management By
Group Objectives by Likert &
Fisher
Answer

22. Richard

Beckhard developed a
concept known as 'Beckhard's
Confrontation Meeting'. What is
the concept? One day meeting
of entire management of an
organisation in which they take
the reading of their original
health
Answer

23. Name

the personality who

introduced the concept of
'Bureaucracy' in 1922? Max
Weber
Answer

24. Name

the title of the book in

which Douglas McGregor
described his famous Theory X
and Theory Y? The Humanside
of Enterprise
Answer

25. We

all are familiar with the

concept ESOP, thanks to the IT
revolution. But in HR what is
ETOP? Environmental Threat
and Opportunity Profile
Answer

26. In

McKinsey's 7S Framework
there are four 'soft variables',
Staff, Skills, Style and Shared
Values. What are the other

three 'hard variables'?

Strategy, Structure and System
Answer
27. Fill

in the blank. In Expectancy

theory Force = ________ x
Expectancy? Valency
Answer

28. What

is known as 'Great man

Theory'? Leaders are Born and
not Made
Answer

29. Who

proposed the "Surplus

Value Theory of Wages". The
theory states the labor was an
article of commerce, which
could be purchased on payment
of 'Subsistance Theory'? KARL
MARX
Answer

30. Where

is the famous 'Western

Career Fair' take place
annualy? Silicon Valley

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31. Which

theory is
commonly referred as
the 'Hierarchy of Human
Needs'?MASLOW
THEORY
Answer

32. Joseph

Luft and Harry Ingham developed a

framework to improve the effectiveness of
communication. Name it?
Answer

33. Name

the person who

called for the scientific

selection of workers and

'Harmonious
Cooperation' between
labour and
management? Henry L.
Gantt
Answer
34. Where

did Elton Mayo

and F.J.Roethlisberger
conduct their famous
studies which dealt the
influence of work groups
on performance?
Hawthorne Plant at
Western Electric
Company
Answer

35. In

HR parlance what is
known as an 'Agency
Shop'? The union
where employees do
not have to join but
they must pay union
dues to keep their
jobs alive
Answer

36. Who

is known as 'The
father of Social Systems
Approach' to
organisation and
management? Vilfredo
Pareto
Answer

37. The

degree to which a
person prefers doing two
or more things
simultaneously is known
as what? Polychronic
Answer

38. Name

the creativitysimulation technique

which tries to make the
strange familiar and the
familiar strange?
Synectics
Answer

39. An

illegal strike called by

employees who refuse to

work during the term of

a binding contract is
known as 'Wildcat
Strike'. State True or
False? True
Answer
40. What

does 'Theory X'

and 'Theory Y' argue?
View of Human Nature
and Motivation

41.The
degree to
which
people are
willing to
take
chances is
known as
what?
Risk
Propensity
Answer
42.

What does
'Peter
Principle'
state? In a
hierarchy,
people tend
to rise to
their level of
incompetence
Answer

43.

In Change
management
or general HR
parlance
what are
Psychic
Costs?
Stress, Strain
and Anxieties
that affect
the inner self

of a person
during a
period of
change
Answer
44.

Which term is
used to
describe the
use of a
person's
cultural
reference
points to
evaluate
others?
Stress, Strain
and Anxieties
that affect
the inner self
of a person
during a
period of
change
Answer

45.

This term is
derived from
the
typographer's
word for a
painting plate
made from
the
previously
composed
type. Walter
Lippman
applied this
word to
perception in
1922. Since
then it has
became a
term
frequently
used for
perceptual
errors. What
is it?
Stereotype
Answer

46.

Who is widely
recognised as

the pioneer in
Cognitive
Theory?
Edward
Tolman
Answer
47.

In an
organisation
if your
feedback is
like PIGS,
what does it
denotify?
Positive,
Immediate,
Graphic,
Specific
Answer

48.

What is the
systematic
study of
cause and
effect of
personal
space
requirements
called?
Proxemics
Answer

49.

Expand
COBRA?
Consolidated
Omnibus
Budget
Reconicliation
Act
Answer

50.

Name the
effect of
successes
made by
unions at the
negotiating
bench
influencing
the wages,
working
conditions
and other
terms of
employment

benefits for
workers who
are not yet
the members
of unions?
Spillover
Effect

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1.

What was founded by Herb Kelleher

in 1973 in Dallas, Texas, USA?
South West Airlines
Answer

2.

The former chairman of Proctor &

Gamble, Edwin L.Artzt got a
nickname for his demanding and
harsh treatment of his subordinates.
How he nick-named? Wrecking Ball
Answer

3.

Shasi Chimala sold his IT startup

Indigo Technologies to Chennai
based SSi technologies before
eyeing into his new venture which is
totally unrelated to his previous
field. Name it? Qwikys Coffee
Answer

4.

Who endorsed the shaving product

'Erasmic', a brand owned by
Hindustan Lever Limited, in 1970s?
Tony Creig
Answer

5.

In business context what is claimed

to the fame of Ahus, a town in
Sweden? Manufacturing base of
Absolut Vodka
Answer

6.

Which NRI businessman owns the

Caparo Group?
Lord Swaraj Paul

Answer
7.

Cannaught Plaza Restaurants and

Hardcastle Restaurants have had
the responsibility for the entry of
Which MNC to India ? McDonalds
Answer

8.

N.Thanu got a double first class in

BA from Loyola College, Madras. He
worked as an illustrator in Ananda
Vikatan and later with The Indian
Express and Swarajya. Which
famous organisation was founded by
him? Brilliant Tutorials
Answer

9.

Which indian industrialist owned Tail

Winds limited?
Naresh Goyal of Jet Airways

Answer
10.

11. This
famous
business
personality
earn money
by repairing
toy trains
when he was
at 13. His
father
escaped
from the
British Police
in 1920 and
landed in
USA with
$20 in his
pocket and
later married
an American

What were bulit under the project

178 ? FIAT cars Siena, Siena
Weekend and Palio

school
teacher and
settled in
Philadelphia.
His corporate
headquarters
is known as
"The
Mountain".
Identify him.
Dr.Amar
Bose
Answer
12.

Which famous corporate

was founded in 1894 in
Zlin and made its presence
in India in 1931 and
commenced the
manufacturing of shoes at
Batanagar plant in 1936?
BATA
Answer

13.

Name the world's largest

fully integrated Live
Entertainment company?
SFX (Spectacular Fun
eXcitement)
Answer

14.

What is the name of

Belgium's National
Airlines? SABENA - Societe
anonyme Belge
dExploitation de la
Navigation Aeriene
Answer

15.

What is the commercial

Tradename of Monosodium
Glutamate? Ajinomotto
Answer

16.

Name the company

founded by Acharya P.C.
Ray and Rajshekar basu in
the early 1920's? Bengal
Chemicals
Answer

17.

Hindustan Motors'
Ambassador adopted its
model from Which British

car model? Morris Oxford

Answer
18.

From the following lines

identify the Corporate.
"Since 1935, We have
given millions of apples to
countless daily visitors to
the agency worldwide".
Leo Burnett
Answer

19.

With which brand of

healthcare house would
Dr.Mukesh Batra
associated? Positive Health
Foundation - First
Corporate Homeopathic
Clinic in India and the First
ISO 9002 certified
homeopathic clinic
worldwide
Answer

20.

Initially it was started as

'Brahmanara Coffee Club'
in 1924 and changed the
name in 1951 to the
present one. In 1976,
during emergency, it
started instant foods
business due to the price
controls imposed by the
Indira Gandhi Government.
Identify this successful
desi company/brand? MTR
- Mavalli Tiffin Rooms

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21.

Name the inventor of

world's first safety
elevator, whose name
is synonymous with
that category? Elisha
Graves Otis
Answer

22. Pharma

biz. Which
Indian
pharmaceutical
giant owned the
Fortis Healthcare
Limited? Ranbaxy
Ltd
Answer

23. Made

in China.
Which company's
corporate culture is
known as
"Colourful Life,
Excellent
Products"? Konka
Answer

24. Name

the
internationally
acclaimed brand
founded by Lionel
Martin and Robert
Banford in a small
west London
workshop? (Hint:
Bond connection)
Aston Martin
Answer

25. Big

Blue is IBM.
Which corporate is
referred as 'Big
Black' ? UPS
Answer

26. Who

owns the
premium condom
brand Mates and
what's special
about that brand?
Virgin. It is the
only brand which is
not sold under the
name Virgin
Answer

27. We

all know that

Hotel Sixer is
promoted by Kapil
Dev. But which
other cricketer
owns 'Curry
Leaves'? Arvinda

de Silva
Answer
28. Which

organization
was founded by
Dr.Mikel Harry and
Richard Schroder
in 1994 at
Scottsdale, Arizona
and their first
clients are GE and
Allied Signal? Six
Sigma Academy
Inc
Answer

29. Cathay

Pacific
airlines, claims to
be the heart of
asia, belongs to
which group?
Swire group
Answer

30. This

famous
Japanese
corporation first
started as a tiny
cork manufacturer
in Hiroshima in
1920, and was
known as Tokyo
Cork Togyo Co Ltd.
How it is known
today? Mazda