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This section includes 63 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Organisational Behaviour knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 51. |
According to Moscovici (1980), the best way for a minority to exert influence on the |
| A. | Maintain a consistent position over time |
| B. | express extreme opinions |
| C. | stress the importance of their opinion |
| D. | express creative opinions |
| Answer» B. express extreme opinions | |
| 52. |
Theorists have identified two main styles of leadership. These are |
| A. | Transgression leadership |
| B. | Transactional leadership |
| C. | Transparent leadership |
| D. | Transcendental leadership |
| Answer» C. Transparent leadership | |
| 53. |
An approach, in which an external consultant recommends a solution to organizational |
| A. | Expert system approach |
| B. | Devil’s advocate approach |
| C. | Dialectical inquiry approach |
| D. | External analysis approach |
| Answer» B. Devil’s advocate approach | |
| 54. |
What type of personality focuses on how people adapt to everyday life and intervenes to improve |
| A. | Academic psychology |
| B. | Clinical Psychology |
| C. | Practical Psychology |
| D. | Applied Psychology |
| Answer» C. Practical Psychology | |
| 55. |
From the Big Five personality dimensions, behaviours such as speaking fluently, displaying |
| A. | Agreeableness |
| B. | Openness |
| C. | Extraversion |
| D. | Conscientiousness |
| Answer» E. | |
| 56. |
Who is the pioneer that proposed the 16 basic dimensions of normal personality and devised a |
| A. | Carl Jung |
| B. | Raymond Cattell |
| C. | Julian Rotter |
| D. | Gordon Allport |
| Answer» C. Julian Rotter | |
| 57. |
Positive correlations (from 0.01 to 1.00) indicate that, as one factor goes ________, the other |
| A. | down, up |
| B. | up, down |
| C. | up, up |
| D. | both a and b |
| Answer» D. both a and b | |
| 58. |
Sheldon proposed three different types of traits. The traits that would best describe a football |
| A. | mesomorph |
| B. | endomorph |
| C. | ectomorph |
| D. | actinomorphy |
| Answer» B. endomorph | |
| 59. |
When analyzing a past president to describe his personality by coding letters or speeches he has |
| A. | Big Five |
| B. | content analysis |
| C. | personality assumptions |
| D. | Implicit Personality Theory |
| Answer» C. personality assumptions | |
| 60. |
Psychologists seek to understand Robs personality through his thoughts, beliefs and their impact |
| A. | trait approach |
| B. | humanistic approach |
| C. | cognitive approach |
| D. | psychoanalytic approach |
| Answer» D. psychoanalytic approach | |
| 61. |
he Ancient Greeks hypothesized that there were 4 different personality characteristics. The four |
| A. | irritability, optimism, pessimism, calmness |
| B. | calmness, depression, pessimism, irritability |
| C. | depression, irritability, pessimism, optimism |
| D. | irritability, depression, optimism, calmness |
| Answer» E. | |
| 62. |
The best known lexical research on terms relevant to personality was conducted by whom and how |
| A. | Sheldon/3 |
| B. | Ancient Greeks/4 |
| C. | Allport/17,953 |
| D. | Gordon/5 |
| Answer» D. Gordon/5 | |
| 63. |
Talkative vs. silent; frank, open vs. secretive; adventurous vs. cautious; sociable vs. reclusivethese |
| A. | Agreeableness |
| B. | Conscientiousness |
| C. | Extraversion |
| D. | Culture |
| Answer» D. Culture | |