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Managing People and Performance in Organizations
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In Bandura's original experiments on aggression and observational learning, he found that the number of aggressive acts displayed was at its highest when observing

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Forced distribution and ranking are considered as methods of

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The power with a contextual power is

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Which of the following statement is correct?

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Arrange the school of personalities in the order of acceptance from older days.

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Match the Techniques of Training (List-I) with the Possible Discriptions there of (List-II) given below.
List-I List-II
a. Ice Breakers 1. One role played alternatively by two participants
b. Tag Teams 2. Listing of alternative solutions to problems
c. Morphological Analysis 3. Games to get team members know each other
d. Gordon Teahnique 4. Steering a discussion to crytallise solutions

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The psycho-physical disposition of an individual is referred to as

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Match the following.
List-I (Methods) List-II (Definitions)
a. Narrative Essay 1. Evaluation by boss, peers and subordinates
b. 360 degree feedback 2. A candid statement from a rater
c. Assessment centres 3. Assessment based on response to a battery of tests
d. Graphic rating scales 4. A scale that lists a number of traits and range of performance for each

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Match the following.
List-I (High Score Characteristic) List-II (Factor Ocean)
a. Creative, artistic, curious imaginative and non-conforming 1. Neuroticism
b. Organised, reliable neat and ambitious 2. Agreeableness (A)
c. Talkative, optimistic sociable and affectionate 3. Extraversion (E)
d. Goad natured, trusting and helpful 4. Conscientiousness (C)
e. Working, insecure ancious and temperamental 5. Openness (O)

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The prevailing atmosphere or 'internal weather' that exists in an organisation and its impact on employees is

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Read the statements and choose the correct answer.
I. Sigmund Freud proposed the concept of the 'structure of psyche' in terms of id, ego and superego.
II. The 'Id' does not care about reality, about the needs of an one else, only its own satisfaction.

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Match the following.
List-I List-II
a. Individuals know their own emotions 1. Emotional intelligence
b. It is the difference between the felt emotions and displayed emotions 2. Emotional dissonance
c. Managing the expression and feelings to cater to the emotional requirements 3. Emotional labour
d. Regulating ones emotions consciously 4. Emotional regulation

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Hans Selye's (1956) "General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)" has been widely held as a comprehensive model to explain the stress phenomenon. This three stage model states that when an organism is confronted with a threat, the general physiological response occurs in three stages.
Which of the following stage(s) is not a part of GAS model?

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McGhee and Thayer's have developed a 'Three Level Analysis' for conducting training need assessment. Which of the following is not one of these layers?

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Which of the following statements is true?

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. . . . . . . . is a field of study that examines the extent to which emotions, whether positive or negative, serve a purpose.

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Match the items of List-I with those of List-II and choose the correct combination.
List-I List-II
a. Emotions are results of physiological response towards the situation 1. Lazarus Theory
b. Emotions and physiological activities are two different independent processes 2. Schachter-Singer
c. The cognitive (psychological) and physiological responses together cause emotions 3. James-Lange
d. This theory of emotion labels the situation 4. Cannon-Bard

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The ego-defensive function of an attitude

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Match the following.
List-I (Methods of training) List-II (Features)
a. Job rotation 1. Instead of using original machinery employees are trained on dummy model
b. Vestibule training 2. It is well adopted to convey specific information
c. Apprenticeship programmes 3. It allowes trainees to interact with other employees facilitating future cooperation among departments
d. Lectures 4. After completion of training, the master worker goes and the trainee gets full charge of the job position

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Teaching a rat, a very complicated response may involve the following steps.
1. Giving a closer and closer approximation for reward.
2. Rewarding simple behaviour that approximates the desired behaviour.
3. Pairing a neutral stimulus with the uncon-ditioned stimulus
The most effective sequence of these steps would be

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