The document provides definitions for various terms related to human behavior at work and organizational behavior:
1) MPS measures workers' intrinsic motivation in the Job Diagnostic Survey; head hunters locate suitable candidates for companies; mobile workers are not tied to one country or company.
2) The ASA Framework measures personalities for selection; in ERG Theory, E stands for Existence.
3) Contingent workers are hired temporarily to fulfill labor needs; General Electric introduced 360 degree appraisals.
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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 OldhamMotivating Potential Score
3. How do we better know the employment agencies and executive recruiters who locate suitable candidatesHead hunters
4. What's the term used to describe an employee who is not tied to one country or company but moves around?Mobile worker
5. 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
6. In Clayton Alderfer's ERG Theory, R stands for Relatedness and G for Growth then what does E mean?Existence
7. 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?Contingent Workers
8. Who introduced the modern concept of 360 Degree Appraisal?General Electric Company
9. Which internationally acclaimed Indian movie has been included as a case study for 'Human Behavior at Work' by Indian Institute of Management, Indore?LAGGAN
10. 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
12. What is MBGO and who proposed it?Management By Group Objectives by Likert & Fisher
13. Name the personality who introduced the concept of 'Bureaucracy' in 1922?Max Weber
14. 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
15. Fill in the blank. In Expectancy theory Force = ________ x Expectancy?Valency
16. What is known as 'Great man Theory'?Leaders are Born and not Made
17. 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
18. Where is the famous 'Western Career Fair' take place annualy?Silicon Valley
19. Name the person who called for the scientific selection of workers and 'Harmonious Cooperation' between labour and management?Henry L. Gantt
20. Who is known as 'The father of Social Systems Approach' to organisation and management?Vilfredo Pareto
21. The degree to which a person prefers doing two or more things simultaneously is known as what?Polychronic
23. The degree to which people are willing to take chances is known as what?Risk Propensity
24. Which term is used to describe the use of a person's cultural reference points to evaluate others?Ethnocentrism
25. 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