Organizational Behaviour MCQ with Answers

MCQ On Motivation – Theories & Principles

This section covers MCQ on motivation and its importance in organizational behaviour.

The purpose of job enrichment is to ______

a. expand the number of tasks an individual can do

b. increase job efficiency

c. increase job effectiveness

d. increase job satisfaction of middle management

_____________ is the process of stimulating people to actions to accomplish the goals.

a) Bonus

b) Motivation

c) Performance-based Incentive

d) Promotion

___________ is the force of action or motivation.

a) Behaviour

b) Stimulus

c) Perception

d) Attitude

Motivation includes ______

a) job enrichment

b) Job rotation

c) Job enlargement

d) all of the above

High rate of ______________ increase cost and tend to place less experienced employee in job

a. Training

b. Absenteeism

c. Employee Turnover

d. Strikes

Which of the following is a strategy of job design that increases job depth by meeting employees needs for psychological growth?

a. Job rotation

b. Job enrichment

c. Job enlargement

d. Job engagemnt

According to Herzberg, which of the following is a maintenance factor?

a. Salary

b. Work itself

c. Responsibility

d. Recognition

___________ a young Welsh factory owner was one of the first to emphasise the human needs of employees: He refused to employ young children

a) Andrew Ure

b) J.N. Tata

c) Robert Owen

d) None of these

The job satisfaction of an employee depends on the

a) behaviour

b) attitude

c) personality

d) employer

Job Satisfaction have ________________ related to Absenteeism and Turnover

a. Positively

b. Negatively

c. directly

d. Elastically

_____________ advocated that humans are essentially motivated by levels of needs

a. A. Maslow

B.Follet

c. Elton mayo

d. Ivon Pavlov

In order from lowest to highest, what are Maslow’s five classes of needs?

a. Social-esteem-physiological-safety-self-actualization

b. Physiological-safety-social-self-actualization-esteem

c. Physiological-safety-social-esteem-self-actualization

d. Self-actualization-esteem-safety-social-physiological

Maslow says that Human beings are full of needs & wants. And these needs will lead to their______

a) Job

b) Behavior

c) Attitude

d) Motivation

The person will try for the complex level need when his ______________ is satisfied.

a) Basic need

b) family

c) Income

d) Job

In _______the needs are arranged in an order as per their importance (basic to complex)

a) Maslow need Theory

b) Herzberg theory

c) Satisfaction theory

d) Mayo theory

The individuality, humanness and mental health of the person will improve ___________ the level of need he satisfied.

a) less than

b) Greater than

c) at Per with

d) None of the above

Salary, and basic working condition will come under _____________ Needs

a) Safety

b) Physiological need

c) social need

d) organizational

____________ need improves the confidence level of an employee when satisfied.

a) Social

b) Safety

c) Basic

d) Esteem

Responsibility, Advancement etc are an example of

a) Motivators

b) hygiene factors

c) improvement factors

d) advance factors

The higher-order needs specified by Maslow is considered as____________ as per Herzberg.

a) Motivators

b) hygiene factors

c) improvement factors

d) advanced factors

_______ and fringe benefits are no longer employees first priority

a) Wages

b) bonus

c) rewards

d) promotions

A satisfied employee will be a____

a) motivator to others

b) manager

c) High performer

d) Team Leader

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