391. The advantages of staffing from amongst the host country nationals generally do not include
A. reduction of language barriers
B. reduction of living cost
C. greater control over the activities of the organisation
D. better understanding of host country’s laws and regulations
392. Which form of participative management promotes “semi-autonomous work-groups”?
A. quality of work life
B. quality circle
C. TQM
D. quality group
393. Industrial action generally does not include
A. strike
B. lock-out
C. demonstration
D. Bandh
394. The role of HRD personnel is to –
A. description of entire process / analytical decomposition
B. identification of HRD elements and resources
C. Both (a) + (b)
D. Analytical decomposition only
395. The primary goal of HRD is –
A. To increase productivity of workers / and organisational profitability
B. Improve workers’ skill and enhance motivation, to prevent obsolesces at all levels
C. prevent obsolescence and increase organisational profitability only
D. Both (a) + (b)
396. Leadership is the –
A. ability to influence other people
B. ability to create within people an urge to do
C. ability to obtain willing co-operation of the followers
D. All above
E. Only (a) + (b)
397. A team is evaluated on features like –
A. Co-operation / confrontation avoiding / common objectives
B. Openness of view and unwritten procedure systems
C. Regular review / appropriate leadership
D. All above
E. Both (b) + (c)
398. For Total Quality Management (TQM) the required qualities are:
A. Understand customer’s current and future needs / leaders establish unity of purpose / involvement of people for organisation’s benefit
B. achievement of desired results when resources and activities are managed as a process and (a) above
C. Mutually beneficial suppliers relationships enhances the ability to create value and (b) also
D. Should have a temporary objective of the organization
399. Human due diligence means investigation of –
A. Management team / staff
B. Structure / issues / managerial capacity of a potential partner
C. Both (a) + (b)
D. Financial due diligence
400. Knowledge management refers for critical issues of
A. Organisational adaptation
B. Survival and competence against discontinuous environmental change
C. Synergistic combination of data and information processing capacity
D. All above
E. Only (a) + (c)