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Q1:

2025: 24 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

Sarah is the manager of a customer service team at a growing e-commerce company. The company has recently faced an influx of customer queries due to an increase in online orders. As the manager, Sarah's role is crucial in ensuring her team is aligned with the company's goals and capable of meeting the growing demand.

To begin, Sarah holds a team meeting where she clearly communicates the new expectations for handling customer inquiries, including targets for response times and quality standards. She provides clear guidelines on how to manage the increased workload and sets specific deadlines for individual tasks. Sarah integrates employees' efforts and ensures that the team understands the importance of customer satisfaction and how it contributes to the company's reputation and success.

Additionally, Sarah motivates her team by recognizing their achievements, offering constructive feedback, and providing training sessions to improve their skills. She fosters open communication, encouraging her team to express any challenges they encounter. Her leadership style includes delegation of responsibilities, which helps employees feel trusted and empowered.

Under Sarah's direction, the team becomes more efficient, delivering timely and high-quality customer service, which ultimately boosts customer satisfaction and supports the company's growth.

What is the primary purpose of directing in management?

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Option 2
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 24 May Shift 1 BST question 1

Q2:

2025: 24 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

Sarah is the manager of a customer service team at a growing e-commerce company. The company has recently faced an influx of customer queries due to an increase in online orders. As the manager, Sarah's role is crucial in ensuring her team is aligned with the company's goals and capable of meeting the growing demand.

To begin, Sarah holds a team meeting where she clearly communicates the new expectations for handling customer inquiries, including targets for response times and quality standards. She provides clear guidelines on how to manage the increased workload and sets specific deadlines for individual tasks. Sarah integrates employees' efforts and ensures that the team understands the importance of customer satisfaction and how it contributes to the company's reputation and success.

Additionally, Sarah motivates her team by recognizing their achievements, offering constructive feedback, and providing training sessions to improve their skills. She fosters open communication, encouraging her team to express any challenges they encounter. Her leadership style includes delegation of responsibilities, which helps employees feel trusted and empowered.

Under Sarah's direction, the team becomes more efficient, delivering timely and high-quality customer service, which ultimately boosts customer satisfaction and supports the company's growth.

Which of the following is a key responsibility of Sarah when directing a team?

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Option 3
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 24 May Shift 1 BST question 2

Q3:

2025: 24 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

Sarah is the manager of a customer service team at a growing e-commerce company. The company has recently faced an influx of customer queries due to an increase in online orders. As the manager, Sarah's role is crucial in ensuring her team is aligned with the company's goals and capable of meeting the growing demand.

To begin, Sarah holds a team meeting where she clearly communicates the new expectations for handling customer inquiries, including targets for response times and quality standards. She provides clear guidelines on how to manage the increased workload and sets specific deadlines for individual tasks. Sarah integrates employees' efforts and ensures that the team understands the importance of customer satisfaction and how it contributes to the company's reputation and success.

Additionally, Sarah motivates her team by recognizing their achievements, offering constructive feedback, and providing training sessions to improve their skills. She fosters open communication, encouraging her team to express any challenges they encounter. Her leadership style includes delegation of responsibilities, which helps employees feel trusted and empowered.

Under Sarah's direction, the team becomes more efficient, delivering timely and high-quality customer service, which ultimately boosts customer satisfaction and supports the company's growth.

Which element of directing, does Sarah follow in encouraging employees to meet performance standards?

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Option 4
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 24 May Shift 1 BST question 3

Q4:

2025: 22 May Shift 2

Directing

Medium

"Every manager can direct his immediate subordinates and take instructions from his immediate boss". Identify the feature of directing highlighted in the aforesaid statement.

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Option 4
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 22 May Shift 2 BST question 4

Q5:

2025: 22 May Shift 2

Directing

Medium

Match List–I with List–II

List–I (Barriers)List–II (Aspect of Barriers)
(A) Semantic barriers(I) Problems and obstructions in the process of encoding and decoding a message into words or impressions.
(B) Organisational barriers(II) The state of mind of both sender and receiver of communication.
(C) Psychological barriers(III) Rigid rules and cumbersome procedures.
(D) Personal barriers(IV) Unwillingness to communicate.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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Option 2
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 22 May Shift 2 BST question 5

Q6:

2025: 22 May Shift 2

Directing

Easy

Non-financial incentives include:

(A) Job Security

(B) Retirement Benefits

(C) Co-partnership

(D) Employee participation

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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Option 4
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 22 May Shift 2 BST question 6

Q7:

2025: 22 May Shift 2

Directing

Easy

Maslow's theory is based on the following assumptions:

(A) People's behaviour is based on their needs. Satisfaction of such needs influences their behavior.

(B) People's needs are in hierarchical order, starting from basic needs to other higher level needs.

(C) A satisfied need can no longer motivate a person; only the next higher level need can motivate him.

(D) A person moves to the next higher level of the hierarchy only when the lower need is satisfied.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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Option 3
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 22 May Shift 2 BST question 7

Q8:

2025: 22 May Shift 2

Directing

Medium

The motivation process is based on human needs. A simple model of the motivation process involves the following sequence:

(A) An unsatisfied need

(B) Tension

(C) Drives

(D) Generate a search behaviour

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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Option 1
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 22 May Shift 2 BST question 8

Q9:

2025: 22 May Shift 1

Directing

Medium

Systematically arrange (bottom to top) these organizational examples according to Maslow's need hierarchy theory:

(A) Pension plan

(B) Basic salary

(C) Job title

(D) Cordial relationships with colleagues

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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Option 2
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 22 May Shift 1 BST question 9

Q10:

2025: 22 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

Which function of management involves communicating effectively as well as supervising employees at work?

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Q12:

2025: 22 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

"Recognition of achievement" is an organisational example related to which need of Maslow's Need Hierarchy Theory?

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Q13:

2025: 22 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

Which of the following statements are correct regarding importance of leadership?

(A) Leadership influences the behaviour of people.

(B) A leader persuades people not to accept changes.

(C) A good leader does not allow his followers to ventilate their feelings.

(D) Leaders provide training to their subordinates.

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Q14:

2025: 21 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

Interpreting the same written message in different ways is an example of:

  1. Semantic barrier
  2. Organisational barrier
  3. Time barrier
  4. Personal barrier
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Q15:

2025: 21 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

Identify the correct sequence of needs as per Maslow's need hierarchy theory

(A) Esteem needs

(B) Affiliation needs

(C) Self-actualization needs

(D) Security needs

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Q16:

2025: 21 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

Any informal communication about company and personal matters outside the official network is called:

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Q17:

2025: 21 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

Which of the following is not a barrier to communication?

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Q18:

2025: 21 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

Communication barriers include:

(A) Status

(B) Technical jargon

(C) Faulty translation

(D) Distrust

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Q19:

2025: 21 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

Which of the following is NOT a need under Maslow's Need Hierarchy Theory of Motivation?

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Q20:

2025: 16 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

Which of the following is not the principle of directing?

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Q21:

2025: 16 May Shift 1

Directing

Medium

Choose the correct order of need hierarchy given by Maslow.

(A) Self Actualization Needs

(B) Affiliation/Belonging Needs

(C) Safety Needs

(D) Esteem Needs

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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Q22:

2025: 16 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

Match List–I with List–II

List–IList–II
(A) Job Enrichment(I) Giving more autonomy and powers to subordinates.
(B) Job Security(II) Involving employees in decision making of the issues related to them.
(C) Employee Empowerment(III) Concerned with certain stability about future income and work.
(D) Employee Participation(IV) Jobs include a greater variety of work, and require a higher level of knowledge and skill.

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Q24:

2025: 16 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

Choose the correct order of steps in the communication process.

(A) Sender

(B) Media

(C) Message

(D) Encoding

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Q25:

2025: 15 May Shift 2

Directing

Easy

Ms. Sonia is running her own boutique in a posh locality of Delhi on a large scale. She respects the opinions of her hired designers and supports them to perform their duties and accomplish organizational objectives. The type of leadership style adopted by her is:

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Q26:

2025: 15 May Shift 2

Directing

Easy

At which level of Management, does Directing take place in the organization?

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Q27:

2025: 15 May Shift 2

Directing

Easy

"Workers of ABC Ltd were chit-chatting in their canteen about the behavior of their superior". This is an example of:

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Q28:

2025: 15 May Shift 2

Directing

Easy

Identify the correct sequence of needs as per Maslow's Need Hierarchy Theory:

  1. Safety and Security Needs
  2. Physiological Needs
  3. Esteem Needs
  4. Affiliation Needs

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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Q29:

2025: 15 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

Which of the following are the principles of Directing?

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Q30:

2025: 15 May Shift 1

Directing

Easy

On Sundays, Shyam, an executive working with an MNC, enjoys, interacts and plays cricket at a ground with his subordinates as well as superiors. What type of communication is being referred to here?

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