Exam Details
Subject | management | |
Paper | paper 2 | |
Exam / Course | ugc net national eligibility test | |
Department | ||
Organization | university grants commission | |
Position | ||
Exam Date | June, 2015 | |
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Question Paper
1. If the demand for using the Noida express way is given by
Q=40,000-2500P
Where Q is the number of users (vehicles) and P is the amount of toll collected per unit who uses the express way. In light of this information which of the following is true
At 6 and Q=14,000 demand is price inelastic.
At 7 and Q=16,500 demand is unitary elastic.
At 4 and demand is price elastic.
All of the above
2. If a 100% scale-efficient plant has 92% technical efficiency and 88.5% allocative-efficiency, then its overall efficiency will be
88.5%
90.25%
93.0%
81.42%
3. The market share data for an industry, comprising five companies, is given below
Company Market
A 35
B 25
C 18
D 12
E 10
This industry's three-firms Herfindahl-Hirschman index shall be
0.234
0.217
0.151
0.0175
4. For an economy which consist of single automobile maker and that in year 2014, 30,000 vehicles are produced with an average price of 5 lakh. For this economy what would be the increase in the nominal GDP for 2015 compared with 2014 with the greater automobile production and inflation.
4.0%
12.0%
6.0%
12.32%
5. Demand policies targeted to reduce the unemployment become ineffective in presence of the following
Vertical phillips curve
Money illusion and ignorance among workers
Horizontal phillips curve
None of the above
6. An individual's involvement with, satisfaction and enthusiasm for, the work he does, is known as
Employee engagement
Job involvement
Job satisfaction
Organisational commitment
7. Which of the following is not perceived as the basic element of motivation
Direction
Intensity
Performance
Persistence
8. A theory of motivation that is concerned with the beneficial effects of intrinsic motivation and the harmful effects of extrinsic motivation, is termed as
Cognitive Evaluation Theory
Self-efficiency Theory
Self-determination Theory
Two-factor Theory
9. Match the items of List I with those of List II.
List I List II
Behavioural science Contribution
Anthropology Attitude change
Psychology Attitude measurement
Social psychology Conflict
Sociology Organisational culture
Codes
10. A relatively stable set of characteristics that influence an individual's behaviour is known as
Attitude
Learning
Perception
Personality
11. Assertion The more differentiated the HR environment, the more uncertain it shall be
Reason Organisations are dependent in an environment where human resources are not widely available.
Both and are correct
is correct and is the right explanation of
is correct but is not the right explanation of
Both and are incorrect
12. Which one of the following is a type of interview where a series of job-related questions are asked that focus on how the candidate would behave in a given situation
Behavioural interview
Job-related interview
Situational interview
Structured interview
13. Consider the following statements
Sensitivity training was developed by Kurt Lewin
In-basket excercise is a simulated training method
Depth interview is also known as Directive Interview
Job evaluation is carried out for promoting job satisfaction
Which of the above statements are true
Only and
Only and
and
and
14. Behaviourally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS) consists of the following steps
Reallocate incidents
Develop performance dimensions
Generate critical incidents
Develop final statements
The correct chronological order of these steps is
15. Consider the following elements
Actors
Inputs
Context
Output
Ideology
Which of these are not the elements of John T.Dunlop's Framework of Industrial Relatives System
and
and
and
and
16. State the price of the share for the year if the rate of growth of the firm is EPS and DPS for the year are 3 and 2 respectively and the investors' required rate of return is 20%.
30
20
25
10
17. In which of the following appraisal criteria of capital budgeting, the use of varying opportunity cost of capital as a discount factor is possible
NPV IRR Pay-back Period(d) ARR
Only is correct.
and both are correct.
and both are correct.
Only is correct.
18. According to the CAPM model, the cost of equity is represented by
Where Rm indicates market rate of return, Rf indicates risk free rate of return and Bj indicates beta of stock j
Rm+(Rm -Rf)Bj
Rf+(Rm -Rf)Bj
Bj+(Rm -Rf)Rm
Rm+Rf+Bj
19. Anticipated annual dividend divided by the market price of the stock is referred as
Dividend Pay-out
Dividend yield
Return on Equity
Regular dividend
20. If the existing shareholder does not exercise his/her right or does not sell the right entitlement
his/her wealth will remain unaffected
his/her wealth will increase
his/her wealth will decrease
his/her wealth may increase or decrease
21. What are the four main components of holistic marketing
Integrated Marketing, Internal Marketing, Product Positioning and Performance Marketing
Integrated Marketing, Relationship Marketing, Social Marketing and Performance Marketing
Relationship Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Internal Marketing and Performance Marketing
Relationship Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Internal Marketing and Social Marketing
22. Which of the following category of goods and services is most likely to require an aggressive use of the selling concept
Complementary Goods
Luxury Goods
Speciality Goods
Unsought Goods
23. The type of marketing that is the most recent to emerge is
Person marketing
Product marketing
Services marketing
Social marketing
24. According to the .......... theory, marketers can enhance demand for a product by associating it with strong drives, using motivating cues and providing positive re-enforcement.
Demand theory
Learning theory
Psychological theory
Two-factors theory
25. The most scientifically valid research is
Experimental Research
Observation Research
Focus-Group Research
Survey Research
26. Which of the following statements is not correct
Product Layout generally has continuous and Mass Production, mainly assembly function.
Process Layout generally has Intermittent, Job-Shop, Batch Production, mainly fabrication function.
Product Layout usually has general purpose equipments.
Process Layout is generally driven by fluctuating demand.
27. Six-SIGMA quality indicates
2.4 defects per thousand
2.7 defects per thousand
3.4 defects per thousand
3.7 defects per thousand
28. A manufacturing firm has four work stations, C and D in series with individual capacity of processing 450, 390, 360 and 400 units per day respectively and the actual output of the firm is 306 units per day. The system capacity and system efficiency of the firm shall respectively be
400 and 100%
450 and 120%
360 and 85%
390 and 95%
29. In the simplex method of solving an LP Problem, the product-mix column of the initial solution contains
Artificial variables only
Slack variables only
Slack and artificial variables only
Real variables only
30. If the optimal solution of an LP Problem is degenerate then
The problem has multiple optimal solutions
The solution is not feasible
The solution is useless to the manager
None of the above
31. If your score in an exam was 80, with a mean of 60, what would be the standardised score for this exam if the standard deviation is 15
1.33
1.25
1.52
1.72
32. Spurious relationship between two variables refer to
Very poor relationship between the variables.
Statistically insignificant relationship between the variables.
Relationship happens only due to third variable which is common to both the variables.
The relationship which is impossible to measure.
33. In a medical test, where the null hypothesis is 'The patient does not have the disease' and the alternative hypothesis is The patient has the disease'. Suppose a patient has a disease and needs treatment. In the hypothesis testing process, which of the following errors is more serious than the others.
Type I error
Type II error
Both Type I and Type II error
r -error
34. Decision support system does not use
Analytical models
Specialized databases
File server
Computer based modelling process
35. Give the correct order of the stages in 'System Development'.
Testing Programming Systems Design Systems Analysis Conversion Production and Maintenance
Programming Testing Systems Analysis Systems Design Conversion Maintenance
Systems Analysis Systems Design Programming Testing . Conversion Production and Maintenance
Production and Maintenance Testing Conversion Programming Systems Design Systems Analysis
36. Which of the following statements is correct
Balanced score cards always report using the same time periods as the financial accounting system.
One fundamental idea of balanced score card is to increase the number of performance indicators used to manage the business.
Organisations some times use a .traffic light. system on their balanced score card to help them prioritise their activities.
The fundamental idea of balanced score cards is to create corporate strategy.
37. What metaphor is used to describe the competitive space where product are not yet well defined, competitors are not well-organised and the market is relatively unknown
Blue Lagoon
Blue Ocean
Red Sea
Red Ocean
38. Michael E. Porter's five generic strategies are
Differentiation (Best Value). Differentiation (Low Cost), Cost Leadership Cost Leadership Focus
Focus Focus Cost Leadership Cost Leadership Differentiation
Cost Leadership (Low Cost), Cost Leadership (Best Value), Differentiation, Focus (Low Cost), Focus (Best Value)
Cost Leadership Cost Leadership Differentiation Differentiation Focus
39. One of the strategic decisions relating to the value chain concerns vertical integration. This would involve
Deciding to link all activities using Enterprise Resource Planning.
Deciding whether the activity should be performed within the organisation or by a different firm.
Deciding whether to locate operation in the home country or in a foreign location.
Deciding whether to share certain activities across different products and markets.
40. "Pepsi Co launched a hostile take over of Pepsi Bottling Group after its 4.2 billion offer was rejected". Which strategy was used in this case
Market Penetration
Backward Integration
Horizontal Integration
Forward Integration
41. Who viewed entrepreneur as a non-fixed income earner with known costs of production but uncertain income and therefore, operating at a risk
Adam Smith
Richard Contillon
Jean-Baptiste Say
Francis Wolker
42. Which one of the following is not a major area of entrepreneurial innovation as suggested by Joseph Schumpeter
Product innovation
Process innovation
Market innovation
Structural innovation
43. Which one of the following types of entrepreneurs are not proactive in nature and does not respond much to changes in the environment
Fabian entrepreneur
Adoptive entrepreneur
Drone entrepreneur
Innovative entrepreneur
44. SFURTI (Scheme of fund for regeneration of traditional industries) is implemented by
Union Ministry of Traditional Industries
National Agricultural cooperative Marketing Federation
Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Union Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
45. According to the Tiwari Committee report, which one of the following is not an internal cause of industrial sickness in India
Lack of manpower planning
Lack of control systems
Excessive expenditure
Excessive tax policies
46. Which of the following is/are the component(s) of Ethics by field of interest
Descriptive ethics
Normative ethics
Meta ethics
All of the above
47. What is the right sequence of four psychological sub-processes in ethical action given by James Rest
Moral sensitivity, moral focus, moral judgment, moral character
Moral focus, moral character, moral sensitivity, moral judgement
Moral sensitivity, moral judgement, moral focus, moral character
Moral character, moral focus, moral judgement, moral sensitivity
48. A new approach "Learning Model" which is helpful to strengthen the decision making process was developed by
Arthur Rich
Bob Garratt
Christian Wolff
Lord Keynes
49. Assertion Corporate behaviour towards stakeholders is an important concept in practice and a central part of corporate Governance.
Reason It has to be ethical, legal and responsible behaviour for organisation, stakeholders and society.
Both and are true.
Both and are false.
is false, but is true.
is true, but is not a correct explanation of
50. CSR is important because
It influences all aspects of Company's operation
It gives company's mission and strategy
It increases the general affluence and societal expectation
All of the above
Q=40,000-2500P
Where Q is the number of users (vehicles) and P is the amount of toll collected per unit who uses the express way. In light of this information which of the following is true
At 6 and Q=14,000 demand is price inelastic.
At 7 and Q=16,500 demand is unitary elastic.
At 4 and demand is price elastic.
All of the above
2. If a 100% scale-efficient plant has 92% technical efficiency and 88.5% allocative-efficiency, then its overall efficiency will be
88.5%
90.25%
93.0%
81.42%
3. The market share data for an industry, comprising five companies, is given below
Company Market
A 35
B 25
C 18
D 12
E 10
This industry's three-firms Herfindahl-Hirschman index shall be
0.234
0.217
0.151
0.0175
4. For an economy which consist of single automobile maker and that in year 2014, 30,000 vehicles are produced with an average price of 5 lakh. For this economy what would be the increase in the nominal GDP for 2015 compared with 2014 with the greater automobile production and inflation.
4.0%
12.0%
6.0%
12.32%
5. Demand policies targeted to reduce the unemployment become ineffective in presence of the following
Vertical phillips curve
Money illusion and ignorance among workers
Horizontal phillips curve
None of the above
6. An individual's involvement with, satisfaction and enthusiasm for, the work he does, is known as
Employee engagement
Job involvement
Job satisfaction
Organisational commitment
7. Which of the following is not perceived as the basic element of motivation
Direction
Intensity
Performance
Persistence
8. A theory of motivation that is concerned with the beneficial effects of intrinsic motivation and the harmful effects of extrinsic motivation, is termed as
Cognitive Evaluation Theory
Self-efficiency Theory
Self-determination Theory
Two-factor Theory
9. Match the items of List I with those of List II.
List I List II
Behavioural science Contribution
Anthropology Attitude change
Psychology Attitude measurement
Social psychology Conflict
Sociology Organisational culture
Codes
10. A relatively stable set of characteristics that influence an individual's behaviour is known as
Attitude
Learning
Perception
Personality
11. Assertion The more differentiated the HR environment, the more uncertain it shall be
Reason Organisations are dependent in an environment where human resources are not widely available.
Both and are correct
is correct and is the right explanation of
is correct but is not the right explanation of
Both and are incorrect
12. Which one of the following is a type of interview where a series of job-related questions are asked that focus on how the candidate would behave in a given situation
Behavioural interview
Job-related interview
Situational interview
Structured interview
13. Consider the following statements
Sensitivity training was developed by Kurt Lewin
In-basket excercise is a simulated training method
Depth interview is also known as Directive Interview
Job evaluation is carried out for promoting job satisfaction
Which of the above statements are true
Only and
Only and
and
and
14. Behaviourally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS) consists of the following steps
Reallocate incidents
Develop performance dimensions
Generate critical incidents
Develop final statements
The correct chronological order of these steps is
15. Consider the following elements
Actors
Inputs
Context
Output
Ideology
Which of these are not the elements of John T.Dunlop's Framework of Industrial Relatives System
and
and
and
and
16. State the price of the share for the year if the rate of growth of the firm is EPS and DPS for the year are 3 and 2 respectively and the investors' required rate of return is 20%.
30
20
25
10
17. In which of the following appraisal criteria of capital budgeting, the use of varying opportunity cost of capital as a discount factor is possible
NPV IRR Pay-back Period(d) ARR
Only is correct.
and both are correct.
and both are correct.
Only is correct.
18. According to the CAPM model, the cost of equity is represented by
Where Rm indicates market rate of return, Rf indicates risk free rate of return and Bj indicates beta of stock j
Rm+(Rm -Rf)Bj
Rf+(Rm -Rf)Bj
Bj+(Rm -Rf)Rm
Rm+Rf+Bj
19. Anticipated annual dividend divided by the market price of the stock is referred as
Dividend Pay-out
Dividend yield
Return on Equity
Regular dividend
20. If the existing shareholder does not exercise his/her right or does not sell the right entitlement
his/her wealth will remain unaffected
his/her wealth will increase
his/her wealth will decrease
his/her wealth may increase or decrease
21. What are the four main components of holistic marketing
Integrated Marketing, Internal Marketing, Product Positioning and Performance Marketing
Integrated Marketing, Relationship Marketing, Social Marketing and Performance Marketing
Relationship Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Internal Marketing and Performance Marketing
Relationship Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Internal Marketing and Social Marketing
22. Which of the following category of goods and services is most likely to require an aggressive use of the selling concept
Complementary Goods
Luxury Goods
Speciality Goods
Unsought Goods
23. The type of marketing that is the most recent to emerge is
Person marketing
Product marketing
Services marketing
Social marketing
24. According to the .......... theory, marketers can enhance demand for a product by associating it with strong drives, using motivating cues and providing positive re-enforcement.
Demand theory
Learning theory
Psychological theory
Two-factors theory
25. The most scientifically valid research is
Experimental Research
Observation Research
Focus-Group Research
Survey Research
26. Which of the following statements is not correct
Product Layout generally has continuous and Mass Production, mainly assembly function.
Process Layout generally has Intermittent, Job-Shop, Batch Production, mainly fabrication function.
Product Layout usually has general purpose equipments.
Process Layout is generally driven by fluctuating demand.
27. Six-SIGMA quality indicates
2.4 defects per thousand
2.7 defects per thousand
3.4 defects per thousand
3.7 defects per thousand
28. A manufacturing firm has four work stations, C and D in series with individual capacity of processing 450, 390, 360 and 400 units per day respectively and the actual output of the firm is 306 units per day. The system capacity and system efficiency of the firm shall respectively be
400 and 100%
450 and 120%
360 and 85%
390 and 95%
29. In the simplex method of solving an LP Problem, the product-mix column of the initial solution contains
Artificial variables only
Slack variables only
Slack and artificial variables only
Real variables only
30. If the optimal solution of an LP Problem is degenerate then
The problem has multiple optimal solutions
The solution is not feasible
The solution is useless to the manager
None of the above
31. If your score in an exam was 80, with a mean of 60, what would be the standardised score for this exam if the standard deviation is 15
1.33
1.25
1.52
1.72
32. Spurious relationship between two variables refer to
Very poor relationship between the variables.
Statistically insignificant relationship between the variables.
Relationship happens only due to third variable which is common to both the variables.
The relationship which is impossible to measure.
33. In a medical test, where the null hypothesis is 'The patient does not have the disease' and the alternative hypothesis is The patient has the disease'. Suppose a patient has a disease and needs treatment. In the hypothesis testing process, which of the following errors is more serious than the others.
Type I error
Type II error
Both Type I and Type II error
r -error
34. Decision support system does not use
Analytical models
Specialized databases
File server
Computer based modelling process
35. Give the correct order of the stages in 'System Development'.
Testing Programming Systems Design Systems Analysis Conversion Production and Maintenance
Programming Testing Systems Analysis Systems Design Conversion Maintenance
Systems Analysis Systems Design Programming Testing . Conversion Production and Maintenance
Production and Maintenance Testing Conversion Programming Systems Design Systems Analysis
36. Which of the following statements is correct
Balanced score cards always report using the same time periods as the financial accounting system.
One fundamental idea of balanced score card is to increase the number of performance indicators used to manage the business.
Organisations some times use a .traffic light. system on their balanced score card to help them prioritise their activities.
The fundamental idea of balanced score cards is to create corporate strategy.
37. What metaphor is used to describe the competitive space where product are not yet well defined, competitors are not well-organised and the market is relatively unknown
Blue Lagoon
Blue Ocean
Red Sea
Red Ocean
38. Michael E. Porter's five generic strategies are
Differentiation (Best Value). Differentiation (Low Cost), Cost Leadership Cost Leadership Focus
Focus Focus Cost Leadership Cost Leadership Differentiation
Cost Leadership (Low Cost), Cost Leadership (Best Value), Differentiation, Focus (Low Cost), Focus (Best Value)
Cost Leadership Cost Leadership Differentiation Differentiation Focus
39. One of the strategic decisions relating to the value chain concerns vertical integration. This would involve
Deciding to link all activities using Enterprise Resource Planning.
Deciding whether the activity should be performed within the organisation or by a different firm.
Deciding whether to locate operation in the home country or in a foreign location.
Deciding whether to share certain activities across different products and markets.
40. "Pepsi Co launched a hostile take over of Pepsi Bottling Group after its 4.2 billion offer was rejected". Which strategy was used in this case
Market Penetration
Backward Integration
Horizontal Integration
Forward Integration
41. Who viewed entrepreneur as a non-fixed income earner with known costs of production but uncertain income and therefore, operating at a risk
Adam Smith
Richard Contillon
Jean-Baptiste Say
Francis Wolker
42. Which one of the following is not a major area of entrepreneurial innovation as suggested by Joseph Schumpeter
Product innovation
Process innovation
Market innovation
Structural innovation
43. Which one of the following types of entrepreneurs are not proactive in nature and does not respond much to changes in the environment
Fabian entrepreneur
Adoptive entrepreneur
Drone entrepreneur
Innovative entrepreneur
44. SFURTI (Scheme of fund for regeneration of traditional industries) is implemented by
Union Ministry of Traditional Industries
National Agricultural cooperative Marketing Federation
Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Union Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
45. According to the Tiwari Committee report, which one of the following is not an internal cause of industrial sickness in India
Lack of manpower planning
Lack of control systems
Excessive expenditure
Excessive tax policies
46. Which of the following is/are the component(s) of Ethics by field of interest
Descriptive ethics
Normative ethics
Meta ethics
All of the above
47. What is the right sequence of four psychological sub-processes in ethical action given by James Rest
Moral sensitivity, moral focus, moral judgment, moral character
Moral focus, moral character, moral sensitivity, moral judgement
Moral sensitivity, moral judgement, moral focus, moral character
Moral character, moral focus, moral judgement, moral sensitivity
48. A new approach "Learning Model" which is helpful to strengthen the decision making process was developed by
Arthur Rich
Bob Garratt
Christian Wolff
Lord Keynes
49. Assertion Corporate behaviour towards stakeholders is an important concept in practice and a central part of corporate Governance.
Reason It has to be ethical, legal and responsible behaviour for organisation, stakeholders and society.
Both and are true.
Both and are false.
is false, but is true.
is true, but is not a correct explanation of
50. CSR is important because
It influences all aspects of Company's operation
It gives company's mission and strategy
It increases the general affluence and societal expectation
All of the above
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