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Soft Skills Week 9 Solutions
Q1. GD has an emergent leader instead of a designated leader.
a) True
b) False
Answer: a) True
Q2. It is important that a meeting should not have a leader so that all other members of the meeting can put forth their views and reviews without any hesitation.
a) True
b) False
Answer: b) False
Q3. Group discussion is a formal and systemic face-to-face communication among participants to express and exchange their views on a topic.
a) True
b) False
Answer: a) True
Q4. To participate in a GD, a candidate should not have assertiveness.
a) True
b) False
Answer: b) False
Q5. For a GD, topic is announced in advance while for a debate the topic is announced on the spot.
a) True
b) False
Answer: a) True
Q6. To be an ethical employer, one needs to provide the employees with some of the rights. Which of the following are not among them?
a) Right to freedom (from discrimination)
b) Right to freedom for disregarding the responsibility
c) Right to health and safe working condition
d) Right to leave the organization without any notice
Answer: b), d)
Q7. Which of the following are NOT among the causes of conflicts in a G.D?
a) Clash of ideas
b) Emergence of a group leader
c) Conflict of opinion
d) Competence of the participants
Answer: b), d)
Q8. Which of the following are the essential traits of leadership?
a) Competence
b) Consistency
c) Callousness
d) Frivolity
Answer: a), b)
Q9. Which of the following actions can help a leader save the group discussion in resolving conflict?
a) By deciding the agenda of the meeting beforehand and ensuring it’s understood by the participants
b) By speaking on behalf of the participants to avoid difference of opinions
c) By forcing the members to agree to a particular idea to avoid clash of opinions
d) By reminding the participants not to digress from the topic given by the panel
Answer: a), d)
Q10. What are the important tasks that a leader/manager should do before conducting a meeting?
a) Describe the failures of the members in achieving their targets
b) Assign responsibility to each member
c) Summarize the discussion to make sure everyone has understood the main points
d) Threaten the employees to make them complete the task before the deadline
Answer: b), c)
Soft Skills Week 9 Solutions
Q1. Which one of the following is not a trait of leadership?
a) Enthusiasm
b) Charisma
c) Indecision
d) Assertiveness
Answer: c) Indecision
Q2. A leadership style in which one person makes all the decisions and takes relatively few inputs from the rest of the group is called
a) Laissez-faire
b) Democratic
c) Transactional
d) Autocratic
Answer: d) Autocratic
Q3. Who developed the “Least Preferred Co-Worker (LPC) Scale” to measure leadership style?
a) Fiedler
b) Bloom
c) Likert
d) Freud
Answer: a) Fiedler
Q4. Which one of the following qualities should be shown by a participant during a group discussion?
a) Dominance
b) Ignorance
c) Subjectivity
d) Flexibility
Answer: d) Flexibility
Q5. Which one of the following is not evaluated during a group discussion?
a) Candidate’s awareness
b) Leadership
c) Hypocrisy
d) Clarity of thoughts
Answer: c) Hypocrisy
Q6. The sole purpose of a group discussion is to check the candidate’s fluency.
a) True
b) False
Answer: b) False
Q7. Employees should be considered as more than just a means to a goal.
a) True
b) False
Answer: a) True
Q8. Effective leadership is always task-oriented.
a) True
b) False
Answer: b) False
Q9. A meeting without an agenda is like a journey without a destination.
a) True
b) False
Answer: a) True
Q10. Every group discussion should aim at a logical conclusion.
a) True
b) False
Answer: a) True
Q11. _____________ are written records of what was transacted at a meeting.
a) Notes
b) Minutes
Answer: b) Minutes
Q12. A _________ leader influences people by their ability to communicate and persuade.
a) visionary
b) charismatic
Answer: b) charismatic
Q13. __________ leadership is a style of leadership that encourages individuals to transcend their self-interests for a larger cause.
a) Transactional
b) Transformational
Answer: b) Transformational
Q14. Charismatic leaders present themselves as agents of ____________ change.
a) radical
b) superficial
Answer: a) radical
Q15. __________ leaders are not supposed to appreciate individuals in public.
a) Japanese
b) Dutch
Answer: b) Dutch
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