CRESCENDO…!!!The HR and Leadership Quiz

FINALS

MELANGE Presents,

ROUNDS

Round 1– Dry Run

Round 2– Critical Thinking

Round 3– Reverse Gear

Round 4– The Last Call

@Shreyansh & Gaurav

Round 1

THE DRY RUN !!!

@Shreyansh & Gaurav

1. Identify X and Y.

• X spends more on staff healthcare than Y.

• Here Y is the core raw material for the company.

• X= Starbucks

• Y = Coffee beans

2. Connect these Personalities• Santrupt Misra, CEO, carbon black business, and director

(group HR) of Aditya Birla Group

• Pratik Kumar, executive VP for HR at Wipro

• Arvind Agrawal, president, corporate development and group HR in RPG Group

• NS Rajan, partner and global leader of people & organisation practice responsible for HR advisory services worldwide at Ernst & Young

• Venky Mysore, CEO and MD of Kolkata IPL Team (the only non-HR investor)

• “5 Anchor Investors”

• They have come together to float 'The HR Fund'. The fund - with an initial corpus of 60 crore - will be an investment company, which will soon start funding HR startups in India.

3. Friday is the least productive day for employees, according to a survey of HR professionals. What is their most productive?

• Tuesday

4. Who won the SHRM HR Awards 2013 in the category of diversity and Inclusion ?

• Winner: Aegis Global

• Runners up: Capgemini

5. What is being talked about? Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the

Notorious ------- Psychology Experiments. This ----- was published in Journal of Abnormal Psychology and in the below book.

• Stanley Milligram Experiment

6. This company, headquartered at Cincinnati, Ohio, USA was one of the first to offer this radical incentive to retain employees. It has 26 major brads and over 50 minor brands under its wing. A.G.Lafley is its present CEO. Identify the company and the incentive they offered.

• P & G ESOPs

7. Fill in the blank. In Expectancy theory, Force = ________ x Expectancy

• Valence

ROUND 2

CRITICAL THINKING !!

@RenukaRaskar

1. As a manager, one of Ali’s duties is to present awards to outstanding employees within his department. Which Mintzberg’smanagerial role is Ali performing, when he does this?

A. Leadership role

B. Monitor role

C. Figurehead role

D. Spokesperson role

• Leadership role

2. In a meeting Asha decides to keep quiet and decides not to speak against the views of majority. She fears that if she speaks, the group will not be able to come to consensus. She has become victim of which phenomenon?

• Groupthink

3. Sameer is a very good at poster making. He makes posters for all his office events. In order encourage him, his boss decided to reward him Rs 200/- per poster, However this decreases enthusiasm of Sameer. Name the theory which explains this behaviour.

• Self determination theory/Cognitive-evaluation theory

4. In Movie The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Elizabeth threatens Barbossa that she will drop the piece of gold into the ocean if he does not leave Port Royal. Which type of power is Elizabeth using on Barbossa?

• Coercive Power

5. Organisation A thinks that newcomer’s skills, qualities and creativeness are very much required for organisation and are very well supported whereas Organisation B thinks that newcomers must be shaped and trained according to organisation’s requirement. Name the types of socialisation which organisation A and B follows.

• (Organisation A follows Investiture socialisation

• Organisation B follows Divestiture socialization)

6. Manufacturing Company ABC stops its operation for few days and deny access to its employees to factory premises until they agree upon revised wages. If the employee comes to office premise to work, he/she will be fined. What is this action by company ABC called?

• Lockout/shut out

7. Ajay starts performing better at his work when his manager started giving him attention and started observing his work. What is this effect called?

• Hawthorne effect

• Fritz Roethlisberger

ROUND 3

THE REVERSE GEAR!!

@Shrwyansh

1. Which method are we talking about ?

• Factor Comparison

2. Name the Unique Position he occupied in stint with Corporate.

• Debdutt Patnaik

• Ex-CBO Future Group

3. Name the Title

• The WorkForce Scorecard

4. Which HR related company’s logo ?

5. Identify the Model

• Hackman & Oldham's Job Characteristics Model

6. What’s Missing ?

• 5P Model of Strategic HRM HR Programs, HR Processes

7. ID the tagline and the Indian organization which uses it for recruitment.

• Indian Army

ROUND 4

THE LAST MILE !!!

Quote Your Bet

@ Shreyansh

1. Guess Who ?

• She tops the list of 100 most social HR experts on Twitter

• She covers talent, leadership, career, HR tech and social enterprise

• As founder and CEO of TalentCulture Consulting Group, she has worked with hundreds of companies, from early-stage ventures to global brands like Microsoft, IBM and Google, helping them recruit and empower stellar talent.

Meghan M Biro

2. Recent evidence suggests that intelligence can be better understood by breaking it down into four sub-parts. Which one of the following is not one of those subparts?

A. Cognitive

B. Social

C. Emotional

D. Physical

• Physical

3. Produces minimal interdependence, such as when team members share machinery, administrative support, budget, or some other resource from a common source.

A. reciprocal independence

B. task interdependence

C. sequential interdependence

D. pooled interdependence

E. social loafing

• pooled interdependence

4. Expand MBGO and who proposed it?

• Management By Group Objectives by Likert & Fisher

5. A programme called 'Global Hero' to acknowledge its low profile-high performers among managers, executives and frontend staff. Every quarter, company recognises two such employees for their outstanding performance. And from among their eight quarterly 'global heroes', two are nominated to be their annual global heroes and are invited for felicitation by group CEO and HR director along with global heroes from its operations across the world.

• Vodafone

6. Who is known as 'The father of Social Systems Approach' to organization and management?

• Vilfredo Pareto

7. This term is derived from the typographer's word for a painting plate made from the previously composed type. Walter Lippman applied this word to perception in 1922. Since then it has became a term frequently used for perceptual errors. What is it?

• Stereotype