Final Round of a Business Quiz based on HR, was created and conducted by me for the HR department of K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research on the occasion for Melange, our annual Fest

1. CRESCENDO…!!!
The HR and Leadership Quiz
FINALS
MELANGE Presents,

2. ROUNDS
Round 1– Dry Run
Round 2– Critical Thinking
Round 3– Reverse Gear
Round 4– The Last Call
@Shreyansh & Gaurav

3. Round 1
THE DRY RUN !!!
@Shreyansh & Gaurav

4. 1. Identify X and Y.
• X spends more on staff healthcare than Y.
• Here Y is the core raw material for the company.

5. • X= Starbucks
• Y = Coffee beans

6. 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)

7. • “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.

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

9. • Tuesday

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

11. • Winner: Aegis Global
• Runners up: Capgemini

12. 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.

13. • Stanley Milligram Experiment

14. 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.

15. • P & G ESOPs

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

17. • Valence

18. ROUND 2
CRITICAL THINKING !!
@RenukaRaska

19. 1. As a manager, one of Ali’s duties is to
present awards to outstanding employees
within his department. Which Mintzberg’s
managerial role is Ali performing, when
he does this?
A. Leadership role
B. Monitor role
C. Figurehead role
D. Spokesperson role

20. • Leadership role

21. 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?

22. • Groupthink

23. 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.

24. • Self determination theory/Cognitive-
evaluation theory

25. 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?

26. • Coercive Power

27. 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.

28. • (Organisation A follows Investiture
socialisation
• Organisation B follows Divestiture
socialization)

29. 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?

30. • Lockout/shut out

31. 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?

32. • Hawthorne effect
• Fritz Roethlisberger

33. ROUND 3
THE REVERSE GEAR!!
@Shrwyansh

34. 1. Which method are we talking about ?

36. • Factor Comparison

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

38. • Debdutt Patnaik
• Ex-CBO Future Group

39. 3. Name the Title

40. • The WorkForce Scorecard

41. 4. Which HR related company’s logo ?

43. 5. Identify the Model

44. • Hackman & Oldham's Job Characteristics
Model

45. 6. What’s Missing ?

46. • 5P Model of Strategic HRM
HR Programs, HR Processes

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

48. • Indian Army

49. ROUND 4
THE LAST MILE !!!
Quote Your Bet
@ Shreyansh

50. 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.

51. Meghan M Biro

52. 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

53. • Physical

54. 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

55. • pooled interdependence

56. 4. Expand MBGO and who proposed it?

57. • Management By Group Objectives by Likert &
Fisher

58. 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.

59. • Vodafone

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

61. • Vilfredo Pareto

62. 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?

63. • Stereotype