HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF CONTINUING AND DISTANCE
EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT
ASSGNMENT 30%
ASSIGNMENT FOR THE COURSE: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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ANSWER SHEET FOR PART ONE AND PART TWO:
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PART1: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (1 POINT EACH).
1. Which of the following is true statement?
A. Formal Power, the source of this power comes from an individual's position in an
organization
B. Coercive Power, this power base is driven by reward
C. In in formal groups and organizations, this common base of power is the formal
authority to control and use organizational resources based on structural position
D. All
E. None
2. One of the following power is not stems from an individual's unique characteristics
A. Formal Power
D. Referent Power
B. Personal Power
E. None
C. Expert Power
3. One of the following is a symptom for political behavior at personal level.
A. Organizational Culture
D. All
B. Promotions
E. None
C. Organizational Resources
4. ___________admitting responsibility for an undesirable event and simultaneously
seeking to get a pardon for the action.
A. Excuses
D. Flattery
B. Conformity
E. None
C. Apologizes
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5. Which of the following is true statement about organizational system?
A. In a closed system, organizations` consume raw materials in the production of
products and emit finished goods and pollution as a result
B. An open system is that it is a relatively self-contained
C. Open system is self-maintaining unit that has little interacts or exchange with its
environment.
D. Open system are more flexible than those of closed systems, which are rigid and
largely impenetrable
E. None
6. Groupthink may be characterized by all of the following symptoms except,
A. Incomplete assessments of the problem and Incomplete information search
B. Bias in processing information and imbalanced judgments
C. Inadequate development of alternatives and Failure to examine the risks of the
preferred choice
D. Which results in unrealistic appraisals of alternative courses of action and a lack of
reality testing
E. None
7. There are a lot of challenges and opportunities today for managers to use OB concepts,
Organizations are no longer constrained by national borders because of:
A. Improving Quality and Productivity
B. Total quality management (TQM)
C. Workforce diversity
D. Globalization
E. None
8. _____________________is the degree to which people identifies psychologically with
their jobs and considers their perceived performance level important to self-worth.
A. Organizational Commitment
D. Job Involvement
B. Psychological Empowerment
E. None
C. Job Satisfaction
9. Which of the following statement is not true?
A. Personality is shaped by both heredity and environment
B. Self-esteem is an individual's general feeling of self-worth
C. Group think is as the result of external pressures
D. Organizational behavior could do nothing with the individuals behavior
E. None
10. Which of the following statement is true about value?
A. Terminal values reflect the means to achieving goals
B. Terminal values include ambition, honesty, self-sufficiency, and courageousness.
C. Instrumental values represent the goals to be achieved, or the end states of existence.
D. Freedom, Wisdom , Prosperity , National security , Social respect, Exciting, active
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life etc, are some examples of terminal values
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PART2: Fill in the blank space 1 point each
1. __________________________is the process of interpreting information about another
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Formal organizations are called____________.
__________________________ to refer to aspects of the environment that are
immediately relevant to management decisions related to goal setting and goal realization
In______________________________ Employees’ beliefs in the degree to which they
affect their work environment, their competence, the meaningfulness of their job, and the
perceived autonomy in their work.
________________________, in this learning theory, people do not have to directly
experience something to learn it. People can learn through observing the experience of
others either by reading about it, listening to it, or watching it.
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PART 3: DISCUSSION QUESTIONS (3 PONTS EACH).
Use only the space provided for these answer.
1. How do you think that culture can be transmitted from generation to generation and it
can be adopted or learned?( 3 point)
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2. Discuss in brief the Six Key organizational Structural Elements. ( 3 point).
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3. Mention and describe in brief impression management techniques ( 3 point).
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4. Discuss in brief the two outcomes of conflict at individuals, groups/ organizational level,
by giving appropriate examples ( 3points)
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5. What is stress and its sources? How do you think stress can be managed? (3 points).
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