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Student name:__________
2)
Which of the following statements is true about organizational behavior?
2) ______
A) OB researchers systematically study various topics at a single level rather than at
multiple levels.
B) It studies a company’s internal workings and is not concerned with the external
environment.
C) It does not include the study of collective entities.
D) It is less effective in studying people who interact in highly organized fashion.
E) It includes team, individual, and organizational level analyses.
3)
Which of the following is true according to the systematic research anchor?
3) ______
A) OB topics typically relate to the individual, team, and organizational levels of
analysis.
B) OB should import knowledge from other disciplines, not just create its own
knowledge.
C) OB theory should recognize that the effects of actions often vary with the situation.
D) A particular action may have different consequences in different situations.
E) OB should study organizations by forming questions, collecting data, and testing
hypotheses against those data.
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4)
Scenario AYour roommate, Allison Albright, is a non-business major. When she
discovered that you are taking a course in Organizational Behavior, she was thoroughly confused
as to why one would need to study OB and what it entails. Based on what you have studied,
answer the following questions to help Allison obtain knowledge of organizational behavior.To
help Allison understand some preliminary information about OB, which of these statements
about the field is true?
4) ______
A) Organizational behavior scholars give more importance to individual characteristics
than structural characteristics.
B) The field of organizational behavior is independent of the concepts and theories
from other fields of inquiry.
C) Organizational behavior emerged as a distinct field late in the 1990s.
D) Given the specific utility of the field, OB is useful for the managers in the
organizations but not for the employees.
E) Organizational behavior scholars study what people think, feel, and do in and around
organizations.
5)
Scenario CDave Docket, the installation manager at Kleen Waterproofing, has been
receiving customer complaints that several crewmembers either come late to the job or they do
not show up at all, without any communication with the customers. The job completion dates
keep getting delayed and customer dissatisfaction keeps increasing. Dave has also just hired
several new employees who are motivated, able to perform their jobs, and have adequate
resources. However, they are not sure what tasks are included in their job. Dave is wondering
how he can understand what is going on with his crew behavior and what he can do to improve
the situation.Dave organizes a training program for his employees to teach them how to operate
the machines used for working. Which of the following attributes will show a direct
improvement because of this training?
5) ______
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motivation
role perception
ethical sensitivity
moral intensity
ability
According to social identity theory, people tend to
6) ______
A) receive information and make sense of the world around them.
B) perceive that their own actions are due to the situation, whereas the behaviors of
other people are mainly due to their motivation and ability.
C) define themselves by groups to which they have a strong emotional attachment.
D) think that they are distinct from people in the social groups to which they have a
connection.
E) refer to something about themselves as separate individuals.
7)
Which of the following most likely occurs as a result of confirmation bias?
7) ______
A) A company conducts monthly performance reviews to evaluate its employees.
B) A customer demands a proof statement from the salesperson.
C) A police investigator pays attention mainly to evidence that supports his or her
theory about who committed the crime.
D) A manager considers many different points of view when making a decision.
E) A teacher assigns moderate grades to all of her students, though student performance
actually varies considerably.
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Scenario AElvira is an engineer at an architectural firm. She is very proud of this fact
and often defines herself in terms of her work to family and friends. She is very skilled at her job
and confident in that fact, but often has trouble adapting to changing job duties and
environmental conditions.Although Elvira occasionally has trouble adapting to new conditions
and job tasks, she exhibits ________ by believing that she can do almost anything and always
maintaining a "can do" attitude.
8) ______
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self-concept
self-esteem
self-verification
self-enhancement
self-efficacy
Which of the following are employees least likely to do when they feel under-rewarded?
9) ______
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
increase their work effort
reduce their work effort
ask for a pay raise
ask the comparison other to do more of the work
change their beliefs about the situation
10)
ABC Corp. brought in a performance-based reward system that accurately identified
employees who performed better than others. This practice improves employee motivation by
10) ______
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increasing employee needs.
reducing feelings of inequity.
improving E-to-P expectancies.
improving P-to-O expectancies.
increasing outcome valence.
11)
Yuki, a manager, is very conventional, resistant to change, habitual, and does not accept
new ideas very easily. This implies that Yuki has
11) ______
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
low neuroticism.
low customary thinking.
high extraversion.
high agreeableness.
low openness to experience.
12)
Scenario AKokal International is a fast-growing small company specializing in consumer
electronics. Managers at Kokal International are exploring the idea of using the Five Factor
personality model in hiring and improving work-related behaviors and job performance.Kokal
International managers want to hire people who are dependable, goal-focused, thorough, and
disciplined. Which of the following personality factors best predicts job applicants for these job
requirements?
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agreeableness
conscientiousness
locus of control
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