Organizational Behavior Chapter 1
- 1.What makes a resource valuable?
- A.
High dollar value
- B.
Inimitable
- C.
Desirability
- D.
Availability
- E.
All of the above
- 2.________ is a field of study devoted to understanding, explaining and improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations.
- A.
Organizational Behavior
- B.
Scientific Management
- C.
Theory Evaluation
- D.
Sociology
- 3.The primary outcomes of interest to OB researchers are:
- A.
Job performance and organizational commitment
- B.
Organizational culture and organizational structure
- C.
Team processes and team characteristics
- D.
Personality and ability
- E.
All of the above
- 4.According to the integrative model of OB, the two types of group-level variables that impact individual-level attitudes and behaviors are:
- A.
Learning and decision making
- B.
Leadership and teams
- C.
Job performance and organizational commitment
- D.
Stress and motivation
- E.
Personality and ability
- 5.The integrative model of OB includes a number of individual mechanisms that directly impact job performance and organizational commitment. Those mechanisms include:
- A.
Leadership styles and behavior
- B.
Organizational culture and organizational structure
- C.
Team processes and team characteristics
- D.
Stress and motivation
- E.
All of the above
- 6.What Beulah feels while thinking about her job and going about her day-to-day work is captured in her:
- A.
Personality
- B.
Job satisfaction
- C.
Leadership style
- D.
Motivation
- E.
All of the above
- 7.Which of the following individual mechanisms captures the energetic forces that drive employees' work efforts?
- A.
Job satisfaction
- B.
Personality
- C.
Motivation
- D.
Ability
- E.
Stress
- 8.__________ reflects the various traits and tendencies that describe how people act, with commonly studied traits including extraversion, conscientiousness, and agreeableness.
- A.
Sociology
- B.
Job satisfaction
- C.
Leadership
- D.
Personality
- E.
Organizational Structure
- 9.Which of the following mechanisms caputres shared knowledge about the rules, norms, and values that shape employee attutdes and behaviors?
- A.
Organizational structure
- B.
Organizational ability
- C.
Organizational culture
- D.
Job performance
- E.
Organizational leadership
- 10.According to a study focused on Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work for" list, the results revealed:
- A.
The 100 best firms were more profitable than their peers
- B.
The 100 best firms were less profitable than their peers
- C.
There was no difference in profitability between 100 best and their peers
- D.
The 100 best firms actually had a 19% higher turnover rate than their peers
- E.
The best 100 firms lost market value by more than 50% after getting on the list due to heavy expenditure related to value placed on OB
- 11.____________ summarize the statistical relationships between variables.
- A.
Data
- B.
Correlations
- C.
Observations
- D.
Collections
- E.
Methods of knowing
- 12.Which of the following takes all the correlations found in studies of a particular relationship and calculates a weighted average of them?
- A.
Human resource management
- B.
Resource-based view
- C.
Meta-analysis
- D.
Strategic management
- E.
Method of intuition
- 13.Which of the following is NOT a part of the Scientific Method?
- A.
Theory
- B.
Data
- C.
Hypothesis
- D.
Verification
- E.
They are all a part of the Scientific Method
- 14.__________ is a collection of assertions, both verbal and symbolic, that specify how and why variables are related.
- A.
Theory
- B.
Hypothesis
- C.
Correlation
- D.
Meta-analysis
- 15.___________ describes the statistical relationship between 2 variables and can be positive or negative and range from 0 to + or - 1.
- A.
Meta-analysis
- B.
Method of Science
- C.
Correlation
- D.
Scientific data
- 16.In OB research, a .50 ____________ is considered _____________
- A.
Affiliation, moderate
- B.
Success rate, weak
- C.
Correlation, strong
- D.
Result, desirable
- 17.__________________ takes all of the correlations found in studies of a particular relationship and calculates a weighted average.
- A.
Correlation
- B.
Job analysis
- C.
Scientific research
- D.
Meta-analysis
- 18.The effective management of organizational behavior can help a company become more profitable because:
- A.
It helps to tailor jobs to better suit your employees.
- B.
The utilization of resources is essential to profitability.
- C.
Poorly managed companies will not survive in the long run.
- D.
Good people are a valuable resource.
- 19.The two primary outcomes of organizational behavior are:
- A.
Organizational culture and job satisfaction
- B.
Job performance and organizational commitment
- C.
Job satisfaction and job performance
- D.
Organizational commitment and organizational culture
- 20.With Method of ________, people hold firmly to some belief because it "just stands to reason".
- A.
Intuition
- B.
Science
- C.
Authority
- D.
Experience
- E.
None of the above
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