ch 1 key
true
(t/f) Personality and cultural values reflect the various traits and tendencies that describe how people act.
false
(t/f) Since good people create history and socially complex resources, they are easy to imitate.
false
(t/f) The "Sharing Information" principle introduced by Jeffrey Pfeffer indicates that imparting general skills will reduce secrecy and increase knowledge of company operations.
true
(t/f) The integrative model of OB was designed with the Rule of One-Eighth in mind.
true
(t/f) group mechanisms shape satisfaction stress motivation trust and learning
false
(t/f) human resource management focuses on the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organizations profitability
false
(t/f) it is often easy to fix companies that struggle with OB issues
true
(t/f) people create history- a collective pool of experience, wisdom and knowledge that benefits the organization
true
(t/f) personality and cultural values are the two factors that reflect the characteristics of individual employees
false
(t/f) scientific methods begin with hypotheses and require that these be used to inspire theories
true
(t/f) team processes play an important role in achieving the primary outcomes of job performance and organizational commitment
true
(t/f) the best way to get a feel for the correlation between two variables is to look at a scatterplot- a graph made from those two columns of numbers
true
(t/f) the integrative model acknowledges that employees work in one or more work teams led by some formal leader
false
(t/f) the integrative model of OB in the text presents five individual mechanisms that directly affect the individual outcomes: motivation; learning and decision making; job performance; stress; and trust, justice, and ethics.
true
(t/f) the method of intuition suggests that people hold firmly to some belief because it seems obvious or self evident
false
(t/f) the rule of One- eighth suggests that about 88 percent of the companies will actually do what is required to build profits by putting people first
true
(t/f) understanding correlation is important because OB questions are not yes or no in nature
true
(t/f) unfortunately given that good employees move from one organization to another they do not create a resource valuable enough for creating competitive advantage
false
(t/f)"Work should be structured around teams so that employees can pool their work-related knowledge" is associated to Jeffrey Pfeffer's principle of "Reduction of Status Differences
false
(t/f)According to the Method of Experience, people hold firmly to some belief because scientific studies have tended to replicate results using a series of samples, settings, and methods.
true
(t/f)Big decisions can be copied; they are visible to competitors and observable by industry experts and analysts
false
(t/f)Firms that do not undergo an IPO typically have shorter histories and need an infusion of cash to grow or introduce some new technology.
false
(t/f)Hypotheses takes all the correlations found in studies of a particular relationship and calculates a weighted average.
true
(t/f)Meta-analysis offers more compelling support for the potential benefits of social recognition than the methods of experience, intuition, or authority could have provided
false
(t/f)Resources like culture, teamwork, trust, and reputation are termed "socially complex" because it is not always clear which organizations do (and do not) possess them, though it is clear how they came to develop
false
(t/f)The resource-based view suggests that a resource is more valuable when it can be imitated.
false
(t/f)The theories and concepts found in OB are actually drawn from two disciplines: human resources management and strategic management.
theory
A collection of assertions that specify how and why variables are related, as well as the conditions in which they should (and should not) be related refers to a
selective hiring
According to Jeffery Pfeffer's Seven Principles of Successful Organizations, ______ suggests that employers must work hard to measure individual characteristics that cannot be supplied by training, such as personality.
inimitable
According to resource-based view, a resource is more valuable when it is rare and:
12 percent will do whats required
According to the Rule of One-Eighth,
culture and structure
According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, the two organizational-level variables that impact individual-level attitudes and behaviors are:
leadership and teams
According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, the two types of group-level variables that impact individual-level attitudes and behaviors are:
individual mechanisms
According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, trust, justice, and ethics are:
personality and ability
According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, two of the individual characteristics that impact individual attitudes and behaviors include:
organizational commitment
According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, which of the following is an individual outcome?
19
According to the study focused on initial public offerings, firms who valued OB had a _______ percent higher survival rate than firms who did not value OB.
strategic management
American Drinks International is a soft drink manufacturer in the carbonated soda industry. The firm is commissioning a study to explore how the company's expansion into the new product segment of tropical fruit flavored soda would affect its profitability. Such a study is addressed in which of these areas
human resource management
An OB study might explore the relationship between pay and motivation, whereas a _______ study might examine the best way to structure compensation programs.
firm survival
In exploring the importance of OB to company performance, the survey of executives of 968 publicly held firms included of all of these outcomes except:
perfect
In organizational behavior research, a correlation of + 1 is considered:
weak
In organizational behavior research, a correlation of .10 is considered
moderate
In organizational behavior research, a correlation of .30 is considered
strong
In organizational behavior research, a correlation of .50 is considered
downsizing
Jeffery Pfeffer's Seven Principles of Successful Organizations include all of these except:
economics
Models from _______ are used to understand motivation, learning, and decision making in OB
human resource management
OB can be contrasted with two other courses commonly offered in management departments: _____ and strategic management.
they purchase new technology
People are inimitable for all of the following reasons except:
exhibition
Philosophers argue that there are various ways of knowing things. The text addresses all of these except
francis bacon
Scientific studies are based on the scientific method originated by Sir
stress and motivation
The integrative model of organizational behavior includes a number of individual mechanisms that directly impact job performance and organizational commitment. Those mechanisms include
job satisfaction
What Suzie feels when thinking about her job and doing her day-to-day work is captured in her
diversification
When a firm expands into a new product segment, it is known as:
numerous small decisions
Which concept captures the idea that people make many small decisions day in and day out, week in and week out?
strategic management
Which course focuses on the product choices and industry characteristics that affect the organization's profitability?
personality and cultural values
Which of the following affects the way people behave at work, the kinds of tasks they are interested in, and how they react to events that happen on the job?
leader styles and behaviors
Which of the following captures the specific actions that leaders take to influence others at work?
learning and decision making
Which of the following deals with how employees gain job knowledge and how they use that knowledge to make accurate judgments on the job?
ability
Which of the following describes the cognitive abilities, emotional skills, and physical abilities that employees bring to a job?
ability
Which of the following influences the kinds of tasks an employee is good at and those with which an employee may struggle?
organizational culture
Which of the following mechanism captures "the way things are" in an organization
trust justic ethics
Which of the following reflects the degree to which employees feel that their company does business with fairness, honesty, and integrity
team processes
Which of the following summarizes how teams behave, including topics like cooperation, conflict, and communication?
leader power and influence
Which of the following summarizes the process by which individuals attain authority over others?
team characteristics
Which of the following summarizes the qualities that teams possess, such as their norms, their roles, and the way members depend on one another?
r
Which of these abbreviations represent the correlation?
motivation
Which of these individual mechanisms captures the energetic forces that drive employees' work efforts
organizational culture
Which of these mechanisms captures shared knowledge about the rules, norms, and values that shape employee attitudes and behaviors
meta analysis
Which of these takes all the correlations found in studies of a particular relationship and calculates a weighted average of them?
human resource management
Which of these takes the theories and principles studied in OB and explores the "nuts-and-bolts" applications of those principles in organizations?
anthropology
_____ research helps inform the study of organizational culture.
sociology
_____ research is vital to research on team characteristics and organizational structure.
personality and cultural values
_______ reflect the various traits and tendencies that describe how people act, with commonly studied traits including extraversion, conscientiousness, and collectivism.
correlations
_______ summarize the statistical relationships between variables.
rare
a resource is more valuable if it is
job performance
according to the integrative model of organizational behavior which of these is an individual outcome
-1 to +1
correlation can be positive or negative and can range from:
organizational behavior
is a field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations.
social psychology
research on satisfaction emotions and team processes found in OB draws heavily from studies in
job performance and organizational commitment
the primary outcomes of interest to organizational behavior researchers are:
organizational structure
which of these mechanisms dictates how the units within the firm link to other units