MGMT 473 Test 1 (Quizzes)

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True or False: Attitudes represent a cluster of beliefs, motivation and feelings about an attitude object.

True

True or False: Beliefs are established perceptions about the attitude object.

True

True or False: Confirmation bias causes us to screen out information that is contrary to our values and assumptions.

True

True or False: Emotions generate a core affect that something is good or bad, helpful or harmful, to be approached or avoided.

True

True or False: The most effective reinforcement schedule for learning new tasks is variable ratio schedule.

False

True or False: In order for something to be called an organization, it must have certain assets such as buildings and equipment.

False

________ is the process of filtering information received by our senses.

Selective Attention

In the four-drive theory, the drive ______ is most closely associated with the need for relative status and recognition.

To acquire

Which of the following determine whether intentions translate into behavior?

all four elements of the MARS model

The optimal level difficulty of a goal:

occurs when the goal is challenging but not impossible

The process of assigning traits to people based on their membership in an identifiable social category is called:

stereotyping

True or False: Expectancy theory of motivation states that people naturally direct their effort towards behaviors they believe are most likely to lead to desired outcomes.

True

True or False: Goal setting potentially improves employee performance by increasing motivation and clarifying role perceptions.

True

True or False: In terms of cross-cultural values, people in the United States tend to have relatively high individualism, middle to high achievement orientation, and medium to low power distance.

True

True or False: Motivation is closely related to the concept of employee engagement.

True

True or False: Organizational behavior encompasses the study of how organizations interact with their external environments.

True

True or False: Our emotions influence what we recognize or screen out.

True

True or False: People who believe that their successful completion of a project is due to their skill and hard work are making an internal attribution.

True

True or False: People with a high need for affiliation tend to be more effective in jobs that require them to mediate conflicts.

True

True or False: Stereotyping is an extension of social identity theory and a product of our natural process of organizing information through categorical thinking.

True

True or False: The MARS model identifies the four main factors that influence individual behavior: motivation, ability, role perceptions, and situational factors.

True

True or False: Three challenges organizations are facing include globalization, increasing workforce diversity, and emerging employment relationships.

True

True or False: Values are stable, evaluative beliefs about what is important in a variety of situations.

True

Anger, fear, joy, and sadness represent the:

Different types of emotions

True or False: A global mindset excludes the capacity to empathize and act effectively across cultures.

False

True or False: According to learned needs theory, companies should hire leaders with a strong need for personalized power.

False

True or False: Competencies refer to the complete set of motivations, abilities, role perceptions, and situational factors that contribute to job performance.

False

True or False: Emotions represent the cluster of beliefs, assessed feelings, and behavioral intentions towards something or someone guided by conscious logical reasoning.

False

True or False: Maslow's needs hierarchy theory explains how people develop perceptions of fairness in the distribution and exchange of resources.

False

True or False: Moods are less intense emotional states that are directed toward something or somebody in particular.

False

True or False: Motivation is an external force on the person that causes him/her to engage in specific behaviors.

False

True or False: OB can be used to fulfill the need to understand and predict the behavior of others in the organization. However, it is not helpful in influencing others to getting things done in organizations.

False

True or False: The ideal situation in organizations is to have employees whose values are perfectly congruent with the organization's values.

False

True or False: The perceptual process begins by attributing behavior to internal or external causes.

False

Which of the following terms best represents the positive or negative evaluations of the attitude object?

Feelings

Which of the following refers to the process of receiving information about and making sense of the world around us?

Perception

In expectancy theory, valence refers to the:

anticipated satisfaction or dissatisfaction that an individual feels towards an outcome. Correct

The uncomfortable tension felt when our behavior and attitudes are inconsistent with each other is called:

cognitive dissonance

Some investors in the stock market become overconfident and ignore evidence that their strategies will lose money. This can be attributed to _____.

confirmation bias

Customer service representatives (CSRs) often conceal their frustration when serving an irritating customer. This behavior from the CSRs is an example of:

emotional labor


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