OB exam

Positive organizational behavior is deeply grounded in:

Positive organizational behavior is deeply grounded in none of these practices.

Dividing work into more specialized jobs tends to:

do none of these things.

Appreciative inquiry begins by:

identifying the positive elements of an organization or work unit that is performing well.

Transactional leaders:

improve efficiency.

Which of these is NOT explicitly identified in the textbook as a leadership perspective?

Attitudinal.

What effect do co-workers have on the socialization of new employees?

Co-workers potentially do all of these things.

Which of the following organizational change strategies should be applied only when time is limited and other options are unlikely to succeed?

Coercion

Simple structures usually rely on which of the following to coordinate work activities?

Direct supervision

Senior executives at a large retail organization want employees to become more customer-friendly. Employees think they are serving customers well enough and the company is the dominant player in the market. What should the executives do in this situation?

Find information in the external environment indicating that the company's dominant position will be threatened unless they become more customer-friendly.

Which form of departmentalization organizes employees around specific skills or other resources?

Functional structure

How does self-monitoring personality relate to leadership?

High self-monitors are more likely to emerge as effective leaders.

Which form of departmentalization tends to require the most coordination and has a high potential for conflict?

Matrix structure

Which strategy for merging two distinct cultures is recommended when the two companies are in unrelated industries and have cultures that seem to work well for them?

Separation

Which of the following would NOT be considered transformational leadership?

Show employees how to perform the job more efficiently.

Which type of socialization agent usually provides new employees with technical information, performance feedback, and information about job duties?

Supervisors

Action research is __________ activity.

a problem-focused.

Strong organizational cultures:

are held by most employees across the organization.

Cross-cultural studies of leadership report that:

charismatic visionary is a universally-recognized leadership concept.

The best way to measure an organization's culture is to:

conduct a careful analysis of many organizational artifacts.

The competency (trait) perspective of leadership:

is often applied by organizations when selecting executives and future leaders.

Increasing the restraining forces and reducing or removing the driving forces would:

make the change process more difficult to implement.

Many of the best-performing production plants are able to widen their span of control to more than 70 employees per supervisor by:

relying on self-directed work teams and other coordinating mechanisms.

Increasing the driving forces and reducing the restraining forces tends to:

unfreeze the status quo.

Which organizational structure exists temporarily and reshapes itself quickly to fit immediate client needs?

virtual corporation

Organizational stories are most effective at communicating organizational culture:

when they describe real people and are assumed to be true.