OB Exam 1
Breathing Meditation
Aaron is getting some funny looks in the office every few hours or so she sits up in her desk with your feet grounded closes her eyes and takes a deep breath 2 times she is practicing
True
Alexandria is motivated by the feeling that she's done the best she can do this represents intrinsic motivation
Performance
Barry set himself a goal of bowling at least one gave above 250 before the season this is a ____ goal
True
Benny has the ability to learn and use spoken and written languages he shows linguistic intelligence
Personal Power
Benny seems to want to control others and often manipulates people for his own gratification. He exhibits the need for
False
Common sense focuses on the past and because of this is strong in responding to the unexpected
Proactivity
Core Self-evaluation represents a broad personality trait comprised of all of the following except
Will power and way power
Hope consists of
Expectancy Theory
Is not a content theory of motivation
Punishment
Jeff is late to work one morning, so he arrives over the speed limit through a school zone. As a result he gets pulled over by a police officer and receives a ticket. The scenario is an instance of
The contingency approach
Jon is dealing with several employees that are chronically late. He unitarily decides to dock everyone's daily pay 5% if they are more than 10 minutes late. Jon will have better results using
Extroversion
Karen the team's captain of her High School soccer team is very sociable and assertive she was never at a loss for words and feels comfortable interacting with all teammates and coaches Karen is likely to score high on
Snacks and drinks because she is hungry
Laurie walks into her morning status meeting. She didn't have time for breakfast or even coffee. During the meeting she is most likely to focus on
Equity
Luis has just learned that Brian who has less experience and who does less work receives a higher salary since learning this Lewis has been unhappy and it started to look for another job what model of jab job satisfaction best explains Lewis's reactions
True
Personal attitudes affect behavior by intentions
Consensus
The annual budget was due today and Mary section of the report is not finished so Carrie cannot turn it in on time to a manager this is typical of employees in the department many don't observe the plants this is an example of what type of attribution
True
The organizing framework for understanding and applying OB is based on the systems approach
Leniency
The tendency to consistently evaluate other people or objects in an extremely positive fashion is what common perceptual area related to performance evaluations
Performance and Learning
The two basic types of goals are
inter
more than one
Behavior with favorable consequences tend to be repeated
the law of effect states that
hard skills
working and training and gaining skill
intra
you
Negative inequity
Donald is on the production line for Medical Services Inc he has been there for five years and has one Employee of the Month more than anyone else plan his coworker who is only been at Medical Services 3 years and hasn't even been nominated for employee of the month just received a promotion Donald perceives a
False
Effective managers give employees timely and task specific feedback about what they are doing right but do not give feedback about what they are doing wrong
Adaptive, variety, and generalizability
In order to improve intelligence through brain training, experts recommend the training to have 3 characteristics
Organizational culture and climate
In the framework of POB ___ is/are is a key input to positivity from situation factors
Stereotype
Joyce finds that the members of the project team to which she has been assigned in her management class are all athletes on the college's football and basketball teams. She immediately considers dropping the class because she thinks her experience with the team will be negative. Joyce is likely to be reacting to a
Bodily- Kinesthetic
Len is the top swimmer on his school's team star athletes are likely to be in ____ intelligence
I-Deals
Of the approaches to job design_____ is most recently evolved and attempts to merge earlier perspectives
Job Performance
Of the following____________ is most closely aligned with employees' perceptions of procedural Justice
Mindfulness
Riley, a professor in the economics Department finds that if he keeps his door open people tend to stop and say hello this interruption is distracting so now dr. Riley keeps his office door open only a crack during his office hours asking visitors to knock before entering the small change allows him to Grade his exams more quickly and accurately this is an example of increasing his
False
Southwest Airlines mechanics created a widespread slowdowns in flights to pressure their company in the Goshiation with their Union this was illegal
Dissolving
You have an apartment within walking distance of your office. Your company moves the office to the next town. You deicde to take a position with another firm close to your apartment. This is an example of ___ the proble
Self enhancement and openness to change
____ are both elements of hedonism
Indirect Blindness
________ is when we hold others less accountable for unethical behavior that is carried out through third parties
ill-conceived goals
anxiety of not completing goals so you round up or shortcut
Generations
Values tend to vary across___ because they are influenced by events in childhood and youth
Performance
Volumes of research and employee surveys report that the majority of managers and organizations do a poor job of managing employee ____
Appraisal
We build stereotypes through a 4 step process. Which of the following is not part of the process?
Contents
What are the different needs the activate motivations, direction, intensity and persistence of motivation
True
When Vivian, the owner of a vintage furtinute boutique, makles casual attributions about the behavior of her employees, she is observing the dimensions of consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency
High levels of stress
Which is not a factor contributing to employee engagement
Check social media every 2 hours
Which of the following is not a best practice for becoming more productive
Recognition
Which of the following is not an example of a hygiene factor
dissolving
elimates the situation in which the problem occurs
indirect blindness
hold others less accountable for behavior when carried out through third party
soft skill
interact with others and succeed in workplace
Organizational climate
is defined as employees' perception of formal and informal organizational policies, practices, procedures and routines
Employee engagement
is the harnessing of organization members' selves to their work roles
individual factor
leaning job because boring and meaningful
Positive emotions engagement relationships meaning and achievement
Flourishing represents the extent to which our lives contain Perma
False
Stress can only have positive effects on Adobe related outcomes for instance it is negatively related to absenteeism because people feel like they have to work harder to meet management expectations
True
The outer layer of the diversity wheel is that of organizational dimensions
False
To achieve a climate encouraging positive OB, an organization must foster a specific set of organizational values, organizational practices, and transformational leadership
Conscientiousness
personality trait with the strongest positive relationship with job performance