Organizational Behavior Exam 1

Which of the following statements about the personality trait agreeableness is FALSE?

All occupations look to hire people who are high in agreeableness.

Which of the following statements about surveys is INCORRECT?

Close-ended question responses are difficult to summarize.

The (blank) role in a team creates deadlines for the team, schedules production, and sequences tasks.

Contractor

Which of the following statements regarding job performance is INCORRECT?

Contrary to what most people would think, stress has very little impact on job performance.

Which of the following statements is a good suggestion for managing cultural diversity?

Culture changes, sometimes quickly; do not assume that what was true a year ago is true today.

Research on diversity in the workplace has not substantiated which of the following benefit to firms?

Diversity, and the presence of faultlines, increases cohesiveness at work.

Which of the following is true for group decision making?

Groups often perform lower than the best individual in the group.

Characteristics of cohesive groups include all of the following EXCEPT:

Hanging a random pattern of communication.

Which of the following is NOT a fundamental factor impacting a group's cohesion?

Height

Which of the following questions is an example of a tactical decision?

How should we market the new product line?

If a collectivist was told, "Tell me about yourself.", he might say

I am the third child of a doctor and a lawyer.

Which of the following statements regarding the management of demographic diversity is INCORRECT?

In the most successful companies, diversity is viewed as human resource management department's responsibility.

According to the authors of Organizational Behavior, a company's greatest asset is

It's people.

In one looks at the number of studies conducted on attitude, which of the following seems to be the most important?

Job satisfaction

Which statement regarding citizenship is accurate?

People who are older demonstrate higher levels of citizenship.

Which of the following statements about self-efficacy is INCORRECT?

People with high self-efficacy tend to procrastinate.

Teams differ by all of the following task classes EXCEPT

Problem-solving tasks.

Which of the following is a situation where a team will NOT be needed in the organization?

Tasks to be performed are independent of one another.

Which of the following statements regarding the explanations for the glass ceiling is INCORRECT?

The glass ceiling may exist for women because they lack the education levels necessary to assume high-level managerial positions.

Which of the following statements regarding the predictors of organizational citizenship behavior is FALSE?

The link between ability and citizenship behavior is stronger than the link between motivation and citizenship behavior.

Validity is

The truth of a measurement.

Which of the following statements about case studies is true?

They are a way to gather data and explain an event or situation in detail.

Gender discrimination in is prohibited by which of the following laws?

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act

All of the following statements are correct about top management teams EXCEPT

Top teams are most effective when there is limited diversity in their composition.

Which of the following is not an explanation that has been offered to account for the earnings gap of 21% between the pay of females and males?

Women lack the high-level skill sets that men posses.

Studies on decision making have been carried out in all of these disciplines EXCEPT

anthropology

Reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities may include all of the following except

assignment of their essential job functions to other employees.

Collectivistic cultures are

cultures where people have strong bonds to their groups and group membership forms a person's self-identity.

Negative Affective people

experience anxiety.

Surface diversity traits include

gender

Which of the following is NOT a symptom of groupthink?

illusion of vulnerability

outcome interdependence

is when the rewards that an individual receives depend on the performance of others.

Research that is performed under very controlled conditions and can include observation, interviews, or experiments is called

lab study

Research on team size suggests

larger groups are generally required for very complex tasks.

Our first interaction with individuals makes us aware of

surface diversity.

High social monitors

tend to be more successful in their careers.

The creativity level evaluation factor of fluency is

the number of ideas a person is able to generate

Sociology is

the systematic study of group and team processes.

In analyzing the data, the researcher notes that as employee absences increase, scores on performance evaluations decrease. This suggests

there is a correlation between employee absenteeism and employee performance.

high power distance cultures

view an unequal distribution of power as relatively acceptable.

Age is positively correlated with all of the following behaviors EXCEPT

work injuries.