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