ch 1 key

true

(t/f) Personality and cultural values reflect the various traits and tendencies that describe how people act.

false

(t/f) Since good people create history and socially complex resources, they are easy to imitate.

false

(t/f) The "Sharing Information" principle introduced by Jeffrey Pfeffer indicates that imparting general skills will reduce secrecy and increase knowledge of company operations.

true

(t/f) The integrative model of OB was designed with the Rule of One-Eighth in mind.

true

(t/f) group mechanisms shape satisfaction stress motivation trust and learning

false

(t/f) human resource management focuses on the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organizations profitability

false

(t/f) it is often easy to fix companies that struggle with OB issues

true

(t/f) people create history- a collective pool of experience, wisdom and knowledge that benefits the organization

true

(t/f) personality and cultural values are the two factors that reflect the characteristics of individual employees

false

(t/f) scientific methods begin with hypotheses and require that these be used to inspire theories

true

(t/f) team processes play an important role in achieving the primary outcomes of job performance and organizational commitment

true

(t/f) the best way to get a feel for the correlation between two variables is to look at a scatterplot- a graph made from those two columns of numbers

true

(t/f) the integrative model acknowledges that employees work in one or more work teams led by some formal leader

false

(t/f) the integrative model of OB in the text presents five individual mechanisms that directly affect the individual outcomes: motivation; learning and decision making; job performance; stress; and trust, justice, and ethics.

true

(t/f) the method of intuition suggests that people hold firmly to some belief because it seems obvious or self evident

false

(t/f) the rule of One- eighth suggests that about 88 percent of the companies will actually do what is required to build profits by putting people first

true

(t/f) understanding correlation is important because OB questions are not yes or no in nature

true

(t/f) unfortunately given that good employees move from one organization to another they do not create a resource valuable enough for creating competitive advantage

false

(t/f)"Work should be structured around teams so that employees can pool their work-related knowledge" is associated to Jeffrey Pfeffer's principle of "Reduction of Status Differences

false

(t/f)According to the Method of Experience, people hold firmly to some belief because scientific studies have tended to replicate results using a series of samples, settings, and methods.

true

(t/f)Big decisions can be copied; they are visible to competitors and observable by industry experts and analysts

false

(t/f)Firms that do not undergo an IPO typically have shorter histories and need an infusion of cash to grow or introduce some new technology.

false

(t/f)Hypotheses takes all the correlations found in studies of a particular relationship and calculates a weighted average.

true

(t/f)Meta-analysis offers more compelling support for the potential benefits of social recognition than the methods of experience, intuition, or authority could have provided

false

(t/f)Resources like culture, teamwork, trust, and reputation are termed "socially complex" because it is not always clear which organizations do (and do not) possess them, though it is clear how they came to develop

false

(t/f)The resource-based view suggests that a resource is more valuable when it can be imitated.

false

(t/f)The theories and concepts found in OB are actually drawn from two disciplines: human resources management and strategic management.

theory

A collection of assertions that specify how and why variables are related, as well as the conditions in which they should (and should not) be related refers to a

selective hiring

According to Jeffery Pfeffer's Seven Principles of Successful Organizations, ______ suggests that employers must work hard to measure individual characteristics that cannot be supplied by training, such as personality.

inimitable

According to resource-based view, a resource is more valuable when it is rare and:

12 percent will do whats required

According to the Rule of One-Eighth,

culture and structure

According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, the two organizational-level variables that impact individual-level attitudes and behaviors are:

leadership and teams

According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, the two types of group-level variables that impact individual-level attitudes and behaviors are:

individual mechanisms

According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, trust, justice, and ethics are:

personality and ability

According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, two of the individual characteristics that impact individual attitudes and behaviors include:

organizational commitment

According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, which of the following is an individual outcome?

19

According to the study focused on initial public offerings, firms who valued OB had a _______ percent higher survival rate than firms who did not value OB.

strategic management

American Drinks International is a soft drink manufacturer in the carbonated soda industry. The firm is commissioning a study to explore how the company's expansion into the new product segment of tropical fruit flavored soda would affect its profitability. Such a study is addressed in which of these areas

human resource management

An OB study might explore the relationship between pay and motivation, whereas a _______ study might examine the best way to structure compensation programs.

firm survival

In exploring the importance of OB to company performance, the survey of executives of 968 publicly held firms included of all of these outcomes except:

perfect

In organizational behavior research, a correlation of + 1 is considered:

weak

In organizational behavior research, a correlation of .10 is considered

moderate

In organizational behavior research, a correlation of .30 is considered

strong

In organizational behavior research, a correlation of .50 is considered

downsizing

Jeffery Pfeffer's Seven Principles of Successful Organizations include all of these except:

economics

Models from _______ are used to understand motivation, learning, and decision making in OB

human resource management

OB can be contrasted with two other courses commonly offered in management departments: _____ and strategic management.

they purchase new technology

People are inimitable for all of the following reasons except:

exhibition

Philosophers argue that there are various ways of knowing things. The text addresses all of these except

francis bacon

Scientific studies are based on the scientific method originated by Sir

stress and motivation

The integrative model of organizational behavior includes a number of individual mechanisms that directly impact job performance and organizational commitment. Those mechanisms include

job satisfaction

What Suzie feels when thinking about her job and doing her day-to-day work is captured in her

diversification

When a firm expands into a new product segment, it is known as:

numerous small decisions

Which concept captures the idea that people make many small decisions day in and day out, week in and week out?

strategic management

Which course focuses on the product choices and industry characteristics that affect the organization's profitability?

personality and cultural values

Which of the following affects the way people behave at work, the kinds of tasks they are interested in, and how they react to events that happen on the job?

leader styles and behaviors

Which of the following captures the specific actions that leaders take to influence others at work?

learning and decision making

Which of the following deals with how employees gain job knowledge and how they use that knowledge to make accurate judgments on the job?

ability

Which of the following describes the cognitive abilities, emotional skills, and physical abilities that employees bring to a job?

ability

Which of the following influences the kinds of tasks an employee is good at and those with which an employee may struggle?

organizational culture

Which of the following mechanism captures "the way things are" in an organization

trust justic ethics

Which of the following reflects the degree to which employees feel that their company does business with fairness, honesty, and integrity

team processes

Which of the following summarizes how teams behave, including topics like cooperation, conflict, and communication?

leader power and influence

Which of the following summarizes the process by which individuals attain authority over others?

team characteristics

Which of the following summarizes the qualities that teams possess, such as their norms, their roles, and the way members depend on one another?

r

Which of these abbreviations represent the correlation?

motivation

Which of these individual mechanisms captures the energetic forces that drive employees' work efforts

organizational culture

Which of these mechanisms captures shared knowledge about the rules, norms, and values that shape employee attitudes and behaviors

meta analysis

Which of these takes all the correlations found in studies of a particular relationship and calculates a weighted average of them?

human resource management

Which of these takes the theories and principles studied in OB and explores the "nuts-and-bolts" applications of those principles in organizations?

anthropology

_____ research helps inform the study of organizational culture.

sociology

_____ research is vital to research on team characteristics and organizational structure.

personality and cultural values

_______ reflect the various traits and tendencies that describe how people act, with commonly studied traits including extraversion, conscientiousness, and collectivism.

correlations

_______ summarize the statistical relationships between variables.

rare

a resource is more valuable if it is

job performance

according to the integrative model of organizational behavior which of these is an individual outcome

-1 to +1

correlation can be positive or negative and can range from:

organizational behavior

is a field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations.

social psychology

research on satisfaction emotions and team processes found in OB draws heavily from studies in

job performance and organizational commitment

the primary outcomes of interest to organizational behavior researchers are:

organizational structure

which of these mechanisms dictates how the units within the firm link to other units