Organizational Behavior Exam 1 True/False
A drawback of self-report surveys is the level of accuracy
true
A survey of over 2,100 CFOs across 20 industries indicated that a lack of interpersonal skills is the top reason why some employees fail to advance.
true
According to Festinger, people seek consistency between their attitudes and their behaviors
true
According to goal-setting theory, a specific goal will produce a higher level of output than a generalized goal
true
According to the big five model, the agreeableness dimension refers to an individual's propensity to defer to others
true
An organization is a consciously coordinated social unit composed of two or more people
true
Deep acting is hiding inner feelings and foregoing emotional expressions in response to display rules
true
Emotions can turn into moods when one loses focus on the event or object that started the feeling
true
Organizational behavior applies the knowledge gained about individuals, groups, and the effect of structure on behavior in order to make organizations work more effectively
true
People's behavior is based on their perception of what reality is, not on reality itself
true
The perception of a target is unaffected by the perceiver's personality or past experiences
true
The three components of an attitude are cognition, affect, and behavior
true
A degree in architecture will provide a student with the human skills required for a job
false
According to Herzberg, the opposite of "satisfaction" is "dissatisfaction"
false
According to John Holland's personality-job fit theory, individuals belonging to the realistic type are disorderly, impractical, and emotional
false
According to attribution theory, the more consistent a behavior , the more we are inclined to attribute it to external causes
false
As compared to observer-ratings surveys, self-reporting surveys are a better predictor of success on the job
false
Goal-setting theory strongly advocates participation in decision making, whereas MBO demonstrates that managers' assigned goals are usually just as effective
false
Job involvement measures the degree to which people identify psychologically with the organization's mission and vision
false
Moods are more intense than emotions and invariably arise because of a specific event acting as a stimulus
false
Most research supports Maslow's hierarchy of needs, especially when applied to diverse cultures
false
On an organizational level, job design and by the extrinsic rewards of pay and benefits are the only ways to motivate employees
false
The tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others is known as the randomness error
false
To stop lie detection for written communications we can look in email messages as liars omit personal pronouns, use noncommittal expressions, change tenses, skip topics, provide too much detail, or add qualifying statements
false