Organizational Behavior Quizzes for Exam 1

Which of the following represents the strongest correlation between two variables?

-0.56

Which of the following types of reliability calls for more than one test administration?

Alternate-form

What form of diversity management is an organization adopting when it assumes that all diverse people will learn to fit in or become like the dominant group?

Assimilation

When Harry has a perceived conflict with a co-worker, he will send them e-mails that are taunting or insulting. This is an example of

CWB

Which of the following is the most effective method of controlling your negative emotions?

Change your interpretation of what you see and here

Which of the following types of validity is concerned with predicting scores on some outcome?

Criterion

Which of the following is the most accurate method of making sense of the world around us?

Critical thinking

_______ are the statistical measurements of populations and their qualities (such as age, race, gender, or income) over time.

Demographics

Assume that the CEO of a explains declining company performance on bad media coverage and government regulations which are expensive and burdensome. You might conclude that this CEO has a ___________________ of control.

External

Which of the following personality variables is marked by being gregarious, outgoing, and comfortable in social situations?

Extraversion

"Men have a more difficult time empathizing with others." This statement is:

False

Samantha assumes that someone experiencing poverty simply refuses to work hard enough to make a living. Which of the following does this describe?

Fundamental attribution error

Which of the following would explain Elana's perception that the unemployed are lazy and do not really want to work full time?

Fundamental attribution error

All other things equal, which of the following individual differences is the best predictor of job performance?

General mental ability

Which of the following refers to the most often occurring score in a distribution?

Mode

Which of the following personality traits is marked by instability, insecurity, and depression?

Neuroticism

______ programs help employees to integrate, assimilate, and transition to new jobs.

Onboarding

Which of the following personality variables is most strongly related to job performance?

Openness to experience

________ is the extent to which an individual identifies with an organization and commits to its goals.

Organizational commitment

Assume that Andre has a special ability to sense and solve problems using insight, rules, and logic. Which of the following types of ability would you use to describe Andre's talent?

Perceptual ability

Which of the following is the strongest predictor (or determinant) of self-efficacy?

Prior experience

Which of the following employment selection decisions best characterizes affirmative action?

Selection of equal candidates

Which of the following refers to your belief in your ability to succeed?

Self-efficacy

Which of the following describes dispersion or variability in a set of scores?

Standard deviation

Which of the following is defined as a way to organize our thoughts around a phenomenon of interest to explain "why" that phenomenon occurs?

Theory

Research has found that some aspects of an individual's disposition are significantly associated with some aspects of job satisfaction, such as having autonomy or receipt of rewards.

True

Values tend to vary across generations because they are influenced by events in childhood and youth. For example, some parents lived through the Depression, and this experience led them to take fewer risks in terms of their investments.

True

With self-serving bias, employees attribute their success to internal factors and their failures to external factors.

True

Personal attitudes affect _______ via ______.

behavior, intentions

Norah and Katy work together. They are also friends outside of work. Norah and Katy are constantly texting each other. Their supervisor comments that, while this might be fine outside of work, it's inappropriate to constantly text each other in the office. This is an example of

context of interaction.

The _____ model suggests that managers should monitor employees' perceptions of fairness.

equity

The use of a polygraph to measure lying is:

high reliability and low validity.

Roger, a manager, knows that one of his employees values conformity and tradition. Roger should assign the employee to a job that includes

high respect, commitment, and acceptance.

Samuel absolutely loves being a college professor because he is good at teaching and enjoys research even though he would make more money working in the private sector as an engineer. His choice to be a college professor is best explained by:

intrinsic motivation.

A person will experience _______ when his or her outcome to input ratio is less than that of a relevant comparison person.

negative inequity

Which of the following contributes least to employee engagement in North America?

pay

Donna works as a project manager for a major consumer products firm. She works with beliefs, perceptions, and informal obligations about what she is entitled to receive in return for what she provides to the organization. Janice's beliefs represent a(n)

psychological contract.

Jay works for ABC Corporation. He feels quite comfortable expressing his opinions about a wide variety of issues facing the company without fear of reprisal. This reflects ABC's:

psychological safety.

Sierra receives a compliment on her class presentation and attributes her success to his diligent preparation. Antwan received a poor grade and blames it on his adding the class late and missing a few early classes. These are examples of:

self-serving bias.

Joyce finds that the members of the project team to which she has been promoted are all middle-aged men. Joyce wonders if she, a young new graduate from a local university, will be taken seriously. Joyce is likely to be reacting to a

stereotype

Test-retest reliability can provide a measure of consistency for test scores.

temporal

From a test and measurement perspective, the extent to which a researcher is actually measuring what she/he intends to measure is referred to as:

validity