Essentials of Organizational Behavior Chapter 1

The statement, "A change in X produces a change in Y" is an example of?

a casual inference

The measure of how well an employee does his or her work tasks and responsibilities is known as?

job performance

The energetic forces that drive employees' work effort is best described as?

Motivation

The field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations is known as?

Organizational Behavior

The premise that 12% or less of organizations will sustain and increase profitability by emphasizing effective management practices is referred to as?

The Rule of of One-Eighth

Verbal and symbolic assertions that specify how and why variables are related and the conditions in which they should or should not be related are referred to as?

Theory

True or false: The basic premise of the Rule of One-Eighth is that effective management of organizational behavior requires both a belief that several different practices are critical, as well as a long-term commitment to continually improve those practices

True

Jamie predicts that, if she implements flexible scheduling at the company, absenteeism will decrease. This is an example of?

a hypothesis

The theories and concepts in organizational behavior (OB) are derived from which of the following disciplines?

anthropology, social psychology and industrial psychology

A summary of the statistical relationships between variables is referred to as?

correlation

Individual characteristics that improve individual mechanisms, such as job satisfaction and motivation, include which of the following?

culture values, personality and ability

According to the resource-based view, the collective store of useful experience, wisdom, and knowledge possessed by an organization's people is referred to as?

history

According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, ______ would include such elements as motivation, stress, and job satisfaction.

individual mechanisms

According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, OB researchers are interested in which of the following individual outcomes?

job performance and organizational commitment

The group mechanism that details how individuals gain power over others within the organization is referred to as?

leadership power and negotiations

he individual mechanism that deals with how employees acquire and apply knowledge to a job is referred to as?

learning and decision making

The use of statistical methods to combine the results of several individual but similar studies is known as?

meta analysis

A ______ takes all of the correlations found in studies of a particular relationship and calculates a weighted average of them.

meta-analysis

Tyrone has been a sales manager for many years, and his staff has always reached or exceeded quota, so he is confident that he has good leadership skills. Which of the following bases for knowledge does Tyrone use to assess his leadership skills?

method of experience

Shawna instinctively believes that most people have an inherent tendency to avoid work. She believes the only way they'll do their jobs is if she "rides herd" over them all day long. Which method of knowledge does Shawna use in developing her management style?

method of intuition

An employee's desire to remain a member of an organization that she or he respects is referred to as his or her?

organizational commitment

The organizational mechanism that captures the shared knowledge about the values and beliefs of the organization is called?

organizational culture

The organizational mechanism that reflects how units within an organization link to and communicate with other units is called?

organizational structure

Which of the following would include characteristics that describe how people act, such as extroversion and conscientiousness?

personality and cultural values

The resource-based view of organizations suggests that a resource is more valuable when it is which of the following?

rare and inimitable

The basic premise of evidence-based management is that ______ should be the basis for management decisions and organizational practices.

scientific findings

According to the resource-based view, people within an organization create resources such as culture, teamwork, trust, and reputation. These resources are referred to as ______ resources ?

socially complex resources

Organizational behavior (OB) research with respect to team characteristics and organizational structure draws primarily from studies in the field of?

sociology

Which group mechanism describes the creation and composition of teams?

team characteristics and diversity

Which of the following is required in order to establish a causal inference between two variables?

that the variables be correlated

A correlation of 1 between two variables suggests which of the following?

that there is a perfect statistical relationship between the variables

Which of the following perspectives argues that organizational resources that are valuable, rare, and inimitable can lead to the creation of competitive advantage and an increase in the bottom-line profitability of the organization?

the resource based view