Exam 1

Which of the following jobs is most likely to be eliminated or dramatically changed by artificial intelligence in the coming decade or two

Accountant

The future will undoubtedly require workers and managers who possess

Advanced general skills and abilities and the ability to be flexible and constantly learn new skills

Two key factors impact how satisfied people are with their jobs namely

Affect and cognition

Which of the following types of emotions

Affective

The professor commented that human beings are especially hard wired to be extra sensitive to matters of blank

Justice or fairness

Our economy are moving swiftly in the direction of

Knowledge and service work

MBO 360° feedback bars and forced Vikings are all examples of ways organizations

Manage employees job performance

Job satisfaction is blank correlated with your performance

Moderately

In accounting inventory shrinkage is often the result of that and that is most common among employees who have experienced

Recent pay cuts

Challenge is to hindrance what the blank is to blank

Time pressure and role conflict

Evidence-based management is

A perspective that argues that specific findings should form the foundation for management education much as they do for medical education

Stress is a very important topic in organizational behavior

All of the above

Type A folks should

Be careful because they're at an elevated risk of experiencing negative side effects from stress

The impact of psychological tendencies on decision making is important within the field of blank and also within the field of organizational behavior

Behavioral ethics

And employee on her own when date decides to post on her social media page everything she loves about her company this really helps the company and recruiting in the near term this is an example of

Boosterism

If you had to choose between allowing employees to experience hindrance or challenge dressers and you've taken a course on organizational behavior you choose to allow them to experience

Challenge stressors

In one of the required articles the consultants make the point that blank is key so that understanding regarding what excellence actually is is clear to all parties

Communication

Which of the following types of commitment is most likely to involve benefit cost analysis

Continuance

Which is most likely to come before the others chronologically

Disposition based trust

If the outcome is fair but the processes to reach that outcome is not then we have blank justice but not blink justice

Distributive and procedural

Explicit is to tacit what blank is to blank

Easy to communicate and difficult to communicate

The occupational Outlook handbook can be extremely useful for

Educational program directors undergraduate students trying to decide on a career path managers trying to plan for the future and mid career NBA students seeking to launch a new career

In organizational behavior the word affect is often used instead of

Emotion

Bob enters a piece for meeting and start screaming that anger at Neil Neil intern yells at Barbara being a feeling of contention to the meeting soon Barbara's yelling and angry at both Bob and Neil and then can you put Bob in a headlock

Emotional contagion

Google is a company that

Employees best practices focuses on its people understand the importance of Americas knowledge economy follows the data in a sense that they believe is evidence-based management has historically had happy employees

Shawn says I know I paid unfairly because I put way more than Bob and Bobby is paid way more than I am this phrase alone at least in part demonstrates the validity of

Equity theory

Which of the following involves self-efficacy most directly

Expectancy

Which of the following theory suggests that motivation will increase with an increase in self efficacy for a particular task

Expectancy

The professor commented that managerial performance in highly competitive contacts increased with the link

Experience

Do you false physical job typically occurs before psychological withdrawl

False

True false organizational commitment is the value of such behaviors that contribute to organizational goal accomplishment

False

True or false counterproductive behavior can be directed towards the organization or other people within the organization but it tends to involve behaviors that are approximately equal in seriousness or gravity

False

True or false employees engaged to one type of counterproductive behavior here she is very unlikely to be engaged in another type

False

True or false job satisfaction is a set of behaviors that contribute to organizational goal accomplishment

False

True or false job satisfaction is the value of the Sith behaviors that contribute to organizational goal accomplishment

False

True or false job satisfaction job performance and organizational commitment are really getting at basically the same thing

False

True or false learning is weekly correlated with your performance

False

True or false most jobs have similar stress levels and how stressed out a person feels is mostly due to His or her ability to cope or manage that stress

False

True or false organizational behavior is essentially common sense

False

True or false our coverage of the topic of motivation in this course is brief because it is not one of the most important topics in organizational behavior

False

True or false the professor expressed a very strong opinion in support of force ranking as a method of managing employee job performance

False

House was highlighted in the NPR article podcast trust can simultaneously be a blink

Good thing and a bad thing

Based on data which of the following times to be most strongly correlated with job satisfaction

Great work

The topics of leadership and teamwork or studied in organizational behavior as

Group mechanisms

This course we are specifically seeking to understand how individual behavior outcomes in organizations correlate with

Group mechanisms organizational mechanisms individual mechanisms and individual characteristics

The video depicting a copy cat on the elevator was actually demonstrating the psychological tendency towards Blank

Groupthink

The professor qualified on page 129 by suggesting some jobs are characterized by

High stress early in the career that typically eases off later in the career

Are you pierce up theory suggests that if you don't like the nature of the work you were doing you are blank and she probably blank

In need of a totally different type of work train for a different job that requires a type of different working enjoy

Job satisfaction stress and motivation are all examples of

Individual mechanisms

You are convinced that candy is getting inside information from Ruth the boss about what she needs to do to get a raise therefore even though the actual requirements for a reason might be fair the fact that you don't know those requirements makes things unfair this especially exemplifies a potential blank problem

Inner personal or communication justice

Which of the following statements best supports the idea that job satisfaction is a very important variable in organizational behavior

It moderately impacts job performance and strongly impacts commitment

What are the two key behavioral outcomes that We care about most in organizational behavior

Job performance and organizational commitment

Motivation is blink correlated with organizational commitment

Moderately

Job characteristics theory suggests that knowledge and skill and growth need strength are blank variables that impact all the relationships in the entire theoretical model

Moderator

If I am high on groceries need strength I am blank likely to be happy with my job under circumstances where I am experience a Sense of meaningfulness

More

Based on the research blank of the people around you would probably be willing to kill you if an actual authority ask them to

More than half

The professor would agree that trust is

Most important topic we study the general chocolate topic of chapter 7 at the heart of our relationships the essence of affective leader ship

The professor mention that the principle of blank is very useful as a principal leader ship Factive leaders can directly impact the job satisfaction of their subordinates simply by being pleasant to be around

None of the above

Which of the following types of commitment involves a sense of what is morally right

Normative

At least according to the professors comments which of the following goal orientations is least likely to be extremely productive overtime

Performance avoid

Chapter 7 questions about what is morally correct are important because the perception that a leader makes morally correct decisions is important for perceptions of trust and integrity the study determined to figure out what is morally right or wrong actually occurs within the field of

Philosophical ethics

Roots vary based on activation level and

Pleasantness and unpleasantness

Gossiping is an example of counterproductive behavior specifically

Political deviance

Which of the following is most likely to result in success with regard to reinforcing behavior in general

Positive reinforcement

Left in sabotage or examples of

Property deviance

Bobby's belief that her work is contributing to some larger purpose along with her exceptional competence suggests that her productivity is predictable based upon

Psychological empowerment theory

At the end of each chapter in the textbook statistical relationships from empirical research are presented for the two key outcome variables studied in organizational behavior these relationships are presented in the form of

Relations -1 and positive one

Textbook discuss the importance of hardiness with regard to managing stress which is something that can be developed hardiness involves

Relaxation exercise and diet

Which of the following hindrance stressors occurs when the number of demanding rules a person holds is so high that the person simply cannot perform some of the roles effectively

Role overload

Which of the following task types is most likely to be automated in the future

Routine

This course in organizational behavior presents knowledge that comes from

Science

Job satisfaction is blank correlated with organizational commitment

Strongly

Motivation is blank correlated with job performance

Strongly

True or false in the stakeholder trust model and example of a control would be

Surveillance camera

Which of the following is the best summary of what value percent serious in terms of whether a job provides what is truly value to an employee

The difference of actual and desired waited by importance

Cording to the case in the book many people are not fond of working with the IRS or with IRS agents because

The iris stresses them out for more than one reason

Based on his lecture the professor who would likely argue that all business majors and perhaps especially tell me major should learn everything they can about computers in management information systems

True

Organizational commitment is actually just what type of commitment employees can also demonstrate commitment to their supervisors for example

True

True or false according to the article about WSU NBA program NBA training could be looked at as training aimed at helping managers learn how to build trust with a variety of stakeholders

True

True or false citizenship behaviors are not required they are voluntary

True

True or false difficult almost impossible girls if they are specific or likely to be highly motivating to most people especially if those goals are set by themselves

True

True or false for profit firms with leaders to do a good job managing organizational behavior about twice as profitable as companies who do a poor job

True

True or false given the percentage of companies that currently employed best practices when it comes to organizational behavior it offers a superb opportunity for companies to improve their possibility and expand their market share over the long term

True

True or false if a certain event keeps triggering the same motion this could eventually impact mood and overall job satisfaction and other important outcome variables

True

True or false job performance actually consists of three different types of behaviors task citizenship and counterproductive

True

True or false job satisfaction basically involves how content someone is with his or her job

True

True or false leader should feel a responsibility for strength levels of their employees but they need to be careful but they involve the proper people

True

True or false motivation is one of the more important topics in organizational behavior because it's such a potent tool in the hands of leaders

True

True or false oh net is an online resource that defines job outlines duties and other important information well the occupational Outlook handbook is especially useful information about the future of jobs including expected growth and contraction

True

True or false stress is a psychological response to the bands where there is something at stake and we're coping with the demands taxes or exceeds a persons capacity or resources

True

True or false the average employee Waze about half of his/her time on the job

True

True or false the professor believes that call quit textbook used in this course is the most reliable source of information available on organizational behavior

True

True or false the professor commented that in part because of high average trust propensity in Utah Utah is a prosperous state

True

True or false the professor commented that learning impacts both programmed and unprogrammed decision making

True

True or false the rational decision making process for no programmed decisions involves listing alternatives and choosing the best one

True

True or false the stakeholder Trust model accounts for the fact that overtime we getting more information about the trustworthiness of the trustee

True

True or false the turkey outcome variables that we care most about in organizational behavior or job performance in organizational commitment

True

True or false the two key outcome variables that we care about most in organizational behavior or job performance and organizational commitment

True

The willingness to become vulnerable is actually becoming vulnerable what blink is to blank

Trust and risk

Shelley is an afraid of welcoming strangers into her home where is Bob Griese all strangers with a Glock 20 handgun until he knows more about them this could be evidence of disparity and dispositional

Trust propensity

Ethics and justice are important especially because they drive perceptions of blank

Trustworthiness

Organizational behavior is about

Understanding explaining and improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations

Which of the following best Encapsulates what job characteristics theory is all about

VISAF impacts perceptions of meaningfulness responsibility and knowledge of outcomes in these variables directly impacts job satisfaction

Which of the following does not drive self efficacy

Valance

A particular manager is known to voice his opinion and she shares thinking a sincere reliable way with the intention of helping his company to approve although some might think he speaks too much especially where is his manager has helped significantly positively change to occur in the organization this is actually an example of

Voice

The business school and which of the following universities offers a better return on tuition investment than any

Weber state

Light is too dark what commitment is to

Withdrawal

Behavioral coping is to cognitive coping what blank is to blank

Working harder and strategizing

Do you want to build a strong trust with a coworker and employee help him/her through a stressful life event however remember that

You should probably involve HR and be careful about extending your help you're not qualified to give