Organizational Behavior Exam 1 True/False

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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


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