Unit 7 Test - Organizational Behavior
_______ is (are) the damage(s) resulting from experienced stress.
Strain
_____ people display a marked degree of social naïveté.
Type V
Role _______ is experienced when individuals have inadequate information concerning their roles.
ambiguity
The feeling of inability to deal with anticipated harm is _______.
anxiety
At which stage of the general adaptation syndrome does the body prepares for a "fight or flight" response?
Alarm
Which of these is the first stage of the general adaptation syndrome?
Alarm
_____ are individual investors or groups of experienced investors who provide funding for start-up businesses.
Angel Investors
__________ is a general feeling of exhaustion that can develop when a person simultaneously experiences too much pressure to perform and too few sources of satisfaction.
Burnout
Which of the following is an individual strategy for coping with work-related stress?
Cognitive perspective
_____ are individual investors or groups of experienced investors who provide funding for start-up businesses.
Angel investors
Which term signifies beneficial stress?
Eustress
Job satisfaction did not vary consistently with employee skill levels according to the Kornhauser's findings.
False
Which of the following is a personal influence factor on the job-related stress?
Locus of control
_______ role overload, on the other hand, consists of being taxed beyond one's skills, abilities, and knowledge.
Qualitative
Which of the following is an organizational influence factor on the job-related stress?
Role ambiguity
Which of these occurs when employees are allowed to use only a few of their skills and abilities, even though they are required to make heavy use of them?
Role underutilization
A _______ person has a work psychopathology involving no motivation to work.
Type I
Susan's predominating response to the demand to be productive is fear or anxiety. The work psychopathology would classify Susan as which of these?
Type II
One of the advantages of owning a small business is:
flexibility
After graduating from college, Joseph Tantillo decided to start a retail Web site that specializes in personalized Greek apparel. To fund his Web site, he borrowed money from his parents (who expect to be repaid with interest). In other words, he used _____ financing.
debt
Jill Hansom borrowed $40,000 from a credit union to start a company that makes and sells peach salsa. Hansom used _____ financing.
debt
Andy Yocom saw prime advertising space on the flags on the golf course. He reasoned that any marketing messages would get prominent attention if they were placed on the flags since golfers focus on them when they take their shots. As a result, Yocom used his own initiative and money to start Invision Golf Group Inc. Yocom is an example of a(n):
entrepreneur
The person who takes the risk of starting and managing a business to make a profit is called a(n):
entrepreneur
Marc Adler is the owner of Macquarium, a multimillion-dollar communications company that does everything from video productions to creating Web sites to public relations campaigns. Macquarium has done this sort of work for BellSouth and SnapOn Tools. Even though these companies could have prepared their videos and created their Web sites in-house, these tasks were:
outsourced
Who provides the start-up financing for the majority of new small businesses?
the business owner and his or her family and friends
Which of these is the Final stage of the general adaptation syndrome?
Exhaustion
_____ are entrepreneurs who start a series of companies.
Multipreneurs
Which of these refers to the extent to which organization members feel their peers can be trusted, are interested in one another's welfare, respect one another, and have a genuine positive regard for one another?
Social support
_______ can be defined as a physical and emotional reaction to potentially threatening aspects of the environment.
Stress
A psychological reaction to an obstruction or impediment to goal-oriented behavior refers to ________.
frustration
