MGMT 102: Midterm
Employee behaviors relevant to job performance include
Citizenship Behavior, Counterproductive Behavior, and Task Performance
A summary of the statistical relationships between variables is referred to as
Correlation
Organization ______ is the shared knowledge about the beliefs and values that shape employee attitudes and behaviors.
Culture
________ argues that management decisions and organizational practices should be based on scientific research and findings
Evidence-based Management
According to the resource-based view, the collective pool of experience, wisdom, and knowledge possessed by an organization's people that benefits the organization is referred to as its
History
Written predictions that specify relationships between variables are referred to as
Hypotheses
The theories and concepts in OB are drawn from
I/O Psych, Social Psych, Sociology, Economics, Anthropology
According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, ______ would include such elements as motivation, stress, and job satisfaction.
Individual Mechanisms
The resource-based view of organizations suggests that a resource is more valuable when it is
Inimitable and Rare
The measure of how well an employee does his work tasks and responsibilities is known as
Job Performance
Cognitive work that requires the application of theoretical and analytical knowledge is know as ________ work.
Knowledge Work
Accepting a belief because a trusted source or respected source has said it is so
Method of Authority
Holding to a belief because it is consistent with your experience and observations
Method of Experience
Holding to a belief because it "feels right" or appears self evident
Method of Intuition
Accepting a belief on the basis of scientific studies
Method of Science
The field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and improving the attitudes of individuals and groups in organizations is known as
Organizational Behavior
According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, individual outcomes of interest to OB researchers include
Organizational Commitment and Job Performance
According the integrative model of organizational behavior, which of the following would be categorized as organizational mechanisms that contribute to individual outcomes?
Organizational Culture and Organizational Structure
According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, which of the following would be categorized as organizational mechanisms that contribute to individual outcomes?
Organizational Culture and Organizational Structure
What includes traits and tendencies that describe how people act, such as extroversion and conscientiousness?
Personality and Cultural Values
Individual characteristics that improve individual mechanisms such as job satisfaction and motivation include which of the following?
Personality, Cultural Values, and Ability
Gossiping and incivility are two forms of which type of counterproductive behavior
Political Deviance
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?
Resource-based view
What focuses on the duties and responsibilities that are core to the job?
Task Performance
Group mechanisms include
Team Characteristics and Diversity, Team Processes and Communication, Leader Power and Negotiation, and Leader Styles and Behaviors
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 One-Eighth
What is required in order to establish a causal inference between two variables?
The variables are correlated
Which of the following is required in order to establish a causal inference between two variables?
The variables are correlated
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 refereed to as
Theory
Which of the following does the scientific method begin?
Theory
Which individual mechanism reflects the degree to which employees believe that their company does business with fairness, honesty, and integrity?
Trust, Justice, and Ethics
The use of statistical methods to combine the results of several individual but similar studies is known as
a meta-analysis
Although citizenship behaviors are relatively discretionary and situationally influenced, such behaviors...
can vary significantly over time
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
A correlation of 1 between two variables suggests which of the following?
that there is a perfect statistical relationship between the variables