MNGMENT TEST #1
Presenteeism is more common among employees with
high centrality
Judith is new to Japan. She has starting eating sushi and sashimi, riding her bike everywhere, and learning Japanese. She is developing
a global mindset.
At Clickz, an American photography magazine firm, more than half of the senior management positions are held by women. African Americans represent 40 percent of the company's workforce. This describes Clickz's ______ diversity.
surface-level
People with high collectivism
value harmonious relationships in the groups to which they belong.
Social identity theory says that
we define ourselves in terms of our membership in certain groups and our differences with people who belong to other groups.
Which of the following statements is consistent with the concept of contingency anchor?
A particular action may have different consequences in different situations
The _______ perspective states that effective organizations incorporate several workplace practices that leverage the potential of human capital.
HPWP
According to the MARS model of individual behavior and performance, employee performance will remain high even if one of the four factors is low in a given situation.
False
An individual's self-concept can be described by four characteristics: complexity, consistency, character, and clarity.
False
Which of the following statements is true about globalization and organizational behavior?
Globalization offers numerous benefits to organizations in terms of larger markets, lower costs, and greater access to knowledge and innovation.
Which of the following statements is true of organizational behavior knowledge?
It examines how individuals and teams relate to each other.
Which of the following statements about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is true?
It is a poor predictor of job performance and is not recommended for employment selection or promotion decisions.
Sandy is a R&D manager at a manufacturing plant and her self-concept is considered to have low complexity. Which of the following would most likely be what she considers as her most important identities?
Manager, engineer, family income-earner
Out of the generational groups discussed in the textbook, which group has the highest preference for leisure and the lowest value of social interaction?
Millennials
Which of the following is true according to the systematic research anchor?
OB should study organizations by forming questions, collecting data, and testing hypotheses against those data.
Facilitating the interaction of employees who work on different projects represents which perspective of organizational effectiveness?
Open systems
Which of the following perspectives of organizational effectiveness argues that companies take their sustenance from the environment and, in turn, affect that environment through their outputs?
Open systems
Which of the following refers to the process of receiving information about and making sense of the world around us?
Perception
A firm has good associations with its customers, suppliers, and others who provide added mutual value for the firm. What is the form of intellectual capital that is possessed by the firm due to its good associations?
Relationship Capital
___________ are external to the individual but still affect his or her behavior and performance
Situational factors
Which discipline has provided organizational behavior with much of its theoretical foundation for team dynamics, organizational power, and organizational socialization?
Sociology
Three challenges organizations are facing include globalization, increasing workforce diversity, and emerging employment relationships.
True
Which country is located a little above the middle of the range on achievement-nurturing orientation?
United States
Which of the following describes the fundamental attribution error?
We tend to believe the behavior of other people is caused more by their motivation and ability than by factors beyond their control.
Which of these organizational behavior trends is most closely related to corporate social responsibility?
Workplace values and ethics
A more successful way to minimize perceptual biases is
by increasing self-awareness.
The triple bottom line philosophy says that
companies should try to support the economic, social, and environmental spheres of sustainability.
Systemic discrimination
creates unintentional stereotypes.
In the field of organizational behavior, organizations are described as
groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose.
Senior executives at CyberForm must make a decision that will affect many people, and the decision may produce good or bad consequences for those affected. This decision
has a high degree of moral intensity
People who value their independence and personal uniqueness have
high individualism.
Hiring knowledgeable employees with the best technical skills represents which of the following?
human capital
Travel Happy Corporation gives simple accounts to newly hired employees and then adds more challenging accounts as employees master the simple tasks. This practice mainly
increases person-job matching.
Which of these statements is true about the field of organizational behavior (OB)?
it examines how individuals and teams in organizations relate to one another and to their counterparts in other organizations.
A problem with the utilitarian principle of ethical decision making is that
it is almost impossible to evaluate the benefits or costs of many decisions.
n Schwartz's Values Circumplex, the _________ quadrant includes hedonism, stimulation, and self-direction
openness to change
Under Schwartz's Values Circumplex, hedonism is a part of two different quadrants
openness to change and self-enhancement.
Assisting coworkers with their work problems, adjusting work schedules to accommodate coworkers, and showing genuine courtesy toward coworkers are forms of
organizational citizenship
Open systems, organizational learning, high-performance work practices, and stakeholders represent the four perspectives of
organizational stakeholders.
The Big Five personality dimensions represent
the clusters representing most known personality traits.
One worry about using most personality tests to select job applicants is that applicants might fake their answers because
they are self-reported scales.
Consistency occurs when we are confident about "who we are," can describe our important identities to others, and provide the same description of ourselves across time.
False
Intensity refers to the fact that motivation is goal-directed, not random.
False
Organizational behavior emerged as a distinct field around the 1940s. Before that, organizations had not been studied at all.
False
Which of the following refers to the fact that motivation is goal-directed, not random?
Direction
