Organizational Behavior

Which of the following basic components is typically included in organizational behavior (OB)?

Human behavior in organizations

When Sheila attempts to motivate her employees with compensation and job opportunity, she is utilizing which managerial function?

Leading

Compared to lower-level and top-level managers, middle managers require more of which skill?

Middle managers require an even distribution across all four above skills.

All of these are important reasons for understanding organizational behavior EXCEPT:

Most people do not acquire most of their material possessions from organizations

Ahmed groups jobs into units and establishes patterns of authority. Ahmed is performing which function of management?

Organizing

Which of the following is NOT one of the specific perspectives of organizational behavior?

People as task environment

Which of the following is an example of something a manager performing the role of distrubance handler might do?

Resolve a dispute between employees

Which of the following managerial roles would likely involve allocating budget requests?

Resource allocator

Joshua is able to visualize how the various tasks within his company fit together and how each task contributes towards the "big picture." Joshua can be said to have strong

conceptual skills.

Contemporary organizational behavior is both ____ in focus and ____ in nature.

interdisciplinary; descriptive

The primary goal of a consultant hired to solve a problem in an organization should be to

learn as much as possible about the organization and the people within it

Mike is an engineer who can solve complex mathematical equations on the job. Mike is consider valuable to his employer for his strong

technical skills

Some outcomes can be studied at the individual, group and organization levels. Which of the following is generally assessed at both the individual and organizational levels?

Absenteeism

Which of these is the primary concern of organizational behavior?

The human side of management

Which of the following perspectives argues that universal rules, solutions, guidelines, predictions, and principles are feasible when applied to organizations?

The universal perspective

Interpersonal skills are

are used by managers to communicate with, understand, and motivate individualsand groups.

All of the following are inputs an organization receives from its environment, EXCEPT

employee behaviors.

In dealing with the work-related activities of people, managers must have an understanding of all of the following EXCEPT

employees' personal lives.

Technical skills are

the skills necessary to accomplish specific tasks within the organization.

The systems view is important to managers because it

underscores the importance of the organization's environment.