Organizational behavior

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Most categorical thinking occurs without our awareness

True

One problem with stereotyping is that traits assigned to a particular social category accurately describes every person identified with that group

True

Our emotions influence what we recognize or screen out. (T/F)

True

Self-serving bias is the tendency to take credit for success and blame others or the situation for our mistakes

True

Someone who believes that their successful completion of a project is due to their skill and Hardwork is make a internal attribution

True

Tacit knowledge is mainly learning through observation and experience

True

The only way to know whether an employee has less something is if there is a relatively permanent change in the employee's behavior

True

The following are the three selves of self concept except

Self control

Self evaluation is the evaluation oneself through the following except

Self efficiency

The extent to which a person defends and protects his/her positive self concepts is called

Self enhancement

If Frank takes the credit for his success and blames the company processes and colleagues for his shortcomings it describes which of these errors

Self-serving bias

The process of assigning traits to people based on their membership in a social category refers to

Stereotyping

Emotional labor refers to

The effort planning and control needed to express organizational desired emotions during interpersonal transactions

Relationship management is

The highest level of emotional intelligence

Your boss is usually able to calm employees when they are upset and to get staff enthusiastic about an otherwise mundane activity. This ability probably means that your boss has

The highest level of emotional intelligence

A persons social identity is a complex combination of his or her membership in many groups

True

The relatively stable pattern of behaviors and consistent internal states that explain a person's behavioral tendencies refer to

Values

Which of the following statements about emotions is false

We continuously experience an emotion for days or weeks at a time

Which of the following is an example of selective attention

You notice that two employees are arguing in the company's quiet library

Aptitudes, skills, and competencies all fall under which of the following concepts

ability

Which organizational behavior perspective discusses inputs outputs and feedback

open systems

While it is very difficult to prevent the activation of stereotypes we can minimize the application of stereotypic information

True

Anger, fear, joy, and sadness represent:

C. Type of emotions

Is the mostly unconscious process of organizing people and objects into Preconceived categories that are stored in our long term memory

Categorical thinking

Is the extent to which we value our duty to groups to which we belong and group harmony

Collectivism

Which big five personality dimension is most valued for predicting job performances

Conscientiousness

The ability to perceive and express emotions assimilate emotion in thought, understand and reason with emotion and regulate emotion in oneself and others is called

Emotional intelligence

After working weeks on a difficult proposal for a client jack learns that the client has excepted the proposal and will award the contract to Jack's firm upon hearing this from His boss Jack yelps Yahoo and automatically thrust his fisted hand in the air this action is most likely example of

Emotions directly influencing behavior

Tacit knowledge is best learn through formal class instruction

False

Which of the following countries generally has high achievement orientation values

Japan

Social awareness is the ...... level of .....

Lowest , emotional intelligence

The followings are the types of economy discussed in class except

Macro economy

Which if these factors directly influences an employee's results and behavior

Motivation and role perception

The highest level of emotional intelligence is

None of the above

Which of these refers to the process of receiving information about and making sense of the world around us

Perception

Are the key drivers in the knowledge based economy

Performance and competitiveness of firms

Our likelihood of noticing a person or object depends on its:

e. all of the above

Social awareness self management and relationship management are three elements of

emotional intelligence

In the field of organizational behavior, organizations are described as:

groups of people who work interdependently towards some purpose

Organizational behavior knowledge

helps us understand, predict, and influence the behaviors of others in organizational settings

Most employees in the social services section of a government department have frequent interaction with people who are unemployed or face personal problems. Which of the following personality characteristics is best suited to employees working in these jobs

high agreeableness


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