Organizational Behavior Final

According to Professor Jay A. Conger, Professor at Canada s McGill University, the major forces for the next generation of leaders will be

global competitiveness and diversity

A leader who wants to communicate a vision in such a way that it provides meaning will likely use

storytelling

Which of these is a common power tactic used in organizations

ALL of these

The right to seek compliance by others is represented by which of the following?

Authority

All of these elements make teams function EXCEPT:

Identical skills

In organizations today, success depends on talent acquisition outsourcing to external recruiters

FALSE

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967 protects individuals who are 30 years of age or older from employment discrimination based on age

FALSE

Unrelated to the concepts of authority and leadership is the concept of power

FALSE

Which of the following is known as the polite stage ?

Forming

Which of these refers to the information society, using knowledge to generate tangible and intangible values?

Knowledge economy

Jay Patel is the HR manager at BNB Manufacturing. Jay wants to establish the pay-for-performance structure at BNB. In these efforts, Jay s boss tells him to include the design of a merit matrix that ties employee annual pay increases to performance as well as the design of a short-term bonus matrix and a long-term bonus pay-for-performance strategy. Jay should focus on which of the following step in the framework to address these issues?

Update compensation processes with new pay for-performance elements

Performance management can be tracked back to which of these?

U.S. military s merit rating system

According to Fiedler, the most favorable situation for a leader is

high task structure, strong leader position power, good leader member relations

When people are among _____ teammates, the team is susceptible to groupthink.

homogeneous and like-minded

The type of leadership most appropriate when major changes are needed in an organization would be

transformational

All of the following are key components of the leadership process EXCEPT

vision statement

Research finds that contemporary organizations are not political entities like their earlier counterparts

FALSE

According to the Path-Goal Theory of leadership, the motivational function of the leader consists of increasing personal payoffs to organizational members for work-goal attainment, clarifying the path to these payoffs, reducing road blocks and pitfalls, and increasing the opportunities for satisfaction enroute

TRUE

It is the follower s personality and readiness to follow that will determine the style of leadership that is most effective

TRUE

Jeopardizing personal integrity can be avoided, even when coercive power is used.

TRUE

Reflective thinking, delay responding, and adapting are considered passive and destructive responses to conflict.

TRUE

The core traits such as drive, honesty, and self-confidence are considered to be preconditions that endow people with leadership potential

TRUE

The identification of poor performers is a challenge that has existed since the earliest days of performance management, and even the most formal performance management process does not seem to be particularly good at weeding out poor performers

TRUE

The process of becoming a high-performance team is not a linear process.

TRUE

In a conflict situation, which of the following is a constructive and active response?

Reaching out

Forcing someone to comply with one s wishes is _______ power

Coercive

_____ extends rights to many private-sector employees, including the right to organize and bargain with their employer collectively

NLRA of 1947

Which of these describes those activities taken within an organization to acquire, develop, and use power and other resources to attain preferred outcomes in a situation in which there is uncertainty and disagreement over choices?

Politics

Which of the following refers to the capacity for one subunit to seek needed resources from alternate sources?

Substitutability

_____ is the process for reviewing key roles and determining the readiness levels of potential internal and external candidates to fill these roles

Succession planning

According to the evolution of HR work, the integration of HR strategy with the overall business strategy has been the focus of which of the following?

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