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The values for each construct have been relatively stable over time.
a devil's advocate who challenges the thinking of the CEO and other top executives.
Q4. The dynamic process through which the emotion is transferred from one person is
called
Emotional contagion
Q5. When an employee remains with a firm because he or she faces significant exit barriers, this can
be characterized as:
continuance commitment.
Q6. Assume you are a senior accounting major. A friend who is taking a Principles of
Accounting course seeks you out for tutorial assistance. This is an example of power
expert
Q7. When you encounter a warm and personable car salesperson and dont assume
this behavior reflects the salespersons personality, you are using which principle in
social perception
discounting principle
Q8. The Leadership and Strategy Council is a feature of Harley Davidson Circular
Organization
Q11. If a manager asks an employee to purchase a gift for his wife, the employee
would think this request:
falls outside his zone of indifference
Q12. according to the Protestant ethic, person should work hard because hard work
and prosperity would lead to a place in heaven. The organizational scholar who
advanced the Protestant Ethic notion was:
Max Weber
Q13. A key understanding to the relationship between hygiene and motivation factors is that:
they are independent.
Q14. Research focusing on the variety of roles within a society or culture highlights which
disciplines contribution to organizational behavior?
Sociology
short-term performance
Q16. Job satisfaction and employee performance are likely to be positively related when:
rewards are valued by employees and are tied directly to performance
Q19. All of the following are considered important work process issues except:
role specification
Q22. The path-goal theory of leader effectiveness by Robert House is based on the:
Expectancy theory of motivation.
Q23. Crude comments or sexual jokes and behaviors that disparage someone's sex
or convey hostility is considered which type of sexual harassment
gender harrassment
Q27. According to the Jungain approach to personality, the basic preference that
reflects what we pay attention to or how we prefer to gather information
sensing/intuiting
affective commitment
the tendency for group members who were initially more cautious to become significantly less
cautious
1. In research on styles of conflict management, the _____ style was least effective.
avoiding
Positive affect
5. When an employee remains with a firm because he or she faces significant exit barriers, this can
be characterized as:
continuance commitment.
8. Which of the following personality types would most likely display the most
consistent behavior “across situations”
Low self monitor
job satisfaction
short-term performance
13. The web like structures that contract some or all of their operating functions to other
organisations and then coordinate their activities through managers and other employees at their
headquarters are called
Networked Organisation
14. Research focusing on the variety of roles within a society or culture highlights which
disciplines contribution to organizational behavior?
Sociology
15. Assume you are a senior accounting major. A friend who is taking a Principles of
Accounting course seeks you out for tutorial assistance. This is an example of power
expert
17. A deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgement resulting from
pressures within the group.
Groupthink
20. The dynamic process through which the emotion is transferred from one person is
called
Emotional contagion
23. The establishment of new attitudes, values, and behaviors as the new status quo is
consistent with what stage in Lewin's change model?
Refreezing
25. The motivation theory that holds that employee motivation is determined by the belief
that a valued outcome will result from effort is called:
expectancy theory.
26. Some experts believe that only individuals within a team can be creative, but a
professor at Northwestern University suggests that team creativity can be achieved.
Which of the following practices would NOT enhance team creativity?
conformity
Persons with an internal locus of control make more ethical decisions than others.
29. If you use calculated involvements as a basis for understanding a person's
relationship with a work organization, which of the following would be the best framework
Social exchange
30. As a member of a study group, you feel that others are making minimal contributions.
In this situation you are LEAST likely to:
reduce your contribution.