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Q1. Which of the following is not considered a weakness of expectancy theory?

The values for each construct have been relatively stable over time.

Q2. The development of group cohesiveness is negatively influenced by:


internal competition.

Q3. A wild turkey in a top management team is:

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

Q9. Assume you are an employment interviewer. An applicants physical appearance


could cause you to commit an incorrect hiring decision because of all the following
except
self-fulfilling prophecy

Q10. As a manager that understands the implications of self-esteem on work


behavior, you should
give them appropriate challenges and opportunities or success

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

Q15. The fit perspective is useful in explaining:

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

Q17. The primacy effect is also known as:


first-impression error.

Q18. Escape from conflict by daydreaming is known as: fantasy.

Q19. All of the following are considered important work process issues except:
role specification

Q20. Which of the following is considered a key benefit of diversity?


flexibility and adaptation.
Q21 instrumental values includes
All

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

Q24. an example of a rite of enhancement is a/an:


employee of the month award.

Q25. 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

Q26. According to Edgar Schein, the essence of culture is.


assumptions.

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

Q28. Employee loyalty toward the organization is a significant factor in:

affective commitment

Q29. Increasing workforce diversity is likely to reduce ______ as a barrier to social


perception.
stereotyping.

Q30. Group polarization results in.

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

2. Which trait is associated with less absenteeism at work

Positive affect

3. Employee loyalty toward the organization is a significant factor in:


affective commitment

4. The Leadership and Strategy Council is a feature of

Harley Davidson Circular Organization

5. When an employee remains with a firm because he or she faces significant exit barriers, this can
be characterized as:

continuance commitment.

6. When employees view managers as being overpaid, workers may

reduce their commitment

7. The impoverished manager is one who exerts:

Just enough effort to avoid being fired.

8. Which of the following personality types would most likely display the most
consistent behavior “across situations”
Low self monitor

9. People may engage in immoral acts or even violent behavior as committed


members of their group when
there is a loss of individuality
10. The first discipline to take the modern corporation as the unit of analysis and
emphasize the design, implementation, and coordination of various administrative
and organization systems was:
management

11. The JDI measures:

job satisfaction

12. The fit perspective is useful in explaining:

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

16. is the term for creatively applying new technology


Reinvention

17. A deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgement resulting from
pressures within the group.

Groupthink

18. Upper echelon theory argues that:

characteristics of the top management team can predict organizational


characteristics
19. The primary purpose of socialization is the:

transmission of core values to new organization members

20. The dynamic process through which the emotion is transferred from one person is
called
Emotional contagion

21. Self-managed teams are sometimes called:


autonomous work groups.

22. The basic idea behind leader-member exchange theory is:

leaders form two groups of followers (in-groups and out-groups)

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

24. Assume you are an employment interviewer. An applicants physical appearance


could cause you to commit an incorrect hiring decision because of all the following
except
self-fulfilling prophecy

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

27. Alderfer's growth need category corresponds to Maslow's:

Self-esteem and Self-actualization.

28. Which of the following statements is most correct?

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.

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