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Which of the following statements about the field of organizational behavior is FALSE? OB is the study of what people think, feel and do in and around organizations. OB emerged as a distinct field of inquiry in the 1940s. OB is a self-contained discipline, independent of other disciplines. OB theories are usually tested using the scientific method. Many OB theories are contingency-oriented.
OB is a self-contained discipline, independent of other disciplines.
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Which of these refers to a person's beliefs about what behaviors are appropriate or necessary in a particular situation?
What is Role perceptions
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Mental models cause us to:
What is select and organize stimuli in ways that are consistent with our broad worldviews.
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Which of the following is an individual incentive?
What is Gainsharing plans Piece-rate plans Share options Share ownership None of the answers apply
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Which type of team or group is best known for having a champion who bootlegs people and resources to develop new products, services, or procedures?
What is Skunkworks
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Describe and open system
What is the perspective that companies take their sustenance from the environment and, in turn, affect that environment through their outputs
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Describe what competencies are
What is a person's aptitudes. a person's learned abilities. a person's skills.
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André is a doctor who is quick to mention that he is a doctor when he first meets other people. He also tends to perceive himself and other physicians in a more favorable way than nurses and non-medical staff. Which concept best explains André's perceptual process?
What is Social identity theory
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Type of rewards that tends to create the strongest psychological connection between the individual employee's work effort and the reward received?
What is Gainsharing plan
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According to social identity theory:
What is people define themselves by their group affiliations.
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Knowledge management is an extension of:
What is the open systems perspective of organizational behavior.
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All technical employees at a paper mill take a course on how to operate a new paper-rolling machine. This course will improve job performance mainly by altering employee:
What is learned capabilities
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How might self-serving bias be observed in a corporate annual report?
What is The report would exclude any bad news about the organization's performance.
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What is a conscious process of making choices among one or more alternatives with the intention of moving toward some desired state of affairs.
What is Decision making
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The drive to bond and the dynamics of social identity theory both explain why people:
What is join informal groups.
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Motivation
What is represents the forces within a person that affect the direction, intensity, and persistence of voluntary behavior.
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According to the authors of your text, organizational behavior knowledge:
What is is relevant to everyone who works in organizations.
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If John takes credit for work done on time, but blames his co-workers for his delays, he is exhibiting:
What is fundamental attribution error.
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Which of these statements about human decision making is FALSE? Personal biases typically distort the selection and interpretation of information. Decision makers engage in a limited search for and evaluation of alternatives. Decision makers usually examine all alternatives at the same time. Decision makers compare each alternative to an implicit favorite. Decision makers have a limited capacity to process information.
What is Decision makers usually examine all alternatives at the same time.
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Which of the following does NOT minimize social loafing?
What is Forming larger work teams.
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You have just hired several new employees who are motivated, able to perform their jobs, and have adequate resources. However, they aren't sure what tasks are included in their job. According to the MARS model, these new employees will likely
What is have lower job performance due to poor role perceptions.
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Which organizational behavior perspective discusses inputs, outputs, and feedback?
What is Open systems
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Emotions have what effect on us?
What is They make us aware of events that possibly affect our important goals. They put us into a state of readiness. They provide a communication to us about the presence of relevant events in the external environment.
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The most accurate view of intuition is that it:
What is is the ability to know when a problem or opportunity exists and select the best course of action without conscious reasoning.
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In terms of team size, the general rule is that teams:
What is should have the fewest number of people possible to perform the work.