Teams in Organizations
An interdependent collection of individuals who work toward a common goal and share responsibility for specific outcomes is called a
a. group.
b. team.
c. in-group.
d. crew.
What is Team?
Which of the Big 5 personality traits is not positively associated with leader emergence?
a. extraversion
b. conscientiousness
c. agreeableness
d. openness
What is agreeableness?
The concept that every person gets the same share of rewards regardless of effort describes which norm?
a. merit
b. equity
c. equality
d. need
What is equality?
An employee’s behavior in a work setting, which can be measured in terms of individual proficiency, is best characterized as
a. productivity.
b. effectiveness.
c. knowledge.
d. performance.
What is performance?
The systematic acquisition of skills, concepts, or attitudes that result in improved performance is called
a. training.
b. learning.
c. evaluation.
d. intelligence.
What is training?
“g” is an abbreviation for
a. goal setting.
b. general mental ability.
c. growth capacity.
d. giftedness.
What is general mental ability?
Quality circles are
a. groups that work together to teach each other new skills.
b. groups of individuals with similar productivity levels.
c. groups of employees who meet to identify work-related problems.
d. groups of individuals who have met certain quality standards.
What is groups of employees who meet to identify work-related problems?
If we are interested in ______________, we might study the characteristics of individuals who become leaders.
a. leader treatment
b. leadership effectiveness
c. leader emergence
d. leadership ability
What is leader emergence?
____________ justice is related to the actual process by which performance ratings are assigned.
a. Distributive
b. Procedural
c. Interpersonal
d. Objective
What is Procedural?
Productivity can be best explained as
a. any behavior that is work related.
b. a ratio between employee inputs and outputs.
c. an evaluation of performance.
d. the number of promotions given within a designated amount of time.
What is a ratio between employee inputs and outputs?
Declarative knowledge is an example of a __________ learning outcome.
a. cognitive
b. behavioral
c. skill-based
d. affective
What is cognitive?
For selection purposes, I-O psychologists assume that a person’s intelligence and personality
a. can increase given the proper training.
b. remain relatively stable over time.
c. will decrease without proper training.
d. remain stable in work settings but decrease in settings outside of the work environment.
What is remain relatively stable over time?
Which of the following are frequently used in matrix organizations?
a.project teams
b.production teams
c. quality circles
d. work groups
What is project teams?
A manager was given a sales quota to meet. The manager created a set of incentives for her employees to help meet the quota. Three months later, the quota was met. This scenario can be best described as which type of leadership?
a. attempted
b. successful
c. effective
d. motivational
What is effective?
The type of justice that deals with the sensitivity in which employees are treated is
a. perceptive.
b. distributive.
c. procedural.
d. interactional.
What is interactional?
Understanding how to perform a task is called:
a. declarative knowledge
b. procedural knowledge
c. operational knowledge
d. administrative knowledge
What is procedural knowledge?
A graphic designer for an Internet web design company goes through a six-week training program. Various technical skills for using software applications are acquired. This type of learning outcome is
a. cognitive.
b. behavioral.
c. skill-based.
d. affective.
What is skill-based?
Mental ability refers to a person’s
a.ability to control one’s emotions.
b.capacity to reason, plan, and solve problems.
c. ability to notice changes in his/her body position.
d.ability to be motivated by a supervisor.
What is capacity to reason, plan, and solve problems?
A number of employees in a company work together to help allocate various priorities and to organize shift operations. This is an example of a(n)
a. project team.
b. work crew.
c. quality circle.
d. autonomous work group.
What is autonomous work group?
In their taxonomic work of managerial performance dimensions, Borman and Brush (1993) identified ______ potential dimensions of managerial performance.
a. 212
b. 224
c. 246
d. 264
What is 246?
The program that helps underrepresented demographic groups in the workplace is called _____ action.
a. organizational
b. economic
c. affirmative
d. socio-political
What is affirmative?
According the Campbell, there are _____ distinct performance components that may or may not appear in a job.
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 8
What is 8?
Which of the following types of training needs analysis examines goals, available resources, and ways in which training should be directed?
a. organizational analysis
b. task analysis
c. motivational analysis
d. person analysis
What is organizational analysis?
Perceptual-motor abilities are
a. mental abilities that combine memory and recall.
b. physical abilities that combine strength and stamina.
c. physical attributes that combine the senses and motion.
d. mental abilities that combine a persons IQ and “g.”
What is physical attributes that combine the senses and motion?
A group of widely dispersed members working together toward a common goal and linked through technology and software is known as a(n)
a. project team.
b.production team.
c. virtual team.
d. autonomous work group.
What is virtual team?
Most leadership training programs concentrate on developing, maintaining, or enhancing individual attributes. This most accurately is an example of
a. behavior development.
b. personality development.
c. leadership development.
d. leader development.
What is leader development?
All of the following are HR initiatives that support the Value Model of Diversity except
a. provide support and networks for diverse group members.
b. provide training for diverse group members only.
c. recruit specifically with diversity in mind.
d. develop connections to broader cultural groups in the community.
What is provide training for diverse group members only?
An I-O psychologist is attempting to measure job performance, but has found that many measures include information that is unrelated to what is being measured. This problem can be best explained as a(n)
a. criterion deficiency.
b. criterion contamination.
c. ultimate criterion.
d. categorical criterion.
What is criterion contamination?
Which type of orientation views mistakes as a part of the learning process?
a. goal orientation
b. mastery orientation
c. training orientation
d. performance orientation
What is mastery orientation?
I-O psychologists have recently defined intelligence as
a. the ability to recall important dates and events.
b. the ability to learn and adapt to an environment.
c. the speed and accuracy of memory.
d. the ability to store large amounts of information in working memory.
What is the ability to learn and adapt to an environment?