Exam 1: What Is Organizational Behavior

Gould Furniture is one of the leading furniture companies in Indonesia. In the past, the company had a homogeneous workforce of Indonesian employees. The company is desperate to cut operating and manufacturing costs and hence is considering outsourcing part of the manufacturing process to low-cost Taiwan. However, local community leaders across the country are opposing this decision strongly. They believe that exporting jobs to other countries is detrimental to their country in every way possible. Which of the following, if true, is the flaw in the local community leaders' opinion?

Which of the following is an example of a process at an individual level?

Psychology contributes to the study of organizational behavior at the macro level whereas anthropology contributes at the micro level.

Which of the following is true of models?

Which of the following is true of technical skills?

Johanna Reid, a campaign manager at a child rights organization, recently started working on an illiteracy project. During the project, she needs to motivate team members to attain their project milestones and direct them through different phases of the project. Which of the following kinds of functions will these tasks be covered under?

Which of the following is true of systematic study?

Workforce diversity refers to how organizations are becoming more homogeneous in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity.

What are conceptual skills? How are they different from human skills?

You are bringing together faculty from different behavioral disciplines to author a new textbook in organizational behavior. Represented are professors from psychology, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, political science, and industrial engineering.Which faculty member is most likely to furnish information about personality, learning, and motivation?

The concept of "reflected best-self" involves ________.

________ refers to basing managerial decisions on the best available scientific proof.

Why do only a few absolutes apply to organizational behavior?

Which of the following is one of the three variables proposed by a basic OB model which refers to actions that individuals, groups, and organizations engage in as a result of inputs?

What is group cohesion?

Why is it important to complement intuition with systematic study in our attempts to understand behavior within organizations?

According to Fred Luthans and his associates' study of 450 managers, ________ made the largest contribution to the success of managers in terms of speed of promotion within their organization.

________ seeks to measure, explain, and sometimes change the behavior of humans and other animals.

A common characteristic of service jobs is that they ________.

According to Fred Luthans and his associates, managers which are involved in networking activities are most likely to undertake which of the following?