Exam 4: Values, Attitudes, and Work Behaviour

In Geert Hofstede's cross-cultural research, Venezuela, Colombia, and Pakistan exhibited highly ________ cultures that favoured interdependence over individualism.

Why is affective commitment positively related to performance?

An especially bad combination of commitments is high normative commitment coupled with low affective commitment.

Moods are not so intense, long-lived, and diffuse feelings.

Cultural distance can make negotiations, mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures more likely.

Describe how changes in the workplace are having an impact on organizational commitment.

Cultural ________ is the capability to function and manage well in culturally diverse environments.

Popular literature contains many generational stereotypes.For example, Generation Y are portrayed as being confident, social, demanding of feedback but somewhat ________.

The first response in the progression of withdrawal is reduced ________.

Employees are more likely to be satisfied when good performance is followed by ________.

Expatriates working abroad will find it more difficult to adjust to more

________ is the tendency for moods and emotions to spread between people or throughout a group.

Satisfaction with the content of work is the most important facet in relation to absence from work and performance.

People will endure a dissatisfying job if they are embedded in the community.

In general, cultural distance impedes ________.

Being fairly treated sometimes but not others, may be more ________ than consistent unfair treatment.

Normative commitment increases with the time a person is employed by an organization.

________ commitment is based on an employee's identification and involvement with the organization.

According to equity theory, having outcomes equal to a comparison person does not guarantee equity.

People who are extraverted and high in neuroticism tend to be more satisfied with their jobs.