Exam 3: Perception, Attribution, and Diversity

Employees with late start times receive lower job performance ratings from their supervisors than employees with early start times.

Taylor is seldom absent, her co-workers are seldom absent, and she was seldom absent in her previous job.What kind of attribution is her manager likely to make?

A friend of yours has just had an interview and was so impressed with the way she was treated that she is convinced that the organization must be a great place to work.This is a good example of ________.

"He does it everywhere, he does it all the time, and no one else does it." Which cue combination is the speaker invoking?

A fair reward and recognition program is an example of a supportive human resource practice that leads to the development of POS.

ACME Insurance Company wants to improve employee perceptions of organizational support.They hired a new director of human resources to implement supportive human resource practices.What practices are likely to be most effective for developing more positive perceptions of organizational support?

Among the top 500 companies in the world, only five percent of the CEOs are women.

The practice of minority applicants changing their name to sound anglicized or by removing experience with an ethnic group or organization on their resumé is known as

A(n)________ attribution is most likely to occur when distinctiveness, consistency, and consensus are all high.

Discriminatory behaviour experienced by both younger and older workers is associated with

"Geraldo acts differently from everyone else." The speaker in the statement is invoking a ________ cue.

Halo effect can cause a person to receive a bad performance evaluation.

Professor Schaan has just returned an exam to her organizational behaviour class.Unfortunately, the class average was much lower than usual, and nearly half the students failed.The students complained that the test was much too difficult and was full of tricky and misleading questions.However, Professor Schaan insists that the test was fair and believes that the students simply did not study hard enough.Use your knowledge of attribution errors and perceptual biases to analyze this scenario.

The morning bias is due to the negative stereotype of employees with late start times being perceived as less ________.

After a review of its hiring and promotion decisions, the You Don't Pay Unless We Win law firm determined that women in the firm suffer from a stereotype that is detrimental to their hiring, development, promotion, and salaries.What is the nature of this stereotype and what can the firm do to reduce or remove the detrimental effects of it?

"Kevin acts the same as everyone else." The speaker here is invoking a ________ cue.

Define the meaning of trust and describe what managers can do to improve employees' trust perceptions towards management.

________ workers tend to be viewed as less loyal, inexperienced, unmotivated, immature, and selfish compared to ________ workers.

Females score slightly higher than males in job performance ratings.

The actor-observer effect suggests that actors and observers will view an actor's behaviour differently.