Exam 9: Foundations of Individual Behavior

Organizational behavior focuses on ________.

Operant conditioning attempts to explain the influence that parents and teachers have on individuals.

Hidden aspects of an organization that OB provides insight into include ________.

In operant conditioning, if behavior is positively reinforced, it is less likely to repeat.

The ________ component of attitude is based on emotions.

In attribution theory, the behavior of an individual who shows low distinctiveness and low consensus is likely to be attributed as ________.

In attribution theory, if everyone who is faced with a similar situation responds in the same way, we can say the behavior shows ________.

Personality is defined as a unique combination of behavioral, emotional, and thinking patterns that each person has.

All of the following are included in the six behaviors that managers try to explain, predict, and influence EXCEPT ________.

An employee who brags about her company to friends and recommends all company products as gifts is likely to have high ________.

The thinking versus feeling scale on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® determines whether a person is oriented ________.

Emotional intelligence includes all of the following EXCEPT ________.

Research shows that there is a fairly strong correlation between high satisfaction and high productivity.

Rather than try to make employees happy, managers might do well to focus on making work ________.

Factors that can influence the perceiver of a situation include ________.

A high self-monitoring individual would tend to ________.

In a short essay, discuss how risk-taking can help explain individual behavior in organizations.

Social learning theory maintains that reinforcement plays no part in this learning process.

Which of the following are the goals of organizational behavior?

This "behavior" is really an attitude.