Exam 1: Introduction to the Field of Organizational Behaviour

Which discipline has provided organizational behaviour with much of its theoretical foundation for team dynamics, organizational power, and organizational socialization?

Marketing specialists at Napanee Beer Co. developed a new advertising campaign for summer sales. The ads were particularly aimed at sports events where Napanee Beer sold kegs of beer on tap. The marketing group worked for months with a top advertising firm on the campaign. Their effort was successful in terms of significantly higher demand for Napanee Beer's keg beer at sports stadiums. However, the production department had not been notified of the marketing campaign and was not preparedfortheincreaseddemand.Thecompanywasforcedtobuyemptykegsatapremiumprice. It also had to brew some of the lower-priced keg beer in vats that would have been used for higher-priced specialty beer. The result was that Napanee Beer sold more of the lower-priced keg beer and less of the higher-priced products that summer. Moreover, the company could not initially fill consumer demand for the keg beer, resulting in customer dissatisfaction. Use open system perspective to explain what has occurred at Napanee BeerCo.

Which of these statements is consistent with the four anchors of organizational behaviour?

Which of the following is an anchor of organizational behaviour knowledge?

Surface-level diversity refers to observable demographic and other overt differences in people.

To form research questions, collect data, and test hypotheses against those data organizational behaviour scholars rely on:

As organizations grow, they tend to develop more subsystems making coordination among them become more complex.

As part of the knowledge management process, experimentation mainly affects

Comment on the accuracy of the following statement: ''An important objective in knowledgemanagement is to ensure that intellectual capital is stored and preserved.''

Personalities, beliefs, values, and attitudes are

Which of these statements about the field of organizational behaviour is FALSE?

The triple-bottom-line philosophy asserts that

Organizational behaviour knowledge:

The open systems perspective of organizational behaviour states that:

The "triple-bottom-line" philosophy says that successful organizations focus on financial performance three times more often than do less successful organizations.

Stakeholders are individuals, organizations, or other entities that affect, or are affected by the organization.

Discuss the four anchors of organizational behaviour.

A courier service laid off a large percentage of its production staff during last year's recession. These low-skilled employees performed routine tasks filling orders. The company now wants to rehire them. However, most of the unskilled employees have since found employment in other companies and industries. Do you think the courier company lost much organizational memory in this situation?

One problem with the term "organizational effectiveness'' is that it has too many substitute labels, as well as too many different definitions.

Information technology has created challenges, such as tethering people to their jobs for longer hours, reducing their attention spans at work, and increasing techno-stress.