Exam 1: Introduction to the Field of Organizational Behavior

Organizations retain intellectual capital by:

Everyone agrees that organizations need to cater to a wide variety of stakeholders.

Mick works for a company as a financial analyst from home using information technology.He does not work in a traditional physical workplace.This trend is known as:

Organizational behavior encompasses the study of how organizations interact with their external environments.

_____ diversity includes differences in the psychological characteristics of employees, including personalities, beliefs, values, and attitudes.

Out of the generational groups discussed in the textbook, which group has the highest preference for leisure and the lowest value of social interaction?

German sociologist Max Weber wrote about rational organizations and systematic ways to organize work processes and motivate employees through goal setting and rewards.

An aircraft manufacturing company developed a computer simulation representing the very complex processes and subgroups that create an airplane.Teams of production employees would participate in a game where trainers gave them the challenge of reducing costs or minimizing space using the simulation.As the trainers predicted, the team's actions would almost always result in unexpected consequences.Explain how this simulation relates to the open systems perspective of organizational behavior.

All organizations have a collective sense of purpose, whether it's producing oil or creating the fastest Internet search engine.

Marketing specialists at Sarasota Beer Co.developed a new advertising campaign for summer sales.The ads were particularly aimed at sports events where Sarasota 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 Sarasota Beer's keg beer at sports stadiums.However, the production department had not been notified of the marketing campaign and was not prepared for the increased demand.The company was forced to buy empty kegs at a premium price.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 Sarasota 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 system theory to explain what has occurred at Sarasota Beer Co.

Investment portfolio studies suggest that specific OB characteristics are important "positive screens" for selecting companies with the best long-term share appreciation.

Surface-level diversity is evident in a person's decisions, statements, and actions.

Which of the following is true according to the systematic research anchor?

Globalization offers numerous benefits to organizations in terms of larger markets, lower costs, and greater access to knowledge and innovation.

Which of the following statements is true about human capital in an organization?

Many organizations are placing increasing importance on values in the workplace.Explain the differences between values, ethics, and corporate social responsibility.

According to the open systems view of organizations, _____ is (are) an input for organizations.

According to the open systems perspective, most organizations have one working part rather than many sub-components.

Eastern University performs a daily computer search through newspaper articles to identify any articles about the university or its faculty members.University administrators use this information to receive feedback about how the public reacts to university activities.In knowledge management, searching for newspaper articles and other external writing about the organization is mainly a form of:

Scenario: Allison Albright Your roommate, Allison Albright, is a non-business major.When she discovered that you are taking a course in Organizational Behavior, she was thoroughly confused as to why one would need to study OB and what it entails.Based on what you have studied, can you help Allison obtain knowledge of organizational behavior? Allison thinks that organization is the same as an organism.However, in the field of organizational behavior, organizations are best described as: