Exam 1: Introduction to the Field of Organizational Behavior

Which of the following typically results in a loss of intellectual capital?

Values are relatively stable, evaluative beliefs that guide our preferences for outcomes or courses of action in a variety of situations.

Which of these statements is consistent with the five anchors of organizational behavior?

_____ refers to economic, social, and cultural connectivity with people in other parts of the world.

The triple bottom line philosophy says that:

Open systems cannot exist without dependence on an external environment, whereas closed systems can exist without dependence on an external environment.

Globalization refers to economic, social, and cultural connectivity with people in other parts of the world.

All popular management concepts rely on hard evidence that proves they are valid.

ACME Software Inc.has developed a training program to make employees more aware of how their job performance affects customers and other employees within the organization and to inform them of the changing market conditions.This training program relates most closely with which of the following concepts?

Work/life balance refers to minimizing conflict between work and non-work demands.

Ethics refers to the study of moral principles or values that determine whether actions are right or wrong and outcomes are good or bad.

Three challenges organizations are facing include globalization, increasing workforce diversity, and emerging employment relationships.

Senior officers in a national military organization decided that operations in supplies requisition were inefficient and costly.They brought in consultants who recommended that the entire requisition process be 'reengineered'.This involved throwing out the old practices and developing an entirely new set of work activities around workflow.However, like many reengineering changes, this intervention resulted in lower productivity, higher employee turnover, and other adverse outcomes.Discuss likely problems with the intervention in terms of systems theory.

Systematic research investigation produces evidence-based management which involves making decisions and taking actions based on this research evidence.

Which of these organizational behavior trends is corporate social responsibility most closely related to?

The observable demographic or physiological differences in people, such as their race, ethnicity, gender, age, and physical disabilities constitute _____ diversity.

Intellectual capital represents the stock of knowledge held by an organization.

The organizational learning perspective is focused on physical resources that enter and are processed in the organization.

A firm has good associations with its customers, suppliers, and others who provide added mutual value for the firm.Name the form of intellectual capital that is possessed by the firm due to its good associations.

Most organizational behavior theories have been developed by OB scholars rather than scholars from other disciplines.