Exam 1: Introduction to the Field of Organizational Behavior

What effect does teleworking have in the workplace?

Successful teleworkers tend to be self-motivated and are able to fulfill their social needs outside of the work context.

Teleworking forces employers to evaluate employee performance based on 'face time' rather than work output.

According to a recent survey,93 percent of Canadians believe that corporate social responsibility is as important to companies as profit and shareholder value.

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 behaviour.

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

One criticism of the high performance work practices perspective is that it promotes shareholder and customer satisfaction at the expense of employee well-being.

The degree to which a person minimizes conflict between work and nonwork demands refers to:

Teams with diverse members usually take longer to perform effectively.

Stakeholders include:

Two of the most prominent workforce diversity forms are: age,ethnicity and occupation.

The emerging employment relationship in Canada is that people must give up their legal rights regarding employment discrimination in return for long-term employment.

Workforce diversity:

Many organizations are placing increasing importance on values and ethics in the workplace.Discuss two reasons why workplace values have become more important in recent years.Your answer should briefly define values,and ethics.

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

The concept of values is an important aspect of the stakeholder perspective.

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

The contingency anchor of organizational behaviour states that:

Organizational memory is best described as:

Organizational behaviour knowledge helps us influence people and organizational events.