Exam 1: What Is Organizational Behavior

Culture, trust, teamwork, and reputation are termed _____ because it's not always clear how they came to develop, though it is clear which organizations do possess them.

Meta-analyses cannot form the foundation for evidence-based management.

OB research on job performance and individual characteristics draws primarily from studies in _____.

Which of the following suggests that people hold firmly to some belief because it "just stands to reason"-that is, it seems obvious or self-evident?

Which of the following statements about the resource-based view of organizations is False?

Using the resource-based view of the organization, explain how people are a valuable resource. Provide an example to justify your answer.

Which of the following correlations indicates no statistical relationship between two variables?

Evidence-based management is a perspective that argues that scientific findings should not form the foundation for management education.

The strength of a correlation can be inferred from the "compactness" of its scatterplot.

Which of the following is not one of the methods by which people "know" things?

Like individual characteristics, group mechanisms shape satisfaction, stress, motivation, trust, and learning.

_______ summarize the statistical relationships between variables.

The scientific method requires that theories be used to inspire _____.

According to the resource-based view of organizations, people are inimitable because ______.

Which of the following focuses on the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organization's profitability?

According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, motivation, trust, justice, and ethics are _____.

According to the method of experience, people hold firmly to some belief because scientific studies have tended to replicate results using a series of samples, settings, and methods.

As employees gain experience, they obtain job knowledge and use this knowledge to make accurate judgments on the job. Which individual mechanism is referred to in this statement?

Resources like culture, teamwork, trust, and reputation are termed "socially complex" because it is not always clear which organizations do (and do not) possess them, though it is clear how they came to develop.

The integrative model of OB was designed with the Rule of One-Eighth in mind.