Exam 1: Introduction to the Field of Organizational Behavior

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

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

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

Which of the following perspectives of organizational effectiveness argues that companies take their sustenance from the environment and,in turn,affect that environment through their outputs?

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

Research indicates that Baby Boomers and Generation-X employees bring the same values and expectations to the workplace.

The observable demographic or physiological differences in people,such as their race,ethnicity,gender,age,and physical disabilities is called deep-level diversity.

A perspective that effective organizations incorporate several workplace practices that leverage the potential of human capital is called high-performance work practices.

To help Allison understand some preliminary information about OB,which of these statements about the field is true?

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

Values represent an individual's short-term beliefs about what will happen in the future.

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

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

If Bob wants to study deep-level diversity in his organization,he would:

Which of the following is a form of knowledge acquisition?

Which of the following statements is consistent with the concept of contingency anchor?

Clickz,an American photography magazine firm,has more than half of senior management positions held by women.African Americans represent 40 percent of the company's workforce.The description of Clickz's diversity refers to:

Workforce diversity potentially improves decision making and team performance on complex tasks.

Stakeholders of an organization are shareholders,customers,suppliers,governments and any other groups with a vested interest in the organization.

_____ refers to an organization's moral obligation toward all of its stakeholders.