Exam 1: Introduction to the Field of Organizational Behaviour

Corporate social responsibility is most closely related to which of these organizational behaviour trends?

The relatively new field of research that has emerged with the objective of identifying internal systems and structures that are associated with successful companies is called:

Organizational memory refers to:

Almost all organizational behaviour theories share an implicit or explicit objective of making organizations more effective.

Organizations can retain intellectual capital by:

Organizational behaviour knowledge:

Scholars have been studying organizational behaviour since the days of Greek philosophers.

In most jobs,employees are evaluated on several performance dimensions.

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,contrary to expectations,this intervention resulted in lower productivity,higher employee turnover and other adverse outcomes.Discuss likely problems with the intervention in terms of open systems perspective.

Workforce diversity does not consider the differences in psychological characteristics of employees.

Which of the following is one of the most entrenched views of organizations in organizational behaviour?

When we describe multiculturalism we are primarily referring to surface-level diversity.

One reason why workplace values have become more important is that employees increasingly value command-and-control direct supervision.

The most efficient companies are not necessarily the most effective ones.

Surface-level diversity refers to observable demographic and other overt differences in people.

Stable,long-lasting beliefs about what is important in a variety of situations are:

Which of the following is included in the open systems perspective of organizations?

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

The triple bottom line philosophy says that:

The "triple bottom line" philosophy says that successful organizations focus on financial performance three times more often than do less successful organizations.