Exam 1: What Is Organizational Behavior

________ focuses on the study of people in relation to their social environment.

Raymond is completing a study on discrimination in which he has noted that saleswomen who wear skirt suits make more sales than saleswomen who only wear pant suits . However, Raymond determined that his findings only pertained to those industries in which the purchasing decision maker is traditionally masculine. For example, the sales results were the same for all women selling to medical office managers, a female dominated field. Raymond used ________ variables to more accurately explain his results.

In order to predict human behavior, it is best to supplement your intuitive opinions with information derived in what fashion?

Which of the following is the major challenge to managers in a fully networked organization?

Forty percent of the U.S. labor force is female.

Austin is a graduate student helping to organize a study about individual job satisfaction. The study focuses on the top five reasons that a person is satisfied or dissatisfied in his current job. His department is surveying 200 individuals in 100 different types of organizations. Austin is most likely a graduate student in the department of ________.

Which of the following is not an interpersonal role of management according to Mintzberg?

Designing an organization's structure, such as who reports to whom, defines the ________ function.

A model is a(n) ________.

Compare and contrast the fields of psychology, social psychology, and sociology.

Which of the following is not a core topic of organizational behavior?

Which of the following is an example of being an efficient company?

Many people's views on human behavior are based on intuition.

The manager at a construction site observes that he is spending a great deal of time interviewing prospective employees. This is due to the large amount of absenteeism and turnover among his skilled workers. On questioning exiting employees he discovers that many of them quit because they feel the work place is too dangerous. In particular, several foremen have stated that the need to get the job done quickly is more important than a few rules, and have gone as far as to mock the courage of workers who question this attitude. -What is the best way for the manager to control the deviant behavior of the foremen?

Explain how Fred Luthans differentiates between successful and effective managers.

An organization is productive if it achieves its goals and does so by transferring inputs to outputs at the lowest cost.

As a manager, one of Joe's duties is to present awards to outstanding employees within his department. Which Mintzberg managerial role is Joe acting in when he does this?

You are bringing together faculty from different behavioral disciplines to author a new textbook in organizational behavior. Represented are professors from psychology, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, political science, and industrial engineering. -Which professor out of this group would you expect to address issues of communication?

There are ________ simple and universal principles that explain organizational behavior.

Myriam is analyzing the gender roles of men and women in management in the United States compared to those of management in Japan. She is surveying fifty men and fifty women managers in each country to compare their daily behavior. Myriam's study exemplifies how ________ contributes to OB.