Exam 1: What Is Organizational Behavior

What dependent and independent variables are usually identified for construction of an OB model?

Which of the following is not a reason why OB is extremely relevant today?

________ is a measure of how organizations are becoming more heterogeneous in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity.

Imagine that Kristen McKay is a manager at a company specializing in bread and bread-baking paraphernalia. Kristen performs all the normal management functions outlined in your textbook. -When Ms. McKay determines which employees will do what tasks, she is performing the ________ function of management.

Today's managers and employees must learn to cope with temporariness; learning to live with flexibility, spontaneity, and unpredictability.

On which of the following problems would an OB study be least likely to focus ?

What conclusions can you draw about turnover if an employer strives to find balance in work-life conflicts? How can the employer find this balance and still have productive employees?

Psychology's major contributions to the field of organizational behavior have been primarily at what level of analysis?

________ is an effect of increasing globalization.

Eighty percent of the U.S. workforce today is made up of ________ jobs.

Workforce diversity is a topic dealing with how organizations are becoming more homogeneous in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity.

Managers get things done through other people.

At its root, productivity involves concern for both ________.

Which of the following statements is not true about workforce diversity?

Janet needs to assign a very important advertising account to one of her writers. First she reviewed each writers work load, then she studied the sales data of the products for the last three campaigns of each writer, then she reviewed each writer's annual review to familiarize herself with their goals. Finally, she gave the account to Paula, a very creative, efficient, writer who has had high sales results with her last three clients' products. Janet's management style is based on ________.

Which of the following is most likely to be a belief held by a successful manager?

Although managers must be technically competent, technical knowledge is often not enough for success.

Define and provide a workplace example for each of the four management functions described by Henri Fayol.

Describe how globalization affects a manager's people skills, and what human skills will be called upon to be effective.

Josef Nobles has been a manager at Mountain Chemicals for five years. Hired for his expertise in project accounting, he rose quickly through the ranks and is now the head of the accounting and finance department. Josef is viewed as the rising star in the organization by his superiors. -According to Katz, the skills that Mr. Nobles was hired for were what type of skill?