M: Organizational Behavior 2nd Edition by Steven McShane, Mary Von Glinow

Exercise 55

Scenario: Allison Albright
Your roommate, Allison Albright, is a non-business major. When she discovered that you are taking a course in Organizational Behavior, she was thoroughly confused as to why one would need to study OB and what it entails. Based on what you have studied, can you help Allison obtain knowledge of organizational behavior?
To help Allison understand some preliminary information about OB, which of these statements about the field is true?
A) Organizational behavior scholars give more importance to individual characteristics than structural characteristics.
B) The field of organizational behavior is independent of the concepts and theories from other fields of inquiry.
C) Organizational behavior emerged as a distinct field late in the 1990s.
D) Given the specific utility of the field, OB is useful for the managers in the organizations and not the employees.
E) Organizational behavior scholars study what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations.