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

Exercise 92

Scenario: Chris and the Anchors of OB
Your roommate, Chris Copperfield, is a non-business major. When he discovered that you are taking a course in Organizational Behavior, he was thoroughly confused as to why one would need to study OB and what it entails. You are trying to explain to Chris the basic conceptual anchors that guide the thinking about organizations and how to study them. He asks you some clarification questions.
Which of these statements is consistent with the four anchors of organizational behavior?
A) Organizational behavior theories must apply universally to every situation.
B) Organizations are like machines that operate independently of their external environment.
C) Each OB topic relates to only one level of analysis.
D) The field of organizational behavior relies on other disciplines for some of its theory development.
E) The organization is not similar to a system that processes inputs to provide outputs.