Your Roommate, Allison Albright, Is a Non-Business Major

Multiple Choice

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, answer the following questions to help Allison obtain knowledge of organizational behavior.
-Allison thinks that organization is the same as an organism. However, in the field of organizational behavior, organizations are best described as

A) legal entities that must abide by government regulations and pay taxes.
B) physical structures with observable capital equipment.
C) social entities with a publicly stated set of formal goals.
D) groups of people who work interdependently towards some purpose.
E) any social entity with profit-centered motives and objectives.