Question 1

Organizational behaviour knowledge helps us influence people and organizational events.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Sociology is one of the few disciplines that has not made any contribution to organizational behaviour knowledge.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Social entities are called organizations only when their members work interdependently toward some purpose.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

An important principle in organizational behaviour is that OB theories should never be used to question or rebuild one's mental models.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Studies suggest that deep level diversity exists across generations.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Accepted Answer

A)  Canada is becoming a more homogeneous society. 
B)  Deep-level diversity includes characteristics over which we have some control. 
C)  Most Canadians believe that the government should disband multiculturalism. 
D)  Diversity offers tremendous advantages to organizations with almost no disadvantages. 
E)  Nearly one-half of all immigrants to Canada over the past decade were born in the United States.

Question 7

Work/live balance refers to minimizing conflict between work and nonwork demands.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

As organizations grow,they tend to develop more subsystems and coordination among them become more complex.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Which of the following is identified as an emerging field from which organizational behaviour is acquiring new knowledge?

Accepted Answer

A)  Industrial engineering 
B)  Information systems 
C)  Anthropology 
D)  Economics 
E)  Psychology

Question 10

Which of these statements about the field is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A)  Organizational behaviour scholars study individual, team and structural characteristics that influence behaviour within organizations. 
B)  The field of OB has adopted concepts and theories from other fields of inquiry. 
C)  Organizational behaviour emerged as a distinct field around the 1940s. 
D)  Given the specific utility of the field, OB is useful for the managers in the organizations and not the employees. 
E)  OB scholars study what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations.

Question 11

Which of the following statements about the field of organizational behaviour is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A)  OB is the study of what people think, feel and do in and around organizations. 
B)  OB emerged as a distinct field of inquiry in the 1940s. 
C)  OB is a self-contained discipline, independent of other disciplines. 
D)  OB theories are usually tested using the scientific method. 
E)  Many OB theories are contingency-oriented.

Question 12

Almost all organizational behaviour theories share an implicit or explicit objective of making organizations more effective.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT a concern expressed with respect to high performance work practices (HPWP)perspective?

Accepted Answer

A)  HPWPs increase work stress for employees. 
B)  Even when HPWPs are successful, management is reluctant to share the financial benefits with workers. 
C)  The HPWP perspective lacks theoretical understanding of why such practices improve performance. 
D)  HPWPs satisfy shareholder and customer needs at the expense of employee well-being. 
E)  The HPWP perspective fails to consider the impact of such practices on the environment and society.

Question 14

Intellectual capital represents the stock of knowledge held by an organization.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

The contingency anchor in organizational behaviour suggests that a particular action may have different consequences in different situations.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Which of these statements about globalization and organizational behaviour is TRUE?

Accepted Answer

A)  Globalization has little or no effect on organizational behaviour. 
B)  Globalization has forced organizational behaviour researchers to study only large multinational businesses. 
C)  Globalization emphasizes the need to recognize the contingencies of effective organizational behaviour practice in diverse cultures. 
D)  Globalization has forced organizational behaviour textbooks to study only companies with headquarters in North America. 
E)  Globalization has forced organizational behaviour researchers to study only large multinational businesses and forced organizational behaviour textbooks to study only companies with headquarters in North America.

Question 17

The open systems perspective emphasizes that organizations are effective when they maintain a good "fit" with their external environments.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Workforce diversity potentially improves decision making and team performance on complex tasks.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

The open systems perspective of organizational behaviour states that:

Accepted Answer

A)  organizations take their sustenance from the environment and in turn affect that environment. 
B)  organizations can operate efficiently by focussing on what they do best and ignoring changes in the external environment. 
C)  people are the only important and valued organizational input. 
D)  organizations should be viewed as machines with one working part. 
E)  All of the answers are correct.

Question 20

Values represent an individual's short term beliefs about what will happen in the future.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 1: Introduction to the Field of Organizational Behaviour

Organizational behaviour knowledge helps us influence people and organizational events.

Sociology is one of the few disciplines that has not made any contribution to organizational behaviour knowledge.

Social entities are called organizations only when their members work interdependently toward some purpose.

An important principle in organizational behaviour is that OB theories should never be used to question or rebuild one's mental models.

Studies suggest that deep level diversity exists across generations.

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Work/live balance refers to minimizing conflict between work and nonwork demands.

As organizations grow,they tend to develop more subsystems and coordination among them become more complex.

Which of the following is identified as an emerging field from which organizational behaviour is acquiring new knowledge?

Which of these statements about the field is FALSE?

Which of the following statements about the field of organizational behaviour is FALSE?

Almost all organizational behaviour theories share an implicit or explicit objective of making organizations more effective.

Which of the following is NOT a concern expressed with respect to high performance work practices (HPWP) perspective?

Intellectual capital represents the stock of knowledge held by an organization.

The contingency anchor in organizational behaviour suggests that a particular action may have different consequences in different situations.

Which of these statements about globalization and organizational behaviour is TRUE?

The open systems perspective emphasizes that organizations are effective when they maintain a good "fit" with their external environments.

Workforce diversity potentially improves decision making and team performance on complex tasks.

The open systems perspective of organizational behaviour states that:

Values represent an individual's short term beliefs about what will happen in the future.