Question 1

What psychology is to the group, sociology is to the individual.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

There is a connection between companies which have ________ and the incorporation of organizational behavior principles.

Accepted Answer

A)  high turnover rates 
B)  specialized technical processes 
C)  superior financial performance 
D)  long-lasting CEO's 
E)  all of the above

Question 3

In good economic conditions, understanding how to reward, satisfy, and retain employees is at a premium, however, in bad times, issues like stress, decision making, and coping come to the fore.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Which of the following factors makes it imperative that organizations be fast and flexible?

Accepted Answer

A)  workforce diversity 
B)  corporate excess 
C)  truncated capacity 
D)  advances in corporate strategy 
E)  globalization

Question 5

There's an increasing blurring between the work and nonwork time.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Austin is a graduate student helping to organize a study on individual job satisfaction. The study focuses on the top five causes of satisfaction or dissatisfaction on a job. His department is surveying 200 individuals in 100 different types of organizations. Austin is most likely a graduate student in the department of ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  psychology 
B)  anthropology 
C)  political science 
D)  social psychology 
E)  archaeology

Question 7

Social psychology is an area within psychology, blending concepts from both psychology and socialism.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

The difference between good and bad management can be the difference between ________ and ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  profit; loss 
B)  employment; success 
C)  development; deterioration 
D)  collaboration; noncooperation 
E)  productivity; unproductivity

Question 9

Until the late 1980s, business school curricula emphasized the ________ aspects of management.

Accepted Answer

A)  ethical 
B)  people 
C)  technical 
D)  human 
E)  global

Question 10

Anthropology has helped us understand differences in values and attitudes between people in different countries.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Explain why there are few absolutes in organizational behavior. Despite this, how are we able to make valid predictions?

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

________ is a science that seeks to measure, explain, and sometimes change the behavior of humans and other animals.

Accepted Answer

A)  Psychiatry 
B)  Psychology 
C)  Sociology 
D)  Political science 
E)  Organizational behavior

Question 13

Raymond is completing a study on discrimination in which he has noted that saleswomen who wear skirt suits make more sales than saleswomen who only wear pant suits. However, Raymond determined that his findings only pertained to those industries in which the purchasing decision maker is traditionally masculine. For example, the sales results were the same for all women selling to medical office managers, a female dominated field. Raymond used ________ variables to more accurately explain his results.

Accepted Answer

A)  global 
B)  general 
C)  dependent 
D)  non-reactive 
E)  contingency

Question 14

Why is it important to complement intuition with systematic study in our attempts to understand behavior within organizations?

Accepted Answer

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Question 15

Over the last three decades, business school curricula has focused more on the technical aspects of management such as economics, accounting, finance, and quantitative techniques, and less on subjects related to human behavior and people skills.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Which behavioral science discipline is most focused on understanding individual behavior?

Accepted Answer

A)  sociology 
B)  social psychology 
C)  psychology 
D)  anthropology 
E)  organizational behavior

Question 17

According to Robbins and Judge, organizational behavior can be analyzed on all of the following levels except ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  outcome 
B)  group 
C)  organizational 
D)  individual 
E)  none of the above

Question 18

Employees today are ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  expressing increased confidence in management 
B)  expressing increased trust in management 
C)  increasingly certain about what constitutes appropriate ethical behavior 
D)  increasingly uncertain about what constitutes appropriate ethical behavior 
E)  less likely to engage in unethical practices

Question 19

Determining the ethically correct way to behave is especially difficult in a global economy because different cultures have different perspectives on certain ethical issues.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Situations where an individual is required to define right and wrong conduct are termed ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  diversity issues 
B)  human resource problems 
C)  ethical dilemmas 
D)  organizational complexities 
E)  social puzzles

Exam 1: What Is Organizational Behavior

What psychology is to the group, sociology is to the individual.

There is a connection between companies which have ________ and the incorporation of organizational behavior principles.

In good economic conditions, understanding how to reward, satisfy, and retain employees is at a premium, however, in bad times, issues like stress, decision making, and coping come to the fore.

Which of the following factors makes it imperative that organizations be fast and flexible?

There's an increasing blurring between the work and nonwork time.

Social psychology is an area within psychology, blending concepts from both psychology and socialism.

The difference between good and bad management can be the difference between and .

Until the late 1980s, business school curricula emphasized the ________ aspects of management.

Anthropology has helped us understand differences in values and attitudes between people in different countries.

Explain why there are few absolutes in organizational behavior. Despite this, how are we able to make valid predictions?

________ is a science that seeks to measure, explain, and sometimes change the behavior of humans and other animals.

Why is it important to complement intuition with systematic study in our attempts to understand behavior within organizations?

Over the last three decades, business school curricula has focused more on the technical aspects of management such as economics, accounting, finance, and quantitative techniques, and less on subjects related to human behavior and people skills.

Which behavioral science discipline is most focused on understanding individual behavior?

According to Robbins and Judge, organizational behavior can be analyzed on all of the following levels except ________.

Employees today are ________.

Determining the ethically correct way to behave is especially difficult in a global economy because different cultures have different perspectives on certain ethical issues.

Situations where an individual is required to define right and wrong conduct are termed ________.