University of the Cumberlands Organizational Behaviour Discussion

QUESTION 1

1. Research findings show that women are less likely to have employment turnover than men.

   True False

QUESTION 2

1. Employee performance is not influenced by age, gender, race, ethnicity, and ability.

   True False

QUESTION 3

1. Overall abilities are essentially made up of two sets of factors: intellectual and psychological.

   True False

QUESTION 4

1. Whites have higher turnover rates than African Americans and Hispanics.

   True False

QUESTION 5

1. 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.

   True False

QUESTION 6

1. At the group level, processes can include all but which of the following?

   		conflict
   		power
   		politics
   		motivation
   		communication

QUESTION 7

1. Which of the following is not a topic or concern related to OB?

   		leader behavior
   		productivity
   		turnover
   		management
   		family behavior

QUESTION 8

1. ________ influences employees’ behavior so strongly that organizations have started employing specific employees to preserve the status quo of the company.

   		Politics
   		Human resources
   		Social media
   		Socioeconomic environment
   		Organizational culture

QUESTION 9

1. The subject of organizational culture has been most influenced by which behavioral science discipline?

   		anthropology
   		psychology
   		social psychology
   		corporate strategy
   		political science

QUESTION 10

1. At the individual level, processes can include all but which of the following?

   		perception
   		decision making
   		motivation
   		leadership
   		emotions and moods

QUESTION 11

1. Which of the following statements is not an accurate representation of statistical findings showing the relationship between women employees and absence and turnover rates?

   		Men are increasingly sharing responsibility for child care.
   		Women are more likely to turn over than men.
   		Women have lower rates of absenteeism than men do.
   		An increasing number of men report feeling a conflict between their home responsibilities and their work lives.
   		Mothers were rated especially low in competence.

QUESTION 12

1. Alton, a mid-level manager for Knockaround Clothing in charge of monthly inventory, often participates in quarterly meetings of the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Alton’s supervisors’ allowing him flex time to attend these meetings embraces Alton’s ________.

   		abilities
   		ethnicity
   		tenure
   		cultural identity
   		religion

QUESTION 13

1. Diane and Clarke are two employees in an organization who recently started working together. Diane is an older, long-tenured woman raised in rural Kansas, who achieved her current level in the organization by starting as a high school graduate and working her way up the hierarchy. Clarke is a young, recently hired male college graduate with a business degree, raised in a Spanish-speaking neighborhood in Miami. However, both are deeply committed to their families, share a common way of thinking about important work problems, like to work collaboratively, and are interested in international assignments in the future. Which of the following describes the diversity between these two?

   		deep-level diversity
   		hierarchical-level diversity
   		lateral-level diversity
   		individual-level diversity
   		surface-level diversity

QUESTION 14

1. ________ blends concepts from psychology and sociology and focuses on the influence people have on one another.

   		Archaeology
   		Political science
   		Social psychology
   		Corporate strategy
   		Anthropology

QUESTION 15

1. Aria can calculate and juggle numbers in her head. Which of the following dimensions of intellectual ability does her skill reflect?

   		spatial visualization
   		deductive reasoning
   		inductive reasoning
   		number aptitude
   		perceptual speed

QUESTION 16

1. Holly needs to assign a very important advertising account to one of her writers. First she reviewed each writer’s work load, then she studied the sales data of the products for the last three campaigns of each writer, then she reviewed each writer’s annual review to familiarize herself with their goals. Finally, she gave the account to Paula, a very creative, efficient, writer who has had high sales results with her last three clients’ products. Janet’s management style is based on ________.

   		intuition or “gut feeling”
   		organizational behavioral studies
   		preconceived notions
   		systematic study
   		subjective assessments

QUESTION 17

1. Basing managerial decisions on the best available scientific support is called ________.

   		organizational process
   		organizational behavior
   		evidence-based management
   		conceptual management
   		intuition

QUESTION 18

1. ________ is the ability to direct the simultaneous actions of different parts of the body.

   		Body coordination
   		Balance
   		Dynamic flexibility
   		Extent flexibility
   		Stamina

QUESTION 19

1. While initial meetings may depend on surface-level diversity in making attempts to understand other individuals, studies show that after time ________ and ________ become more important to understanding the other individual.

   		gender; age
   		stereotypes; assumptions
   		values; personality
   		age; wisdom
   		assumptions; judgments

QUESTION 20

1. Which of the following is not a part of the nine basic physical abilities identified by research to be needed in the performance of physical tasks?

   		stamina
   		balance
   		perceptual speed
   		extent flexibility
   		dynamic strength