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Organizational behavior final exam

Total questions: 59

Worksheet time: 39mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which contemporary leadership theory is described- Honest and straight forward takes responsibility for actions and is concerned for the greater job. When he makes decisions he thinks about what is right and wrong, moral and immoral, He sets ethical example and attemps to change employees

a)

Servant Leadership

b)

charismatic leadership

c)

authentic leadership

d)

ethical leadership

e)

transactional leadership

2.

Which leadership theory do the following assumption belong to ? We need to change the situation to fit a leader. It is crucial to seect a leader to fit the situation.

a)

Transactional leadership theory

b)

Leader member exchange theory

c)

Fledler's contingency theory

d)

Cognitive resource theory

e)

Charismatic leadership theory

3.

Of all disciplines that contribute to the understanding of OB, which has helped us understand emotions, perception and learning?

a)

Anthropology

b)

Psychology

c)

Communication studies

d)

social psychology

e)

sociology

4.

Luthans and his collegues studied how managers allocate their time to be efficient

a)

There is no significant difference in how effective and successful managers spend the time

b)

Authors fin that networking is the most important activity for effective managers as they spend 18 hours per week.

c)

Successful managers spend almost half of their working time socialising and interacting with ppl.

5.

Alex an employee in a company, works as a member of sales team .During the time he has served on this team, he has consistently invested less time and effort in the work, than he would if he had to work individually . Although he does not say it outloud , he expects his co-workers to do some of hes work.

(a)  

6.

Amanager holds high expectations of his employee, which reflects to his behavior toward employee. As a result the employee's behaviour becomes consistent with managers expectations and he improves performance.How do we call this phenomenon?

a)

Fundamental attribution error

b)

Halo effect

c)

Self-serving bias

d)

Pygmalion effect

7.

In her discussion with Peers during breaks at Uni , Mandy frequetly mentions that " wheather she passes or fail the exam depends on her prfessors mmood at teh time she is peparing for exaam.

a)

Basic locus of control

b)

Personal locus of control

c)

Machiavellianism

d)

external locus of control

8.

Which of the following statements does not belong to BUZANS finding on radiant thinking and learing?

a)

Leading others means helping them create mental association

b)

Learning consists of creating mental associaion

c)

Forgeting does not exeists, what is going on in the brain is process of deleting association

d)

One is engaged in the process of learnin through their entire lifetime

e)

An individuals brain is designed genetically

9.

Which statement about MARS model of individual performance is false?

a)

MARS model includes maturity-immaturity dimensions as one if its elemtns

b)

MARS model includes ability as one of its elements

c)

MARS model is different is different from oter models because it includes perceptions as one of its elements

d)

MARS model includes motivation

10.

Which value theory describes self enhancement and oppeness to change value?

a)

Mintzberg value theory

b)

Rokeach value theory(preferences& means)

c)

BiG 5 theory(concentnes, agreeableness, extravereion, emotional stability)

d)

Schwartz value theory( oppenes to change, self-enhancement, conservation,selftrans)

11.

Which of the following erms describes the process whereby associates must display organizationally desired emotions?

a)

Emotional intellegence

b)

compassion

c)

emotional labor

d)

Emotional contagion

12.

Which conflict-handling strategy is characterized by complete focus on other party needs and very little focus or preoccupation with own needs, wants and desired outcomes?

a)

Acoomodating

b)

collaborating

c)

compromising

d)

competing

13.

According to Jefry Pfeffer ther are seven personal qualities that bring power to an individual. Which of the qualities listed below belong the "Will" domension

a)

Energy, ambition, focus

b)

Focus, empathy, self-knowledge

c)

Ambition, confidence, focus

d)

focus, self-knowledege, confidence

14.

How do virtual teams differ from ordinary teams?

a)

Virtual temas which are heterogenous are better at finding creative solutions than homogenous ones

b)

Conflicts are less frequent in virtual teams

c)

Due to social distance among members, mistrust/distrust can occur in virtual temas

d)

Virtual teams use technology for information and communication

15.

A student of OB HAS ATTENDED A lectuer devoted to the topic of stress. The lecturer briefly talked about mindfulness and then proceed to othere subjects. After a few weeks , the student came to the lecterurs office to inquire more about practice of mindfulness. The lecturer offered additional lectures and aqffter the student read carefully they had an hour disscussion about the practical implication.

a)

Job/Study crafting

b)

Meaningful work motivation

c)

Achivement motivation

d)

the experience of flow

16.

Which of the concept is demonstrated in the employees functioning in the ex: This employee tends to avoid challenges and is not excited about new things at work. If tasks become to challenge and the employee doesnt feel smart enough to tackle it , he loses interest at work. He gets motivated by things he can do correctly.

(a)  

17.

Which motivation theory proposes that individuals compare their jobs input and output with those of others and then respond to eliminate the inequities?

(a)  

18.

Which type of group interdpendence requires the highest level of coordination, communication and cooperation among members as they progres towards reaching a goal?

a)

Sequental interedependence

b)

Role interedependence

c)

Pooled interedependence

d)

Comprehensive interedependence

e)

Goal interedependence

19.

Kouzes and Porter conducted studies abut admired leadership characteristics. Which of the chracteristics was the first place every time they did the study?

(a)  

20.

Which dimension of commitment refers to an employee's obligation to remain with the organisation for moral or ethical reasons?

a)

Attitudinal

b)

Affective

c)

Continuance

d)

Normative

21.

Which statement about the job characteristics model (Hackman/Oldham) is false?

a)

Five job characteristics are core of the proposed model( Skill variety, task significance, autonomy, feedback, task identity

b)

This job model proposes that employees themself are allowed to actively create their job in sich a way that would be motivated and highly productive

c)

Through three critical psychological states

d)

this model proposes that autonomy feedback and skill variety are among the fundamental drives of individual motivcation at work

22.

Self-awarness, sef-management, social-awarness, and relationship management are four dimensions of well known concept

(a)  

23.

Which concept refers to an individuals capacity to perform various tasks at work?

(a)  

24.

Work-family concept , employer/parent concept are examples of ?

(a)  

25.

When discussing the topics of ethics, we presented the practical case of ford pinto, the strategic orientations of the company and process of decision-making related to repairing vehicles. Which concept about ethical aspect of decision making is here ?

(a)  

26.

Which of the terms below represents the belief that no cultures ethics are better than anothers and there are no internationally acceptable standarts of right and wrong ?

(a)  

27.

What does the specific litereature call psychological progress, where an individualm actively notices new things. It is about focused attention to the hings that are currently occuring inside and around the individual.

(a)  

28.

Which of OB anchors reflects OB theory about recognition that the effects of actions/behaviours often vary with the situation?

(a)  

29.

Which attiude does the following definition refer to ? Identifying with a particular organization and its goal and wishing to maintain membership in this organization.

(a)  

30.

Being assertive is you express your self efficiently and stad up for your point of view while also respecting others.

TRUE/FALSE

(a)  

31.

Which are dimensions of the Big 5 model of personality ?

-extraversion, openess to experience

(a)  

32.

Sasha works in an RD departmet. Most tasks at his job require individual work. But sasha is a people person. A few years ago a group ofstudents came in internship and when they came to the company, sasha was proactive and dedicated to show them around. Soon this has become a common practice and today new students hires are refered to him .Although this is not required task to his job , Sasha does not mind. Which of the concepts represents sashas proactively co-creating his job experience and his results higher

(a)  

33.

An employee called Andi works in retail and has been with the company for 5 years. He is responsible, always does what is required of him and is a genuinely nice person to be around. How could yoou make his working process on his job more efficeint. Which of the job chaacteristics would you increase in his job post in oder to give him more control?

(a)  

34.

A team of students are prepearing a group project for one of the course. At the first meeting they decided that each member is going to be in charge for one chapter in project and work on in autonomously.When all of them did finished they submitted the assignment without any further consultation in the team .Which type of interdependence ?

(a)  

35.

A work group generates positively energy while a work team does not

a)

true

b)

false

36.

One of the criticsims of maslows motivation theory is that it lacks development specificity

a)

True

b)

False

37.

University of Ohio and university of Michingan have both studied leadership behaviour and have independently come to very similar conclusions

a)

True

b)

False

38.

In their longitudial research Kouzes/Posner found that INTELLEGENCE is the one chaacteristic that people admire in leaders.

a)

True

b)

False

39.

Moods are caused by specific events and are generally not indicated by dinstict expressions.

a)

false

b)

true

40.

Hindrance stressors are stressful demands and are perceived as opportunities for learning growth and achivement.

a)

false

b)

true

41.

A highly relevant skill that we practised in class is assertive commuication. During our lecture on communication we learned that actively listening to what the partner has to say, and showing him that we understand them is an important part of assertive communication.

a)

true

b)

false

42.

Narcissts personalities are characterized in terms of being arrogant, entitled, in need of excessive admiration

a)

true

b)

false

43.

OB as a sciwntific discipline studies and interprets human behavior in the basis of common sense and intuiution

a)

True

b)

false

44.

The philosophy of motivation in the company Netflix and its culture is build around the principle of " freedo and purpouse"

a)

true

b)

false

45.

Research has demonstrated that emotions are essential element for rational decision-making

a)

true

b)

false

46.

VIA questionaire is used for meassuring ethical structure of a company.

a)

true

b)

false

47.

Reciprocity is one of the persuasion rules proposed by cialdini

a)

true

b)

false

48.

Among the activities that belong to the second quadrant of Covey's urgent-important matrix for students are activities related to personal development and health .

a)

true

b)

false

49.

Conscientiousness has a significant negative impact on social loafing.

a)

true

b)

false

50.

Values are relatively unstable concept, they tend to change quickly

a)

True

b)

false

51.

One of the competence related biases confirmed in different studies is that the poorest performes are least aware of their own incompetence(dan and kruger)

a)

true

b)

fasle

52.

The three factors of shape personality are heredity,environment, situation

a)

true

b)

false

53.

In the storming phase of group development, members typically engage in different conflicts about task they are supposed to perform and roles they are supposed to assume in the group

a)

true

b)

false

54.

According to happines pie about 50% of our happines represents our genetic setpoint

a)

true

b)

false

55.

Work on a task in order to gain knowledge is an example of intristict motivation

a)

true

b)

false

56.

Stressor is a event or person that triggers a stress response

a)

true

b)

false

57.

Which of leadership theories emphasizes that such leader have a vision and are able to clarify the importance of their vision to followers, they behave in unconventional way and are willing to take hugh personal responsibilities to achive the vision

a)

charismatic leadership theory

b)

Machiavellism

58.

po a

a)

a

b)

b

c)

s

d)

s

59.

Organizationally desired emotions

(a)