Worksheets07: Positive Organizational Behavior
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 17mins
What is positive deviance?
Performance below the norm in a negative direction.
Average performance that meets the norm.
Successful performance that dramatically exceeds the norm in a positive direction.
Unsuccessful performance that fails to meet the norm.
Which of the following is NOT associated with positive deviance?
Higher overall job performance.
Less burnout.
Increased commitment.
More sick days.
What is a benefit of positive deviance in the workplace?
Lower job satisfaction.
Higher overall job performance.
More burnout.
Decreased commitment.
What do positive emotions help to build?
Negative emotions
Financial resources
Social, psychological, and physical resources
Limitations
What is one of the effects of negative emotions?
They broaden your mindset
They fuel organizational success
They spur you to act in narrow or specific ways
They build social resources
How do positive emotions affect your mindset?
They limit your mindset
They close you off to new things
They narrow your perspective
They broaden your mindset, opening you to consider new things
Decision making is an aspect of work life that can be improved by having:
Negative emotions
Neutral emotions
Positive emotions
No emotions
What is one of the effects of positive emotions on an employee's work intentions?
Increased intentions to quit
Decreased intentions to quit
No change in intentions to quit
Intentions to arrive late
How do positive emotions affect stress in the workplace?
Increase stress
Have no effect on stress
Decrease stress
Redirect stress to personal life
What is necessary to offset one negative experience?
A single positive experience
Multiple negative experiences
Multiple positive experiences
No experience at all
Which of the following is NOT listed as a strategy to increase positivity?
Create high-quality connections.
Cultivate kindness.
Develop distractions.
Increase daily challenges.
What is mindlessness characterized by?
Enhanced attention to detail
Ability to control emotions effectively
State of reduced attention expressed in rigid or thoughtless behavior
Associated with excellent mental and physical health
Mindlessness requires what level of information processing?
Extensive and detailed
Moderate and reflective
Minimal
No information processing is required
What is mindlessness often associated with?
Improved mental and physical health
Poor mental and physical health
Increased emotional intelligence
Mindfulness and awareness
How is the behavior in mindlessness typically expressed?
Deliberate and intentional
Automatic
Carefully planned
Spontaneously joyful
What is mindfulness?
Focusing on the past and future events
Judging experiences as they occur
The awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose
Effortless perception of experiences
Mindfulness requires which of the following?
Distraction from the present moment
Attentional balance
Ignoring interpersonal communication
Effortless thinking
How does mindfulness relate to the unfolding of experience?
It is judgmental and critical of moment-by-moment experiences
It is nonjudgmental to the unfolding of experience moment by moment
It is focused on past experiences only
It requires one to be distracted by moment-by-moment experiences
What is one of the benefits of mindfulness?
Decreases interpersonal communication
Requires no effort
Improves interpersonal communication
Focuses on negative aspects of experiences
Which of the following is a benefit of mindfulness?
Attentional deficit
Attentional hyperactivity
Increased physical, mental, and interpersonal effectiveness
Inability to focus
What emotional effect is associated with mindfulness?
Decreased emotional balance
Attentional hyperactivity
More balanced emotions
Compulsive fantasizing
Which of the following is NOT a component of Positive Psychological Capital (PsyCap)?
Hope
Efficacy
Resilience
Anxiety
What does Waypower refer to in the context of the Two Components of Hope?
The ability to control one's impulses and actions.
Means for achieving the goal.
The strength to overcome challenges.
The capacity to inspire others.
What does Willpower signify in the Two Components of Hope?
The ability to wait patiently for results.
The need for continuous effort without giving up.
Having a goal and the determination to achieve it.
The capacity to plan for long-term objectives.
High levels of efficacy can lead to what kind of attitude?
Indifference and neutrality
Confusion and uncertainty
Being more confident and positive
Increased anxiety and stress
What is resilience?
The ability to remain unchanged in the face of adversity
The capacity to consistently bounce back from adversity and sustain oneself in the face of challenges
A tendency to give up when faced with difficulties
The skill to control external events and outcomes
How do optimists view successes?
As due to external, permanent, and pervasive causes
As due to personal, temporary, and situation-specific causes
As due to personal, permanent, and pervasive causes
As random occurrences without specific causes
The Garden Gnome Company is trying to counteract a negative situation that occurred last year by creating a positive influence. Garden Gnome is hoping to create:
positive deviance.
a neutralizing influence.
an amplifying effect.
a buffering effect.
corporate social responsibility.
Stanley would like to increase his positivity. The LEAST effective action would be:
establish social connections with co-workers, family, etc.
fake happiness.
go for a run when he feels negativity coming on.
use self-talk to stop negative thoughts.
volunteer to help a friend who is in a difficult situation.
Which of the following about mindfulness is FALSE?
Mindfulness requires a person to be present in the moment.
Mindfulness decreases the effectiveness of interpersonal communications.
Attentional deficit inhibits mindfulness.
Mindfulness can be practiced.
Mindfulness enhances a person’s ability to develop and sustain relationships.
To have hope, one needs to have:
efficacy.
resilience.
mindfulness.
a goal and a means for achieving the goal.
optimism.
Which of the following is NOT a component of flourishing?
Positive emotions.
Relationships.
Achievement.
Policies and practices.
Engagement.
The Positive Proton Company has a policy of using a panel of managers and various employees to resolve conflicts that arise. What organizational value does this represent?
Restorative justice.
Greater good.
Temperance.
Integrity.
Compassion.
Pete and Dana are working on a project together. They disagree on how to present the key concept of equality. Dana complains that Pete is dismissing her “feminist” position without consideration. Pete claims that Dana considers him a chauvinist. Wyatt, their supervisor, knows that both Pete and Dana are committed employees who support equality. He sits both of them down to work through the issues. This reflects ________ justice.
restorative
distributive
procedural
interactional
interpersonal
