Which one of the following choices is not one of the three levels of analysis in organizational behavior?
Individual level
Group level
Suppliers
None of the above
During employment interviews, who should control impression management?
Employment recruiters
Job candidates
Both employment recruiters and job applicants
The form of learning in which people associate the consequences of their actions with the actions themselves is referred to as:
Cross-cultural training
Operant conditioning
Observational learning
Which one of the following choices is not one of the four major principles of effective training?
Testing
Participation
Repetition
Which one of the following is not one of the steps associated with organizational behavior management?
Pinpoint desired behavior
Define a criterion standard
Reward inappropriate behaviors
If a recruiter chooses to hire a person because she attended the same university he did, he has given into:
Stereotype
Similar-to-me effect
Halo effect
Which one of the following is not an “impression management technique”?
Self-promotion
Excuses
Avoiding obstacles
Fredrick W. Taylor is considered to be the father of which one of the following movements?
Contingency approach
Scientific management
The human relations movement
None of the above
Weber’s concept of bureaucracy is a good example of which one of the following:
Contingency approach
Scientific management
Classical organizational theory
None of the above
Which one of the following believed that if employees were carefully selected and trained, they would maximize their performance?
Weber.
Taylor.
Hawthorne.
None of the above.
Which one of the following approaches rejects the idea of any single, most-effective approach to managing behavior in an organization?
Contingency approach
Human relations movement
Classical organization movement
None of the above
Which one of the following assumptions of contemporary organization is wrong?
Organizations can be made more productive while improving the quality of people’s work life.
There is one best approach to studying behavior in organizations.
Organizations are dynamic and ever-changing.
None of the above.
The following definition describes which one of the terms listed below: “The process of combining, integrating, and interpreting information about others to gain an accurate understanding of them.”
Perception.
Selective perception.
Social perception.
Correspondent inferences.
The following definition describes which one of the terms listed below? “Judgments about people’s dispositions, traits, and characteristics that correspond to what we have observed of their actions.”?
Correspondent inferences
External causes of behavior
Attribution
Halo effect
If a recruiter chooses not to hire a former football player because he believes football players are not very intelligent, he is exhibiting which one of the following types of perceptual bias?
Similar-to-me effect
Stereotype
Selective perception
Social perception
Which impression management technique does the following statement describe: “Making statements that flatter, praise, or compliment the target.”?
Other enhancement
Justifications
Personal stories
Which impression management technique does the following statement describe: “Describing event that make oneself look good.”?
Opinion of conformity
Personal stories
Excuses
The perceptual theory that is used to explain whether an individual’s actions are internally or externally motivated is called:
Bounded rationality.
Attribution theory.
Contrast projection.
Selective perception.
The mental shortcut that we sometimes use in making judgments about others based on what we know about the group we believe they belong to, is called:
Projectionional behaviour
Contrasting.
Selective perception.
Stereotyping.
The rational decision-making model is based on a number of assumptions, such as:
That the decision criteria and alternatives can be weighted and ranked.
The decision-maker has either an analytical or behavioural decision style.
There are several plausible alternatives, and good arguments can be made for each.
The facts regarding the decisions are limited.