Which of these takes all the correlations found in studies of a particular relationship and calculates a weighted average of them?

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• 1. 

  What makes a resource valuable?

  • A. 

    High dollar value

  • B. 

    Inimitable

  • C. 

    Desirability

  • D. 

    Availability

  • E. 

    All of the above

• 2. 

  ________ is a field of study devoted to understanding, explaining and improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations.

  • A. 

    Organizational Behavior

  • B. 

    Scientific Management

  • C. 

    Theory Evaluation

  • D. 

    Sociology

• 3. 

  The primary outcomes of interest to OB researchers are:

  • A. 

    Job performance and organizational commitment

  • B. 

    Organizational culture and organizational structure

  • C. 

    Team processes and team characteristics

  • D. 

    Personality and ability

  • E. 

    All of the above

• 4. 

  According to the integrative model of OB, the two types of group-level variables that impact individual-level attitudes and behaviors are:

  • A. 

    Learning and decision making

  • B. 

    Leadership and teams

  • C. 

    Job performance and organizational commitment

  • D. 

    Stress and motivation

  • E. 

    Personality and ability

• 5. 

  The integrative model of OB includes a number of individual mechanisms that directly impact job performance and organizational commitment. Those mechanisms include:

  • A. 

    Leadership styles and behavior

  • B. 

    Organizational culture and organizational structure

  • C. 

    Team processes and team characteristics

  • D. 

    Stress and motivation

  • E. 

    All of the above

• 6. 

  What Beulah feels while thinking about her job and going about her day-to-day work is captured in her:

  • A. 

    Personality

  • B. 

    Job satisfaction

  • C. 

    Leadership style

  • D. 

    Motivation

  • E. 

    All of the above

• 7. 

  Which of the following individual mechanisms captures the energetic forces that drive employees' work efforts?

  • A. 

    Job satisfaction

  • B. 

    Personality

  • C. 

    Motivation

  • D. 

    Ability

  • E. 

    Stress

• 8. 

  __________ reflects the various traits and tendencies that describe how people act, with commonly studied traits including extraversion, conscientiousness, and agreeableness.

  • A. 

    Sociology

  • B. 

    Job satisfaction

  • C. 

    Leadership

  • D. 

    Personality

  • E. 

    Organizational Structure

• 9. 

  Which of the following mechanisms caputres shared knowledge about the rules, norms, and values that shape employee attutdes and behaviors?

  • A. 

    Organizational structure

  • B. 

    Organizational ability

  • C. 

    Organizational culture

  • D. 

    Job performance

  • E. 

    Organizational leadership

• 10. 

  According to a study focused on Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work for" list, the results revealed:

  • A. 

    The 100 best firms were more profitable than their peers

  • B. 

    The 100 best firms were less profitable than their peers

  • C. 

    There was no difference in profitability between 100 best and their peers

  • D. 

    The 100 best firms actually had a 19% higher turnover rate than their peers

  • E. 

    The best 100 firms lost market value by more than 50% after getting on the list due to heavy expenditure related to value placed on OB

• 11. 

  ____________ summarize the statistical relationships between variables.

  • A. 

    Data

  • B. 

    Correlations

  • C. 

    Observations

  • D. 

    Collections

  • E. 

    Methods of knowing

• 12. 

  Which of the following takes all the correlations found in studies of a particular relationship and calculates a weighted average of them?

  • A. 

    Human resource management

  • B. 

    Resource-based view

  • C. 

    Meta-analysis

  • D. 

    Strategic management

  • E. 

    Method of intuition

• 13. 

  Which of the following is NOT a part of the Scientific Method?

  • A. 

    Theory

  • B. 

    Data

  • C. 

    Hypothesis

  • D. 

    Verification

  • E. 

    They are all a part of the Scientific Method

• 14. 

  __________ is a collection of assertions, both verbal and symbolic, that specify how and why variables are related.

  • A. 

    Theory

  • B. 

    Hypothesis

  • C. 

    Correlation

  • D. 

    Meta-analysis

• 15. 

  ___________ describes the statistical relationship between 2 variables and can be positive or negative and range from 0 to + or - 1.

  • A. 

    Meta-analysis

  • B. 

    Method of Science

  • C. 

    Correlation

  • D. 

    Scientific data

• 16. 

  In OB research, a .50 ____________ is considered _____________

  • A. 

    Affiliation, moderate

  • B. 

    Success rate, weak

  • C. 

    Correlation, strong

  • D. 

    Result, desirable

• 17. 

  __________________ takes all of the correlations found in studies of a particular relationship and calculates a weighted average.

  • A. 

    Correlation

  • B. 

    Job analysis

  • C. 

    Scientific research

  • D. 

    Meta-analysis

• 18. 

  The effective management of organizational behavior can help a company become more profitable because:

  • A. 

    It helps to tailor jobs to better suit your employees.

  • B. 

    The utilization of resources is essential to profitability.

  • C. 

    Poorly managed companies will not survive in the long run.

  • D. 

    Good people are a valuable resource.

• 19. 

  The two primary outcomes of organizational behavior are:

  • A. 

    Organizational culture and job satisfaction

  • B. 

    Job performance and organizational commitment

  • C. 

    Job satisfaction and job performance

  • D. 

    Organizational commitment and organizational culture

• 20. 

  With Method of ________, people hold firmly to some belief because it "just stands to reason".

  • A. 

    Intuition

  • B. 

    Science

  • C. 

    Authority

  • D. 

    Experience

  • E. 

    None of the above

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• Sample Question

  _____ is the view the individual has of himself or herself as a physical, social, and spiritual or moral being.
  

  Self-concept

  

  Self-efficacy

  

  Organization-based self-esteem

  

  Cognition

  

  Personality

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• Sample Question

  The ________ theory argues that job satisfaction depends on whether an employee percieves that his/her job supplies the things that he/she values.
  

  Job characteristics

  

  Social information processing

  

  Value-percept

  

  Cornell integrative model

  

  Two-factor

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• Sample Question

  The value of the set of employee behaviors that contribute either positively or negatively to organizational goal accomplishment is known as:
  

  Job commitment

  

  Motivation

  

  Job satisfaction

  

  Job performance

  

  Organizational commitment

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