MGMT 3123 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
What is Organizational Behavior? - ANSWER OB is understanding and managing people
in the workplace.
What disciplines influence organizational behavior?
-Social psychology
-Cognitive psychology
-I/O psychology
-Economics
-Sociology
-Statistics
-Political science
Personal attributes - ANSWER Attitude
Personality
Teamwork
Leadership
Interpersonal skills - ANSWER Active listening
Positive attitudes
Effective communication
,What criteria determine which applicant is hired? - ANSWER Technical skills
-Nuts and bolts of doing a job
Ability to get the job done
-Based on job or function specific knowledge
What criteria determine which employee is promoted? - ANSWER Ability to manage
people
Strong team skills
Ability to build and manage relationships
Common sense can lead you astray because it is based on ________ - ANSWER experience
or logic
-Overreliance on hindsight
-Lack of rigor
-Lack of objectivity
Objective data - ANSWER measure what is actually present (i.e., there is no
interpretation)
subjective data - ANSWER measures that require some individual judgment
, Freqency - ANSWER how often numbers are present
Can display in a number of ways
-Simple Count
-Table
-Histogram
mean - ANSWER average
median - ANSWER middle score (when placed in order lowest to highest)
mode - ANSWER most often occurring score
range - ANSWER distance between highest and lowest score
(Range = High score - Low score)
standard deviation - ANSWER average distance from the mean
correlation (r) - ANSWER Degree of relationship between two variables
Used for prediction
Cannot be used to infer causation
Range from -1 to +1
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
What is Organizational Behavior? - ANSWER OB is understanding and managing people
in the workplace.
What disciplines influence organizational behavior?
-Social psychology
-Cognitive psychology
-I/O psychology
-Economics
-Sociology
-Statistics
-Political science
Personal attributes - ANSWER Attitude
Personality
Teamwork
Leadership
Interpersonal skills - ANSWER Active listening
Positive attitudes
Effective communication
,What criteria determine which applicant is hired? - ANSWER Technical skills
-Nuts and bolts of doing a job
Ability to get the job done
-Based on job or function specific knowledge
What criteria determine which employee is promoted? - ANSWER Ability to manage
people
Strong team skills
Ability to build and manage relationships
Common sense can lead you astray because it is based on ________ - ANSWER experience
or logic
-Overreliance on hindsight
-Lack of rigor
-Lack of objectivity
Objective data - ANSWER measure what is actually present (i.e., there is no
interpretation)
subjective data - ANSWER measures that require some individual judgment
, Freqency - ANSWER how often numbers are present
Can display in a number of ways
-Simple Count
-Table
-Histogram
mean - ANSWER average
median - ANSWER middle score (when placed in order lowest to highest)
mode - ANSWER most often occurring score
range - ANSWER distance between highest and lowest score
(Range = High score - Low score)
standard deviation - ANSWER average distance from the mean
correlation (r) - ANSWER Degree of relationship between two variables
Used for prediction
Cannot be used to infer causation
Range from -1 to +1
