BU288 OB MIDTERM 1 PRACTICE SOLUTION
2026 SOLVED ITEMS CONFIRMED A+
◉ What is Organizational Behaviour (OB)? Answer: The attitudes
and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations
◉ What is Human Resources Management (HRM)? Answer:
Programs, practices, and systems to acquire, develop, motivate, and
retain employees in organizations
◉ Why study OB? Answer: 1. OB is interesting: about people and
human nature, helps us understand why employees become
committed to an organization and what motivates them to work
hard
2. OB is important: what happens in organizations often has a
profound impact on people (beyond organizations' walls)
3. OB makes a difference: sustained competitive advantage and
organizational effectiveness closely related to the management of
human capital and OB
◉ What is human capital? Answer: The knowledge, skills, and
abilities (KSAs) embodied in an organization's employees
,◉ What is social capital? Answer: Social resources that individuals
obtain from participation in a social structure
◉ Describe the goals of OB? Answer: 1. Predicting OB: through
systematic study, OB provides a scientific foundation that helps
improve predictions of organizational events
2. Explaining OB: explaining organizational events, why do they
occur? determining why people are more or less engaged, motivated,
satisfied, or prone to resign
3. Managing OB: managers acquire, allocate, and utilize physical and
Human Resources to accomplish goals
◉ What is management? Answer: The art of getting things
accomplished in organizations through others
◉ What is Evidence-based management (EBM)? Answer: Translating
principles based on the best scientific evidence into organizational
practices
◉ What is the Classical Viewpoint of management? Answer: An early
prescription on management that advocated a high specialization of
labour, intensive coordination, and centralized decision making
, ◉ What is the Human Relations Movement? Answer: A critique of
classical management and bureaucracy that advocated management
styles that were more participative and oriented toward employee
needs
◉ What is Scientific Management? Answer: Frederick Taylor's
system for using research to determine the optimum degree of
specialization and standardization of work taste
◉ What is a Bureaucracy? Answer: Max Weber's ideal type of
organization that included a strict chain of command, detailed rules,
high specialization, centralized power, and selection and promotion
based on technical competence
◉ What are the Hawthorne Studies? Answer: Research conducted in
the 1920-30s at the Hawthorne plant of Western Electric, near
Chicago, that illustrated how psychological and social processes
affect productivity and work adjustment
◉ What is the Contingency Approach to management? Answer: An
approach to management that recognizes that there is no one best
way to manage and that an appropriate management style depends
on the demands of the situation
2026 SOLVED ITEMS CONFIRMED A+
◉ What is Organizational Behaviour (OB)? Answer: The attitudes
and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations
◉ What is Human Resources Management (HRM)? Answer:
Programs, practices, and systems to acquire, develop, motivate, and
retain employees in organizations
◉ Why study OB? Answer: 1. OB is interesting: about people and
human nature, helps us understand why employees become
committed to an organization and what motivates them to work
hard
2. OB is important: what happens in organizations often has a
profound impact on people (beyond organizations' walls)
3. OB makes a difference: sustained competitive advantage and
organizational effectiveness closely related to the management of
human capital and OB
◉ What is human capital? Answer: The knowledge, skills, and
abilities (KSAs) embodied in an organization's employees
,◉ What is social capital? Answer: Social resources that individuals
obtain from participation in a social structure
◉ Describe the goals of OB? Answer: 1. Predicting OB: through
systematic study, OB provides a scientific foundation that helps
improve predictions of organizational events
2. Explaining OB: explaining organizational events, why do they
occur? determining why people are more or less engaged, motivated,
satisfied, or prone to resign
3. Managing OB: managers acquire, allocate, and utilize physical and
Human Resources to accomplish goals
◉ What is management? Answer: The art of getting things
accomplished in organizations through others
◉ What is Evidence-based management (EBM)? Answer: Translating
principles based on the best scientific evidence into organizational
practices
◉ What is the Classical Viewpoint of management? Answer: An early
prescription on management that advocated a high specialization of
labour, intensive coordination, and centralized decision making
, ◉ What is the Human Relations Movement? Answer: A critique of
classical management and bureaucracy that advocated management
styles that were more participative and oriented toward employee
needs
◉ What is Scientific Management? Answer: Frederick Taylor's
system for using research to determine the optimum degree of
specialization and standardization of work taste
◉ What is a Bureaucracy? Answer: Max Weber's ideal type of
organization that included a strict chain of command, detailed rules,
high specialization, centralized power, and selection and promotion
based on technical competence
◉ What are the Hawthorne Studies? Answer: Research conducted in
the 1920-30s at the Hawthorne plant of Western Electric, near
Chicago, that illustrated how psychological and social processes
affect productivity and work adjustment
◉ What is the Contingency Approach to management? Answer: An
approach to management that recognizes that there is no one best
way to manage and that an appropriate management style depends
on the demands of the situation
