MBA 630 Exam 1 Complete Questions And Answers Fully Solved

Accounting is one of the five behavioral sciences that has strong links to organizational behavior. - correct answers FALSE When Mary motivates her team with a new reward system, she is engaging in the management function of organizing. - correct answers FALSE (leading) One might consider coworkers to be internal clients. - correct answers TRUE In the labor market in the United States, there are few unfilled positions for skilled laborers. - correct answers FALSE A strategic organizational behavior approach is closely related to human capital. - correct answers TRUE Organizational behavior has looked outside the of the business school and uses concepts from many other behavioral sciences. - correct answers TRUE (psychology, sociology, social psychology, political science, anthropology) An example of human capital rareness is an employee who has skill in dealing with customer complaints and can resolve problems. - correct answers TRUE Managers who practice positive organizational behavior value human capital as their least important resource. - correct answers FALSE An organization's most important asset is its people because they can create, strategize, and innovate. - correct answers TRUE A strategic organizational behavior approach is based on the idea that goods are the key to productivity, competitive advantage, and financial success. - correct answers FALSE If one feels they are responsible for influencing events, then they have an internal locus of control. - correct answers TRUE Ethnicity is related to factors such as skin, hair, or eye color, whereas race is associated with sociological factors such as nationality, culture, language, and ancestry. - correct answers FALSE As stated in the textbook, it is illegal to fire employees for being lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender in ALL of the United States. - correct answers FALSE Projecting occurs when a person bases behavior on preexisting expectations about another person or situation in order to create an outcome aligned with those expectations. - correct answers FALSE The three factors that influence perceptions mentioned in the textbook are the comprehender, the environment, and the focal object. - correct answers FALSE ISTJ people tend to be thorough, practical, determined, and calm in a crisis. However, they can be impatient and sometimes make impulsive decisions. - correct answers TRUE The three factors that influence our internal and external attributions are distinctiveness, unanimity, and consistency. - correct answers FALSE The HEXACO model of personality is like the Big Five Model but adds a sixth dimension labeled Honesty-Humility. - correct answers TRUE The MBTI profile is made of four pairs of psychological preferences because we tend to lean toward one or the other when determining our preferences. - correct answers TRUE The steps in the reinforcement process are sometimes referred to as the ABC's of behavior. - correct answers TRUE Focal objects are not always physical things. For example, they can also be behaviors of people. - correct answers TRUE The Big Five model puts people in categories rather than having them score from low to high in a dimension of personality. - correct answers FALSE Self-esteem is our belief our ability to succeed in a specific task or situation. - correct answers FALSE When personality traits are inherited, then one would say that nurture played a part. - correct answers FALSE There are four types of continuous reinforcement schedules within Reinforcement Theory. - correct answers FALSE The social cognitive theory holds that our cognitive processes, which include awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgement, play important roles in how we learn new knowledge and skills. - correct answers TRUE Type A orientation with regard to dimensions of personality is characterized as relaxed, easygoing, more patient, and less competitive. - correct answers FALSE Our attempts to organize and sift huge amounts of everyday complex information can lead to inaccuracies and cloud our perceptions of different people, situations, and events. - correct answers TRUE Internal and external attributions are the two causes people look for to explain behavior of others. This is called attribution theory. - correct answers TRUE According to the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity, a person is in the acceptance stage when she has a deep understanding of her own and others' cultural identities and appreciates the value of different cultural perspectives. - correct answers TRUE