COB 202 TEST 1 QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
Organizational behavior - Correct Answers -a field of study devoted to understanding,
explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and
groups in organizations
*Interdisciplinary
important because:
-long-term career and life success
-to adapt and thrive in a dynamic and complex workplace
Intuition - Correct Answers -an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as
contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning
Experience - Correct Answers -Knowledge or skill that comes from having done certain
things.
Authority - Correct Answers -the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and
enforce obedience.
Evidence-based - Correct Answers -Information based upon documented evidence from
critically reviewed research
What can we use to make decisions at work? - Correct Answers --Intuition
-Experience
-Authority
-Science/evidence base research
Factors of hiring - Correct Answers --Likeablity
-Excitement
-Enthusiasm
-Incidental emotions of hiring manager (introduces bias)
*Evidence-based hiring increases job performance
Too-much-talent effect - Correct Answers -emerges when team members are highly
interdependent but not when they are independent
-high performance can be hierarchal
, -disputes occur over authority
-status competition undermines cooperation
Critical thinking - Correct Answers -comparing what you already know with the
information you are given in order to decide whether you agree with it
4 attributes of critical thinking - Correct Answers -intellectual humility: admitting
mistakes/ errors in judgement
confidence in reason: most weight placed into evidence and hard facts
intellectual curiosity: exploring new topics/ learning new things
intellectual independence: willing to question authority and challenging conventional
wisdom
conformation bias - Correct Answers -a tendency to search for information that supports
our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence
overconfidence bias - Correct Answers -the bias in which people's subjective confidence
in their decision making is greater than their objective accuracy
-overprecision
-overestimation
-overplacement
Evidence-based management - Correct Answers -translating principles based on best
evidence into organizational practice, bringing rationality to the decision-making process
availability heuristic - Correct Answers -estimating the likelihood of events based on
their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their
vividness), we presume such events are common
vividness bias - Correct Answers -the bias that results from remembering vivid
experiences and forgetting dull ones
Complacency Effect - Correct Answers -success on a task tends to result in fewer
resources expended in the future
Proactive personality - Correct Answers -people who identify opportunities, show
initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs
Self-monitoring - Correct Answers -being attuned to the way one presents oneself in
social situations and adjusting one's performance to create the desired impression
CORRECT ANSWERS
Organizational behavior - Correct Answers -a field of study devoted to understanding,
explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and
groups in organizations
*Interdisciplinary
important because:
-long-term career and life success
-to adapt and thrive in a dynamic and complex workplace
Intuition - Correct Answers -an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as
contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning
Experience - Correct Answers -Knowledge or skill that comes from having done certain
things.
Authority - Correct Answers -the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and
enforce obedience.
Evidence-based - Correct Answers -Information based upon documented evidence from
critically reviewed research
What can we use to make decisions at work? - Correct Answers --Intuition
-Experience
-Authority
-Science/evidence base research
Factors of hiring - Correct Answers --Likeablity
-Excitement
-Enthusiasm
-Incidental emotions of hiring manager (introduces bias)
*Evidence-based hiring increases job performance
Too-much-talent effect - Correct Answers -emerges when team members are highly
interdependent but not when they are independent
-high performance can be hierarchal
, -disputes occur over authority
-status competition undermines cooperation
Critical thinking - Correct Answers -comparing what you already know with the
information you are given in order to decide whether you agree with it
4 attributes of critical thinking - Correct Answers -intellectual humility: admitting
mistakes/ errors in judgement
confidence in reason: most weight placed into evidence and hard facts
intellectual curiosity: exploring new topics/ learning new things
intellectual independence: willing to question authority and challenging conventional
wisdom
conformation bias - Correct Answers -a tendency to search for information that supports
our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence
overconfidence bias - Correct Answers -the bias in which people's subjective confidence
in their decision making is greater than their objective accuracy
-overprecision
-overestimation
-overplacement
Evidence-based management - Correct Answers -translating principles based on best
evidence into organizational practice, bringing rationality to the decision-making process
availability heuristic - Correct Answers -estimating the likelihood of events based on
their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their
vividness), we presume such events are common
vividness bias - Correct Answers -the bias that results from remembering vivid
experiences and forgetting dull ones
Complacency Effect - Correct Answers -success on a task tends to result in fewer
resources expended in the future
Proactive personality - Correct Answers -people who identify opportunities, show
initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs
Self-monitoring - Correct Answers -being attuned to the way one presents oneself in
social situations and adjusting one's performance to create the desired impression
