MGT 312-Mgt 312 final study . Questions and Answers

MGT 312-Mgt 312 final study . Questions and Answers 1 The interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding and managing people at work is called:  Management dynamics  Management theory  Organizational dynamics  Organizational behavior 2 The distinction between flexible and fixed individual differences:  Is that managers have little or no impact on flexible differences  Is that managers should hire people based on their attitudes and emotions  Is that managers have little or no impact on fixed differences  Has no practical value for managers 3 Regarding using personality testing as part of the hiring process, experts have concluded that:  The typical personality test is not a valid predictor of job performance  Only the Big Five should be used as predictors of job performance  The effects of personality on job performance are so large it cannot be ignored by managers  There are many valid instruments available to managers to test for personality types 4 In Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior, ___________ is (are) the key link between _________.  Intentions; attidtudes and planned behavior  Norms; intentions and planned behavior  Intentions; norms and attitudes  Attitudes; intentions and planned behavior 5 According to the Ajzen model, the strongest predictor of an employee’s behavior is (are):  The employee's intentions  The employee's attitudes  Social norms  The employee's values 6 The steps in the process of stereotype formation and maintenance in order are:  Expectations, categorization, inferences, maintenance.  Categorization, inferences, expectations, maintenance.  Inferences, categorization, expectations, maintenance.  Categorization, expectations, inferences, maintenance. 7 Janelle, one of Abdul’s employees, has performed poorly on many aspects of her job since she was hired four months ago. This is likely to be attributed to: