BUSI 240 QUIZ 1: Liberty University,
Organizational Behavior/ BUSI 240 QUIZ 1
• Question 1
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements is true about globalization and
organizational behavior?
Selected Answer: Globalization offers numerous benefits to
organizations.
Response Feedback: Globalization offers numerous benefits to
organizations in terms of larger markets, lower costs, and greater access
to knowledge and innovation. Globalization is now well entrenched, so
the most important issue in organizational behavior is how corporate
leaders and employees alike can lead and work effectively in this
emerging reality.
• Question 2
2 out of 2 points
The observable demographic or physiological differences in people,
such as their race, ethnicity, gender, age, and physical disabilities,
constitute ________ diversity.
Selected Answer: surface-level
Response Feedback: The observable demographic or physiological
differences in people, such as their race, ethnicity, gender, age, and
physical disabilities, constitute surface-level diversity.
, • Question 3
2 out of 2 points
________ encompasses the study of how organizations interact with
their external environments.
Selected Answer: Organizational behavior
Response Feedback: Organizational behavior encompasses the study of
how organizations interact with their external environments, particularly
in the context of employee behavior and decisions.
• Question 4
0 out of 2 points
Which expert wrote about rational organizations, the work ethic, and
charismatic leadership?
Selected Answer: Frederick Taylor
Response Feedback: German sociologist Max Weber (early 1900s)
wrote about rational organizations, the work ethic, and charismatic
leadership.
• Question 5
2 out of 2 points
A computer maintenance company wants to capture the knowledge that
employees carry around in their heads by creating a database where
employees document their solutions to unusual maintenance problems.
This practice tries to
Selected Answer: transfer human capital into structural capital.
Response Feedback: Human capital is the knowledge available with the
employees and is risky for the organization. It has to be converted to
structural capital, which includes knowledge captured and retained in an
Organizational Behavior/ BUSI 240 QUIZ 1
• Question 1
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following statements is true about globalization and
organizational behavior?
Selected Answer: Globalization offers numerous benefits to
organizations.
Response Feedback: Globalization offers numerous benefits to
organizations in terms of larger markets, lower costs, and greater access
to knowledge and innovation. Globalization is now well entrenched, so
the most important issue in organizational behavior is how corporate
leaders and employees alike can lead and work effectively in this
emerging reality.
• Question 2
2 out of 2 points
The observable demographic or physiological differences in people,
such as their race, ethnicity, gender, age, and physical disabilities,
constitute ________ diversity.
Selected Answer: surface-level
Response Feedback: The observable demographic or physiological
differences in people, such as their race, ethnicity, gender, age, and
physical disabilities, constitute surface-level diversity.
, • Question 3
2 out of 2 points
________ encompasses the study of how organizations interact with
their external environments.
Selected Answer: Organizational behavior
Response Feedback: Organizational behavior encompasses the study of
how organizations interact with their external environments, particularly
in the context of employee behavior and decisions.
• Question 4
0 out of 2 points
Which expert wrote about rational organizations, the work ethic, and
charismatic leadership?
Selected Answer: Frederick Taylor
Response Feedback: German sociologist Max Weber (early 1900s)
wrote about rational organizations, the work ethic, and charismatic
leadership.
• Question 5
2 out of 2 points
A computer maintenance company wants to capture the knowledge that
employees carry around in their heads by creating a database where
employees document their solutions to unusual maintenance problems.
This practice tries to
Selected Answer: transfer human capital into structural capital.
Response Feedback: Human capital is the knowledge available with the
employees and is risky for the organization. It has to be converted to
structural capital, which includes knowledge captured and retained in an
