WGU C715 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR EXAM Questions and
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1. Johanna Reid, a campaign manager at a child rights organization,
recently started working on an illiteracy project. During the project, she
needs to motivate team members to attain their project milestones and
direct them through different phases of the project. Which of the following
kinds of functions will these tasks be covered under?: leading
2. Regina George works as a campaign manager in a not-for-profit
organiza- tion in Hampshire. For the upcoming campaign against genetic
engineering, she is networking with managers who are working on the
issue of food safety. Through her network of contacts, she strives to gain
information about the stakeholders in the food industry and other lobby
groups. Which of the following roles is George most likely to be playing
according to Mintzberg's classification of managerial roles?: liaison
3. The ability to understand, communicate with, motivate, and support
other people, both individually and in groups, may be defined as .:
human skills
4. According to Fred Luthans and his associates, managers involved in
traditional management activities undertook which of the following
tasks?-
: decision making
5. According to Fred Luthans and his associates' study of 450 managers,
made the largest contribution to the success of managers in
terms of speed of promotion within their organization.: networking
6. What does the heredity approach state?: An individual's personality is
deter- mined by molecular structure of the genes.
7. Valerie Sinclair, a climate campaigner at an environmental organization,
invariably uses rationale to make decisions for project implementation.
She believes that the right decisions can be made only through scrutiny
and analysis. Each time she needs to make a decision, she weighs all
options before taking action. Which of the following is Sinclair's
personality type according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
classification?: thinking
8. What is the major problem with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as a
measure of personality?: It forces a person to be categorized as either
,one type or another.
9. is as important for managers as for front-line employees and,
among all Big Five Model traits, is most consistently related to job
perfor- mance.: Conscientiousness
, 10.Individuals scoring have a strong ability to adjust his or her
be- havior to external, situational factors and can behave differently in
different situations.: high on self-monitoring
11.Which of the following statements is most likely to be true regarding
people with proactive personalities?: They are more likely than others
to be seen as leaders.
12.Which of the following is true of values?: They have content and
intensity attributes.
13.Which of the following is an instrumental value?: personal discipline
14.John Holland's personality-job fit theory presents six personality
types. Which of the following is one of these six types?: investigative
15.With reference to the Hofstede's framework, which country scores
high- est in individualism?: United States
16.Which of the following statements is true regarding perception?:
Our perception of reality can be different from the objective reality.
17.Which of the following is an example of internally caused behavior?:
An employee was fired from work because he violated a company
policy.
18.Which of the following terms best describes the tendency to underes-
timate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of
internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others?:
fun- damental attribution error
19.You are more likely to notice a car like your own due to .:
selec- tive perception
20.Rose needs to give a presentation to the board of directors of her orga-
nization next week. She knows that her presentation will play an important
role in her performance appraisal in the next quarter. However, she knows
that two of her colleagues, John and Keith, will also be giving a
presentation on the same issue. She is nervous because she believes that
men have a better flair for giving presentations. Rose's perception of John
and Keith is most likely characterized by .: stereotyping
21.A process of making decisions by constructing simplified models that
extract the essential features from problems without capturing all their
com- plexity is known as .: bounded rationality
22. bias refers to the tendency for people to base their
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1. Johanna Reid, a campaign manager at a child rights organization,
recently started working on an illiteracy project. During the project, she
needs to motivate team members to attain their project milestones and
direct them through different phases of the project. Which of the following
kinds of functions will these tasks be covered under?: leading
2. Regina George works as a campaign manager in a not-for-profit
organiza- tion in Hampshire. For the upcoming campaign against genetic
engineering, she is networking with managers who are working on the
issue of food safety. Through her network of contacts, she strives to gain
information about the stakeholders in the food industry and other lobby
groups. Which of the following roles is George most likely to be playing
according to Mintzberg's classification of managerial roles?: liaison
3. The ability to understand, communicate with, motivate, and support
other people, both individually and in groups, may be defined as .:
human skills
4. According to Fred Luthans and his associates, managers involved in
traditional management activities undertook which of the following
tasks?-
: decision making
5. According to Fred Luthans and his associates' study of 450 managers,
made the largest contribution to the success of managers in
terms of speed of promotion within their organization.: networking
6. What does the heredity approach state?: An individual's personality is
deter- mined by molecular structure of the genes.
7. Valerie Sinclair, a climate campaigner at an environmental organization,
invariably uses rationale to make decisions for project implementation.
She believes that the right decisions can be made only through scrutiny
and analysis. Each time she needs to make a decision, she weighs all
options before taking action. Which of the following is Sinclair's
personality type according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
classification?: thinking
8. What is the major problem with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as a
measure of personality?: It forces a person to be categorized as either
,one type or another.
9. is as important for managers as for front-line employees and,
among all Big Five Model traits, is most consistently related to job
perfor- mance.: Conscientiousness
, 10.Individuals scoring have a strong ability to adjust his or her
be- havior to external, situational factors and can behave differently in
different situations.: high on self-monitoring
11.Which of the following statements is most likely to be true regarding
people with proactive personalities?: They are more likely than others
to be seen as leaders.
12.Which of the following is true of values?: They have content and
intensity attributes.
13.Which of the following is an instrumental value?: personal discipline
14.John Holland's personality-job fit theory presents six personality
types. Which of the following is one of these six types?: investigative
15.With reference to the Hofstede's framework, which country scores
high- est in individualism?: United States
16.Which of the following statements is true regarding perception?:
Our perception of reality can be different from the objective reality.
17.Which of the following is an example of internally caused behavior?:
An employee was fired from work because he violated a company
policy.
18.Which of the following terms best describes the tendency to underes-
timate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of
internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others?:
fun- damental attribution error
19.You are more likely to notice a car like your own due to .:
selec- tive perception
20.Rose needs to give a presentation to the board of directors of her orga-
nization next week. She knows that her presentation will play an important
role in her performance appraisal in the next quarter. However, she knows
that two of her colleagues, John and Keith, will also be giving a
presentation on the same issue. She is nervous because she believes that
men have a better flair for giving presentations. Rose's perception of John
and Keith is most likely characterized by .: stereotyping
21.A process of making decisions by constructing simplified models that
extract the essential features from problems without capturing all their
com- plexity is known as .: bounded rationality
22. bias refers to the tendency for people to base their
