Test 1 Organizational Behavior

_____ are defined as people who oversee the activities of others and who are responsible for attaining goals in organizations.

Which of the following functions do managers undertake as part of planning functions?

Which of the following is true regarding technical skills?

The ability to understand, communicate with, motivate, and support other people, both individually and in groups, may be defined as _____

Which of the following best defines organizational behavior?

Which of the follow determinants of behavior does organizational behavior study?

Which of the following does systematic study use to look at relationships to attribute causes and effects?

Analyzing relationships, determining causes and effects, and basing conclusions on scientific evidence, all constitutes aspects of ______ study

Which of the following disciplines blends concepts form both psychology and sociology to focus on people's influence on one another?

_____ refers to the heterogeneity of organizations in terms of gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and inclusion of other diverse groups

Which of the following is true regarding positive organizational scholarship?

In a workplace, _____ involves overt threats or bullying directed at members of specific groups of employees.

Women being assigned marginal job roles that do not lead to promotion is an example of _______ form of discrimination

________ may be defined as an individual's current capacity to perform the various tasks in a job.

_____ may be referred to as the capacity to undertake tasks that demand stamina, dexterity, and strength.

_______ refers to evaluative statements or judgments concerning objects, people, or events.

Any incompatibility between two or more attitudes or between behavior and attitudes results in _____

Which of the following is the most likely to be related to reduced absences and lower resignation rates?

______ refers to a positive feeling about one's job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics.

The degree to which a person identifies with his or her job, actively participates in it, and considers his or her performance as being important to self-worth is referred to as ________

Organizational commitment is defined as

_______ is the degree to which employees believe the organization values their contribution and cares about their well-being.

Employees are most likely to perceive their organization as supportive when

An individual's involvement with, satisfaction with, and enthusiasm for the work he/she performs is known as

Which of the following is a characteristic of emotions?

Which of the following terms best describes an intense feeling directed at someone or something

_____ refers to feelings that tend to be less intense than emotions and that lack a contextual stimulus

_____ are cognitive in nature, have an unclear, general cause, and last for several hours or days.

______ are caused by a specific event, are very brief, and are accompanied by distinct facial expressions.

Which of the following is one of the six essentially universal emotions agreed on by a majority of researchers?

______ refers to the tendency of most individuals to experience a mildly positive mood at zero input when nothing in particular is going on

_____ refers to the tendency of people to associate two events when in reality there is no conncection

A situation in which an employee expresses organizationally desired emotions during interpersonal transactions at work is know as

_____ refers to inconsistencies between the emotions people feel and the emotions they project.

_____ emotions are emotions that people actually expereince, despite what they might display

WHich of the following terms refers to the practice of hiding inner feelings and foregoing emotional expressions in repsonse to display rules

The practice of modifying one's true inner feelings based on display rules is know as

Surface acting deals only with ______ emotions

Which of the following statements is true regarding emotional intelligence

According to Gordon Allport, ______ is defined as the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophyscial systems that determine a person's unique adjustments to his/her environment

Who defined personality as the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine a person's unique adjustments to his/her environment

_____ is the sum total of ways in which individual reacts to and interests with others

Which of the following terms refers to factors such as one's biologicial, pysiologicial and inherent psychological makeup determined at conception?

The _____ is a personality assessment consisting of 100 questions where respondents are classified as extroverted or introverted, sensing or intuitive, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving.

The _____ is a personality assessment model that taps basic dimensions which encompass most of the significant variation in human personality, namely extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness to experience.

______ refers to bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person

Which of the following terms describes basic convictions that "a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence in personally or socially preferable to an opposite mode of conduct"?

______ is the process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in orer to give meaning to their environment

When two people witness something at the same time and in the same situation yet interpret it differently, factors that operate to shape their perceptions reside in the _______.

Which of the following is a factor present in a situation which may affect a person's perception?

Which of the following is a factor present in a perceiver which may affect perception?

_____ explains the ways in which we judge people differently, depending on the meaning we assign to a given behavior.

According to the attribution theory, ______ is one of the three main factors which attempt to determine an individual's behavior.

When individuals observe another person's behavior, they attempt to determine whether it is internally or externally caused. Which of the following attempts to explain this phenomenon?

With reference to the attribution theory, which of the following terms indicates the extent to which an individual displays different behaviors in different situations

If a person responds to a particular situation int he same way over a long time period, then the attribution theory states that the behavior demonstrates ______

According to the attribution theory, if everyone who faces a similar situation responds in the same way, we can say the behavior shows ________

______ bias indicates the tendency of an individual to attribute his or her own successes to internal factors while putting them blame for failures on external factors.

Individuals engage in _______ because it is impossible for them to assililagte everything they see and can take in only certain stimuli.