OBHR 330 Chapter 1 Review Questions with Correct Answers
(Grade A+)
Question 1: study of individual and group dynamics within an organizational setting
Answer: organizational behavior
Question 2: What is the first main goal of organizational behavior?
Answer: to explain why individuals and groups act the way they do in organizational settings
Question 3: What is the second main goal of organizational behavior?
Answer: to predict how individuals and groups will behave on the basis of internal and external factors
Question 4: What is the third main goal of organizational behavior?
Answer: to provide managers with the tools to draw out best effort from individuals and groups
Question 5: Which founder of organizational behavior was initially interested in the design of work and
skills required for jobs?
Answer: Hugo Munsterberg
Question 6: Which founder of organizational behavior measured abilities and tied them to performance
and also wrote the first I/O Psychology textbook?
Answer: Hugo Munsterberg
Question 7: Which founder of organizational behavior trained Wilhelm Wundt?
Answer: Hugo Munsterberg
Question 8: Which founder of OB was initially interested in personality and claimed that people were
different which led to different outcomes?
Answer: James Cattell
Question 9: Which founder of OB was trained by Wilhelm Wundt?
Answer: James Cattell
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, Question 10: Which founder of OB examined social influence and efficiency, and focused those studies
on salespersons and advertising?
Answer: Walter Dill Scott
Question 11: Which founder of OB became the first professor in the organizational behavior field and
created a consulting company?
Answer: Walter Dill Scott
Question 12: Who was responsible for revising the Stanford-Binet test to create mass testing (eventually
became the Army Alpha Test)
Answer: Walter Dill Scott
Question 13: Who was the engineer that believed science could help increase worker efficiency
performance? (increased efficiency up to 400%)
Answer: Fredrick W. Taylor
Question 14: Who created The Principles of Scientific Management, whose objective was to improve
efficiency in the labor force?
Answer: Fredrick W. Taylor
Question 15: What is the first principle of scientific management?
Answer: find the "one best way" to perform tasks
Question 16: What is the second principle of scientific management?
Answer: carefully match each worker to each task
Question 17: What is the third principle of scientific management?
Answer: closely supervise workers, reward and punish
Question 18: What is the fourth principle of scientific management?
Answer: task of management is planning and control
Question 19: Who was the first female I/O Psychologist who implemented principles of scientific
management? (First IO PhD)
Answer: Lillian Mohler Gillbreath
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(Grade A+)
Question 1: study of individual and group dynamics within an organizational setting
Answer: organizational behavior
Question 2: What is the first main goal of organizational behavior?
Answer: to explain why individuals and groups act the way they do in organizational settings
Question 3: What is the second main goal of organizational behavior?
Answer: to predict how individuals and groups will behave on the basis of internal and external factors
Question 4: What is the third main goal of organizational behavior?
Answer: to provide managers with the tools to draw out best effort from individuals and groups
Question 5: Which founder of organizational behavior was initially interested in the design of work and
skills required for jobs?
Answer: Hugo Munsterberg
Question 6: Which founder of organizational behavior measured abilities and tied them to performance
and also wrote the first I/O Psychology textbook?
Answer: Hugo Munsterberg
Question 7: Which founder of organizational behavior trained Wilhelm Wundt?
Answer: Hugo Munsterberg
Question 8: Which founder of OB was initially interested in personality and claimed that people were
different which led to different outcomes?
Answer: James Cattell
Question 9: Which founder of OB was trained by Wilhelm Wundt?
Answer: James Cattell
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, Question 10: Which founder of OB examined social influence and efficiency, and focused those studies
on salespersons and advertising?
Answer: Walter Dill Scott
Question 11: Which founder of OB became the first professor in the organizational behavior field and
created a consulting company?
Answer: Walter Dill Scott
Question 12: Who was responsible for revising the Stanford-Binet test to create mass testing (eventually
became the Army Alpha Test)
Answer: Walter Dill Scott
Question 13: Who was the engineer that believed science could help increase worker efficiency
performance? (increased efficiency up to 400%)
Answer: Fredrick W. Taylor
Question 14: Who created The Principles of Scientific Management, whose objective was to improve
efficiency in the labor force?
Answer: Fredrick W. Taylor
Question 15: What is the first principle of scientific management?
Answer: find the "one best way" to perform tasks
Question 16: What is the second principle of scientific management?
Answer: carefully match each worker to each task
Question 17: What is the third principle of scientific management?
Answer: closely supervise workers, reward and punish
Question 18: What is the fourth principle of scientific management?
Answer: task of management is planning and control
Question 19: Who was the first female I/O Psychologist who implemented principles of scientific
management? (First IO PhD)
Answer: Lillian Mohler Gillbreath
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