Test Bank for Organizational Behavior Bridging Science and Practice. Version 4.0. By Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan.

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BRIDGING SCIENCE AND PRACTICE.
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VERSION 4.0. BY TALYA BAUER AND
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BERRIN ERDOGAN
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FWK Test Item File
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Chapter 1
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TRUE/FALSE

1. Flat World Knowledge was started by two textbook publishing industry veterans.
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(True)

2. Flat World Knowledge is improving on the traditional publishing model but is
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not innovating much.
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(False)

3. So far, Flat World Knowledge is a start up without any external funding.
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(False)

4. Most successful CEOs believe, ―A company is only as good as the
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innovation it creates.‖
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(False)

5. Current research suggests that the average employee today will change jobs
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10 times in 20 years.
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(True)

6. Organizational behavior is the systematic study and application of
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knowledge about how individuals and groups act within the organizations
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where they work.
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(True)

7. Emile is seated in a lecture where the instructor is discussing personality.
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He is most likely in a sociology class.
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(False)

8. The study of organizational behavior analyzes the three levels of
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individual, organization, and society.
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(False)

9. If I am examining how my manager‘s behavior influences my work group, I
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am looking at the organizational level of analysis in the organizational
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behavior discipline.
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(False)

10. Organizational behavior matters at three critical levels because it analyzes
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what you care about, what employers care about, and what organizations
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care about.
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(True)

11. Successful organizations tend to limit the amount of information shared
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by maintaining a centralized structure.
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(False)

12. Research shows that those organizations that are more effective limit the
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amount of feedback they provide employees, limit the amount of information
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shared, and allow roles to be ambiguous.
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(False)

13. Those firms that are categorized as successful tend to provide
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employment security, train employees, and reduce status differences.
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(True)

14. Financially there is little incentive to attain a higher level degree.
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(False)

15. The unemployment rate decreases as the level of education attained increases.
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(True)

16. In general, the more training you have, the more financial success you
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will achieve.
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(True)

17. Journaling is a technique that helps you chart your progress as you learn
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new skills.
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(True)

18. The discipline of organizational behavior is simply common sense.
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(False)

19. Michael is an auditory learner. He learns best by actually doing things
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and learning from trial and error.
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(False)

20. A kinesthetic learner is very likely to avoid taking once a week classes as
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they require too much sitting and listening time.
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(True)

21. Close-ended survey questions can be very time consuming to summarize
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and very hard to interpret.
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(False)

22. Glen is interested in finding out how effective a new incentive program might
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be in an organization. He chooses two departments to focus upon in a
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company. One department works under the incentive program, one does
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not. This is an experimental design study.
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(True)

23. Case studies suffer from questions as to whether the results of one
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organization are generalizable to other situations and organizations.
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(True)

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24. Meta-analysis shows that the relationship between job satisfaction and
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job performance is moderately strong.
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(True)

25. Reliability refers to consistency of measurement, while validity assesses
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whether the measurement does, indeed, measure what it is supposed to
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measure.
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(True)

26. Most of management research addresses causation.
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(False)

27. The federal government passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as a long-term
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solution to dealing with unethical behavior.
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(False)

28. Employee engagement has a significant impact on the corporate bottom line.
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(True)

29. Research by Gallup indicates that only 20% of employees are disengaged
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from their organization.
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(False)

30. Moore‘s Law suggests that computing power doubles every two years.
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(True)

31. Because of information overload, some organizations, like Intel, have
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introduced ―No e-mail Fridays‖ as a way to address the issue.
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(True)

32. Access to information has led to an increase in innovation and a ―flattening
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of the world.‖
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(True)

33. The triple bottom line refers to evaluating organizations against the
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three performance criteria of social viability, economic viability, and
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demographic viability.
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(False)

34. One of the major challenges facing organizations today is how to reconcile
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the accountability publicly owned firms have in generating wealth for
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shareholders while attending to the triple bottom line.
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(True)

35. In general terms, the American workforce is growing younger.
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(False)

36. Outsourcing is becoming an increasingly common practice in
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many organizations.
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(True)