MGT3000 Exam 1 Study Guide 2025/2026
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What does the ''Hawthorne Effect'' discovered in the Hawthorne studies
refer to? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the tedency of people to perform better in the
presence of an experimenter
When do "early adopters" tend to adopt a change? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔they
tend to adopt a change immediately following the innovators
What are some steps in Kotter's 8 step model that help decrease
resistance to change? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔establishing a powerful coalition,
communicating a vision, and creating a sense of urgency
A study of nurses during the pandemic asks them to each log their level of
work stress each day and then correlates these results with various
measures such as lateness, attendance and leaving work early over the
course of a month. What research method is being used? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔correlational field study
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,In lecture, it was recommended to treat an organizational merger like a
what? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔marriage
In the cultural values list, what is the meaning of "outcome orientation"? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔the degree to which the organization focuses on results
rather than processes
Besides individual predisposition to change, what is another reason people
resist change, as discussed in class? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔their fear of
uncertainty, the change will change their power in the organization, group
norms are strong, and they are creatures of habits and routines
What was the force and emphasis of the classical (scientific management)
approach to organizational behavior? (In other words, what historical event
led to it and what aspect of behavior did it mostly focus on?) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔industrial revolution, efficiency
Describe three work systems that could be changed to support an
organizational change being adopted; also, will changing only these three
work systems be sufficient to support the change? Why or why not? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔three work systems that could be changed to support an
organizational change being adopted would be: Information distribution,
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, organization, and workplace design. Changing only these three work
systems would not be sufficient enough to support the change because 5
out of the 8 work systems need to change to be properly supported
We discussed different types of cultural artifacts in class. What are two of
these types that are found on Tech's campus? Explain. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔one type would be the Husky statue which is symbol of school spirit and
representation of the university. Another type would be the tradition of
having Winter Carnival every Spring Semester and participating in certain
traditional activities like broomball on Walker lawn and snow statue building
all-nighter throughout different parts of the campus
Name and contrast the first and last (5th) tribal types found in the Ted Talks
video assigned for the week that culture was covered in class - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔tribal types = ethics types
Types are Instrument, caring, independence, law and code, and rules. So,
the first and last are instrumental and rules. Instrumental means that
decision is guided by self-interest and rules are operation by internally
generated policies and standards.
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Exam Questions and Answers | 100%
Solved
What does the ''Hawthorne Effect'' discovered in the Hawthorne studies
refer to? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the tedency of people to perform better in the
presence of an experimenter
When do "early adopters" tend to adopt a change? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔they
tend to adopt a change immediately following the innovators
What are some steps in Kotter's 8 step model that help decrease
resistance to change? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔establishing a powerful coalition,
communicating a vision, and creating a sense of urgency
A study of nurses during the pandemic asks them to each log their level of
work stress each day and then correlates these results with various
measures such as lateness, attendance and leaving work early over the
course of a month. What research method is being used? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔correlational field study
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,In lecture, it was recommended to treat an organizational merger like a
what? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔marriage
In the cultural values list, what is the meaning of "outcome orientation"? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔the degree to which the organization focuses on results
rather than processes
Besides individual predisposition to change, what is another reason people
resist change, as discussed in class? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔their fear of
uncertainty, the change will change their power in the organization, group
norms are strong, and they are creatures of habits and routines
What was the force and emphasis of the classical (scientific management)
approach to organizational behavior? (In other words, what historical event
led to it and what aspect of behavior did it mostly focus on?) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔industrial revolution, efficiency
Describe three work systems that could be changed to support an
organizational change being adopted; also, will changing only these three
work systems be sufficient to support the change? Why or why not? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔three work systems that could be changed to support an
organizational change being adopted would be: Information distribution,
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, organization, and workplace design. Changing only these three work
systems would not be sufficient enough to support the change because 5
out of the 8 work systems need to change to be properly supported
We discussed different types of cultural artifacts in class. What are two of
these types that are found on Tech's campus? Explain. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔one type would be the Husky statue which is symbol of school spirit and
representation of the university. Another type would be the tradition of
having Winter Carnival every Spring Semester and participating in certain
traditional activities like broomball on Walker lawn and snow statue building
all-nighter throughout different parts of the campus
Name and contrast the first and last (5th) tribal types found in the Ted Talks
video assigned for the week that culture was covered in class - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔tribal types = ethics types
Types are Instrument, caring, independence, law and code, and rules. So,
the first and last are instrumental and rules. Instrumental means that
decision is guided by self-interest and rules are operation by internally
generated policies and standards.
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