ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR FINAL EXAM
| QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Expectancy - correct answerBelief that effort leads to a specific level of performance
Instrumentality - correct answerbelief about extent to which performance will lead to
attainment of a particular outcome
Valence - correct answerDesirability of an outcome to an individual
Ability - correct answerDegree to which effort leads to performance is modified
Perceived Equity - correct answerAbility of valued rewards to satisfy needs
Equity Theory: Inputs - correct answerEducation/training, skills, creativity, seniority, age,
personality traits, effort, personal appearance
Equity Theory: Outputs - correct answerPay/bonuses, fringe benefits, challenging
assignments, job security, promotions, status symbols, recognitions, participation in
important decisions
Referent - correct answerOther employee or group of employees, oneself at a different
place or time, one's expectations
Skill Variety - correct answerthe degree to which a job requires a variety of different
activities so the worker
Task Identity - correct answerdegree to which a job requires completion of a whole and
identifiable piece
Task Significance - correct answerthe degree to which a job has an impact on the lives
or work of other people.
Autonomy - correct answerdegree to which a job provides the worker freedom,
independence, and discretion in scheduling the work and determining the procedures in
carrying it out.
Feedback - correct answerthe degree to which carrying out work activities generates
direct and clear information about your own performance.
Job Characteristics Model - correct answerAn approach to job design that aims at
identifying characteristics that make job intrinsically motivating
, Motivating Potential Score - correct answerA measure of the overall potential of a job to
foster intrinsic motivation
Divergent Creativity - correct answerEntirely new principle or assumption
Incremental Creativity - correct answerGradual improvement through modification
Political Correctness - correct answerAny accommodation a person makes in his or her
language that is intended to provide a minimum of offense to members of other
demographic groups
Leadership - correct answerThe ability to influence a group toward the achievement of a
vision or set of goals
Initiating Structure - correct answerExtent to which a leader is likely to define and
structure his or her role and those of subordinates in the search for goal attainment
Consideration - correct answerExtent to which a leader is likely to have relationships
characterized by mutual trust, respect for subordinates' ideas, and regard for their
feelings
Contingency Theories of Leadership - correct answerLeader's impact on followers
depends upon both the leader's behavior and the characteristics of the organizational
situation
Fiedler's Contingency Theory - correct answerA model that focuses on the match
between the leader's predisposition or style of interacting with subordinates and the
degree to which the situation gives control to the leader
Least Preferred Co Worker Scale (LPC) - correct answerinstrument to measure whether
person is task - or relationship oriented
Three Contingency dimensions according to Fiedler. - correct answerLeader-member
relations, Task structure, Position power
Leader-Member Exchange Theory - correct answerLeaders select certain followers to
be "in" based on competence and/or compatibility & similarity to leader
Transactional Leadership - correct answerConcept of exchange between leaders and
followers (resources and rewards in exchange for motivation)
Transformational Leadership - correct answerInspires followers to transcend their own
self-interests for the good of the company and are able of having a profound effect on
followers
| QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Expectancy - correct answerBelief that effort leads to a specific level of performance
Instrumentality - correct answerbelief about extent to which performance will lead to
attainment of a particular outcome
Valence - correct answerDesirability of an outcome to an individual
Ability - correct answerDegree to which effort leads to performance is modified
Perceived Equity - correct answerAbility of valued rewards to satisfy needs
Equity Theory: Inputs - correct answerEducation/training, skills, creativity, seniority, age,
personality traits, effort, personal appearance
Equity Theory: Outputs - correct answerPay/bonuses, fringe benefits, challenging
assignments, job security, promotions, status symbols, recognitions, participation in
important decisions
Referent - correct answerOther employee or group of employees, oneself at a different
place or time, one's expectations
Skill Variety - correct answerthe degree to which a job requires a variety of different
activities so the worker
Task Identity - correct answerdegree to which a job requires completion of a whole and
identifiable piece
Task Significance - correct answerthe degree to which a job has an impact on the lives
or work of other people.
Autonomy - correct answerdegree to which a job provides the worker freedom,
independence, and discretion in scheduling the work and determining the procedures in
carrying it out.
Feedback - correct answerthe degree to which carrying out work activities generates
direct and clear information about your own performance.
Job Characteristics Model - correct answerAn approach to job design that aims at
identifying characteristics that make job intrinsically motivating
, Motivating Potential Score - correct answerA measure of the overall potential of a job to
foster intrinsic motivation
Divergent Creativity - correct answerEntirely new principle or assumption
Incremental Creativity - correct answerGradual improvement through modification
Political Correctness - correct answerAny accommodation a person makes in his or her
language that is intended to provide a minimum of offense to members of other
demographic groups
Leadership - correct answerThe ability to influence a group toward the achievement of a
vision or set of goals
Initiating Structure - correct answerExtent to which a leader is likely to define and
structure his or her role and those of subordinates in the search for goal attainment
Consideration - correct answerExtent to which a leader is likely to have relationships
characterized by mutual trust, respect for subordinates' ideas, and regard for their
feelings
Contingency Theories of Leadership - correct answerLeader's impact on followers
depends upon both the leader's behavior and the characteristics of the organizational
situation
Fiedler's Contingency Theory - correct answerA model that focuses on the match
between the leader's predisposition or style of interacting with subordinates and the
degree to which the situation gives control to the leader
Least Preferred Co Worker Scale (LPC) - correct answerinstrument to measure whether
person is task - or relationship oriented
Three Contingency dimensions according to Fiedler. - correct answerLeader-member
relations, Task structure, Position power
Leader-Member Exchange Theory - correct answerLeaders select certain followers to
be "in" based on competence and/or compatibility & similarity to leader
Transactional Leadership - correct answerConcept of exchange between leaders and
followers (resources and rewards in exchange for motivation)
Transformational Leadership - correct answerInspires followers to transcend their own
self-interests for the good of the company and are able of having a profound effect on
followers
