BMGT 470 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Good management: - Correct Answers -reduces employment-related costs like
turnover, improves employee, team and financial performance
3 Managerial Competencies - Correct Answers -Conceptual
Technical/Administrative
Interpersonal
Conceptual Competency - Correct Answers -Collecting and analyzing data to diagnose
problems and make decisions
Secondary appraisal - Correct Answers -determine how to respond to the stressor
Characteristics of Type A - Correct Answers -Achievement oriented
In a hurry
Perfectionism
Hostility
Associations with Type A Behavior Pattern - Correct Answers -Coronary heart disease
Locus of control - Correct Answers -the extent to which we believe we control our own
environments
Role theory - Correct Answers -suggests that stress can result from role ambiguity or
role conflict
Technical/Administrative - Correct Answers -Specific content knowledge and skills
Interpersonal - Correct Answers -the ability to relate effectively with others
communicating, motivating and negotiating conflict
EBM (evidence based mgt) - Correct Answers -Translating principles based on good
scientific evidence into organizational practices
5 Key practices to EBM - Correct Answers -1) learning cause and effect relationships
2) isolating variations that affect desired outcomes
3) reducing the overuse, under use, and misuse of specific practices
, 4) Building decision supports to promote practices that evidence validates
5) Create a culture of evidence-based decision making and research participation
Learning cause and effect relationships - Correct Answers -How do various factors
relate to each other?
Isolating variations that affect desired outcomes - Correct Answers -Does the
relationship between two factors differ depending on the context?
Building decision supports to promote practices that evidence validate - Correct
Answers -"Tool kits"
Create a culture of evidence-based decision making and research participation - Correct
Answers -"Organizational Behavior"
Organizational Behavior - Correct Answers -a social science that attempts to describe,
explain, and predict human behavior in an organizational context
Big E evidence - Correct Answers -generalizable knowledge regarding cause and effect
connections derived from scientific methods
little e evidence - Correct Answers -local or organizational specific data collection efforts
to inform a specific decision
Bandura's Social Learning Theory - Correct Answers -learning of any new behavior is
the result of three main factors - the person, the environment, and the behavior
reciprocal determinism - Correct Answers -mutual influences between personality and
environmental factors
SLT: Four Critical components of learning through observation - Correct Answers -
Attention
Retention
Reproduction
Motivation
Self-Management - Correct Answers -a process of modifying one's own behavior by
systematically altering how we arrange different cues in our world, how we think about
change, and how we attach behavior consequences to our actions
5 Behavior-Focused Strategies to Improve Self-Management - Correct Answers -Self-
Observation/Exploration
Self-set goals
Management of cues
posititve self-talk and rehearsal
self-reward and punishment
ANSWERS
Good management: - Correct Answers -reduces employment-related costs like
turnover, improves employee, team and financial performance
3 Managerial Competencies - Correct Answers -Conceptual
Technical/Administrative
Interpersonal
Conceptual Competency - Correct Answers -Collecting and analyzing data to diagnose
problems and make decisions
Secondary appraisal - Correct Answers -determine how to respond to the stressor
Characteristics of Type A - Correct Answers -Achievement oriented
In a hurry
Perfectionism
Hostility
Associations with Type A Behavior Pattern - Correct Answers -Coronary heart disease
Locus of control - Correct Answers -the extent to which we believe we control our own
environments
Role theory - Correct Answers -suggests that stress can result from role ambiguity or
role conflict
Technical/Administrative - Correct Answers -Specific content knowledge and skills
Interpersonal - Correct Answers -the ability to relate effectively with others
communicating, motivating and negotiating conflict
EBM (evidence based mgt) - Correct Answers -Translating principles based on good
scientific evidence into organizational practices
5 Key practices to EBM - Correct Answers -1) learning cause and effect relationships
2) isolating variations that affect desired outcomes
3) reducing the overuse, under use, and misuse of specific practices
, 4) Building decision supports to promote practices that evidence validates
5) Create a culture of evidence-based decision making and research participation
Learning cause and effect relationships - Correct Answers -How do various factors
relate to each other?
Isolating variations that affect desired outcomes - Correct Answers -Does the
relationship between two factors differ depending on the context?
Building decision supports to promote practices that evidence validate - Correct
Answers -"Tool kits"
Create a culture of evidence-based decision making and research participation - Correct
Answers -"Organizational Behavior"
Organizational Behavior - Correct Answers -a social science that attempts to describe,
explain, and predict human behavior in an organizational context
Big E evidence - Correct Answers -generalizable knowledge regarding cause and effect
connections derived from scientific methods
little e evidence - Correct Answers -local or organizational specific data collection efforts
to inform a specific decision
Bandura's Social Learning Theory - Correct Answers -learning of any new behavior is
the result of three main factors - the person, the environment, and the behavior
reciprocal determinism - Correct Answers -mutual influences between personality and
environmental factors
SLT: Four Critical components of learning through observation - Correct Answers -
Attention
Retention
Reproduction
Motivation
Self-Management - Correct Answers -a process of modifying one's own behavior by
systematically altering how we arrange different cues in our world, how we think about
change, and how we attach behavior consequences to our actions
5 Behavior-Focused Strategies to Improve Self-Management - Correct Answers -Self-
Observation/Exploration
Self-set goals
Management of cues
posititve self-talk and rehearsal
self-reward and punishment
