TEST BANK FOR Organizational Behavior, 2nd Edition
Mary Uhl-Bien, Ronald F. Piccolo, John R. Schermerhorn
Jr
File: ch01, Chapter 1: Introducing Organizational Behavior
True/False
1. Organizational climate is the study of human behavior in organizations.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 1: Define organizational behavior and its importance in the modern workplace.
Section Reference: Organizational Behavior
2. Organizational behavior is an interdisciplinary body of knowledge with strong ties to psychology,
sociology, and anthropology.
Ans: True
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 1: Define organizational behavior and its importance in the modern workplace.
Section Reference: Organizational Behavior
3. Given the importance of teams, organizational behavior is an academic discipline devoted only to
understanding group behavior.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 1: Define organizational behavior and its importance in the modern workplace.
Section Reference: Organizational Behavior
4. In the modern workplace, important trends include the demise of ―command-and-control‖ type of
organizational structures and a commitment to ethical behavior.
Ans: True
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 1: Define organizational behavior and its importance in the modern workplace.
Section Reference: Organizational Behavior
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,5. Today, Hispanics are the fastest growing community in the modern workplace in the United States.
Ans: True
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 1: Define organizational behavior and its importance in the modern workplace.
Section Reference: Organizational Behavior
6. The U.S. Census Bureau predicts that America will become a true plurality by 2060, with no one
ethnic or racial group being in the majority.
Ans: True
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 1: Define organizational behavior and its importance in the modern workplace.
Section Reference: Organizational Behavior
7. The developmental sequence begins with initial experience and subsequent reflection.
Ans: True
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 1: Define organizational behavior and its importance in the modern workplace.
Section Reference: Organizational Behavior
8. Organizational behavior scholars believe that there is one ―best‖ or universal way to manage people
and organizations.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 2: Think critically about human behavior.
Section Reference: Thinking Critically about Organizational Behavior
9. Evidence-based management uses hard facts and empirical evidence to make decisions.
Ans: True
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 2: Think critically about human behavior.
Section Reference: Thinking Critically about Organizational Behavior
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,10. Employee satisfaction is defined as the quality and quantity of the work produced or the services
provided by a work unit as a whole.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
11. Organizational behavior clearly indicates that managers should be held accountable for task
performance results but not job satisfaction results since job satisfaction results are the domain of
employees.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
12. In the workplace today, management is most effectively accomplished by ―directing‖ and
―controlling‖ rather than ―supporting.‖
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
13. The four basic functions of management are delegating, leading, controlling, and decision making.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
14. Controlling is the process of creating work structures and systems and arranging resources to
accomplish goals and objectives.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
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, Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
15. Henry Mintzberg identified the set of roles that managers perform as technical, human, and
conceptual.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
16. Managerial roles that involve working directly with other people, according to Henry Mintzberg, are
called human roles.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
17. A manager’s informational roles include being a figurehead, leader, and liaison.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
18. According to Henry Mintzberg, when a manager acts as a disturbance handler, this is an interpersonal
role.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
19. Managerial roles involving decision making that affects other people, according to Henry Mintzberg,
are called technical roles.
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Mary Uhl-Bien, Ronald F. Piccolo, John R. Schermerhorn
Jr
File: ch01, Chapter 1: Introducing Organizational Behavior
True/False
1. Organizational climate is the study of human behavior in organizations.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 1: Define organizational behavior and its importance in the modern workplace.
Section Reference: Organizational Behavior
2. Organizational behavior is an interdisciplinary body of knowledge with strong ties to psychology,
sociology, and anthropology.
Ans: True
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 1: Define organizational behavior and its importance in the modern workplace.
Section Reference: Organizational Behavior
3. Given the importance of teams, organizational behavior is an academic discipline devoted only to
understanding group behavior.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 1: Define organizational behavior and its importance in the modern workplace.
Section Reference: Organizational Behavior
4. In the modern workplace, important trends include the demise of ―command-and-control‖ type of
organizational structures and a commitment to ethical behavior.
Ans: True
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 1: Define organizational behavior and its importance in the modern workplace.
Section Reference: Organizational Behavior
1-1
,5. Today, Hispanics are the fastest growing community in the modern workplace in the United States.
Ans: True
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 1: Define organizational behavior and its importance in the modern workplace.
Section Reference: Organizational Behavior
6. The U.S. Census Bureau predicts that America will become a true plurality by 2060, with no one
ethnic or racial group being in the majority.
Ans: True
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 1: Define organizational behavior and its importance in the modern workplace.
Section Reference: Organizational Behavior
7. The developmental sequence begins with initial experience and subsequent reflection.
Ans: True
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 1: Define organizational behavior and its importance in the modern workplace.
Section Reference: Organizational Behavior
8. Organizational behavior scholars believe that there is one ―best‖ or universal way to manage people
and organizations.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 2: Think critically about human behavior.
Section Reference: Thinking Critically about Organizational Behavior
9. Evidence-based management uses hard facts and empirical evidence to make decisions.
Ans: True
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 2: Think critically about human behavior.
Section Reference: Thinking Critically about Organizational Behavior
1-2
,10. Employee satisfaction is defined as the quality and quantity of the work produced or the services
provided by a work unit as a whole.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
11. Organizational behavior clearly indicates that managers should be held accountable for task
performance results but not job satisfaction results since job satisfaction results are the domain of
employees.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
12. In the workplace today, management is most effectively accomplished by ―directing‖ and
―controlling‖ rather than ―supporting.‖
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
13. The four basic functions of management are delegating, leading, controlling, and decision making.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
14. Controlling is the process of creating work structures and systems and arranging resources to
accomplish goals and objectives.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
1-3
, Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
15. Henry Mintzberg identified the set of roles that managers perform as technical, human, and
conceptual.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
16. Managerial roles that involve working directly with other people, according to Henry Mintzberg, are
called human roles.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
17. A manager’s informational roles include being a figurehead, leader, and liaison.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
18. According to Henry Mintzberg, when a manager acts as a disturbance handler, this is an interpersonal
role.
Ans: False
Bloom’s: Knowledge
Level: Easy
Learning Objective 3: Describe the skills needed for great leadership and management.
Section Reference: Managers, Team Leaders, and Organizational Behavior
19. Managerial roles involving decision making that affects other people, according to Henry Mintzberg,
are called technical roles.
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