Organizational Behavior C715 204 Review Questions With Solutions

What are some examples of instrumental values? - ️️Personal discipline, self improvemet, autonomy, self reliance, kindness, ambition. What are some examples of Terminal Values? - ️️Economic Success, social recognition, world peace, Meaning of life What is an example of an instrumental value according to the Rokeach value survey? - ️️personal discipline- a behavior What is an example of externally caused behavior? - ️️An employee is late to work because of a punctured tire. What is an example of an internally caused behavior? - ️️An employee postpones a meeting because he overslept. An employee was fired because he violated a company policy. An employee was promoted when he achieved more than the assigned objectives. According to the attribution theory, if a behavior scores ________, we tend to attribute it to external causes. - ️️low on consistency According to the attribution theory, if a behavior scores ________, we tend to attribute it to external causes. - ️️High on Distinctivness, and Consensus ) Which of the following terms refers to a situation in which a person inaccurately perceives a second person, and the resulting expectations cause the second person to behave in ways consistent with the original perception? - ️️Self Fulfilling Prophecy What is the tendency to seek out information that reaffirms past choices? - ️️Confirmation Bias What is the term that refers to determining if someones behavior is external or internal? - ️️Attribution Theory What is the term that refers to a comparison with other people and ranking them higher or lower? - ️️Contrast Effect What is true regarding the rational decision-making model? - ️️It assumes that an individual is able to identify all relevant options in an unbiased manner. Define Bounded Rationality. - ️️It involves constructing simplified models without capturing all their complexity. What is an unconscious decision making process created from distilled experience? - ️️Intuitive Decision making model. The tendency to seek out information that reaffirms past choices and to discount information that contradicts past judgments is known as a(n) ________ bias. - ️️Confirmation Bias The tendency to fixate on initial information from which one then fails to adequately adjust. - ️️Anchoring Bias A manager doing performance appraisals gives more weight to recent employee behaviors than to behaviors of 6 or 9 months earlier. This shows that the manager's perception is affected by a(n) ________ bias. - ️️availability bias- the tendency for people to base their judgements on information that is readily available. If Alberta is a categorized as a Theory X manager, what behaviors is she most likely to exhibit? - ️️She will strictly control all the details of any project she is managing