, ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR:
BRIDGING SCIENCE AND PRACTICE.
VERSION 4.0. BY TALYA BAUER AND
BERRIN ERDOGAN
FWK Test Item File
Chapter 1
TRUE/FALSE
(True)
1. Flat World Knowledge was started by two textbook publishing industry veterans.
2. Flat World Knowledge is improving on the traditional publishing model but is not
innovating much.
(False)
3. So far, Flat World Knowledge is a start up without any external funding.
(False)
4. Most successful CEOs believe, ―A company is only as good as the innovation it
creates.‖
(False)
5. Current research suggests that the average employee today will change jobs 10
times in 20 years.
(True)
6. Organizational behavior is the systematic study and application of knowledge
about how individuals and groups act within the organizations where they work.
(True)
7. Emile is seated in a lecture where the instructor is discussing personality. He is
most likely in a sociology class.
(False)
8. The study of organizational behavior analyzes the three levels of individual,
organization, and society.
(False)
9. If I am examining how my manager‘s behavior influences my work group, I am
looking at the organizational level of analysis in the organizational behavior
discipline.
(False)
10. Organizational behavior matters at three critical levels because it analyzes what
you care about, what employers care about, and what organizations care about.
(True)
11. Successful organizations tend to limit the amount of information shared by
,maintaining a centralized structure.
, (False)
12. Research shows that those organizations that are more effective limit the amount
of feedback they provide employees, limit the amount of information shared, and
allow roles to be ambiguous.
(False)
13. Those firms that are categorized as successful tend to provide employment
security, train employees, and reduce status differences.
(True)
14. Financially there is little incentive to attain a higher level degree.
(False)
15. The unemployment rate decreases as the level of education attained increases.
(True)
16. In general, the more training you have, the more financial success you will
achieve.
(True)
17. Journaling is a technique that helps you chart your progress as you learn new
skills.
(True)
18. The discipline of organizational behavior is simply common sense.
(False)
19. Michael is an auditory learner. He learns best by actually doing things and
learning from trial and error.
(False)
20. A kinesthetic learner is very likely to avoid taking once a week classes as they
require too much sitting and listening time.
(True)
21. Close-ended survey questions can be very time consuming to summarize and
very hard to interpret.
(False)
22. Glen is interested in finding out how effective a new incentive program might be
in an organization. He chooses two departments to focus upon in a company.
One department works under the incentive program, one does not. This is an
experimental design study.
(True)
23. Case studies suffer from questions as to whether the results of one organization
are generalizable to other situations and organizations.
(True)
BRIDGING SCIENCE AND PRACTICE.
VERSION 4.0. BY TALYA BAUER AND
BERRIN ERDOGAN
FWK Test Item File
Chapter 1
TRUE/FALSE
(True)
1. Flat World Knowledge was started by two textbook publishing industry veterans.
2. Flat World Knowledge is improving on the traditional publishing model but is not
innovating much.
(False)
3. So far, Flat World Knowledge is a start up without any external funding.
(False)
4. Most successful CEOs believe, ―A company is only as good as the innovation it
creates.‖
(False)
5. Current research suggests that the average employee today will change jobs 10
times in 20 years.
(True)
6. Organizational behavior is the systematic study and application of knowledge
about how individuals and groups act within the organizations where they work.
(True)
7. Emile is seated in a lecture where the instructor is discussing personality. He is
most likely in a sociology class.
(False)
8. The study of organizational behavior analyzes the three levels of individual,
organization, and society.
(False)
9. If I am examining how my manager‘s behavior influences my work group, I am
looking at the organizational level of analysis in the organizational behavior
discipline.
(False)
10. Organizational behavior matters at three critical levels because it analyzes what
you care about, what employers care about, and what organizations care about.
(True)
11. Successful organizations tend to limit the amount of information shared by
,maintaining a centralized structure.
, (False)
12. Research shows that those organizations that are more effective limit the amount
of feedback they provide employees, limit the amount of information shared, and
allow roles to be ambiguous.
(False)
13. Those firms that are categorized as successful tend to provide employment
security, train employees, and reduce status differences.
(True)
14. Financially there is little incentive to attain a higher level degree.
(False)
15. The unemployment rate decreases as the level of education attained increases.
(True)
16. In general, the more training you have, the more financial success you will
achieve.
(True)
17. Journaling is a technique that helps you chart your progress as you learn new
skills.
(True)
18. The discipline of organizational behavior is simply common sense.
(False)
19. Michael is an auditory learner. He learns best by actually doing things and
learning from trial and error.
(False)
20. A kinesthetic learner is very likely to avoid taking once a week classes as they
require too much sitting and listening time.
(True)
21. Close-ended survey questions can be very time consuming to summarize and
very hard to interpret.
(False)
22. Glen is interested in finding out how effective a new incentive program might be
in an organization. He chooses two departments to focus upon in a company.
One department works under the incentive program, one does not. This is an
experimental design study.
(True)
23. Case studies suffer from questions as to whether the results of one organization
are generalizable to other situations and organizations.
(True)
