OBM Test 1 Questions and Answers
interpersonal skills - ✅✅the ability to deal effectively with other people
conceptual skills - ✅✅skills that involve the ability to picture the organization
as a whole and the relationship among its various parts
diagnostic skills - ✅✅The ability to understand cause-and-effect relationships
and to recognize the optimal solutions to problems
System - ✅✅A group of parts that work together as a whole
situational perspective - ✅✅suggests that in most organizations, situations and
outcomes are influenced by other variables
Interactionalism - ✅✅suggests that individuals and situations interact
continuously to determine individuals' behavior
Scientific Management - ✅✅a management theory using efficiency experts to
examine each work operations and find ways to minimize the time needed to
complete it
Human Relations Movement - ✅✅a management approach that advocates the
idea that supervisors should receive behavioral training to manage subordinates
in ways that elicit their cooperation and increase their productivity
, Performance Behavior - ✅✅the total set of work-related behaviors that the
organization expects employees to display
productivity behavior - ✅✅products or services created per unit of input
Theory - ✅✅how and why variables are related and the conditions of the
relation
meta-analysis - ✅✅a procedure for statistically combining the results of many
different research studies
intuition - ✅✅the ability to understand something immediately, without the
need for conscious reasoning.
Dependant variable - ✅✅the variable predicted to be affected by something
else
Scientific Method - ✅✅identify and replicates a result using a variety of
methods, samples, and settings
correlation - ✅✅A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together,
and thus of how well either factor predicts the other.
independent variable - ✅✅The experimental factor that is manipulated
interpersonal skills - ✅✅the ability to deal effectively with other people
conceptual skills - ✅✅skills that involve the ability to picture the organization
as a whole and the relationship among its various parts
diagnostic skills - ✅✅The ability to understand cause-and-effect relationships
and to recognize the optimal solutions to problems
System - ✅✅A group of parts that work together as a whole
situational perspective - ✅✅suggests that in most organizations, situations and
outcomes are influenced by other variables
Interactionalism - ✅✅suggests that individuals and situations interact
continuously to determine individuals' behavior
Scientific Management - ✅✅a management theory using efficiency experts to
examine each work operations and find ways to minimize the time needed to
complete it
Human Relations Movement - ✅✅a management approach that advocates the
idea that supervisors should receive behavioral training to manage subordinates
in ways that elicit their cooperation and increase their productivity
, Performance Behavior - ✅✅the total set of work-related behaviors that the
organization expects employees to display
productivity behavior - ✅✅products or services created per unit of input
Theory - ✅✅how and why variables are related and the conditions of the
relation
meta-analysis - ✅✅a procedure for statistically combining the results of many
different research studies
intuition - ✅✅the ability to understand something immediately, without the
need for conscious reasoning.
Dependant variable - ✅✅the variable predicted to be affected by something
else
Scientific Method - ✅✅identify and replicates a result using a variety of
methods, samples, and settings
correlation - ✅✅A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together,
and thus of how well either factor predicts the other.
independent variable - ✅✅The experimental factor that is manipulated
