Organizational Behaviour Questions & Answers

Organizational Behaviour Questions & Answers ___ is whether something will predict performance at work - ANSWER: Validity -Gender differences - ANSWER: Main distinction of gender is absenteeism. Women are more likely to be absent because they are more likely to have children and be absent because of such. . I once met "Joe Pitt," a Pitt employee who didn't say "goodbye" or "later", but rather ended all of his conversations with "hail to Pitt." An employee who identifies with and is emotionally attached to an organization to this extent likely has an extremely high level of: a. affective organizational commitment b. organizational disidentification c. normative organizational commitment d. neutral organizational identification - ANSWER: a. affective organizational commitment 11. Katie reports directly to the CEO of the company, who is mean and a bad person. He yells at Katie all day on Tuesday. What is she likely to do in response? a. consistent with social exchange theory, she we will yell back at her boss, as he is the source of her frustration b. she will yell at her kids when she gets home, even though the kids didn't do anything wrong c. she will light the office building on fire to retaliate d. she will tell herself over and over again that she is a bad employee e. she will call up Laurie, who is bored, and they will "knock over" (rob) a liquor store just for kicks - ANSWER: she will yell at her kids when she gets home, even though the kids didn't do anything wrong 360-degree feedback - ANSWER: □ Instead of just you getting evaluation from performance, you would get feedback from people below you, lateral to you, and in other positions Difficult to use if all employees aren't trained on how to do evaluations; some people may have bad motives to sabotage people 4 fundamental motives when we're interacting with people - ANSWER: want to feel good, process info efficiently, feel like we belong, feel that we're in control A kid wearing shorts and a tshirt to an interview demonstrates____? - ANSWER: low in self - monitoring A New car not making us happy is an example of? - ANSWER: poor affective forecasting i.e. "Miswant" Abilities are