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Chapter 02 - Individual Behavior, Personality, and Values True / False Questions Chapter 02 Individual Behavior, Personality, and Values 1. One person-job matching strategy is to select applicants whose existing competencies best fit the required task. True False 2. According to the MARS model...

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,Chapter 01 - Introduction to the Field of Organizational Behavior


Chapter 01
Introduction to the Field of Organizational Behavior

True / False Questions



1. Given that OB experts have been accumulating a distinct knowledge about behavior within
organizations, OB is referred to as a field of study.
True False



2. In order for something to be called an organization it must have buildings and equipment.
True False



3. All organizations have a collective sense of purpose, whether it's producing oil or creating
the fastest Internet search engine.
True False



4. Social entities are called organizations only when their members have complete agreement
on the goals they want to achieve.
True False



5. Accounting, OB, and Marketing are three business fields that have a clearly-defined career
path.
True False



6. An important principle in organizational behavior is that OB theories should never be used
to predict or influence organizational events.
True False



7. Everyone is a manager.
True False




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8. Three challenges organizations are facing are globalization, increasing workforce diversity
and emerging employment relationships.
True False



9. Open system organizations are unable to maintain a close alignment of the organization's
systems with the external environment.
True False



10. According to the systems perspective, most organizations have one working part rather
than many sub-components.
True False



11. The best organizational practices are those built on the notion that organizations are closed
systems.
True False



12. The open systems perspective emphasizes that organizations survive by adapting to
changes in the external environment.
True False



13. One of the fastest ways to acquire knowledge is to hire individuals or purchase entire
companies that have valued knowledge.
True False



14. Organizational effectiveness depends on the organization's capacity to acquire, share, use
and store valuable knowledge.
True False




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15. Intellectual capital includes, among other things, the knowledge captured in an
organization's systems and structures.
True False



16. The knowledge, skills and abilities of employees is an example of structural capital.
True False



17. Intellectual capital represents the stock of knowledge held by an organization.
True False



18. Structural capital includes knowledge embedded in the organization's systems and
structures.
True False



19. One way organizations can retain intellectual capital is to have high employee turn
around.
True False



20. A perspective that effective organizations incorporate several workplace practices that
leverage the potential of human capital is called high-performance work practices.
True False



21. One widely mentioned high-performance work practice is employee involvement.
True False



22. Working on a self-directed team actually reduces employee motivation because
employees feel they have no direction.
True False




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