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MBA704 Exam 1 Questions And Answers

Employees are complex, and theoretical understanding supported by research is needed before

applications are made to manage employees organizational behavior approach




status of OB to real world management:

only ____ of organizations buy into importance and value of human resources, incorporate high

performance work practices, and stick with these practices 1/8




The gap between managers knowing the value of the human factor and strategies to improve

performance but doing nothing about it knowing-doing gap




what are the five reasons for knowing-doing gap? • Talk but no action


• Fear

• Internal competition

• Poorly designed and complex measurement systems

• Reliance on precedent




• Use hard facts and empirical evidence to make decisions

, MBA704 Exam 1 Questions And Answers
• Make organizational decisions informed by social science and organizational research

evidence-based management




• Move decisions away from personal preference and unsystematic experience toward those

based on the best available scientific evidence

• Satisfies the need to refocus management education based on valid theory and research,

translated for effective practice evidence-based management




• Beginning of the systematic study and understanding of organizational behavior

hawthorne studies




what's a list of the four hawthorne studies -illumination studies


-relay room study

-bank wiring room study

-hawthorne effect




• Effect of light intensity on employee productivity


• Productivity increased even at moonlight level illumination studies

, MBA704 Exam 1 Questions And Answers
• Effect of workday length, rest breaks, and pay on productivity


• Productivity increased even when factors returned to normal relay room study




• Regular supervisors used; productivity decreased; output restricted by group members

bank wiring room study




• Conclusion that increased productivity was due to special attention & interesting work in relay

room study


• Minimized effect of small groups and supervision hawthorne effect




what are the five scientific perspective rules? • Purpose—understanding, prediction, and

control

• Definitions—precise and operational

• Measures—reliable and valid

• Methods—systematic

• Results—cumulative




• Why something occurs

, MBA704 Exam 1 Questions And Answers
• Allows the researcher to deduce logical propositions or hypotheses that can be tested by

acceptable research designs theory




• Primary aim of any ____ is to establish a cause-and-effect relationship

• Survey Studies


• Case Studies research design




• Manipulation of independent variables to measure their effect on, or the change in, dependent

variables, while everything else is held constant or controlled experimental design




____ validity exists if there are no plausible alternative explanations of the reported results other

than those reported internal




____ validity exists if the results are applicable to a wide range of people and situations

external




• The understanding, prediction, and management of human behavior in organizations

organizational behavior

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