MGMT 310A Exam 1 Study Guide || with 100% Error-free Solutions.
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MGMT 310A
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MGMT 310A
What is the definition of organizational behavior (OB)? correct answers A field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and improving the attitude and behaviors of individuals in group and organizations
Learning and decision making
Understanding WHY something happens as it does
- evi...
MGMT 310A Exam 1 Study Guide || with 100% Error-free
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What is the definition of organizational behavior (OB)? correct answers A field of study devoted
to understanding, explaining, and improving the attitude and behaviors of individuals in group
and organizations
Learning and decision making
Understanding WHY something happens as it does
- evidence-based management
- observe negative and positive outcomes
How is OB distinct from other areas of business-related research? correct answers distinct from
HR and strategic management
What topics and concepts has OB borrowed from other research domains (e.g., industrial and
organizational psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics)? correct answers We borrow
from:
- industrial organization
- social psychology
- sociology
- anthropology
- economics
What are the two primary outcomes in studies of OB? correct answers - organization
mechanisms
- group mechanisms
- individual characteristics
Why might firms that are good at OB tend to be more profitable? correct answers making rare
products= hard to replicate
What are the types of resources that firms that are good at OB have? correct answers Money
What makes it difficult to mimic OB? correct answers resources are valuable when they are
RARE
What are the components of the scientific method? correct answers theory, hypothesis, data,
verification
Theory DEF correct answers a collection of assertions that specify how/why variables are related
Hypothesis DEF correct answers written predictions that specify the relationships between
variables that have been theorized
, Data DEF correct answers collect actual data that explicitly allows you to test the hypothesis
- questionnaire
- interviews
- observation
Verification DEF correct answers we use the correlation to test to verify our hypothesis and
conclude whether our theory was supported or not
How are correlations interpreted? correct answers how two things are related
- the direction of the relationship
- positive correlation= two variables that move in the same direction
- negative correlation= two variables that move in the opposite direction
How to measure correlations? correct answers 0.1 is a small correlation
0.3 is a moderate correlation
0.5> is a large correlation
True or False? Correlation=causation correct answers FALSE
How to prove causation? correct answers correlation, temporal precedence (inv. variable/dep.
variable), elimination of alternative explanations
What is meta-analysis, and how is it more advantageous than a single correlation? correct
answers Forms the foundation for evidence-based management
- little can be learned from just one study
- the correlation from multiple studies
- more compelling than just one correlation
What does it mean when we utilize 'evidence-based management?' correct answers - helps use
ask questions and scientifically test questions to help improve the workplace
- allows us to think organizational functioning and create a better experience for employees
What is the definition of job performance? correct answers the value of the set of employee
behaviors that contribute, pos or neg, to organizational goal accomplishment
- focuses on behavior employee can control
- places a 'boundary condition' on what constitutes successful job performance (on call/break)
- behaviors that make a 'good performer' (task performance, citizenship behavior,
counterproductive work behavior)
What is task performance? How do organizations identify what constitutes job performance?
correct answers the behaviors directly involved in transforming organizational resources into the
goods and services an organization produces
How do routine, adaptive, and creative performance differ from each other? correct answers
Routine Task Performance = 'typical' issues at work
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