Chapter yiuy 14: Great Leaders: An Evidenced-Based Approach
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, Chapter
01Introduction to Organizational Behavior: An Evidence-Based
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Approach
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True / False Questions
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1. The major challenge and critical competitive advantage for any organization is the
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humanresource of that company.
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True False
2. Casey, a relationship manager in a bank creates value for her organization through
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her networks, connections, and friends. These values can be referred to as "positive
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psychologicalcapital."
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True False
3. Roger, a sales manager for Heust Pvt. Ltd., is impressed with his new sales
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executive, Tim.According to Roger, Tim is optimistic, can perform well under
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pressure, and is very confidentabout what he does. These qualities can be referred to
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4. The problems with human organizations and the solutions over the ages have
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undergonedrastic changes compared to their emphasis and surrounding
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environmental context.
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True False
5. A paradigm establishes only written
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rules.True
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6. ‘Paradigm shift' refers to the situation in which those in the existing paradigm may
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not evensee the changes that are occurring, and therefore, cannot analyze the
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changes.
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True False
,7. Reasons for considerable resistance to change and difficulty to move from
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the oldmanagement paradigm to the new can be explained by the "paradigm
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effect."
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True False
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8. The fact that today's managers are competent in their functional specialization is
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sufficient to reiterate that most of them paid close attention to the conceptual and
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human dimensions oftheir jobs.
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True False
y i u y
9. According to Theory X, if employees were kept happy, they would
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become highperformers.
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True False
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10. Theory X is the natural choice for most organizations in today's
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environment.True
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11. Most of the practicing managers and their organizations cultures believe, fully
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implement,and consistently adhere to a full-fledged HPWPs approach to management.
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True False
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12. The movement to not only recognize, but also do something about the
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"Knowing-DoingGap" is the movement towards evidence-based management.
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True False
y i u y
13. Most of the "new management practices" are essentially a readapted version of
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14. The Hawthorne studies were more a result of planned study than a
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serendipitousdiscovery.
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True False
15. The Hawthorne effect postulates that the increase in productivity can be attributed
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to thespecial attention received by the participants.
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True False
16. Behavioral science is almost as old as the physical and biological
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sciences.True False
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17. According to meta-analysis, if one study shows that a management technique
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doesn't workand another study shows that it does, an average of those results is the
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best estimate of how well that management practice works (or doesn't work).
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True False
18. The experimental design of research used in organizational behavior is largely
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borrowedfrom sociology.
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True False
19. The primary aim of any research design, establishing a cause-and-effect
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relationship, isaccomplished through the experimental design.
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True False
20. Laboratory studies tend to have better external validity than field
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studies.True False
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