Organizational behavior correct answers a field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations; focuses on why individuals and groups in organizations act the way they do
Human resource management cor...
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Organizational behavior correct answers a field of study devoted to understanding, explaining,
and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations;
focuses on why individuals and groups in organizations act the way they do
Human resource management correct answers takes the theories and principles from OB and
explores the "nuts and bolts" applications of those principles in organizations
Strategic management correct answers focuses on the product choices and industry
characteristics that affect an organization's profitability
2 primary outcomes in OB correct answers job performance and organizational commitment
Factors that affect performance and commitment correct answers individual mechanisms,
individual characteristics, group mechanisms, and organizational mechanisms
Individual mechanisms correct answers job satisfaction, stress, motivation, trust justice and
ethics, learning and decision making
individual characteristics correct answers -personality and cultural values
-ability
group mechanisms correct answers -team characteristics and diversity
-team processes and communication
-leader power and negotiation
-leader styles and behaviors
Open systems correct answers self-sustaining systems that use energy to transform resources
from the environment into some sort of output
Effective management of organizational behavior correct answers can help a firm become more
profitable because good ppl are a valuable resource
-not only rare but hard to imitate
Theory correct answers a collection of assertions, both verbal and symbolic, that specifies how
and why variables are related, as well as the conditions in which they should be related
Theories about OB correct answers built from a combination of interviews, observation, research
reviews, and reflection
Correlation correct answers a statistic that expresses the strength of a relationship between 2
variables (-1 to 1)
, - a .50 is strong
- a .30 is moderate
-a .10 is weak
Resource-based view correct answers describes what exactly makes resources valuable
-what makes them capable of creating LT profits for the firm
-resources include financial, physical, and OB resources like knowledge, ability, wisdom, image,
culture, and goodwill
Inimitable correct answers resource based view suggests a resource is more valuable when it
cannot be imitated by competitors
Contingency approach correct answers organizational behavior is affected by a large number of
interacting factors
Levels of OB analysis correct answers -individual processes (work attitudes)
-group processes (communication)
-organizational processes (structure)
Examples of inimitable resources correct answers -history
-numerous small decisions
-socially complex resources
Characteristics of an ideal bureaucracy correct answers -formal rules and regulations
-impersonal treatment
-division of labor
-hierarchical structure
-authority structure
-lifelong career commitment
-rationality
Job performance correct answers the value of the set of employee behaviors that contribute,
either positively or negatively, to organizational goal accomplishment
Task performance correct answers refers to employee behaviors that are directly involved in the
transformation of organizational resources into the goods/services that the firm produces
-the tasks, duties, and responsibilities that are a core part of the job
routine task performance correct answers involved well known responses to demands that occur
in a normal, routine or otherwise predictable way
adaptive task performance correct answers employee responses to task demands that are novel,
unusual, or unpredictable
-commonly known as adaptability
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