POST MGT405 Midterm Exam Fall 2014
A midterm exam on management principles and leadership.
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POST MGT405 MIDTERM EXAM FALL 2014
Question
Question 1
Which of the following would be considered employee involvement?
A legally mandated union-management health and safety committee.
A supervisor casually asking an employee whether the company should adopt a new type of
work schedule.
All of these statements are considered employee involvement.
Question 2
Mental models are __________ that guide perceptions and behavior.
Stereotypes
Forms of punishment
Self-fulfilling prophecies
Broad world views
Action learning practices
Question 3
Which discipline has provided organizational behavior with much of its theoretical foundation
for team dynamics, organizational power, and organizational socialization?
Sociology
Psychology
Economics
Industrial engineering
Political science
Question 4
Goal setting influences employee behavior and performance mainly by improving:
A. situational contingencies and learned abilities.
B. aptitudes and learned abilities.
C. motivation and role perceptions.
D. role perceptions and learned abilities.
E. motivation and aptitudes.
Question 5
Which 'Big Five' personality dimension is most valuable for predicting job performance?
Extroversion
Openness to experience
Conscientiousness
Question
Question 1
Which of the following would be considered employee involvement?
A legally mandated union-management health and safety committee.
A supervisor casually asking an employee whether the company should adopt a new type of
work schedule.
All of these statements are considered employee involvement.
Question 2
Mental models are __________ that guide perceptions and behavior.
Stereotypes
Forms of punishment
Self-fulfilling prophecies
Broad world views
Action learning practices
Question 3
Which discipline has provided organizational behavior with much of its theoretical foundation
for team dynamics, organizational power, and organizational socialization?
Sociology
Psychology
Economics
Industrial engineering
Political science
Question 4
Goal setting influences employee behavior and performance mainly by improving:
A. situational contingencies and learned abilities.
B. aptitudes and learned abilities.
C. motivation and role perceptions.
D. role perceptions and learned abilities.
E. motivation and aptitudes.
Question 5
Which 'Big Five' personality dimension is most valuable for predicting job performance?
Extroversion
Openness to experience
Conscientiousness
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University
Alliance University
Subject
Business Management