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 High neuroticism External locus of control Question 6 Organizational commitment refers to an employee's contractual obligation to provide a minimum amount of time and effort to the organization in return for a fair day's pay from the organization. True False Question 7 Employee involvement tends to have which of the following benefits in decision making? Leads to a more accurate definition of the problem Improves the number and quality of alternative solutions Increases the likelihood of selecting the best alternative Strengthens employee commitment to the solution All of these statements are correct Question 8 Competencies relate most closely to which element in the MARS model of behavior and performance? Motivation Situational factors Role perceptions Ability Research evidence Question 9 Incongruence between a company's dominant values and an employee's values is known to: Increase employee stress Increase employee chance of quitting Increase chance that the employees decisions will differ from the organization's preferences All of the above Have no effect on employee behavior or decision making Question 10 Social Cognitve Theory states that: A. a behavioral B. a learning theory C. an existential D. an agentic Question 11 In the section on cross - cultural values, the textbook warns that: A. the cross - cultural data presented are based on a very small sample (less than 10 people in each country studied). B. the definitions of most values have changed over the past decade, so most cross - cultural information has little meaning anymore. C. several cultures don't have any values, but this isn't mentioned in the literature. D. diverse societies such as the United States have a wide range of values even though the information presented assumes that everyone in the country has similar values. E. all of the above Question 12 The highest level need in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is: A. esteem B. safety C. power D. belongingness E. self - actualization Question 13 _______ is a conscious process of making choices among one or more alternatives with the intention of moving toward some desired state of affairs. A. Decision making B. Bounded rationality C. Divergent thinking D. Prospect theory E. Scenario planning Question 14 Employees are empowered when they: A. practice job specialization B. experience self - reinforcement C. engage in positive self - talk D. experience freedom and discretion E. experience self - reinforcement and engage in positive self - talk Question 15 Social identity theory says that: A. we define ourselves in terms of our membership in certain groups and our differences with people who belong to other groups.