Test Bank Organizational Behavior 7th Edition by McShane
68 Test Bank True – False Questions
9 Test Free Text Questions
53 Test Bank Multiple Choice Questions
In the field of organizational behavior, organizations are described as:
1.

A. entities which are considered a legal grouping of people and systems.

2.

B. groups of people who work independently to achieve a collective goal.

3.

C. social entities with a publicly stated set of formal goals.

4.

D. groups of people with independent profit-centered motives and objectives.

5.

E. groups of people who work interdependently towards some purpose.

The perspective that effective organizations incorporate several
workplace practices that leverage the potential of human capital is called
the _____ perspective.
1.

A. HPWP

C. Economics

4.

D. Industrial engineering


5.

E. Political science

Deep-level diversity includes:
1.

A. physiological differences.

2.

B. attitudes.

3.

C. ethnicity.

4.

D. gender.

5.



A. Organizational learning

2.

B. Open systems

3.

C. Multidisciplinary

4.

D. Systematic research

5.

E. Intellectual capital

Which of the following perspectives of organizational effectiveness
argues that companies take their sustenance from the environment and, in
turn, affect that environment through their outputs?


1.

A. Stakeholder

2.


4.

D. companies should treat their local, national, and global customers fairly.

5.

E. companies should try to support the economic, social, and environmental
spheres of sustainability.

Organizational behavior knowledge:
1.

A. originates mainly from models developed in chemistry and other natural
sciences.

2.

B. accurately predicts how anyone will behave in any situation.

3.

C. is more appropriate for people who work in computer science than in marketing.

4.

5.

D. helps us to understand, predict, and influence the behaviors of others in
organizational settings.
E. is important only for the managers of an organization.

1.

A. legal entities that must abide by government regulations and pay taxes.

2.

B. physical structures with observable capital equipment.

3.

C. social entities with a publicly stated set of formal goals.

4.

D. groups of people who work interdependently towards some purpose.

5.

E. any social entity with profit-centered motives and objectives.

Which of the following is most closely associated with corporate social
responsibility?
1.

A. Knowledge management

2.

B. Triple bottom line



4.

D. knowledge sharing.

5.

E. documentation.

_____ diversity includes differences in the psychological characteristics
of employees, including personalities, beliefs, values, and attitudes.
1.

A. Reflective

2.

B. Deep-level

3.

C. Organizational

4.

D. Surface-level

5.

E. External.


A. measuring intellectual capital.

2.

B. knowledge acquisition.

3.

C. increasing organizational memory.

4.

D. knowledge sharing.

5.

E. unlearning.

Which of the following statements is true about globalization and
organizational behavior?
1.
2.

3.

A. Globalization has little or no effect on organizational behavior.
B. Globalization has forced organizational behavior researchers to study only large
multinational businesses.
C. Globalization offers numerous benefits to organizations.

E. An American-based burger joint opens a new outlet in China.


A firm has good associations with its customers, suppliers, and others
who provide added mutual value for the firm. Name the form of intellectual
capital that is possessed by the firm due to its good associations.
1.

A. Structural capital

2.

B. Intellectual capital

3.

C. Human capital

4.

D. Knowledge capital

5.

E. Relationship capital

As an owner and manager of Tricky Toys, Bob Baldwin has been
fascinated by all the changes occurring and transforming the workplace.
Bob is concerned about the important OB trends that he can understand
and take advantage of in developing and positioning his company in the

world.


2.

B. serves diverse customers within the firm's home country.

3.

C. has a diverse workforce within the firm's home country.

4.

D. has a substantially strong domestic market.

5.

E. operates in a country with strict foreign trade policies.

Employees, suppliers, and governments:
1.

A. are organizational stakeholders.

2.

B. are rarely considered in organizational behavior theories.

3.


E. Organizational behavior

_____ refers to an organization's moral obligation toward all of its
stakeholders.
1.

A. Values

2.

B. Legal obligation

3.

C. Multicultural teams

4.

D. Corporate social responsibility

5.

E. Organizational behavior


Your roommate, Allison Albright, is a non-business major. When she
discovered that you are taking a course in Organizational Behavior, she
was thoroughly confused as to why one would need to study OB and what
it entails. Based on what you have studied, can you help Allison obtain
knowledge of organizational behavior? To help Allison understand some

primarily an example of:
1.

A. grafting.

2.

B. experimentation.

3.

C. knowledge sharing.

4.

D. documentation.

5.

E. organizational unlearning.

Stable, long-lasting beliefs about what is important in a variety of
situations are:
1.

A. called intellectual capital.


2.



D. organizational

5.

E. reflective

Which of the following is true according to the systematic research
anchor?
1.

A. OB topics typically relate to the individual, team and organizational levels of
analysis.

2.

B. OB should import knowledge from other disciplines, not just create its own
knowledge.

3.

C. OB theory should recognize that the effects of actions often vary with the
situation.

4.
5.

D. A particular action may have different consequences in different situations.
E. OB should study organizations by forming questions, collecting data, and
testing hypotheses against those data.

interaction?
1.

A. Gen-Xers

2.

B. Gen-Yers

3.

C. Baby Boomers

4.

D. Millennials

5.

E. Silent Generation

The ability to recognize the value of new information, assimilate it, and
use it for value-added activities is known as _____.
1.

A. perception ability

2.

B. realization capacity

C. Greater demand for firm's products

4.

D. Enhanced employee recognition

5.

E. Ability to recognize the value of new information

According to the open systems view of organizations, _____ is (are) an
input for organizations.
1.

A. incentive plans

2.

B. products

3.

C. financial resources

4.

D. employee motivation

5.



B. Economic anchor

3.

C. Social anchor

4.

D. Single level anchor

5.

E. Scientific anchor

Which of the following is a form of knowledge acquisition?
1.

A. Observation

2.

B. Experimentation

3.

C. Documentation

4.


represent 40 percent of the company's workforce. The description of
Clickz's diversity refers to:
1.

A. deep-level diversity.

2.

B. psychological diversity.

3.

C. personality diversity.

4.

D. surface-level diversity.


5.

E. attitude diversity.

A computer maintenance company wants to 'capture' the knowledge that
employees carry around in their heads by creating a database where
employees document their solutions to unusual maintenance problems.
This practice tries to:
1.

A. transform intellectual capital into knowledge management.

4.

D. reducing the level of documentation in organizations.

5.

E. building strong human capital.

_____ refers to economic, social, and cultural connectivity with people in
other parts of the world.
1.

A. OB

2.

B. Globalization

3.

C. Work/Life balance

4.

D. Knowledge management

5.

E. Corporate social responsibility



B. Organizations are like machines that operate independently of their external
environment.

3.

C. Each OB topic relates to only one level of analysis.

4.

D. The field of organizational behavior should rely on other disciplines for some of
its theory development.

5.

E. Organizational behavioral decision making does not require evidence from
research.

Organizational behavior views organizations as:
1.

A. non-systems.

2.

B. a single unitary subsystem.

3.

C. open systems.


E. frictional unemployment.

Which of the following statements is consistent with the concept of
contingency anchor?
1.

A. To obtain the best results, actions should be taken without considering their
consequences.

2.

B. A particular action may have different consequences in different situations.

3.

4.
5.

C. OB theories are based on simple, common-sense ideas about what managers
should do.
D. OB theories point out the one best way to resolve organizational problems.
E. Organizations should never be viewed as systems that process inputs to
provide outputs.

Which of the following statements is true about human capital in an
organization?
1.

A. Human capital helps the organization use opportunities more than realizing

C. It does not include the study of collective entities.

4.

D. It is less effective in studying people who interact in highly organized fashion.

5.

E. It includes team, individual, and organizational level analyses.


The open systems anchor of organizational behavior states that:
1.
2.

A. organizations affect and are affected by their external environments.
B. organizations can operate efficiently by ignoring changes in the external
environment.

3.

C. people are the most important organizational input needed for effectiveness.

4.

D. organizations should avoid internal conflicts to achieve efficiency.

5.

E. organizations should be open to internal competition to be able to obtain a

and to their counterparts in other organizations.

2.

B. OB researchers systematically study various topics at a common level rather
than at multiple levels.

3.

C. Information technology has almost no effect on organizational behavior.

4.

D. The field of organizational behavior relies exclusively on ideas generated within
the field by organizational behavior scholars.

5.

E. The origins of organizational behavior are traced mainly to the field of
economics.


The _____ perspective, also called knowledge management, views
knowledge as the main driver of competitive advantage.
1.

A. open systems

2.


True

2.

False

Organizational behavior emerged as a distinct field around the 1940s.
Before that, organizations had not been studied at all.
1.

True

2.

False

The perspective that effective organizations incorporate several
workplace practices that leverage the potential of human capital is called
high-performance work practices.
1.

True


2.

False

Organizational behavior encompasses the study of how organizations
interact with their external environments.

1.

True

2.

False

Studying OB does not make a difference in one's career success.
1.

True

2.

False

German sociologist Max Weber wrote about rational organizations and
systematic ways to organize work processes and motivate employees
through goal setting and rewards.
1.

True

2.

False


Studying OB at multiple levels is not recommended as it could lead to


The open systems perspective emphasizes that organizations survive by
adapting to changes in the external environment.
1.

True

2.

False

According to the organizational learning perspective, an effective
organization not only learns but also unlearns certain routines and
patterns of behavior.
1.

True

2.

False

According to the open systems perspective, most organizations have one
working part rather than many sub-components.
1.

True


2.


False

The best indicator of a company's effectiveness is how well it achieves its
stated objectives.
1.

True

2.

False

The organizational learning perspective is focused on physical resources
that enter and are processed in the organization.
1.

True

2.

False

Investment portfolio studies suggest that specific OB characteristics are
important "positive screens" for selecting companies with the best longterm share appreciation.
1.

True




2.

False

The "human relations" school of management emphasized the study of
employee attitudes and informal group dynamics in the workplace.
1.

True

2.

False

Organizational effectiveness is considered the "ultimate dependent
variable" in organizational behavior.
1.

True

2.

False

A company's success is only mildly influenced by the quality of its CEO.
1.

True


True

2.

False

Until the 1930s, most organizational research and practice tried to
improve work efficiency by changing working conditions and job duties.
Employee thoughts and feelings were ignored and usually considered
irrelevant.
1.

True

2.

False

The greatest value of OB knowledge is that it helps us to get things done
in the workplace.
1.

True

2.

False

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False

Values are relatively stable, evaluative beliefs that guide our preferences
for outcomes or courses of action in a variety of situations.
1.

True

2.

False

The evidence-based management approach embraces scientific methods
because they produce more valid theories to guide management
decisions.
1.

True

2.

False

Everyone agrees that organizations need to cater to a wide variety of
stakeholders.
1.

True

2.


2.

False

Surface-level diversity is evident in a person's decisions, statements, and
actions.
1.

True

2.

False

An organization's employees use information technology to perform their
jobs away from the traditional physical workplace. This is an example of
virtual work.
1.

True

2.

False

Deep-level diversity refers to the observable demographics such as age,
gender and race.
1.