Quiz Questions Flashcards

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What are the two main outcomes of organizational behavior?
- job performance, organizational commitment
- job performance, job satisfaction
- job satisfaction, organizational commitment
- job satisfaction, work motivation

A

job performance, organizational commitment

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Which of the following is a perspective that argues that managers should use research evidence to inform their work?
- evidence based management
- traditional management
- contingency approach
- management by objectives

A

Evidence Based Management

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3
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Which of the following represents no statistical relationship between two variables?
- r = 1
- r = -1
- r = -2
- r = 0

A

r = 0

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Which of the following statements is true?
- A correlation of -0.90 is a small correlation
- Meta-analysis is a statistical summary of the relationship between two variables found in one study
- A high correlation between variable A and variable B does not mean A causes B
- In a diagram/model, each arrow points from the outcome to the predictor

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A high correlation between variable A and variable B does not mean A causes B

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What are the three types of job performance?
- citizenship behavior, individual performance, team performance
- task performance, citizenship behavior, counterproductive behavior
- decision-making, interpersonal performance, counterproductive behavior
- task performance, leadership, interpersonal performance

A

task performance, citizenship behavior, counterproductive behavior

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6
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What are the 3 types of task performance?

A

routine, adaptive, creative

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7
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What are the two main types/targets of citizenship behavior?

A

Organizational, interpersonal

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8
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Which of the following is NOT a problem with performance evaluations that we mentioned in class
- ambiguous criteria
- mismatch between expectations and incentives (rewarding A while hoping for B)
- rater biases
- managers’ lack of perfectionism

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Managers’ lack of perfectionism

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