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The document discusses various topics related to organizational behavior and management. It addresses concepts like values and attitudes, personality, emotions, decision making, motivation, and leadership. Multiple choice questions are provided relating to these topics, with answers indicating whether statements about the concepts are true or false.

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The lives of Xers have been shaped by globalization, MTV, AIDS, and computers. Your Answer: True

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Instrumental values are preferable modes of behavior, or means of achieving one's terminal values. Answer: True

3.

The loyalty of Boomers is to their careers. True

Organizations in a society low in uncertainty avoidance are likely to have more formal rules. Answer: False

Job involvement refers to an individual's general attitude toward his or her job. Correct Answer: False

Attitudes and values are synonymous terms. Your Answer: False

Research has concluded that people seek consistency among their attitudes but not between their attitudes and behavior. Answer: False

The theory of cognitive dissonance seeks to

explain the linkage between values and attitudes. Correct Answer: False

At the individual level, satisfaction generally leads to productivity. Correct Answer: False

Neglect is an active and destructive response to dissatisfaction in which an employee waits for conditions to improve. Correct Answer: False :

If personality characteristics were completely dictated by heredity, they would be fixed at birth and no amount of experience could alter them. Answer: True

A substantial body of research supports the MBTI as a valid measure of personality. Your Answer: False

Individuals with an internal

locus of control believe that they are masters of their own fate. Your Answer: True

Individuals with Holland's investigative personality are well suited for careers as small business managers. Correct Answer: False

Moods are intense feelings that are directed at someone or something. Your Answer: False

Displayed emotions are innate. Correct Answer: False

Jamie Dimon is the name of the CEO who turned around the situation at Bank One. Correct Answer: True

Evidence confirms there is no real difference, between men and women when it comes to emotional reactions and ability

to read others. Correct Answer: False

There tends to be high agreement on what emotions mean within cultures, but not between. Your Answer: True

People who are good at reading others' emotions may be more effective in their jobs. Your Answer: True

The reality of a situation is what is behaviorally important. Answer: False

Expectations can distort your perceptions in that you will see what you expect to see. Your Answer: True

Projection is the idea that people selectively interpret what they see based on their interests, background, experience, and attitudes. Your Answer: False

Interviewers can make perceptual judgments that are often inaccurate during an employment interview. Your Answer: True

If you expect to see that older workers can't learn a new job skill, you will probably perceive that, whether it is accurate or not. Correct Answer: True

The rational decision-making model assumes that the alternative that yields the lowest perceived value will be chosen. Your Answer: False

The bounded rationality model assumes that the decision maker will simplify the problem. Correct Answer: True

Intuitive decision making is a conscious process created out of experience. Your Answer: False

Correct!

We tend to be prone to overestimating unlikely events like an airplane crash. This is an example of the representative heuristic. Correct Answer: False

Utilitarianism dominates business decision making. Correct Answer: True

In MBO, goals are unilaterally set by the employee and communicated to the boss.

Correct Answer: False

Employee involvement is a participative process that uses the entire capacity of employees and is designed to encourage increased commitment to the organization's success. Your Answer: True

Quality circles have the authority to find problems, assess alternative actions, and implement a solution. Your Answer: False

Motivation is a personality trait. Your Answer: False

According to Maslow, a need that is essentially satisfied no longer motivates. Your Answer: True

Theory X assumptions hold a basically negative view of human beings. Your Answer: True

According to Herzberg, the opposite of "satisfaction" is "dissatisfaction". Your Answer: False

Hygiene factors usually lead to job satisfaction when present in a job. Correct Answer: False

The achievement need can be stimulated through training. Your Answer: True

According to goal-setting theory, a generalized goal will produce a higher level of output than a specific goal. Correct Answer: False

Underpayment and overpayment, according to equity theory, tend to produce similar reactions to correct the inequities. Correct Answer: False

The desire for friendly and close interpersonal relationships is Need for Affiliation. Correct Answer: True

In expectancy theory, the strength of a person's motivation to perform depends in part on how strongly he believes he can achieve what he attempts. Your Answer: False

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