Exam 9: Employee Attitudes and Their Effects

According to the characterizations of employee responses,being passively destructive is classified as _____.

Which of the following ailments is the most prevalent reason for employee presenteeism?

_____ is the capacity to measure what the survey instrument claims to measure.

Affective commitment is a negative emotional state in which employees fail to exert effort and choose to leave the organization.

_____ is the proportion of employees leaving an organization during a given time period.

The nature of a worker's environment off the job does not influence his or her feelings on the job.

_____ is the capacity of a survey instrument to produce consistent results,regardless of who administers it or when someone responded to it.

Which of the following is most likely a reason against unethical rule-bending?

Showing appreciation for citizenship behavior can push employee attitudes in a more favorable direction.

The level of satisfaction leads to either greater or lesser commitment,which then affects effort and eventually affects performance.

What are organizational citizenship behaviors? Provide an example of such behavior. Since you are asking for an example,would it be better to add that students' answers will vary?

Job satisfaction is an affective attitude-a feeling of relative like or dislike toward something.

Higher job satisfaction is associated with higher employee turnover.

Attitudes influence behavior,but behavior has no effect on attitudes.

Dissatisfied employees do not necessarily plan to be absent,but they seem to find it easier to respond to the opportunities to do so on a spontaneous basis.

When does presenteeism occur? Describe the common factors of presenteeism.

Group morale is of least significance when describing overall group satisfaction.

A manager should be sure that any instrument used to measure job satisfaction is either valid or reliable.

Which of the following is a factor that stimulates employee commitment?

Which of the following statements is true of intranets?