Exam 1: Introduction to the Field of Organizational Behaviour

The "triple-bottom-line" philosophy says that successful organizations focus on financial performance three times more often than do less successful organizations.

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

Which of the following statements about the field of organizational behaviour is FALSE?

Which of these statements about the field of organizational behaviour is TRUE?

The study of OB wasn't formally organized until the 1970s.

The open systems perspective emphasizes that organizations are effective when they maintain a good "fit" with their external environments.

Values represent an individual's short-term beliefs about what will happen in the future.

All organizations have a collective sense of purpose.

The degree to which a person minimizes conflict between work and nonwork demands refers to:

The most obvious form of intellectual capital is one's level of education.

When we describe multiculturalism we are primarily referring to surface-level diversity.

Almost all organizational behaviour theories share an implicit or explicit objective of making organizations more effective.

The field of organizational behaviour relies on common sense to understand organizational phenomena.

As part of the knowledge management process,experimentation mainly affects:

Which of the following best describes the high-performance work practices perspective?

At present there is only one organizational behaviour perspective which adequately defines organizational effectiveness.

Communications,marketing,and information systems are three emerging fields from which organizational behaviour is now acquiring knowledge.

Which of the following does NOT represent a belief that anchors organizational behaviour?

The amount of outputs relative to inputs in the organization's transformation process is referred to as:

The organizational learning perspective states that an organization's effectiveness depends on: