MGT 312 Final Exam - 2017 version
MGT 312 Final Exam - 2017 version
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1) Performance on tests like the Scholastic Aptitude Test and the Graduate Management<br />
Admissions Test is likely to be most closely related to:<br />
Logical-mathematical intelligence<br />
Intrapersonal intelligence<br />
Naturalist intelligence<br />
Interpersonal intelligence<br />
2) The productive potential of an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experiences is known as:<br />
Human capital<br />
Social capital<br />
Ethical capital<br />
Soft skills<br />
3) Chris, a manager, knows that one of his employees values achievement and power. Chris<br />
should assign the employee to a job that includes:<br />
High self-direction
High influence over others<br />
High security<br />
High social value<br />
4) The steps in the process of stereotype formation and maintenance in order are:<br />
Categorization, inferences, expectations, maintenance.<br />
Inferences, categorization, expectations, maintenance.<br />
Expectations, categorization, inferences, maintenance.<br />
Categorization, expectations, inferences, maintenance.<br />
5) The potential to understand and regulate oneself is known as:<br />
Kinesthetic intelligence<br />
Intrapersonal intelligence<br />
Naturalist intelligence<br />
Interpersonal intelligence<br />
6) Janelle, one of Abdul’s employees, has performed poorly on many aspects of her job<br />
since she was hired four months ago. This is likely to be attributed to:
Internal causes<br />
Self-serving bias<br />
External causes<br />
Fundamental bias<br />
7) Camilla, a manager, notes that while Wilhelm’s written reports are very thorough and<br />
accurate, his oral presentations are not effective. Camilla is looking at:<br />
Consistency<br />
Distinctiveness<br />
Explicit factors<br />
Implicit factors<br />
8) When something is _______, it stands out from its context.<br />
Stereotypical<br />
Salient<br />
A schema<br />
Semantic
9) Self-enhancement and self-transcendence are:<br />
Personal attitudes<br />
Workplace attitudes<br />
Endpoints of one of the dimensions of values<br />
Cognitions<br />
10) A person can build his/her social capital by:<br />
Shadowing a higher-level manager<br />
Getting a mentor<br />
Learning a new language<br />
Being trained in new skills<br />
11) Which of the following is the least fixed of a person’s individual differences?<br />
Intelligence<br />
Emotions<br />
Cognitive abilities<br />
Attitudes
12) The contingency approach suggests that:<br />
A manager needs to learn a set of hard-and-fast rules.<br />
OB theories apply to all situations.<br />
There is one best way to manage.<br />
The best answer depends on the situation.<br />
13) The process that enables us to interpret and understand our surroundings is called:<br />
Stereotyping<br />
Suppression<br />
Selection<br />
Perception<br />
14) Acme Movers is a company that ships goods and cargo to all locations in the United<br />
States. The employees understand that the company's primary vision of timeliness,<br />
efficiency and low-cost services is important to maintain the competitive edge over other<br />
movers in the business. They constantly work to ensure that all deliveries reach their<br />
destinations on schedule, and the company, in turn, rewards the employees with<br />
performance-based awards and profit sharing. Which function of organizational culture is<br />
exemplified here?
Promoting social system stability<br />
Shaping behavior by helping members make sense of their surroundings<br />
Giving members an organizational identity<br />
Facilitating collective commitment<br />
15) Regarding using personality testing as part of the hiring process, experts have<br />
concluded that:<br />
The typical personality test is not a valid predictor of job performance<br />
There are many valid instruments available to managers to test for personality types<br />
Only the Big Five should be used as predictors of job performance<br />
The effects of personality on job performance are so large it cannot be ignored by managers<br />
16) The extent to which an individual identifies with an organization and commits to its goals<br />
is called:<br />
Perceived organizational support<br />
Organizational commitment<br />
Organizational satisfaction<br />
Job involvement
17) In Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior, ___________ is (are) the key link between<br />
_________.<br />
Attitudes; intentions and planned behavior<br />
Intentions; norms and attitudes<br />
Intentions; attidtudes and planned behavior<br />
Norms; intentions and planned behavior<br />
18) Keyshawn is a player on a professional football team. Because of this, his play every<br />
week is scrutinized by fans and media, as well as his own coaches. Sometimes, their<br />
comments are very negative and even personal. Keyshawn will handle this better if he has a<br />
high level of _________ intelligence.<br />
Spatial<br />
Intrapersonal<br />
Interpersonal<br />
Bodily-kinesthetic<br />
19) Research shows that, in general:<br />
Social capital decreases work group integration.
Social capital decreases organizational performance.<br />
Social capital can improve operations.<br />
Social capital increases group conflict.<br />
20) The interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding and managing people at work is<br />
called:<br />
Management dynamics<br />
Organizational dynamics<br />
Management theory<br />
Organizational behavior<br />
21) Which of the following mechanisms for changing organizational culture addresses all<br />
three levels of culture?<br />
Rites and rituals<br />
Deliberate role modeling, training, and coaching<br />
Organizational goals<br />
Workflow and organizational structure
22) Stimulation is in the ____________ part of Schwartz’s model.<br />
Openness to change<br />
Conservation<br />
Self-transcendence<br />
Self-enhancement<br />
23)<br />
___________ is associated with success for managers and salespeople.<br />
Agreeableness<br />
Emotional stability<br />
Extra<strong>version</strong><br />
Intro<strong>version</strong><br />
24) The two dimensions of the competing values framework are:<br />
Internal-external and group-individual<br />
Group-individual and stable-flexible<br />
Internal-external and anticipatory-retrospective
Internal-external and stable-flexible<br />
25) Organizations with adhocracy cultures are described as:<br />
Internally focused and valuing flexibility<br />
Externally focused and valuing flexibility<br />
Externally focused and valuing stability and control<br />
Internally focused and valuing stability and control<br />
26) Sustainable businesses tend to be run by CEOs who are:<br />
Controlling<br />
Target-driven<br />
Intelligent<br />
People-centered<br />
27) According to the Ajzen model, the strongest predictor of an employee’s behavior is (are):<br />
The employee's intentions<br />
Social norms
The employee's attitudes<br />
The employee's values<br />
28) The corporate staff in the accounting department at ABC Corporation went on 12-hour<br />
days during the holiday season, just like the regular retail employees do during that season.<br />
This is an example of a(n) _________ change.<br />
Radically innovative<br />
Product<br />
Adaptive<br />
Innovative<br />
29)<br />
Joyce finds that the members of the project team to which she has been assigned in her<br />
management class are all athletes on the college’s football and basketball teams. She<br />
immediately considers dropping the class because she thinks her experience with that team<br />
will be negative. Joyce is likely to be reacting to a:<br />
Semantic memory<br />
Self-serving bias<br />
Stereotype
Negativity bias<br />
30) The distinction between flexible and fixed individual differences:<br />
Is that managers have little or no impact on flexible differences<br />
Is that managers should hire people based on their attitudes and emotions<br />
Is that managers have little or no impact on fixed differences<br />
Has no practical value for managers