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How Is The Satisficing Decision Maker Best

1. The individual level looks at individual attributes like personality, values, attitudes, and perceptions. 2. The group level analyzes how individuals interact in groups and how groups influence individuals. Dynamics like communication, leadership, and decision making are studied here. 3. The organizational level looks at the overall organization structure and culture and how they shape and are shaped by individuals and groups. All three levels are interrelated since individual behavior is influenced by groups and the organization, while groups and organizations are made up of individuals whose actions also shape the wider system. Changes

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How Is The Satisficing Decision Maker Best

1. The individual level looks at individual attributes like personality, values, attitudes, and perceptions. 2. The group level analyzes how individuals interact in groups and how groups influence individuals. Dynamics like communication, leadership, and decision making are studied here. 3. The organizational level looks at the overall organization structure and culture and how they shape and are shaped by individuals and groups. All three levels are interrelated since individual behavior is influenced by groups and the organization, while groups and organizations are made up of individuals whose actions also shape the wider system. Changes

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How is the satisficing decision maker best characterized?

a. as using rationality
b. as using bounded rationality
c. as affected by anchoring bias
d. as using creativity

Which of the following is not a key component of emotional intelligence?


a. self-awareness
b. self-management
c. commitment
d. empathy

Motivation is best defined as a process that _____

a. results in a level of effort


b. intensifies an individual’s efforts
c accounts for an individual’s efforts toward attaining a goal
d. meets an individual’s needs

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs arranges those needs in which of the following


orders?
a. physiological, esteem, safety, social, and self-actualization
b. physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualization

According to Maslow, when does a need stop motivating?

a. when it is substantially satisfied


b. it never stops motivating
c. when one returns to a lower level need
d. when one chooses to move to a higher level need

Which of the following theories was proposed by Douglas McGregor?


a. Hierarchy of Needs Theory
b. Theories X and Y
c. Two-Factor Theory
d. ERG Theory

According to the goal-setting theory of motivation, highest performance is


reached when goals are set to whic level?
a. impossible but inspirational
b. difficult but attainable
c. slightly beyond a person’s actual potential d.
d. easy

Which of the following is one of the relationships proposed in expectancy theory?


a. reward-satisfaction relationship
b. satisfaction-performance relationship
c. rewards-personal goals relationship
d. effort-satisfaction relationship

Merit-based pay plans are based on


a. union negotiations
b. performance appraisal ratings
c. company profits
d. company productivity improvements

Which is the stage of group development characterized by the development of


close relationships and cohesiveness?
a. bonding
b. norming
c. performing
d. initiating
e. forming

Which of the following is a phenomenon in which group pressures for conformity


deter the group from critically appraising unusual, minority, or unpopular
views?
a. group conformity
b. groupshift
c. groupthink
d. compromise

You have decided to use the nominal group technique. Which is true about this
method?
a. This method is good for building group cohesiveness.
b. This method is good for processing ideas rapidly.
c. This method is good for encouraging independent thinking.
d. This method is an inexpensive means for generating a large number of
ideas.
Job satisfaction is best described as _____.
a. a result
b. a value
c. an attitude
d. causing high performance
e. a valued discipline

What is brainstorming?
a. a technique used to build group cohesiveness
b. a technique that tends to restrict independent thinking
c. a process for generating ideas
d. a process used mainly when group members cannot agree on a
solution

What are the five stages of group development?


a. generation, implementation, construction, production, termination
b. introduction, development, production, deterioration, adjournment
c. initiation, evolution, maturation, degeneration, termination
d. forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning
e. acting, reacting, enacting, impacting, acting

The group type that is determined by the organization chart is the _____ group.
a. job
b. work
c. authority
d. command

What is generally the result of groupthink?

► Higher quality decisions

► More risky decisions

► Less critical analysis


► Unpopular decisions
The leader shows concern for the comfort, well-being, status, and satisfaction of
___________

► Followers Not sure


► Managers
► Subordinates
► Superiors
You have decided to use the nominal group technique. Which is true about this
method?
a. This method is good for building group cohesiveness.
b. This method is good for processing ideas rapidly.
c. This method is good for encouraging independent thinking.
d. This method is an inexpensive means for generating a large number of
ideas

Which of the following is NOT true about electronic meeting?

Participants type their responses onto a computer screen


It can be highly effective under certain conditions
Group cohesiveness will be considered high Not sure
Participants will be honest and anonymous

Roles, norms, status, and cohesiveness are examples of _____.


a. structural variables
b. team mechanisms
c. static factors
d group properties

Which of the following is not true about the motivation-hygiene theory?

a. Working conditions are characterized as hygiene factors.


b. Intrinsic factors are motivators.
c. A job becomes satisfying when the dissatisfying
characteristics are removed.
d. None of the above.

Suggestion boxes, employee attitude surveys, and grievance procedures are


examples of:

a. Upward communication.
b. Horizontal communication.
c. Managerial communication.
d. Organizational structure

What does MBO provide for the individual employee?


Select correct option:

Specific personal performance objectives

Precise job descriptions

Explicit task objectives

Clear direction and purpose

Which of the following is NOT one of the scales to measure job satisfaction?

Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire


The Faces Scale
The mentor Scale
Descriptive Index

In the second stage of group development _____.


a. close relationships are developed
b. the group demonstrates cohesiveness
c. intragroup conflict often occurs
d. the job task is performed

Sami is developing marketing page for the company web site and is concerned
about the appearance of his active links. He seeks reactions from fellow
employees. The reactions he seeks are part of the:

Adjourning phase
Encoding phase
Decoding phase
Feedback phase

When do informal groups appear?


a. in response to the need for social contact
b. in reaction to formal groups
c. as a result of social needs
d. most frequently in bureaucracies

The belief that “violence is wrong” is a evaluative statement. Such an opinion


constitutes the _____ component of an attitude.
a. cognitive
b. affective
c. reflective
d. behavioral

What term is used for feelings that tend to be less intense than
emotions?
a. affect
b. cognition
c. moods
d. thoughts

What Are The Three Levels Of Analysis In Our OB Model? Are


They Related? If So, How (10) marks

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