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This document contains a practice test with 15 multiple choice questions about management and organizational behavior topics. The questions cover concepts such as managerial roles, evidence-based management, diversity, personality traits, cognitive dissonance, psychological empowerment, emotions, heredity, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and biases in perception. For each question, there are 5 answer choices and the correct answer is indicated.

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Practice Test 2: Humborg

This document contains a practice test with 15 multiple choice questions about management and organizational behavior topics. The questions cover concepts such as managerial roles, evidence-based management, diversity, personality traits, cognitive dissonance, psychological empowerment, emotions, heredity, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and biases in perception. For each question, there are 5 answer choices and the correct answer is indicated.

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Practice Test 2

HUMBORG
Question 1
1.________ get things done through other people. They make
decisions, allocate resources, and direct the activities of others to
attain goals.
• A) Assistants
• B) Managers
• C) Secretaries
• D) Interns
• E) Apprentices
Answer: B
Question 2
• Johanna Reid, a campaign manager at a child rights organization, recently
started working on an illiteracy project. During the project, she needs to
motivate team members to attain their project milestones and direct them
through different phases of the project. Which of the following kinds of
functions will these tasks be covered under?
• A) planning
• B) organizing
• C) scrutinizing
• D) evaluating
• E) leading
Answer: E
Question 3
• According to Mintzberg's classification of managerial roles, the role of
a(n) ________ is to transmit information received from outsiders or
from other employees to members of the organization.
• A) entrepreneur
• B) resource allocator
• C) spokesperson
• D) leader
• E) disseminator
Answer E
Question 4
• ________ refers to basing managerial decisions on the best available
scientific proof.
• A) Emergency management
• B) Personal knowledge management
• C) Property management
• D) Evidence-based management
• ANSWER: D
Question 5
• You are bringing together faculty from different behavioral disciplines to
author a new textbook in organizational behavior. Represented are
professors from psychology, sociology, social psychology, anthropology,
political science, and industrial engineering. Which faculty member is most
likely to furnish information about personality, learning, and motivation?
• A) sociology
• B) psychology
• C) anthropology
• D) political science
• E) industrial engineering
• Answer : B
Question 6
• ________ diversity refers to diversity with respect to attributes that
are less easy to observe initially but that can be inferred after more
direct experience.
• A) Surface-level
• B) Additive
• C) Demographic
• D) Deep-level
• E) Conjunctive
ANSWER: D
Question 7
• The management at Climate Action Development needs to recruit
campaign managers for its Renewable Energy Project. They are looking for
candidates who are assertive, extroverted, and who can tackle challenges
head-on. Which of the following deep-level characteristics should they
focus on to best help them recruit the right candidate for the job?
• A) race
• B) age
• C) ethnicity
• D) values
• E) personality
ANSWER: E
Question 8
• Any incompatibility between two or more attitudes or between
behavior and attitudes results in ________.
• A) organizational dissonance
• B) cognitive dissonance
• C) attitudinal clarification
• D) positivity offset
• E) affective reactance
Answer: B
Question 9
• Employees' beliefs in the degree to which they influence their work
environment, their competence, the meaningfulness of their jobs, and
their perceived autonomy is termed as ________.
• A) psychological empowerment
• B) organizational dissent
• C) organizational commitment
• D) employee engagement
• E) secondary action
Answer: A
Question 10
• Which of the following terms best describes an intense feeling
directed at someone or something?
• A) perception
• B) cognition
• C) mood
• D) reasoning
• E) emotion
ANSWER: E
Question 11
• Dianne started her day with a cup of coffee while reading the newspaper.
However, something about the day makes her feel low. When she reaches
the office, she feels upset and distracted from work although she cannot
pinpoint a reason for feeling this way. She continues to feel upset and
distracted through the rest of the day. Which of the following is she most
likely to be experiencing?
• A) a response
• B) a reaction
• C) a counteraction
• D) an attitude
• E) a mood
• Answer: E
Question 12
• Which of the following statements is most likely to be true about
differences between men and women in relation to emotional
reactions?
• A) Men are more emotionally expressive than women.
• B) Men experience emotions more intensely than women.
• C) Women express anger more frequently than men.
• D) Women tend to hold onto emotions longer than men.
• E) Men display positive emotions more frequently than women.
Question 13
• Which of the following terms refers to factors such as one's biological,
physiological, and inherent psychological makeup determined at
conception?
• A) social identity
• B) heredity
• C) behavioral contagion
• D) self-concordance
• E) social loafing
• ANSWER: B
Question 14
• What does the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator classification of "E or I"
stand for?
• A) enthusiastic/ingenious
• B) emotional/impulsive
• C) extraverted/introverted
• D) emotive/illustrative
• E) empathetic/innovative
• ANSWER C
Question 15
• A manager doing performance appraisals gives more weight to recent
employee behaviors than to behaviors of six or nine months earlier.
This shows that the manager's perception is affected by a(n)
________ bias.
• A) self-serving bias
• B) availability
• C) impact
• D) distinction
• E) hindsight
ANSWER: B

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