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Organizational behavior of work life balance

True and false, fill in the blank, organizational behavior questions.

Work life balance concerns are the focus of the strategic approach to organizational behavior today.

Organizational behavior is defined as the actions of individuals and groups in an organizational context.

Multicultural organizations have diverse workforces where diversity is tolerated rather than valued while plural organizations foster and value cultural differences.

Stereotypes are:

Culture concerns shared values, norms, a pattern of shared basic assumptions that is considered valid by the group and ________________________________.

An organization's culture is transmitted to its members through all of the following except for:

A business ethics myth is "ethics is relevant to business transactions".

The big five personality traits include all of the following except for

Personality traits are ______ ______characteristics that are relatively enduring and are major determinants of one's behavior and influence across a wide variety of situations.

An attitude is defined as a persistent mental state of readiness to behave and feel in an unfavorable or favorable way toward a specific idea, object, or individual.

____________ communication follows the formal structure of the organization, while __________ communication involves spontaneous interaction between people.

Encoding the communication process involves translating information into a message or a signal.

A communication audit examines an organization's _____________and ________________ communication to assess communication practices and capabilities and to determine needs.

. Ethical relativism is the ethical principle that typifies the results based approach to ethics.

Specific factors that motivate are the focus of a ______________theory of ___________________.

In expectancy theory, ________is the probability that a given level of performance will lead to a particular work outcome.


Expectancy theory addresses two questions about motivation, which ones are correct?

According to McClelland, people with a high need for control seek influence over others and the like attention and recognition.

Win - Lose - Win is the preferable outcome of conflict resolution.

Task conflict occurs because of personal differences while process conflict occurs over work content and goals

Which of the following is not a type of personal power?

Emotional and physiological __________ are related and not independent of each other.

In order to manage stress in the workplace effectively, managers need to understand the impact of stress.

The demand-control model describes situations in which people are most likely to experience high level of job strain that results in the experience of stress. Job strain is the function of control a person has in meeting their workplace demands and __________________.

Organizational stress management includes increasing associates autonomy and control, ensuring the associate has up to date technological skills, and using ergonomically sound equipment and tools. What other thing should be done to ensure organizational stress is being managed?

Management by objectives is a goal setting ____________ in which a manager meets periodically with his or her supervisor to set goals and evaluate how well previously set goals have been met.

An organization might want to design jobs according to the principle of scientific management because what two qualities improve:

Job rotation is viable option to job re-design because job rotation can sometimes alleviate workplace strengths.


Solution Summary

This assignment gives answers to true and false and fill in the blanks for organizational behavior.