1.IdaCorp. gives simple accounts to newly hired employees, then adds more challenging accounts as
employees master the simple tasks. This practice mainly:
a.increases person-job matching.
2.The tendency for people to dislike losing a particular amount more than they like gaining the same
amount is called:
a.prospect theory effect.
3.Psychological harassment includes all of the following EXCEPT:
a.role conflict.
4.Emotional dissonance is:
a.a significant cause of stress and job burnout.
5.The tendency to attribute the behaviour of other people to internal factors rather than external
factors refers to:
a.fundamental attribution error
6.According to the author of Canadian Organizational Behaviour, organizational behaviour knowledge:
a.is relevant to everyone who works in organizations.
7.Which of the following is NOT identified as type of team boundary spanning?
a.Circular boundary spanning
8.Which of the following values represents people who value duty to groups to which they belong, and
to group harmony?
a.High collectivism.
9.The general adaptation syndrome model includes all of the following EXCEPT:
a.cynicism.
10.Corporate social responsibility is most closely related to which of these organizational behaviour
trends?
a.Workplace values and ethics.
11.Incongruence between a company's dominant values and an employee's values is known to:
a.All of the answers are correct.
12.Team success, team size, and member similarity are three:
a.of the main factors influencing team cohesiveness.
13.Two features that distinguish virtual teams from conventional teams are:
a.lack of co-location and dependence on information technology.
14.Which of these statements represents the feeling dimension of attitudes?
a.I don't like how my boss treats his employees.
15.The phenomenon where people exert less effort when working in groups than when working alone
is called:
a.social loafing.
16. Personalities, beliefs, values, and attitudes are:
a.categories of deep-level workforce diversity.
17.Which of these statements about creative people is TRUE?
a.Creative people possess sufficient knowledge and experience on the subject.
18.The relatively new field of research that has emerged with the objective of identifying internal
systems and structures that are associated with successful companies is called:
a.the high-performance work practices perspective.