Organizational management and Behavior MCQ,S Q1-20–A basketball team is an example of what kind of interdependence..
Question 1:
Question: A basketball team is an example of what kind of interdependence?
A Sequential interdependence
B Reciprocal interdependence
C Integrated interdependence
D Pooled interdependence
Question2: Giving good feedback can help “teach” new behavior:
A True
B False
Question3: Juran and Deming began what has become known as the:
A Quality enhancement program (QEP).
B Total quality management movement (TQM).
C Structured views of creativity (SVC).
D Socio-technical systems theory of management (STM).
Question 4:
Question: An accommodating approach to dealing with conflict is the best to use in disputes that are of far greater importance to the other group than they are to your group.
A True
B False
Question 5
Giving specific performance goals as opposed to more general ones:
A Tends to create confusion about what exactly constitutes a person’s job.
B Helps to increase the odds that at least those goals will be met.
C Makes it less operationalized.
D Is always best when you want people to be empowered.
Question 6:
Question: Surfing the Internet for personal reasons is often called:
A Cyberslacking
B Social loafing
C Group think
D Defamation
Question 7
Question: Strong cohesion is always a good characteristic relative to team performance.
A True
B False
Question 8:
Question: Making accusations of wrongdoing or incompetence or derogatory statements on any evaluation –performance or otherwise, may result in a defamation lawsuit.
A True
B False
Question 9:
Question: Joe, who works in the technology department, under false pretence tells Mary who works in accounting, that he needs to know a coworker, Tom’s, social security number to create a new email for him. Joe has:
A Committed an abuse of power
B Committed fraud
C Committed defamation
D Committed tortuous interference
Question 10:
Question: The research literature into conflict has suggested that it all results from someone’s misbehavior.
A True
B False
Question 11
What sort of social influences are used to levy or gain approval or avoid rejection such as with peer pressure:
A Identification
B Behavioral
C Prescriptive
D Normative
Question 12
The illusion of power is:
A Someone claiming to make more money and therefore hold more responsibility than another.
B Ability to significantly influence others simply because he or she is perceived to have power.
C A manager empowering his or her employees.
D A temporary position, such as an “acting” vice president.
Question 13
Which is NOT one of the group development stages described by Tuckman:
A Storming
B Norming
C Forming
D Diffusing
Question 14
As people interact they tend to become increasingly cohesive, where their ideas become increasingly congruent.
A True
B False
Question 15:
As social influences and cohesion increase, teams tend to diffuse responsibility for risk leading to the taking more extreme positions than occur otherwise. This is called:
A Extreme shift
B Risk or risky shift
C Group peer pressure
D Social loafing
Question 16
Actions people take to try to control how others perceive them is called:
A Interdependence
B Interactional justice
C Impression management
D A diversionary tactic
Question 17
High interdependence is one potential source of conflict:
A True
B False
Question 18:
A problem-solving approach to conflict is best to use when both groups are willing to invest time and effort to reach a resolution that maximizes everyone’s outcome.
A True
B False
Question 19:
When a company collapses or reduces its pay grades to the greatest extent possible, this is called:
A Pay equity.
B Pay for performance.
C Broadbanding.
D A cafeteria-style pay benefit.
Question 20:
Which one is TRUE of group risk-shift:
A Group takes on greater responsibility for the consequences of an act.
B Greater chances are taken because risk can be diffused across the group.
C Group takes specific roles of accountability to isolate the risks to individuals.
D Group takes actions to avoid risks and protect the group.