To: All MGS 3400 Instructors
From: Rhonda S. Palladi
RE: Content and Security in the MGS 3400 Final Exam
Hello,
The content of the final exam will be focused on the learning objectives of the course as follows:
MGS 3400 FINAL EXAM CONTENT (Fall 2012)
Topic Chapter
Job Performance 2
Organizational Commitment 3
Motivation 6
Learning & Decision Making 8
Personality (Including the following sections of the chapter only) 9
Personality and Cultural Values
How Can We Describe What Employees Are Like?
The Big Five Taxonomy
Other Taxonomies of Personality
Ability (Including the following sections of the chapter only) 10
Ability
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If your students are worried about what to study, they must study the book. Limiting the number of chapters they have to study should help relieve some of their apprehension. This examination is a requirement as part of our AACSB accreditation, as are the departmental exams in marketing, finance, and accounting. Our exams are certainly no more rigorous than any of those.
Tips for studying would include:
There are 100 multiple-choice questions on the exam.
Pay special attention to definitions in the book, as well as the review sections of each chapter.
10-12 questions have been selected from each chapter, so the topics are evenly spread throughout the chapters listed.
Questions will include both definitions and application of concepts.
The questions are not randomly selected. The questions consist of concepts that are important for students to know having completed an Organizational Behavior course.
Remember, the questions count 1 point each, so students would have to miss a large number of questions to do poorly on the exam.
These ideas may, (or may not), help your students reduce their anxiety about the