Chapter 14 Foundations of Behavior Mcq and T/F
Prepared By Ayan Ahmed
American International University- Bangladesh
School of Business
Chapter 14 Foundations of Behavior
Name:…………………………………………
TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS
WHY LOOK AT INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR?
1. Organizational behavior is primarily concerned with group interactions.
2. The goals of organizational behavior are to predict and explain behavior.
ATTITUDES
3. Attitudes are evaluative statements concerning objects, people, or events.
4. When an employee says, “I make less money at this company than I could earn at another company,” he or she is reflecting the cognitive component of an attitude.
5. The behavioral component of an attitude is made up of the beliefs, opinions, knowledge, or information held by a person.
6. The term attitude usually refers to the affective component.
7. The satisfaction-performance correlations are strongest for higher-level employees.
JOB INVOLVEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT
8. Job involvement is the degree to which an employee identifies with his or her job, actively participates in it, and considers his or her job performance to be important to his or her self-worth.
9. Being happy at work results in employees being productive workers.
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE THEORY
10. Cognitive dissonance theory seeks to explain the correlated relationship between the affective, cognitive, and behavioral components of attitudes.
MBTI
11. According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a person who rates strongly as a “perceptive” would likely be spontaneous.
12. The MBTI lacks evidence to support its validity.
Prepared By Ayan Ahmed
THE BIG FIVE MODEL
13. In the big-five model, emotional security was positively related to job performance.
14. The big-five model found that calm and secure workers performed better than nervous ones.
PERSONALITY TYPES IN DIFFERENT CULTURES
15. People from Middle Eastern countries believe they can dominate their environment.
16. U.S. workers, more than Iranian workers,
American International University- Bangladesh
School of Business
Chapter 14 Foundations of Behavior
Name:…………………………………………
TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS
WHY LOOK AT INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR?
1. Organizational behavior is primarily concerned with group interactions.
2. The goals of organizational behavior are to predict and explain behavior.
ATTITUDES
3. Attitudes are evaluative statements concerning objects, people, or events.
4. When an employee says, “I make less money at this company than I could earn at another company,” he or she is reflecting the cognitive component of an attitude.
5. The behavioral component of an attitude is made up of the beliefs, opinions, knowledge, or information held by a person.
6. The term attitude usually refers to the affective component.
7. The satisfaction-performance correlations are strongest for higher-level employees.
JOB INVOLVEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT
8. Job involvement is the degree to which an employee identifies with his or her job, actively participates in it, and considers his or her job performance to be important to his or her self-worth.
9. Being happy at work results in employees being productive workers.
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE THEORY
10. Cognitive dissonance theory seeks to explain the correlated relationship between the affective, cognitive, and behavioral components of attitudes.
MBTI
11. According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a person who rates strongly as a “perceptive” would likely be spontaneous.
12. The MBTI lacks evidence to support its validity.
Prepared By Ayan Ahmed
THE BIG FIVE MODEL
13. In the big-five model, emotional security was positively related to job performance.
14. The big-five model found that calm and secure workers performed better than nervous ones.
PERSONALITY TYPES IN DIFFERENT CULTURES
15. People from Middle Eastern countries believe they can dominate their environment.
16. U.S. workers, more than Iranian workers,