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MenuItem 1: {Topic 1} Introduction to the field of organisational behaviour

Question 1: Scholars have been studying organisational behaviour since the days of Greek philosophers.

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Difficulty: Medium

Question 2: In order for something to be called an organisation it must have buildings and equipment.

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Difficulty: Easy

Question 3: All organisations have a collective sense of purpose, even though this purpose might not be fully understood or agreed upon.

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Difficulty: Easy

Question 4: Social entities are called organisations only when their members have complete agreement on the goals they want to achieve.

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Difficulty: Medium

Question 5: An important principle in organisational behaviour is that OB theories should never be used to predict or influence organisational events.

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Difficulty: Medium

Question 6: Organisational behaviour knowledge helps us to understand, predict and influence organisational events.

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Difficulty: Easy

Question 7: Globalisation may have both positive and negative implications for people working in organisations.

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Difficulty: Easy

Question 8: An important implication of globalisation is that organisational behaviour needs to develop different theories in each culture.

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Difficulty: Medium

Question 9: Education is a primary category of demographic diversity.

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Difficulty: Medium

Question 10: Australian employees are more diverse today than a few decades ago on many secondary categories but have actually reduced their diversity on most primary categories.

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Difficulty: Medium

Question 11: Workforce diversity offers few benefits and usually causes organisations to become less effective.