OB Exam #2 Review Game

If your job has low skill variety, how can you redesign your job to increase its skill variety?

a. Expand job vertically

b. Job rotation

c. Form natural work teams

d. Open feedback channels

b. Job rotation

Which of the following is not in the definition of motivation

a. Persistence - Amount of time effort is exerted

b. Reward - Money or incentives received

c. Direction - Goal towards effort is directed

d. Intensity - Level of effort

b. Reward - Money or incentives received

Our emotions can be used as information for our decision making

a. True

b. False

a. True

In terms of McClelland Theory, studies have shown that American presidents have high levels on which two dimensions, and low on which dimension?

High for need of power

High for need for achievement

Low for need for affiliation

Job Autonomy can motivate employees because they make employees experience which of the following psychological state?

a. responsibility

b. meaningfulness

c. knowledge of results

d. fun

a. responsbility

Apply expectancy theory to explain whether a talented junior football player should go to the pro football league or stay and finish his college degree. Which of the following explanations does not make sense?

a. If the football player believes that the effort will lead to good performance in the pros, then expectancy will be high

b. if the player believes that the positive evalulation will lead to being drafted or signed by a team, which is what he wants, then valence will be high

c. If the football player felt he would not be drafted high enough or that his liklihood to be signed by a team was low then go should go to the football league

d. If the player believes that the good perrformance will be evaluated accurately at the professional level then instrumentality will be high

c. If the football player felt he would not be drafted high enough or that his liklihood to be signed by a team was low then go should go to the football league

The everest exercise tells us the importance of __ in guiding our decision makings

a. emotions

b. personal values

c. being aware of our decision making biases

d. cognitive dissonance

B. personal values

Skill variety, task identity, and task significance can motiviate employees because they make employees experience which of the following psychological state?

a. meaningfulness

b. fun

c. responsibility

d. knowledge of results

A. meaningfulness

What type of stress can easily lead to burnout

a. challenge stressors

b. distress

c. eustress

B. distress

Which of the following is NOT a flaw of maslow hierarchy needs theory?

a. The theory has recieved empirial support globally

b. It is unique to each person, not universal

c. people cannot have higher level of needs until they have fulfilled all their lower levels of needs

a. The theory has recieved empirial support globally

What does each need in McClelland theory mean?

Ned for achievement - Strive to succeed; drive to excel

Need for power - To control others; get desired things done

Need for affiliation - friendship and good relationships with others

I bought a new phone and it cost me $700. 3 months later I find that it is on sale for $500. I say, “I should have waited until now to buy the phone.” What type of bias is this?

a. randomness error

b. hindsight bias

c. confirmation bias

d. availability bias

B. hindsight bias

Which of the following cannot prevent social loafing?

a. provide peer evaluations

b. reward teams with high performance

c. assign tasks among team members

d. find conscientious team members to form teams

B. reward teams with high performance

What is the difference between groups and teams?

a. teams have 2+ people but groups do not

b. Teams have a common goal but groups do not

c. Groups have synergy among team members but teams do not

d. teams have members staying time together but groups do not

B. Teams have a common goal but groups do not

What is the dark side of emotional intelligence?

a. High EI people are too tired to regulate their own feelings

b. High EI people can misinterpret others’ thoughts and behavioral intentions

c. High EI people can manipulate others

D. High EI people cannot tell others’ inner thoughts and feelings

c. High EI people can manipulate others

Which of the following needs has the highest ranking in Maslow Hierarchy Needs Theory?

A. physiological

b. love/belonging

c. esteem

d. safety

C. Esteem

Which of the following are not actions to correct underreward inequity?

a. Increase our input

b. reduce our inputs

c. change our perceptions

d. increase our outcomes

A. increase our input

Which of the following is not mentioned in the expectancy theory?

a. E-to-O expectancy

b. p-to-o expectancy

c. e-to-p expectancy

d. Valence

A. E-to-O expectancy

I have 2 exams thursday and have not prepared until Wednesday. I tell myself I am going to ace it because I am smart and the test will be easy. What type of bias is this?

a. Anchoring bias

b. confirmation bias

c. overconfidence bias

C. overconfidence bias

Which stage of team development do members have mixed emotions such as happy and sad?

a. performing

b. adjourning

c. storming

d. forming

B. adjourning

The uncomfortable tension felt when our beliefs, feelings, and behaviors are incongruent with each other is called…

a. surface acting

b. cognitive distance

c. emotional labor

d. cognitive dissonance

D. cognitive dissonance

Which of the following is NOT one of the 5 needs in Maslow Hierarchy needs Theory

a. self actualization

b. love/belonging

c. psychological

d. esteem

C. psychological

People compare their outcome-input ratio with others’ outcome-input ratio. If the ratios are similar or the same, people feel that they are fairly treated

A. True

B. False

A. True

The outstanding faculty award case study followed the bounded rationality model

a. True

b. False

B. False

What does task significance mean?

Extent to which employees impact others and the company

At which stage do teams start to form strong team norms and team cohesion?

a. storming

b. norming

c. forming

d. performing

B. Norming