Organizational Behavior, Version 1.1 Bauer & Erdogan FWK Test Item File Chapter 1 TRUE/FALSE 1. Flat World Knowledge was started by two textbook publishing industry veterans. (True) 2.
Flat World Knowledge is improving on the traditional publishing model but is not innovating much.
(False) 3. So far, Flat World Knowledge is a start up without any external funding. (False) 4.
Most successful CEOs believe, “A company is only as good as the innovation it creates.”
(False) 5.
Current research suggests that the average employee today will change jobs 10 times in 20 years.
(True) 6.
Organizational behavior is the systematic study and application of knowledge about how individuals and groups act within the organizations where they work.
(True) 7.
Emile is seated in a lecture where the instructor is discussing personality. He is most likely in a sociology class.
(False) 8.
The study of organizational behavior analyzes the three levels of individual, organization, and society.
(False) 9.
If I am examining how my manager’s behavior influences my work group, I am looking at the organizational level of analysis in the organizational behavior discipline.
(False) 10.
Organizational behavior matters at three critical levels because it analyzes what you care about, what employers care about, and what organizations care about.
(True) 11.
Successful organizations tend to limit the amount of information shared by maintaining a centralized structure.