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Leadership and Team Dynamics examines the principles, strategies, and best practices that underpin effective leadership and collaboration within organizations. This course analyzes theories of leadership, motivation, group development, and communication, with a focus on how leaders can motivate teams, manage conflict, resolve problems, and foster a positive and productive work environment. Through case studies, experiential activities, and group projects, students will develop their own leadership skills and learn to apply frameworks for building high-performing teams in diverse and dynamic contexts.
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Organizational Behaviour Understanding and Managing Life at Work 10th Edition by Gary Johns
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Chapter 1: Organizational Behaviour and Management
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Q1) Which of the following is FALSE?
A)Contingent means dependent.
B)Prediction is a more complex process than explanation.
C)All organizations have survival as a goal.
D)Organizational behaviour involves both theory and practice.
E)Accurate prediction usually precedes explanation.
Answer: B
Q2) The new national standard for workplace mental health and safety is called ________ Health and Safety in the Workplace.
Answer: Psychological
Q3) If a kind of organizational behaviour can be predicted,then we must be able to explain why it occurs.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Human capital is a key determinant of firm performance.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Personality and Learning
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Q1) ________ skills are skills such as communicating,teamwork,and conflict resolution.
Answer: Interpersonal
Q2) Which of the following statements is most accurate?
A)Each of the Big Five dimensions is related to job performance but not organizational citizenship behaviours.
B)Each of the Big Five dimensions is related to organizational citizenship behaviours but not job performance.
C)Some of the Big Five dimensions are related to job performance and all of them are related to organizational citizenship behaviours.
D)Some of the Big Five dimensions are related to organizational citizenship behaviours and all of them are related to job performance.
E)Each of the Big Five dimensions is related to job performance and organizational citizenship behaviours.
Answer: E
Q3) To increase the probability of some behaviour,________ that behaviour.
Answer: reinforce
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Chapter 3: Perception, Attribution, and Diversity
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Q1) Your gender,religion,and occupation are important in the formation of your personal identity.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Perceptual defence is
A)the tendency for the perceptual system to defend the perceiver against unpleasant emotions.
B)the tendency to attribute one's own thoughts and feelings to others.
C)the tendency to generalize about people and ignore variations between individuals.
D)the process by which motives are assigned to explain people's behaviour.
E)the process of interpreting messages of our senses to provide meaning.
Answer: A
Q3) Social identities are relational and ________.
Answer: comparative
Q4) You have a friend who is very tall and always seems to be getting paid more than you and everyone else that is shorter than him.One reason for this might be ________.
Answer: reliance on central traits
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Chapter 4: Values,Attitudes,and Work Behaviour
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Q1) Continuance commitment is negatively related to performance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) People who are high in ________ tend to be dissatisfied.
Q3) People who experience interactional unfairness are likely to be dissatisfied with
A)their pay.
B)their co-workers.
C)their boss.
D)their job.
E)their status.
Q4) What factor would be most likely to boost continuance commitment?
A)A generous pension fund
B)Interesting work
C)Organizational ideology
D)Friendly supervision
E)Moving to a new community
Q5) What is cultural distance and why should organizations be concerned about it? What are the benefits of being exposed to distant cultures?
Q6) ________ explains how emotions and moods affect job satisfaction.
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Chapter 5: Theories of Work Motivation
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Q1) Al told his friends that "the job makes me feel good about myself.I feel a real sense of accomplishment at the end of the day." Al is probably
A)intrinsically motivated.
B)extrinsically motivated.
C)fulfilling his relatedness needs on the job.
D)experiencing inequity.
E)self-actualized.
Q2) What is the difference between a learning goal orientation,a performance-prove goal orientation,and a performance-avoid goal orientation,and what effect do they have on learning and performance?
Q3) Cassandra's boss has not had time to clearly explain her new job to her.According to expectancy theory,this should have a direct impact on A)instrumentality.
B)expectancy.
C)first-level valence.
D)second-level valence.
E)relatedness.
Q4) ________ is the highest level of emotional intelligence.
Q5) People's motivation is often affected by how they see others being ________.
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Chapter 6: Motivation in Practice
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Q1) The research evidence shows that management by objectives (MBO)programs result in clear ________ gains.
Q2) Research on the Job Characteristics Model supports the role of growth need strength as a moderating variable.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When job enrichment results in increasing job breadth but leaves other core characteristics unchanged,it is known as ________.
Q4) Which of the following consequences is least likely to occur as a result of flex-time?
A)Increased job satisfaction
B)Decreased turnover
C)Decreased absenteeism
D)Increased satisfaction with work schedule
E)Increased productivity
Q5) Your organization is considering offering an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP),but they are hesitating because ESOPs lose their motivational potential in a ________ when a company's share price goes down.
Q6) What is restriction of productivity and why does it occur?
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Chapter 7: Groups and Teamwork
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Q1) The most important function that norms serve is to increase group cohesiveness.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Social loafing is an example of
A)role conflict.
B)role ambiguity.
C)a disjunctive task.
D)punctuated equilibrium.
E)a process loss.
Q3) Instilling shared mental models in many cross-functional teams can often be challenging because of the A)reluctance to agree on what the project is.
B)avoidance of revealing that each person has an opinion.
C)slow moving process of working in a cross-functional team.
D)resistance to cross-functional teams in organizations.
E)divergent backgrounds of the team members.
Q4) ________ are positions in a group that have attached to them a set of expected behaviours.
Q5) ________ teams can allow for a better work-life balance.
Q6) Define virtual teams and discuss the advantages and challenges of virtual teams.
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Chapter 8: Social Influence, Socialization, and Organizational Culture
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Q1) Two of the most important proactive behaviours are
A)information seeking and relationship building.
B)feedback seeking and relationship building.
C)information seeking and feedback seeking.
D)information seeking and general socializing.
E)general socializing and relationship building.
Q2) The socialization of flight attendants relies heavily upon the collective socialization tactic.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A psychological contract is
A)the process by which people learn the norms required to function in an organization.
B)conformity to a social norm prompted by the desire to acquire rewards.
C)an explicit agreement between a worker and their employer which states the pay and benefits offered in exchange for work.
D)the shared beliefs, values, and assumptions that exist in an organization.
E)the set of beliefs held by employees concerning the reciprocal obligations between them and their employer.
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Chapter 9: Leadership
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Q1) Besides authentic leadership,what other type of leadership is authenticity associated with?
A)Empowering leadership
B)Ethical leadership
C)Global leadership
D)Servant leadership
E)Transformational leadership
Q2) Fiedler's Contingency Theory of leadership predicts that relationship-oriented leadership will be most effective in
A)very favourable situations.
B)very unfavourable situations.
C)situations of medium favourableness.
D)very favourable and very unfavourable situations.
E)virtually all situations.
Q3) Most companies do not have enough global leaders.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The norm of reciprocity is associated with social exchange theory.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Communication
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Q1) Two important dimensions of information richness are the extent to which both parties receive non-verbal and paraverbal cues,and the degree to which the information is ________ between senders and receivers.
Q2) Which of the following best characterizes high "voicers"?
A)They report more work stress than those who remain silent.
B)They report lower job satisfaction than those who remain silent.
C)They report less work stress than those who remain silent.
D)They report higher job satisfaction than those who remain silent.
E)They report lower organizational commitment than those who remain silent.
Q3) Which of the following is TRUE?
A)What is considered polite behaviour is similar across cultures.
B)Exit interviews conducted by managers provide a wealth of accurate information.
C)The clothing people wear communicates interpretable messages.
D)In Latin America, an extended gaze is considered rude.
E)Interpretation of emotions in basic facial expressions varies widely across cultures.
Q4) Computer-mediated groups enhance the quality of ideas generated.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Decision Making
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of an ill-structured problem?
A)Which of these 10 car loan applications should I approve?
B)How much assistance should this client receive?
C)How much weight should I carry?
D)In which part of the country should we build a new plant?
E)All of the above
Q2) Crowdsourcing involves outsourcing aspects of a decision process to a large collection of people.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Crowdsourcing is best employed when the nature of the problem cannot be clearly stated.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Harder sources of evidence are most useful at the information search and solution evaluation stages of the decision cycle.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The fashion business relies heavily on ________ to guide its choice of designs for production.
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Chapter 12: Power, Politics, and Ethics
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Q1) Research has shown that 56 percent of MBA students admitted to cheating during the past year,while non-business grad students admitted to cheating ________ of the time.
A)47
B)64
C)33
D)72
E)18
Q2) Political skill is positively related to job satisfaction and career success.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The strategic contingencies view of power portrays power acquisition as a highly political and Machiavellian process.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Individuals with an external locus of control are less tuned to ethical matters.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Research shows that women who used ________ as an influence tactic received the highest performance evaluations.
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Chapter 13: Conflict and Stress
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Q1) What occupations tend to provoke the most work-family conflict?
A)Those that require a high degree of autonomy
B)Those that require a high degree of leadership
C)Those that require a high degree of teamwork
D)Those that have poor job design
E)Those that have poor working conditions
Q2) Integrative negotiation is essentially a single-issue negotiation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Working with clients who have severe emotional or physical problems is a prime cause of burnout.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Depression is a common health problem connected to ________.
Q5) In general,those with high self-esteem,high conscientiousness,and internal control report more burnout.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are the main causes of organizational conflict?
Q7) Define presenteeism and explain why it occurs.
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Chapter 14: Organizational Structure
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Q1) There is consensus that functional departmentation ________ than product departmentation.
A)is less efficient
B)is more sensitive to customers' needs
C)is more logical
D)leads to more coordination problems between functions
E)works better in very large firms
Q2) Exploration requires a more mechanistic approach,while exploitation requires a more organic structure.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The process by which top executives seek to cope with the constraints and opportunities posed by an organization's environment is called ________.
Q4) Experts have discovered that exploitation and its focus on extracting value from existing competencies requires a more ________ structure.
Q5) The extent of vertical division of labour affects how flat an organization is.
A)True
B)False
Q6) ________ is one factor that often dictates multiple structures.
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Chapter 15: Organizational Change,Development,and Innovation
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Q1) Which of the following represents a contrast between TQM and reengineering?
A)TQM seeks incremental improvements in existing processes; reengineering seeks radical revisions of processes.
B)TQM seeks incremental improvements in existing processes; reengineering seeks incremental improvements in new processes.
C)TQM seeks radical revisions of processes; reengineering seeks incremental improvements in existing processes.
D)TQM seeks radical revisions of old and new processes; reengineering seeks radical revisions of old processes.
E)TQM seeks incremental improvements in existing processes; reengineering seeks incremental improvements in old processes.
Q2) Managerial innovations are innovations that have been developed by an organization's managers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Explain the difference between product innovations,process innovations,and managerial innovations,and give an example of each.
Q4) What is diffusion? What factors affect the rate of diffusion in organizations?
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