Leadership and Teamwork
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Course Introduction
This course explores the fundamental principles and practices of effective leadership and teamwork within organizations and diverse group settings. Students will examine various leadership theories, styles, and strategies, with a focus on developing essential skills such as communication, decision-making, conflict resolution, and motivation. Through case studies, group projects, and experiential activities, participants will gain insights into the dynamics of high-performing teams, the role of emotional intelligence, and the impact of cultural diversity on group effectiveness. By the end of the course, students will be equipped to lead teams confidently and contribute positively to collaborative environments.
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Organizational Behavior Improving Performance 3rd Edition by Jason A. Colquitt
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Chapter 1: What Is Organizational Behavior
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Q1) The integrative model of OB presents five individual mechanisms that directly affect the individual outcomes: motivation; learning and decision making; job performance; leadership styles and behaviors; and ethics.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following methods suggests that people accept some belief because scientific studies have tended to replicate that result using a series of samples,settings,and methods?
A)Method of intuition
B)Method of authority
C)Method of science
D)Method of experience
E)Method of behavior
Answer: C
Q3) Causal inferences means establishing that one variable really does cause another. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Job Performance
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Q1) Which of the following occurs when employees are subjected to unwanted physical contact or verbal remarks from a colleague?
A)Harassment
B)Abuse
C)Incivility
D)Production deviance
E)Boosterism
Answer: A
Q2) Creative task performance is the degree to which individuals develop ideas or physical outcomes that are both novel and useful.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) There is a positive correlation between task performance and counterproductive behavior.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Organizational Commitment
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Q1) A lack of employment alternatives is one of the factors that increase continuance commitment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Employees falling under the category of "lone wolves" tend to respond to negative events with voice because they have the desire to improve the status quo and the credibility needed to inspire change.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) "_____" is a form of withdrawal in which employees appear to be working but are actually distracted by random thoughts or concerns.
A)Moonlighting
B)Cyberloafing
C)Socializing
D)Satisficing
E)Daydreaming
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: Job Satisfaction
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Q1) According to the affective events theory,positive emotions may trigger spontaneous instances of counterproductive behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Is job satisfaction affected by day-to-day events? Explain.
Q3) What type of mood is grouchy?
A)Engaged
B)Pleasant
C)Deactivated
D)Unpleasant
E)Intense
Q4) When your job provides _____,you view the outcomes of it as the product of your efforts rather than the result of careful instructions from your boss or a well-written manual of procedures.
A)feedback
B)autonomy
C)variety
D)significance
E)identity
Q5) How can the data collected through the JDI be used by a company?
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Chapter 5: Stress
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Q1) FinSmart,a finance firm plans to hire an industrial counselor to help employees cope with stress.The firm also holds relaxation trainings,and plans to build a recreation room where employees can relax.The finance manager of the firm feels that these are unnecessary costs.How would you counter his argument? Select an organization,and identify the stress management approach it uses.
Q2) Define the terms stress,stressor,and strains.
Q3) In contrast to cognitive coping,behavioral coping refers to the thoughts that are involved in trying to deal with a stressful situation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Family time demands refer to which type of stressor?
A)Non work challenge stressor
B)Non work hindrance stressor
C)Work challenge stressor
D)Work hindrance stressor
E)Emotional stressor
Q5) Do people cope with stressors differently? Explain the four broad categories of coping.
Q6) Describe the practices that organizations use to reduce employee strains.
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Chapter 6: Motivation
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Q1) _____ reflects how complicated the information and actions involved in a task are,as well as how much the task changes.
A)Task complexity
B)Self-efficacy
C)Goal commitment
D)Feedback
E)Instrumentality
Q2) Which theory suggests that employees create a "mental ledger" of the outcomes they get from their job duties?
A)Expectancy theory
B)Goal-setting theory
C)Equity theory
D)Psychological empowerment theory
E)Extrinsic theory
Q3) The need to be able to predict and control one's future is a(n)_____ need.
A)relatedness
B)autonomy
C)esteem
D)self-actualization
E)self-regard
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Chapter 7: Trust, Justice, and Ethics
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Q1) Paul McEnroe became a household name after he reported the rampant use of sweatshop labor by a famous clothes and accessories company that he worked for.Following his allegations,the company had to pay several million dollars as penalty along with funding rehabilitation programs for the same group of laborers it was exploiting a few months back.This scenario reflects McEnroe's act of _____.
A)preconventional moral reasoning
B)whistle-blowing
C)bias suppression
D)trust propensity
E)abusive supervision
Q2) As trust increases between employees and their authorities,_____ relationships develop that are based on vaguely defined obligations that are open-ended and long term in their repayment schedule.
A)cognition-based trust
B)social exchange
C)disposition-based trust
D)economic exchange
E)contractual
Q3) What is moral intensity? Briefly explain the factors that drive moral intensity.
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Chapter 8: Learning and Decision Making
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Q1) _____ is the process of selecting,organizing,storing,and retrieving information about the environment.
A)Perception
B)Reinforcement
C)Heuristic
D)Stereotyping
E)Attribution
Q2) Social identity theory holds that people identify themselves by the groups to which they belong and perceive and judge others by their group memberships.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A slot machine is an example of a _____ reinforcement schedule.
A)continuous
B)fixed interval
C)fixed ratio
D)variable interval
E)variable ratio
Q4) What are the four contingencies of reinforcement? Explain each by providing an example.
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Chapter 9: Personality and Cultural Values
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Q1) What employees are like depends only on personality types and not on culture.
A)True
B)False
Q2) There is little evidence that the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a useful tool for predicting the job satisfaction,motivation,performance,or commitment of employees across jobs.
A)True B)False
Q3) Conscientious employees are more likely to engage in day-to-day psychological and physical withdrawal behaviors.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The most appropriate use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is:
A)in the job satisfaction prediction context.
B)in a team-building context.
C)to gauge the commitment of employees across jobs.
D)to predict the motivation of employees.
E)to forecast the performance of employees across jobs.
Q5) Contrast clear purpose tests from veiled purpose tests.
Q6) Describe the personality types from Holland's RIASEC model.
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Chapter 10: Ability
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Q1) Ability refers to the relatively stable capabilities people have to perform a particular range of different but related activities.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Abilities can be modified over time unlike skills which remain stable over one's lifetime.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The bankers at Wall Street primarily have to choose and apply formulas to solve problems related to the economy and the stock market.Which of the following abilities is being reflected here?
A)Inductive reasoning
B)Emotional ability
C)Dynamic strength
D)Mathematical reasoning
E)Perceptual speed
Q4) Describe the Wonderlic Personnel Test.
Q5) Define emotional abilities.Identify and describe the four abilities related to emotional intelligence.
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Chapter 11: Teams: Characteristics and Diversity
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Q1) Which of the following statements about team and individualistic roles is true?
A)An aggressor manipulates team members for personal control.
B)A standard-setter expresses goals for the team to achieve.
C)A gatekeeper offers challenges to the team's status quo.
D)A slacker brags and calls attention to him or herself.
E)A dominator is one who encourages participation from teammates.
Q2) Define task interdependence.Briefly describe the four primary types of task interdependence.
Q3) As the level of task interdependence increases,members must spend increasing amounts of time communicating and coordinating with other members if they want to complete tasks effectively.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A high degree of outcome interdependence exists when team members share in the rewards that the team earns.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In reciprocal interdependence,members are specialized to perform specific tasks.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Teams: Processes and Communication
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Q1) Getting more from the team than you would expect according to the capabilities of its individual members is called:
A)process gain.
B)staff validity.
C)decision informity.
D)groupthink.
E)social loafing.
Q2) Explain how information richness influences the communication process?
Q3) Cohesiveness tends to promote higher levels of team performance.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Leaders do a better job considering recommendations and making final decisions when they do it together with the team members.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Training intended to develop transportable teamwork competencies focuses on and occurs in the context of an ongoing team experience.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Leadership: Power and Negotiation
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Q1) Which of the following refers to the ability to effectively understand others at work and to use that knowledge to influence others in ways that enhance personal and/or organizational objectives?
A)Conceptual skill
B)Ingratiation
C)Political skill
D)Negotiation
E)Technical skill
Q2) Which of the following refers to the use of power and influence to direct the activities of followers toward goal achievement?
A)Pressure
B)Administration
C)Ingratiation
D)Leadership
E)Sustainability
Q3) Describe the guidelines for using different types of power.
Q4) Influence most frequently occurs downward in organizations.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Leadership: Styles and Behaviors
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Q1) The life cycle theory of leadership argues that the optimal combination of initiating structure and consideration depends on the _____ of the employees in the work unit.
A)integration
B)personality
C)organization
D)readiness
E)decision-making style
Q2) _____ refers to the notion of who becomes a leader rather than how well people do in a leadership role.
A)Leader efficiency
B)Leader effectiveness
C)Leader emergence
D)Leader substitution
E)Leader efficacy
Q3) Idealized influence involves behaving in ways that earn the admiration,trust,and respect of followers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the four leader decision-making styles with examples.
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Chapter 15: Organizational Structure
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Q1) Differentiate between functional and multi-divisional structures.Provide a diagram of each.
Q2) The process of creating,selecting,or changing the structure of an organization refers to:
A)formalization.
B)organizational design.
C)specialization.
D)span of control.
E)work differentiation.
Q3) Which of the following statements about an organization's dynamic business environment is true?
A)It does not change frequently.
B)It allows organizations to primarily focus on efficiency.
C)It requires organizations to have structures that are more rigid.
D)It requires little change over time.
E)It requires organizations to have structures that are more adaptivE.Stable environments allow organizations to focus on efficiency and require little change over time.In contrast,dynamic environments change on a frequent basis and require organizations to have structures that are more adaptive.
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Chapter 16: Organizational Culture
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Q1) Explain a customer service culture and its advantages.
Q2) Organizations that have successfully created a _____ culture have been shown to change employee attitudes and behaviors toward customers.
A)service
B)mercenary
C)safety
D)fragmented
E)creativity
Q3) ASA in the "ASA framework," a process that can help keep culture of the organization strong,stands for:
A)anticipation-socialization-articulation.
B)attraction-selection-attrition.
C)ask-substitute-attract.
D)allocation-submission-anticipation.
E)assertion-supplementation-apprehension.
Q4) Attraction and selection processes do not always align employees' personalities with organizational culture.
A)True
B)False
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