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Course Introduction
Leadership and Teamwork explores the principles, theories, and practical skills necessary for effective leadership and collaborative work in organizational settings. The course examines different leadership styles, approaches to motivation, and strategies for managing group dynamics, conflict resolution, and decision-making within teams. Students will engage in experiential learning activities and case studies to develop self-awareness, communication, and problem-solving abilities, preparing them to lead and contribute successfully in diverse professional environments.
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Organizational Behavior An Evidence Based Approach 12th Edition by Fred Luthans
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Organizational Behavior: an
Evidence-Based
Approach
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Q1) David was recently promoted as the chief marketing officer for Izet Pvt.Ltd.David was chosen because of his remarkable marketing skills and his experience as Vice-President for 15 years in a reputed marketing firm.Which of the following can be attributed as a reason for his promotion?
A) Physical capital
B) Human capital
C) Social capital
D) Positive psychological capital
Answer: B
Q2) Ruth has recently completed her first project as a project manager.She analyses her project to understand how well it went,to perceptually determine how well she can handle projects in the future.According to Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory,which human capability is Ruth concentrating on?
A) Forethought
B) Symbolizing
C) Self-regulatory
D) Self-reflective
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Environmental Context: Globalization, diversity, and Ethics
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Q1) Club organizations get around the laws by hiring and promoting women and minorities with an unbiased attitude.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) If carefully studied and objectively analyzed,most firms would still not be classified as being a multicultural organization.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Identify the major reasons for increasing diversity in today's organizations.
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The major reasons for increasing diversity in today's organizations include: 1.the recognition and desire for diverse viewpoints, 2.changing workforce, 3.legislation and lawsuits, 4.rapidly growing increase in international business,and 5.competitive pressures.
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Chapter 3: Organizational Context: Design and Culture
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Q1) Identify and explain the major areas where clashes between the two cultures in a merger or acquisition can occur.
Answer: The clash between the two cultures in a merger or acquisition can be focused into three major areas:
1.Structure - These factors from the two cultures include the size,age,and history of the two firms; the industry in which the partners come from and now reside; the geographic locations; and whether products and/or services are involved.
2.Politics - Corporate cultures range from autocratic extremes to total employee empowerment,and how this plays out among the partners will be important to cultural compatibility.
3.Emotions - The personal feelings,the "cultural contract" that individuals have bought into to guide their day-to-day thoughts,habits,attitudes,commitment,and patterns of daily behavior.These emotions will be a major input into the clash or compatibility of the two cultures.
Q2) Double-loop learning involves changing the organization's culture.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Organizational Context: Reward Systems
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Q1) Which of the following theory is concerned with the diverse interests and goals that are held by a corporation's stakeholders and the methods by which the enterprise's reward system is used to align these interests and goals?
A) Social cognition theory
B) Behavioral theory
C) Classical management theory
D) Agency theory
Q2) With the increased use of teams,pay is being linked to professional employees who are being organized into all of the following types of teams EXCEPT:
A) virtual.
B) product development.
C) inter-functional.
D) inter-dependent.
Q3) The motivational effect of the group incentive plans,on a day-to-day performance basis,may be very large.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe agency theory.How is it significant?
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Chapter 5: Personality,perception,and Employee Attitudes
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Q1) According to Locke,which of the following may be defined as "a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's job or job experience?"
A) Job motivation
B) Happiness
C) Achievement
D) Job satisfaction
Q2) Absolutely no turnover is beneficial to the organization.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator,an individual's orientation to the outside world is a part of which of the following?
A) Judging vs.Perceiving
B) Extraversion vs.Introversion
C) Sensing vs.Intuiting
D) Thinking vs.Feeling
Q4) Most people give working conditions a great deal of thought,especially if they are very bad.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Motivational Needs,processes,and Applications
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Q1) Name and explain the elements of motivation.
Q2) Management often faces the problem of dealing with employees who are not motivated despite being provided with high salaries,excellent fringe-benefit packages etc.Which theory offers an explanation for this type of behavior?
A) Hierarchy of needs
B) Two-factor theory
C) Equity theory
D) Alderfer's ERG theory
Q3) Motivation is a hypothetical construct that is used to help explain behavior; it should not be equated with behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q4) An individual who believes in the statement,"I make my own fate",is said to have which of the following attribution?
A) External locus of control
B) Internal locus of control
C) High consensus
D) Low distinctiveness
Q5) List and describe the attribution errors discussed in the text.
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Chapter 7: Positive Organizational Behavior and Psychological Capital
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Q1) Whenever Harry experiences a setback,he often attributes it to being his own fault and believes that it will last for a long time.He also tends to think that the problem will affect everything else he does.According to Seligman,Harry's explanatory style in interpreting misfortune can be described as:
A) internal,unstable,and global.
B) external,stable,and specific.
C) internal,stable,and global.
D) external,unstable,and global.
Q2) Briefly explain the different kinds of mental abilities.
Q3) According to the three levels of positive psychology identified by Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi,altruism,responsibility,and tolerance are positive individual traits.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The first and most theoretically developed and researched positive organizational behavior construct is optimism.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the essential criteria of Gardner's multiple intelligence approach?
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Chapter 8: Communication and Decision Making
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Q1) Margaret heads the accounting department at a small firm and has been trying to involve her subordinates in the decision-making process.However,whenever they try to make a suggestion,she criticizes their ideas.This is an example of:
A) empathic design.
B) escalation of commitment.
C) pseudoparticipation.
D) autocratic leadership.
Q2) What are the major categories of communication?
Q3) The classical decision theory operated under the assumption of rationality and certainty,whereas the new behavioral decision theory does not.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to the managerial communication model,the _____ exhibits monitoring activities.
A) mechanistic isolate
B) formal controller
C) formal developer
D) humanistic interactor
Q5) Briefly explain the conceptual style of decision-making.
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Chapter 9: Stress and Conflict
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Q1) What are some of the physical health concerns that have been linked to stress?
Q2) Those able to cope successfully with extreme stressors seem to have a "hardiness" disposition.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Frustration occurs when a motivated drive is blocked before a person reaches a desired goal.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Christina Maslach believes that burnout creates a sense of _____ and a feeling of lost control,causing the burned-out employee to relate differently to others and to their work.
A) urgency
B) individuality
C) isolation
D) anxiety
Q5) Briefly explain Employee assistance programs (EAPs).
Q6) Meditation involves muscle and mental relaxation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Power and Politics
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Q1) According to the book,_____ people may be more willing to listen,but,because they also tend to be held in high self-esteem,they may be more resistant to influence.
A) highly intelligent
B) highly uncertain
C) highly affiliation-oriented
D) highly dependent
Q2) Which of the following is defined as the ability to get an individual or group to do something?
A) Power
B) Motivation
C) Influence
D) Authority
Q3) There is some empirical evidence that those managers who are observed to engage in more political activity are relatively more effective in terms of subordinate satisfaction and commitment and the performance of their unit.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain three political strategies that can be used to acquire power.
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Chapter 11: Groups and Teams
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Q1) Teams with self-leadership have been found to have varying levels of success,depending on whether the group's task is primarily conceptual or primarily behavioral in nature.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In-groups are those:
A) to which the individual actually belongs.
B) to which an individual would like to belong.
C) who have or share dominant values.
D) on the outside looking in.
Q3) A comprehensive study has found that self-managed teams have had a positive impact on absenteeism and turnover.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is a positive impact of groups on individual employee effectiveness?
A) Improved decision making and control
B) Fulfill important social needs
C) Facilitation of change as well as organizational stability
D) Strength in numbers of ideas and skills
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Chapter 12: Behavioral Performance Management
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Q1) Briefly summarize the first step of applying the O.B.Mod.approach to behavioral performance management.
Q2) In the rat experiment that Tolman conducted,the result could be depicted as S-S (stimulus-stimulus),or learning the association between the cue and the expectancy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The use of punishment as a strategy to control behavior is a lose-lose approach.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The informal social recognition based on a valued person's attention and appreciation may have only a bigger impact as a reinforcer in behavioral management than money.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A glaring weakness of most human resource management programs is the absence of any systematic,built-in evaluation.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Define the terms "rewards" and "reinforcers."
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Chapter 13: Effective Leadership Processes
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Q1) According to Kerr and Jermier's substitutes and neutralizers for leadership,which among the following can be considered as the task characteristic that can substitute for supportive leadership?
A) Structured task
B) Routine task
C) Feedback within the task
D) Intrinsically satisfying task
Q2) During phase four of the GLOBE process,the researchers' goal was to answer all of the following questions except:
A) are there any universally effective leader behaviors?
B) is there a relationship between the intensity of the strongly held culturally endorsed preferences and the resultant application of it in leadership?
C) what types of consistent specific preferences for leader behaviors are present across cultures?
D) what are the effects of violating strongly held culturally endorsed preferences for leader behaviors?
Q3) What are the important contributions of Fiedler's contingency model of leadership effectiveness?
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Chapter 14: Great Leaders: an Evidenced-Based Approach
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Q1) Organizations can tie formal reward systems to performance and meet challenges in the long run by just socializing and politicking.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Hersey and Blanchard's approach,the relationship style leader explains the tasks that members are to do and when,where,and how they are to do them.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to Hersey and Blanchard's situational approach to leadership,the level of maturity has been identified as all of the following except:
A) degree of achievement motivation.
B) willingness to take on responsibility.
C) degree of need for affiliation.
D) amount of education and/or experience.
Q4) The relative-frequency analysis provides a fairly confident answer to the question of what real managers do.
A)True
B)False
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