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Leadership Studies explores the theory and practice of effective leadership across various organizational and cultural contexts. This course examines major leadership models, styles, and ethical considerations, emphasizing the development of personal leadership skills such as communication, decision-making, team building, and strategic thinking. Through case studies, interactive exercises, and self-assessment tools, students analyze the roles and responsibilities of leaders, understand the dynamics of influence and motivation, and learn strategies for fostering innovation and guiding teams toward shared goals. The course prepares students to lead with integrity and adaptability in diverse professional environments.
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Organizational Behavior Improving Performance 4th Edition by Jason Colquitt
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Chapter 1: What Is Organizational Behavior
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Q1) The strength of a correlation can be inferred from the "compactness" of its scatterplot.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Research on satisfaction, emotions, and team processes found in OB draws heavily from studies in _____.
A)anthropology
B)organizational goals
C)industrial relations
D)social psychology
E)team management
Answer: D
Q3) Job satisfaction does not have an effect on job performance and organizational commitment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Job Performance
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Q1) Which of the following is false about counterproductive behaviors?
A)People who engage in one form of counterproductive behavior also tend to engage in other forms of counterproductive behavior.
B)Counterproductive behavior is relevant to any job.
C)There is a strong positive correlation between task performance and counterproductive behavior.
D)Counterproductive behaviors tend to represent a pattern of behavior rather than isolated incidents.
E)Sometimes the best task performers are the ones who can best get away with counterproductive actions.
Answer: C
Q2) For a kindergarten teacher, assisting her students out of a smoke-filled elementary school is an example of _____.
A)citizenship behavior
B)routine task performance
C)job dissonance
D)counterproductive behavior
E)adaptive task performance
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: Organizational Commitment
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Q1) Describe the four types of employees using the combination of two variables: organizational commitment and task performance.
Answer: The four types of employees using the combination of two variables organizational commitment and task performance are:
Stars: possess high commitment and high performance and are held up as role models for other employees. Citizens: possess high commitment and low task performance but perform many of the voluntary "extra-role" activities that are needed to make the organization function smoothly. Lone wolves: possess low levels of organizational commitment but high levels of task performance and are motivated to achieve work goals for themselves, not necessarily for their company. Apathetics: possess low levels of both organizational commitment and task performance and merely exert the minimum level of effort needed to keep their jobs.
Q2) Define embeddedness.Which type of commitment does it strengthen?
Answer: Embeddedness summarizes a person's links to the organization and the community, his or her sense of fit with that organization and community, and what he or she would have to sacrifice for a job change.It strengthens continuance commitment by providing more reasons why a person needs to stay in his or her current position.
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Chapter 4: Job Satisfaction
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Q1) A person with high job satisfaction will have _____ life satisfaction.
A)weak
B)high
C)moderate
D)high negative
E)low positive
Q2) The JDI assesses all the following satisfaction facets EXCEPT: A)altruism.
B)pay.
C)promotion.
D)supervisor.
E)coworker.
Q3) In job characteristics theory, the degree to which employees have strong needs for personal accomplishments or developing themselves beyond their current levels is known as:
A)feedback.
B)significance.
C)growth need strength.
D)autonomy.
E)identity.
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Chapter 5: Stress
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Q1) Which of these is an example of problem-focused coping?
A)Maintaining a positive outlook
B)Talking to a friend to release pent-up emotions
C)Taking time out to listen to some music
D)Seeking the assistance of a supervisor
E)Dwelling on less annoying aspects of the daily events
Q2) _____ refers to a work hindrance stressor that occurs when the number of demanding roles a person holds is so high that the person simply cannot perform some or all of the roles very effectively.
A)Time pressure
B)Daily hassle
C)Role overload
D)Role ambiguity
E)Role conflict
Q3) What is a stress audit? Explain how to reduce stressors and strains.
Q4) Stressors can cause gastrointestinal system problems.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the practices that organizations use to reduce employee strains.
Q6) Define the terms stress, stressor, and strains.
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Chapter 6: Motivation
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Q1) The cognitive groupings or clusters of outcomes that are viewed as having critical psychological or physiological consequences are known as:
A)instrumentality.
B)valence.
C)equity.
D)expectancy.
E)needs.
Q2) The Cotton Yard is a family run knitting company.It specializes in custom-made woolen sweaters, pullovers, scarves and gloves.Younger family members have learn the value of attention to detail when creating a knit pattern by observing the praise given to knitters who exhibit this level of attention.Those who now exhibit close attention to detail while knitting have learned through______.
A)Past accomplishments
B)Vicarious experiences
C)Lecture sessions
D)Emotional cues
E)Instrumentality
Q3) Identify and explain the mathematical formula for expectancy theory.
Q4) Describe the strategies for fostering goal commitment.
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Chapter 7: Trust, Justice, and Ethics
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Q1) Employees gauge procedural justice by asking whether decision outcomes, such as pay, rewards, evaluations, promotions, and work assignments, are allocated using proper norms.
A)True
B)False
Q2) _____ is defined as the process by which employees expose illegal or immoral actions by their employer.
A)Social exchange
B)Whistle-blowing
C)Abusive supervision
D)Distributive justice
E)Economic exchange
Q3) Interpersonal justice is fostered when authorities adhere to two particular rules: the justification rule and the truth rule.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Differentiate between the ethical and legal components of corporate social responsibility.
Q5) How can employees evaluate the fairness of an authority's decision making?
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Chapter 8: Learning and Decision Making
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Q1) _____ decisions are decisions that become somewhat automatic because people's knowledge allows them to recognize and identify a situation and the course of action that needs to be taken.
A)Programmed
B)Unstructured
C)Indirect
D)Spontaneous
E)Surface
Q2) Explain the two methods that employees can use to make decisions.
Q3) _____ knowledge is not easily communicated but could very well be the most important aspect of what we learn in organizations.
A)Book-based
B)Direct
C)Explicit
D)Tacit
E)Documented
Q4) A student does his homework and assignments just to avoid being yelled at by the professor.Examine the form of reinforcement used in this situation.
Q5) Define the term heuristic.
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Chapter 9: Personality and Cultural Values
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Q1) Hofstede's research found that a culture high on _____ accepts the fact that authority is usually distributed unequally within organizations.
A)collectivism
B)uncertainty avoidance
C)masculinity
D)power distance
E)short-term orientation
Q2) Describe each of the five dimensions of Big Five.Which dimension has the biggest influence on job performance? Explain.
Q3) Integrity tests typically come in two general varieties: clear purpose tests and veiled purpose tests.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Veiled purpose tests do not reference dishonesty explicitly but instead assess more general personality traits that are associated with dishonest acts.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the principle of situational strength and principle of trait activation.
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Chapter 10: Ability
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Q1) Spatial ability refers to the ability to develop clever and novel ways to solve problems.
A)True
B)False
Q2) General cognitive ability is a strong predictor of job performance especially with regard to task performance.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Abilities related to the acquisition and application of knowledge in problem solving refers to _____ abilities.
A)social
B)motivational
C)physical
D)cognitive
E)affective
Q4) Fine manipulative movements are most important when the work environment is artificially elevated and inherently unstable.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Teams: Characteristics and Diversity
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Q1) In groups with comprehensive interdependence, the members have little discretion in terms of what they do and with whom they interact in the course of the collaboration involved in accomplishing the team's work.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Teams definitely are forms of work groups, but not all work groups are teams.Analyze the above statement and give the differences between teams and groups.
Q3) In what way are management teams similar to work teams?
A)They require a lot of input from members with different types of training and expertise.
B)They participate in managerial-level tasks that affect the entire organization.
C)They require only part-time commitment from members.
D)They focus on the accomplishment of core operational-level production and service tasks.
E)They are designed to be relatively permanent.
Q4) Differentiate between surface-level diversity and deep-level diversity.
Q5) Define task interdependence.Briefly describe the four primary types of task interdependence.
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Chapter 12: Teams: Processes and Communication
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Q1) _____ activities refer to communications that are intended to protect the team, persuade others to support the team, or obtain important resources for the team.
A)Systems monitoring
B)Task coordinator
C)Ambassador
D)Scout
E)Groupthink
Q2) Interpersonal activities that facilitate the accomplishment of the team's work but do not directly involve task accomplishment itself are termed as creative processes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The nominal group technique involves utilizing a combination of individual and team settings to generate ideas and solutions and arrive at the winning idea.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How are taskwork processes different from teamwork processes?
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Chapter 13: Leadership: Power and Negotiation
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Q1) An accommodating conflict resolution style should be used:
A)when quick decisive action is vital.
B)on important issues for which unpopular actions need implementation.
C)on issues vital to company welfare when you know you are right.
D)against people who take advantage of noncompetitive people.
E)to build social credits for later issues.
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) Compromise is the most common form of conflict resolution, whereby each party's losses are offset by gains and vice versa.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Distinguish between distributive bargaining and integrative bargaining.
Q5) Differentiate between mediation and arbitration.
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Chapter 14: Leadership: Styles and Behaviors
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Q1) There are many factors to consider when leaders choose a decision-making style.The most obvious consideration is the:
A)number of people involved in decision making.
B)quality of the resulting decision.
C)number of opinions obtained for making the decision.
D)the style of decision-making.
E)the number of different ideas generated during the process.
Q2) The optimal combination of leader behavior in the R3 stage of the life cycle theory of leadership is _____.
A)delegating
B)telling
C)selling
D)participating
E)negotiating
Q3) Which of the following represents the carrot-and-stick approach to leadership?
A)Laissez-faire leadership
B)Passive-avoidant leadership
C)Transactional leadership
D)Charismatic leadership
E)Transformational leadership
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Chapter 15: Organizational Structure
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Q1) Which of the following elements of an organizational structure is also referred to as a company's division of labor?
A)Chain of command
B)Formalization
C)Centralization
D)Work specialization
E)Span of control
Q2) Organizational structure differs from country to country based on the traditional architecture forms in each country.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A _____ span of control creates a _____ organization structure.
A)wide; flat
B)tall; flat
C)moderate; narrow
D)narrow; flat
E)flat; moderate
Q4) State at least two advantages and disadvantages of work specialization.
Q5) Briefly describe the factors that influence the process of organizational design.
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Chapter 16: Organizational Culture
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Q1) Explain the general culture types based on the dimensions of solidarity and sociability.
Q2) A manager at a company where everyone always wore a dark suit and white shirt ran out of white shirts one day and decided to wear a very light blue shirt to work.Coworkers stared, pointed at him, and commented so negatively to him that at noon, he went out and bought a new white shirt and changed before going back to the office.This situation is indicative of ______.
A)a strong culture
B)a weak culture
C)lack of self-confidence
D)bullying
E)a counterculture
Q3) 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
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