Organizational Behavior Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

141. What role did the meat play in Pavlovs experiment with dogs?

1. an unconditioned response
2. a conditioned stimulus
3. a conditioned response
4. an unconditioned stimulus

142. What sort of actions is most likely to be attributed to external causes?

1. Actions that have high distinctiveness, high consensus and high consistency
2. Actions that have high distinctiveness, high consensus and low consistency
3. Actions that have high distinctiveness, low consensus and low consistency
4. Actions that have low distinctiveness, low consistency and high consensus

143. What sort of goals does Management By Objectives (MBO) emphasize?

1. Tangible, verifiable and measurable
2. Achievable, controllable and profitable
3. Challenging, emotional and constructive
4. Hierarchical, attainable and effective

144. What term is used for the extent to which an individual displays different behaviours in different situations?

1. continuity
2. integrity
3. flexibility
4. distinctiveness

145. What term is used to describe voluntary and involuntary permanent withdrawal from an organization?

1. Absenteeism
2. Turnover
3. Downsizing
4. truancy

146. When a bank robber points a gun at a bank employee, his base of power is:

1. Coercive
2. Punitive
3. Positional
4. Authoritative

147. Which behavioural science discipline is most focused on understanding individual behaviour?

1. Sociology
2. social psychology
3. Psychology
4. anthropology

148. Which dimension of Big 5 personality traits represents artistically sensitive, refined etc.

1. Culture
2. Emotional stability
3. Conscientiousness
4. Extroversion

149. Which is also known as a non- reinforcement

1. Punishment
2. Negative reinforcement
3. Extinction
4. all the above

150. Which of Luthans managerial activities involves socializing, politicking, and interacting with outsiders?

1. traditional management
2. communicating
3. human resource management
4. networking