MBA 105 Organizational Behavior Review Term 1, 2013 Final Exam This study guide should help you organize your preparation for the exam. The exam will consist of 40 multiple-choice questions (taken from the text and the class discussion). 1. Introduction to Organizational Behavior and Management What is Organizational Behavior? Why do we study organizational behavior? 2. Personality What shapes personality? What are some of the key dimensions of personality
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Groupthink restricts creativity and independent thinking. Lots of research has been done in regards to group think. Group think helps you accomplishing task that individuals can’t. There are eight symptoms of group think. Illusion of Invulnerability, Collective Rationalization, Illusion of Morality, Excessive Stereotyping, Pressure for Conformity, Self-Censorship, Illusion of Unanimity, and Mindguards. When we think of group think, the eight symptoms will come into play. I think back on our desert
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Social Behavior Dai Rainge October 8th 2015 Charlene Tolbert An attitude is an expression of favor or disfavor, to an object, person, place, or thing. There are various factors that attribute to attitude including affects, behaviors, and cognitions. Changing behavior influences
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Many people believe that slavery in North America ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in the late 1800s. Yet, although slavery is no longer commonplace in Western countries, few realize how much our society depends on unpaid and underpaid workers in countries with low development rates. In “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, a utopian short story by Ursula K. Le Guin, everyone is happy and no war or violence exists. Its one flaw is a neglected young child living in a public building’s
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of 12 20.0 Points Describe three methods of preventing persuasion. Question 6 of 12 20.0 Points Differentiate the forming, norming, storming and adjourning stages of group development. Question 7 of 12 20.0 Points What are the dangers of groupthink? Question 8 of 12 20.0 Points A fellow online student and friend asks you to take a course exam for her by logging in with her user id and password. You, of course, say no because such cheating would place you at high risk of receiving academic
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1. The decision makers from NASA and Morton Thiokol were under a litany of outside pressures to proceed with the launch. This particular launch had been delayed for over six months and rescheduled a handful of times. There was significant pressure placed upon the team by the U.S. government in order to compete with the space programs of rival nations. The longer the project was delayed the more expensive it became for the both the government and the private companies, resulting in intense economic
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ZENITH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE PHILIPS ELVIS UGOCHUKWU ZUC/BBA/BIST/0111/0027 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR MID SEMESTER EXAMINATION 1i. According to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality, personality is composed of three elements. These three elements of personality- known as the id, the ego and the superego- work together to describe the behavior of the manager. The Id which is inborn and biological in nature knows what is neither right nor wrong but is only concerned with whether
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Part 2 leadership and management Week 9 1- Describe the differences between motivation, performance, and satisfaction, and give examples of each. Motivation refers to any stimulus that controls and guides human behavior, Performance is the behaviors which are directed toward the organization's mission or goals, Satisfaction refers to a feeling that people have when they have completed a job that is considered difficult. Motivation can be extrinsic as well as intrinsic. While salary, promotion
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opportunities for improvement? · The type of leadership within the small group, such as fixed, rotational, or ad hoc · How the group leader and members communicate during group meetings · Communication obstacles, such as groupthink tendencies, credibility issues, and insufficient listening Refer to this week’s readings to inform your analysis. Create a group training presentation based on the communication deficiencies displayed in the video. Your training plan may be
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ballgame for which he has tickets, each of the eleven justify why they need to just agree and be gone from this process (Lumet,1957). When a group becomes too confident and fails to think realistically about its task, groupthink can occur. Juror No. 8 doesn’t fall prey to the groupthink error and stands against the group (Tubbs, 2012). The Tubbs Model for Small Group Interaction
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