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You are interested in discovering the major determinants of productivity, absenteeism, turnover, and job satisfaction within your work group. You are decided that you will look at variables as individual-level, group-level and organizational level.
 
  In this issue, one of the individual-level
  variables you will probably consider is:
  A) communication patterns. B) perception.
  C) human resource policies. D) levels of conflict.

Question 2

Primary dependent variables in OB include:
 
  A) absenteeism. B) job satisfaction.
  C) productivity. D) all of the above.

Question 3

Understanding human behavior in organization has been getting more difficult due to:
 
  A) companies are becoming mufti-national.
  B) more women are working.
  C) greater diversity.
  D) all of the above.

Question 4

In the study of OB, intuition is replaced by:
 
  A) listening. B) generalization.
  C) prediction. D) systematic study.

Question 5

__________ includes analyzing relationships, determining causes and effects, and based conclusions on scientific evidence.
 
  A) A systematic study of organizational behavior
  B) A theoretical approach to organizational behavior
  C) The observational approach to understanding organizational behavior
  D) Organizational behavior

Question 6

Behavior is generally __________ and the __________ of behavior is a means to making reasonable accurate predictions.
 
  A) uncontrollable; systematic study B) predictable; systematic study
  C) predetermined; observation D) controllable; theoretical application

Question 7

A major theme in your textbook is that behavior is not:
 
  A) random. B) consistent. C) predictable. D) caused.

Question 8

According to the text, the best approach for obtaining knowledge about human behavior is:
 
  A) a theoretical approach. B) the common sense approach.
  C) a systematic approach. D) an observational approach.

Question 9

If we know how a person perceives a situation and what is important to him/her, then behavior is generally:
 
  A) uncontrollable. B) controllable.
  C) predictable. D) predetermined.

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