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Title: ________ is a cognitive bias that allows managers to justify and reinforce their own preferences ...
Post by: srbarrett98 on Mar 3, 2018
________ is a cognitive bias that allows managers to justify and reinforce their own preferences
  and values by attributing them to others.
 
  A) Representativeness
  B) Projection
  C) Cognitive dissonance
  D) Frequency

Question 2

Which of the following statements is most likely to be true regarding the managers who take a defensive approach to social responsibility?
 
  A) They make no attempt to exercise social responsibility beyond what the law dictates.
  B) They balance the interests of different stakeholders against one another so the claims of stockholders are seen in relation to the claims of other stakeholders.
  C) They are willing to use organizational resources to promote the interests not only of stockholders but of the other stakeholders.
  D) They behave unethically and illegally and do all they can to prevent knowledge of their behavior from reaching other organizational stakeholders and society at large.

Question 3

The simplest integrating mechanism is to establish direct contact between people in different subunits.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 4

________ is a cognitive bias that causes managers to overestimate the extent to which they can manipulate the outcomes of an action.
 
  A) Representativeness
  B) Illusion of control
  C) Frequency
  D) Ego-defensiveness

Question 5

An effective OD program results in an effective organization that will remain static for a long-range of time.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 6

A self-renewing organization is one that initiates new strategies that lead to additional innovations in a constantly changing world.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 7

Which of the following statements is most likely to be true regarding the managers who take a proactive approach to social responsibility?
 
  A) They are most likely to behave unethically and illegally and do all they can to prevent knowledge of their behavior from reaching other organizational stakeholders and society at large.
  B) They implement formal, serial and collective socialization tactics.
  C) They are willing to use organizational resources to promote the interests not only of stockholders but of the other stakeholders.
  D) They encourage the use of those socialization tactics that lead to an individualized role orientation.


Title: ________ is a cognitive bias that allows managers to justify and reinforce their own preferences ...
Post by: HArdyx on Mar 3, 2018
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