Chapter 1

Question 1

Which of these individual mechanisms captures the energetic forces that drive employees’ work efforts?

Answer 1

Motivation

Question 2

Choose the method that suggests people accept some belief because studies have tended to replicate that result using a series of samples, settings, and methods.

Answer 2

Method of science

Question 3

Which of the following reflect(s) the degree to which employees feel that their company does business with fairness, honesty, and integrity?

Answer 3

Trust, Justice, and Ethics

Question 4

Which of the following is an example of a group mechanism?

Answer 4

Team characteristics and diversity

Question 5

Culture, trust, teamwork, and reputation are termed _______ because it is not always clear how they came to develop, though it is clear which organizations do possess them.

Answer 5

socially complex

Question 6

OB primarily uses models from _________ to understand motivation, learning, and decision making.

Answer 6

economics

Question 7

Organizational ________ is the organizational mechanism in the integrative model that captures “the way things are” in an organization.

Answer 7

culture

Question 8

In organizational behavior research, a correlation of 1 between two variables is considered

Answer 8

Perfect.

Question 9

OB research on job performance and individual characteristics draws primarily from studies in

Answer 9

Industrial and organization psychology.

Question 10

_______ are written predictions that specify relations between variables.

Answer 10

Hypotheses