fotidos Flashcards
With surface-level diversity, time appears to increase the negative effects on team functioning and effectiveness.
False.
Personality refers to the structures and propensities inside people that explain their characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior.
True.
Each month Karen’s supervisor conducts a contest among staff and the monthly winner is awarded the best parking spot in the lot. This month’s winner will be the staff member who solicits the best proposal for increasing cost-saving “green” initiatives in the workspace. Karen has knowledge of the subject as she has incorporated many such initiatives into her own home. However, Karen rarely enters the monthly contests and has never been interested in having the
closest parking spot. She prefers to park far away so she gets some exercise walking to and from her car each day. According to expectancy theory, which belief does Karen consider a “zero,” making her motivational force to enter a proposal for the contest a “zero”?
Valence.
The most common kind of restructuring in recent years has been a “flattening” of the organization.
True.
Work–family conflict is an example of work hindrance stressor.
False.
Social media technology has recently been applied in organizational contexts to develop and evaluate employee job performance.
True.
Which of the following examples, each occurring about midway through a project, demonstrates punctuated equilibrium?
Phyllis and her teammates realize they need to quit messing around and get busy to meet their deadline
