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MGMT121: Organizational Behavior
L9
Fall 2010
Professor Prithviraj CHATTOPADHYAY
Sample Midterm C Version A
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* You have 2 hours to complete the exam.
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For the following multiple choice questions, choose the one answer that is the best answer to the question. (all questions weighted equally)
1. Which of the following statements is FALSE?
A: The workforce is becoming more diverse.
B: Generation-X employees bring somewhat different values and needs to the workplace than those of baby boomers.
C: Employment relationships are shifting towards the idea that companies must provide employees a high degree of job security, possibly even a job for life.
D: Successful firms increasingly rely on values alignment rather than direct supervision to guide employee decisions and behavior.
E: Information technologies are changing the way people perform their tasks and work with each other.
2. Which of these statements about globalization and organizational behavior is TRUE?
A: Globalization did not have any effects on organizational behavior.
B: Organizational behavior researchers studied only large multinational companies as a result of globalization.
C: Globalization has forced organizational behavior textbooks to study only companies with headquarters in North America.
D: Contingencies of effective organizational behavior practices across various cultures are highlighted as a result of globalization.
E: Both C and D are true.
3. According to the multiple levels of analysis anchor:
A: organizational behavior is mainly the study of how all levels of the organizational hierarchy interact with the external environment.
B: OB topics typically relate to the individual, team and organizational levels of analysis.
C: there are eight levels of analysis that scholars should recognize when conducting OB research.
D: organizational events can be studied from only one level of analysis.
E: corporate executives need to understand business ethics from various levels and perspectives.
4. A computer maintenance company wants to capture the networks of people that employees know by creating a database where employees document their relationships to these individuals and their job titles.