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History Of Organizational Behavior

Question 1 of 10

1

What is Organizational Behavior?

Select one of the following:

  • The study of individual and group dynamics within an organizational setting

  • The study of an organization as a whole

  • When people switch between different businesses

  • The way people behave while in their home

Explanation

Question 2 of 10

1

What was the purpose of the Hawthorne Studies?

Select one of the following:

  • To test worker productivity in the workplace

  • To see if people yell at each other in the workplace

  • To show how much food people eat while at work

  • To see if employees were organized while at work

Explanation

Question 3 of 10

1

Who conducted the Hawthorne Expirement?

Select one of the following:

  • John Mayer

  • Donald McGregor

  • Elton Mayo

  • Henry Ford

Explanation

Question 4 of 10

1

How many total interviews were conducted in the Interviewing Program of the Hawthorne Studies?

Select one of the following:

  • 2,000

  • 42,000

  • 25,000

  • 21,000

Explanation

Question 5 of 10

1

What was the underlying purpose of Theory X and Y?

Select one of the following:

  • To show the two different axis' on a graph

  • The way managers see and think about employees in the workplace, with either an optimistic or pessimistic view

  • To show how people have negative attitudes in the workplace

  • To show how people have positive attitudes in the workplace

Explanation

Question 6 of 10

1

The Industrial Revolution had nothing to do with the beginnings of Organizational Behavior

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 7 of 10

1

Theory X and Y were created by Fredrick Taylor

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 8 of 10

1

Theory X runs on the notion that people lack intelligence, are lazy, dislike work, and are uninterested.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 9 of 10

1

Modernization has an indirect correlation with the Healthcare Industry

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 10 of 10

1

Check all the boxes that were apart of the four Hawthorne Studies

Select one or more of the following:

  • Illumination Expirement

  • Illustration Experiment

  • Relay Assembly Groups

  • Bankers in Debt Experiment

  • Bank-Wiring Observation Room Group Studies

  • Cognitive Experiment

  • Interviewing Studies

Explanation