History Of Organizational Behavior

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Be tested on the key concepts and important aspects of Chapter 1.
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Question 1

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What is Organizational Behavior?
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  • 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

Question 2

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What was the purpose of the Hawthorne Studies?
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  • 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

Question 3

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Who conducted the Hawthorne Expirement?
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  • John Mayer
  • Donald McGregor
  • Elton Mayo
  • Henry Ford

Question 4

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How many total interviews were conducted in the Interviewing Program of the Hawthorne Studies?
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  • 2,000
  • 42,000
  • 25,000
  • 21,000

Question 5

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What was the underlying purpose of Theory X and Y?
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  • 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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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Theory X and Y were created by Fredrick Taylor
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  • True
  • False

Question 8

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

Question 9

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Modernization has an indirect correlation with the Healthcare Industry
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  • True
  • False

Question 10

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Check all the boxes that were apart of the four Hawthorne Studies
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  • Illumination Expirement
  • Illustration Experiment
  • Relay Assembly Groups
  • Bankers in Debt Experiment
  • Bank-Wiring Observation Room Group Studies
  • Cognitive Experiment
  • Interviewing Studies
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