Class Exercise: Organsational Behaviour Topic 1 – 3

1. Which issue is the most central to the field of organisational behaviour?

(a) Ways to improve advertising for a new product.
(b) How to increase job satisfaction and performance among employees?
(c) Creation of new strategy for organizational growth.
(d) Design of a new management information system (MIS).

2. What is the best description of the setting facing organisational behaviour today (challenges)?
(a) Command-and-control is in
(b) The new generation is similar to the old
(c) Empowerment is out
(d) Work-life balance concerns are in

3. Which statement about organisational behaviour is the most correct?

(a) It seeks ‘one-best-way’ solutions to management problems.
(b) It is a unique science that has little relationship to other scientific disciplines.
(c) It focuses on using knowledge for practical applications (study of individual, group behaviour in order to
improve organizational effectiveness / performance)
(d) It is so modern that it has no historical roots.

4. Forces affecting organisational behaviour are ……………………

(a) People
(b) Environment
(c) Technology
(d) All of the above

5. Organisational behaviour is ………………………

(a) A science
(b) An art
(c) A science as well as an art
(d) None of the above

6. Oganisational behaviour’s current state of investigation and study is best describe as …………………..
(a) All of OB is based on universal truths proposed by academics, researchers and practitioners. Political
forces have a tendency to influence the study of OB and, hence, skew resulting conclusions.
(b) There is little disagreement among OB researchers and scholars as to the current state.
(c) OB is practically based on situational or contingency conditions driven by leadership style.
(d) Cause-effect principles, which tend to apply to all situations, have been isolated.

7. The objective(s) of Organisational behaviour includes ………………………

(a) To describe the actions and reactions of individuals and groups in the system as they interact with each
other in the course of their working day.
(b) To describe the role of capital and location.
(c) To describe the role of man and machines.
(d) None of these.

8. Which of the following is not correct for the organisational behaviour?

(a) Organisational behaviour is an integral part of management.
(b) Organisational behaviour is a disciplinary approach.
(c) Organisational behaviour helps in analysis of behaviour
(d) Organisational behaviour is goal-oriented

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9. Organisational Behaviour focuses at 3 levels which are …………………..
(a) Individuals, Organisation, Society
(b) Society, Organisation, Nation
(c) Employee, Employer, Management
(d) Individual, Groups, Organisation

10. OB helps to understand behaviour of human in …………………….

(a) Workplace and society
(b) Workplace only
(c) Society only
(d) Department only

11. Some of OB’s challenges and opportunities include all of the following except ……………….
(a) Reinforcing the importance of traditional methods of management.
(b) Offering specific insights to improve interpersonal and people skills.
(c) Helping us learn to cope in a continuously changing world.
(d) Facilitating the improvement of quality and employee productivity.

12. Which of the following disciplines contributes to the Organisational Behaviour?

(a) Psychology
(b) Anthropology
(c) Sociology
(d) All of the above

13. The job satisfaction of an employee is depend on the …………………..

(a) Behaviour
(b) Attitude
(c) Personality
(d) Employer

14. The OB subject of “perception” has been most influenced by which behavioural science discipline?
(a) Political science
(b) Psychology
(c) Social psychology
(d) Anthropology

15. A study of the culture and practices in different societies is called …………………………
(a) Personality
(b) Anthropology
(c) Perception
(d) Attitudes

16. Which of the stage of perceptual process?

(a) In the organizing, the perceiver is influenced by figure and ground grouping and several perceptual errors
such as stereotyping, halo effects, projection and perceptual defense.
(b) The selection of the stimuli for the further consideration is governed by factors external to the individual,
such as the personality predispositions and motivations of the perceiver.
(c) The observation phase depicts the environmental stimuli being absorbed by the five senses of the
perceiver.
(d) All of the above. (the perceiver, the target and situation)

17. Which statement is true?

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 (a) Perception is the means by which stimuli affect an organism or individual.
(b) Human behaviour is generally determined on the basis of ‘what is perceived’, rather than on ‘what is’.
(c) Behaviour is determined only by perceived stimuli; in other words, a stimulus that is not perceived has no
effect on human behaviour.
(d) All of the above.

18. The five personality traits as per Big Five Personality Traits are ………CANOE/ OCEAN………….
(a) Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientious, Emotional Stability, Openness to experiences
(b) Extroversion, Agreeableness, Friendly, Emotional Stability, Openness to experience
(c) Extroversion, Agreeableness, Courage, Friendly, Openness to experience
(d) Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientious, Emotional Stability, Easy going

19. Outgoing, talkative, social are part of ………………..personality Trait as per big 5 personality trait.
(a) Friendly
(b) Openness to experience
(c) Introversion
(d) Extroversion

20. Trust, nature, cooperative are part of ………………….personality trait as per big 5 personality trait.
(a) Emotional Stability
(b) Conscientious
(c) Openness to experience
(d) Introversion

21. Relaxed and secure are part of …………………..personality trait as per big 5 personality trait.
(a) Agreeableness
(b) Emotional stability
(c) Openness to experience
(d) Introversion

22. Sensitive and intellectual are part of …………………..personality trait as per big 5 personality trait.
(a) Agreeableness
(b) Emotional stability
(c) Openness to experience
(d) Introversion

23. ……………………..are stimulated by events and people external to themselves. They show their feelings,
learn by talking, and work well in groups.
(a) Positive personalities
(b) Introverts
(c) Extrovert
(d) None of the above

24. Which statement is true?

(a) Personality is defined as the unique aspect of an individual’s behaviour.
(b) Man is affected by and affects the environment.
(c) Perception is the means by which stimuli affects and organism or individual.
(d) All of the above.

25. A process of receiving, selecting, organizing, interpreting, checking and reacting to sensory stimuli or data so as
to form a meaningful and coherent picture of the world is ………………….
(a) Attitude
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 (b) Thinking
(c) Perception
(d) Communication

26. Perception is …………………………………….

(a) A subjective process, different people may perceive the same environment differently based on what
particular aspects of the situation they choose to selectively absorb, how they organize this information
and the manner in which they interpret it to obtain a grasp of the situation.
(b) The process through which people select, organize and interpret or attach meaning to events happening in
the environment.
(c) As much more complex process by which an individual selectively absorbs or assimilates that stimuli in
the environment, cognitively organizes the perceived information in a specific fashion and then interprets
the information to make an assessment about what is going on in one’s environment.
(d) All of the above.

27. The ………………….theory states that human mind will receive or accept only those information which it
feels that it is relevant.
(a) Perception theory
(b) Selective Perception
(c) Relevance Theory
(d) None of the above

28. ……………………….deals with how the social perceiver uses information to arrive at casual explanations for
events.
(a) Attribution theory
(b) Social Perception Theory
(c) Selective Perception
(d) Social Theory

29. Putting people in to a convenient group on basis of some characteristics and make an assumption to
perceive is called as …………………
(a) Stereotyping
(b) Perception
(c) Perceiving
(d) Group Perception

30. “Girls are not good at sports” is an example of …………………

(a) Perception
(b) Halo effect
(c) Stereotyping - Misogynistic (strongly prejudiced against women)
(d) Individual Personality

31. Understanding of individual differences are important because they ………………….

(a) Mean we have to be different
(b) Show that some cultural groups are superior to others
(c) Reduce the importance of individuality
(d) Help us more accurately predict how and why people act as they do.

32. ……………………….is our perception of one personality trait influences how we view a person’s entire
personality.
(a) Perception
(b) Halo effect
(c) Stereotyping
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 (d) Individual personality

33. People who are high in internal locus of control ……………………….

(a) Believe what happens to them is determined by environmental forces such as fate.
(b) Believe that they can control their own fate or destiny
(c) Are highly extraverted
(d) Do worse on tasks requiring learning and initiative.

34. Perception is the process by which people ……………………….and interpret information.

(a) Generate
(b) Retrieve
(c) Transmit
(d) Verify

35. Proactive personality is ……………………in today’s work environments.

(a) Punished
(b) Missing
(c) Becoming more important
(d) Losing importance

36. When an individual attends to only a small portion of the vast information available in the environment,
this tendency in the perception process is called …………………….
(a) Interpretation (c) Attribution
(b) Self-scripting (d) Selective screening / perception

37. If a new team leader changes tasks for person on her work team mainly “because I would prefer to work the new
way rather than the old,” she may be committing a perceptual errors know as ……………………….
(a) Halo effect (c) Selective perception
(b) Stereotype (d) Projection

38. The perceptual tendency known as a/an ………………………is associated with the “Pygmalion effect” and
refers to finding or creating in a situation that which was originally expected.
(a) Halo effect (c) Self-fulfilling prophecy
(b) Projection (d) None of the above

39. If a manager allows one characteristics of a person, say a pleasant personality, to bias performance ratings of
that individual overall, the manager is falling prey to a perceptual distortion known as ………………………..
(a) Halo effect (c) Selective perception
(b) Stereotype (d) Projection

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