MGT 420 Topic 3 - Adaptive Practice
Course : Grand Canyon
Contributed : Anita Paudel
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- Question: The belief that people act in certain ways and believe in certain things as a result of the environment in which they were raised is an example of the
- Question: Donna and Jeff are working on a project together. Every morning, Donna starts work promptly and often works through her lunch hour. She finds it annoying that Jeff is often late and prefers socializing with other workers to getting his work done. Which of the following does this situation suggest?
- Question: Which of the following occupations would be the best fit for Jung’s sensation-type individual?
- Question: Leah constantly doubts her decisions and her capability to be successful. She feels like she never does anything right, even if she has excellent directions and ample time to complete her projects. She constantly discredits her own ideas and intelligence. In addition, she is afraid to speak up in meetings because she is afraid others in the room will laugh at her.Based on this information, Leah is best described as having _____.
- Question: Loraine manages a software company and needs to hire three new employees. She has looked over the applications and found seven candidates to interview. Two of the three candidates who are most qualified for the position, and interviewed the best, have only recently graduated college. Loraine does not like to hire younger employees because she feels they are less focused, dedicated, and productive. After looking over the applicant resumes and interview notes again, Loraine decides to hire the two younger candidates. What is Loraine’s decision an example of?
- Question: Which statement would be surprising if it came from a person who has a high internal locus of control?
- Question: Someone with a Type B personality is likely to be impatient.
- Question: Janis manages a team of six salespeople who work together in pairs. The team has been together for over a year, but Janis still does not know how her salespeople support one another’s skills to make the best pairs. Janis shows poor
- Question: Brooke is a religious woman who believes that the best people share her religion. She has to hire one of five candidates for a job. The second-best candidate shares her beliefs, but the very best does not. What should Brooke do?
- Question: Carla gives an assignment to two employees, Ben and Sarah. Ben starts on the assignment right away, working through lunches for a week, and pestering Sarah to finish her part. From this, we could conclude that
- Question: Tim is a promising young employee who seems to always put himself down, pushing away praise. His boss tries to help raise Tim’s self-esteem by giving Tim work he can do competently, and then praising him specifically, by saying things such as “good job” and more generally by saying things such as “I see I can rely on you.” What might be the result of the boss’s effort?
- Question: Ajit has been assigned to a new project team at work. The team has been tasked with assessing the company’s customer resource management software and determining which portions need to be updated and then making recommendations for those updates.
- Question: Other people in the company view this project as being doomed to fail; previous attempts at this assessment and overhaul have been disastrous. Ajit, however, is confident that he and the others will be successful at their task. Based on this information, Ajit is best described as having about the task.
- Question: An example of value congruence is
- Question: Ecological fallacy is defined as
- Question: An example of Hofstede’s uncertainty avoidance would be the way a culture
- Question: Which of the following countries would feature companies that are likely to value long- term relationships, make decisions collectively, and favor risk-averse situations?
- Question: Two individuals grow up in different cultures in different countries with different types of education. What can you predict about their values?
- Question: Power distance is defined as
- Question: Xavier feels it is important to have close friends. This is an example of values. sources of
- Question: Which of the following are terminal values, and why?
- Question: Respecting the chain-of-command is an example of
- Question: Instrumental values are defined as
- Question: The cultural tendency of Hong Kong toward unstructured organizational situations is an example of Hofstede’s
- Question: Which term best describes the inclination to describe and explain issues and concerns from one’s own standpoint?
- Question: A manager who bases the significance of an event on a difference with another recent event is an example of
- Question: Which of these examples is MOST like the interpretation step of the information processing process? Why?
- Question: Mason is part of a work crew that is putting a new roof on a house. Mason has never helped with roofing projects before, so he begins to make a list in his head about the major steps in the process as the project leaders discuss the plans for the day. Mason is in the stage of the perception process.
- Question: How could being aware of attribution theory make you a better manager?
- Question: An individual would need to use the retrieval process to do research at a library in order to
- Question: Compare stereotypes and halo effects.
- Question: Cheryl is forty-three years old and has worked for Sanfrod Industries for twenty years, but she has yet to be promoted to the management position she would like. Dominic is sixty-five years old and was recently turned down for the CFO position due to a fear that he would be unable to handle the demands of the job. What do Cheryl and Dominic have in common?
- Question: Compare stereotypes and halo effects.
- Question: A newly graduated engineer received a bright yellow, sleek new sports car as a reward for successfully finishing her degree. Previously, the individual drove what might best be described as a “clunker.” When she drove the clunker, she never once received a traffic citation or was even pulled over by the police. She has been driving the sports car for about a month and has been pulled over four times by the police and was issued a warning one of those times. This is an example of
- Question: Ed is a very calm man who almost never speaks unless he is directly addressed. In a class he takes, he is perceived as withdrawn and unpleasant. In the hospital where he works as a doctor, he is seen as brilliant and rigorous. Which of the following is the MOST important factor in determining the perception of Ed?
- Question: Which statement expresses one goal of putting yourself in another person’s shoes?
- Question: In which of the following ways are social awareness and self-awareness similar?
- Question: Two friends, Tracy and Steve, play on different teams in an intramural basketball league. During a game, Steve tripped Tracy as Tracy was driving to the basket. Tracy was angry but got up and walked away from the incident. How can Tracy best address the situation after the game?
- Question: A desk clerk in a hotel has a job that requires
- Question: What is affect?
- Question: Catherine loves Twitter and tweets all day long with her volleyball teammates. After receiving a low grade in Mr. Stefano’s biology class, she tweeted a rude comment when she got home about Mr. Stefano, who is gay. Catherine was suspended from the team under the school’s Athlete Conduct Code. What is the best way Catherine could rectify the situation?
- Question: Which of the following emotional intelligence competencies is the ability to establish rapport with others to build good relationships?
- Question: Which of the following traits is characteristic of jobs that require a high degree of emotional labor?
- Question: Emotion and mood is the spillover of our emotions and mood onto others.
- Question: Inspiring a group of workers to complete a difficult project under a tight deadline demonstrates your ability to establish
- Question: Which statement is true?
- Question: A manager who has good social awareness is likely to
- Question: Understanding a new employee’s nervousness is an example of which emotional intelligence competency?
- Question: Two friends, Donna and Olivia, play on different teams in an intramural softball league. During a game, Donna tripped Olivia as Olivia was running into third base. Olivia was angry, but got up and walked away from the incident and was called safe by the umpire. How can Olivia best address the situation after the game?
- Question: Kiki is in line at the grocery store and witnesses a small child throwing a temper tantrum because his father would not buy him a toy. Kiki begins to reprimand the father loudly for not doing a better job of controlling his son. Which emotional intelligence competency does Kiki need to develop?
- Question: Two friends, Donna and Olivia, play on different teams in an intramural softball league. During a game, Donna tripped Olivia as Olivia was running into third base. Olivia was angry, but got up and walked away from the incident and was called safe by the umpire. How can Olivia best address the situation after the game?
- Question: Compared with a culture with restrictive display rules, a culture with permissive display rules is
- Question: Lexie’s mother is sick, and no one else in Lexie’s family can take care of her. Lexie ends up working mostly half-days as a result, and she cannot afford to take short-term leave.Lexie’s manager, Al, expects her to make up some of the time to meet a deadline in two days. What can Al do to influence Lexie to meet this deadline?
- Question: Tracey teaches a classroom of fifteen 8-year-olds. One of her students is often disruptive in class and frequently blurts out the first thing that comes to his mind, which tends to hurt the feelings of his peers. When Tracey meets with his parents during parent-teacher conferences, she tells them that something she wants to work on with their child is/are his
- Question: Which of the following moods would be expected to spread through an organization most quickly, and why?
- Question: Which of the following emotional intelligence competencies has to do with the ability to empathize and understand the emotions of others?
- Question: Of the following jobs, which would most likely involve the highest degree of emotional labor?
- Question: Which of the following make up “mood”? Select all that apply.
- Question: Which of the following positions would be the best fit for an employee who is accustomed to a culture with restrictive display rules and is uncomfortable with emotional dissonance? (Assume the employee is equally qualified for each position.)
- Question: In which of the following ways are social awareness and self-awareness similar?
- Question: George and Betty have both been recently transferred to the home office, where displays of emotion are restricted. Display rules were the same in George’s old office but were more permissive where Betty worked.
- Question: Which of the following statements is most likely?
- Question: If you have a good degree of self-awareness, you should be able to recognize when you are frustrated with a situation and to talk with others about it constructively.If you have a good degree of self-awareness, you should be able to recognize when you are frustrated with a situation and to talk with others about it constructively.
- Question: Sarah’s dream job is to work for Walt Disney World. She has applied 10 times and has never received an interview. She puts in her application for an 11th time hoping she will get the job. Sarah
- Question: Which is most like a bonus, and why?
- Question: What is the meaning of “merit pay”?
- Question: What is the relationship between bonuses and salaries?
- Question: In which situation is the frustration-regression principle MOST likely to come into play?
- Question: Jeremy worked very little the last few weeks, so he was not paid much on Friday. This week and next he will be working a lot, so two Fridays from now, he will be paid a lot. Jeremy is compensated according to a performance
- Question: Khadijah graduated from college last year with a major in childhood education. She had to choose between two jobs that she was offered: manager in a convenience store that pays $32,000 a year, or teacher’s aide in an elementary school that pays $24,000 a year. She decided to take the teacher’s aide job, despite the reduced pay. Why do think Khadijah chose the lesser-paying position?
- Question: Bruno has a wife and three children. His family is barely making ends meet, so when his boss offers him extra assignments that will give him overtime, Bruno accepts because he will be paid twice the amount of his current wage for those extra hours. Bruno is displaying
- Question: Natasha received a promotion to division director of her organization, which has been her goal since she started working at Highlands Inc. According to Maslow’s theory, what will Natasha be likely to do next?
- Question: Relatedness needs are defined as
- Question: Mick started a job in a field for which he has the skills, but the company offers no flexibility in schedule, does not pay as well as he had hoped, and does not offer much vacation time. He finds the work satisfying, but he feels confined. What is the problem Mick is finding at his new job?
- Question: How does the frustration-regression principle work for people who have high growth needs?
- Question: A movie studio was just hacked, and one of the items leaked was the pay table for all employees. A male executive earns a salary twice as much as the female executive, and they have the same job title. Which theory does this scenario illustrate?
- Question: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory and Alderfer’s ERG theory share some common elements. However, there are key differences. One of the differences is that
- Question: George’s boss has asked him to provide suggestions for more efficiently moving the flow of information from one department to the next. George’s boss believes he will come up with helpful suggestions because George has a high need for
- Question: Lois has taken over managing a group of employees who seem to lack confidence in their abilities. The manager who preceded Lois repeatedly yelled at employees for being incompetent until he was fired. How can Lois nurture these discouraged employees’ self- efficacy?
- Question: What is the role of goal-setting theory in explaining motivation?
- Question: Ferenc started at MaceCorp at the entry level and is now a manager. Over the years, he has heard people grumble about their compensation, and now that he has a say in allotting pay, he wants to be transparent about how bonuses are decided. What can Ferenc do to lessen perceptions of under-reward inequity among his subordinates?
- Question: Which policy builds on an employee’s drive to acquire?
- Question: Khadija is managing a difficult project with strict monthly deadlines for the next 10 months. How can she maximize the performance of her team to meet these monthly deadlines?
- Question: Which of the following best portrays the idea of enactive
- Question: Many companies have programs and benefits designed to help satisfy employee needs beyond a living wage. What might a company do to further an employee’s sense of esteem?
- Question: As part of their training, medical interns watch other physicians perform surgery. What kind of self-efficacy tool is this?
- Question: Which manager would be considered to maximize expectancy the MOST?
- Question: What is an example of negative reinforcement?
- Question: Instrumentality depends on , while valence depends on .
- Question: Quentin’s company is approaching the end of the quarter, and he has two weeks to complete the budget projections for his department. He tells his boss that he’s sure he’ll be able to get the budgets done in just a week. This is an example of
- Question: Jackie’s team completed a project that was complex and time-consuming. Ernest emerged as a star performer on the project, and Jackie has decided to give him the largest bonus of all the team members for exceeding expectations. What is Jackie doing by giving Ernest the largest bonus?
- Question: Choose your answer here
- Question: Which of the following is a process theory?
- Question: Which of the following would conflict with the law of effect?
- Question: A loan specialist at a bank has approved several loans for large amounts of money that should not have been approved according to bank guidelines. How should the vice president of the bank address the loan specialist’s mistakes using punishment?
- Question: One characteristic of goals that motivate employees successfully is that they are
- Question: Sidley Snowplows is sponsoring a contest in which employees will attempt to generate new sales leads. Greg and Alison, two Sidley employees, are both participating in the contest. The announced prize is a free dinner for two. Greg overhears an HR manager explaining that the dinner will be part of a surprise, all-expense-paid trip to Australia awarded to the employee who generates the most leads. None of the other participating employees know about the surprise award. Will Greg or Allison be more motivated to bring in leads?
- Question: When should a manager apply operant conditioning?
- Question: An employee has misplaced files that have now set back an important project. In punishing the employee, what should management do?
- Question: Equity theory is best exemplified by which of the following?
