PSY 302 Week 5 Final Comprehensive Exam
PSY 302 Week 5 Final Comprehensive Exam
Question 1
Assuming that all members possess the right KSAOs required to solve the problem at hand, how many people should be on a team to achieve maximum effectiveness?
1–3
4–7
5–9
10–14
Question 2
Which type of organizational commitment is most positively related to organizational outcomes?
cognitive
affective
continuance
normative
Question 3
Which of the following expresses the correct order of the five stages of team development?
norming à forming à storming à performing à adjourning
storming à adjourning à norming à forming à performing
adjourning à norming à storming à performing à forming
forming à storming à norming à performing à adjourning
Question 4
Which of the following is NOT true of team decision making?
It accelerates the decision-making process.
It leads to higher quality decisions.
It leads to more alternatives.
It promotes a sense of ownership of the decision.
Question 5
Which of the following terms describes the level of enthusiasm a person feels for his or her job?
employee engagement
job satisfaction
person–organization fit
organizational commitment
Question 6
Which of the following jobs did a survey of 27,000 U.S. workers reveal to be one of the most inherently satisfying?
laborer
assembly-line worker
cashier
power plant engineer
Question 7
__________ describe(s) the cooperative, coevolutionary search for the best in people, their organizations, and the world around them.
Virtuous spirals
Appreciative inquiry
The human-capital-centric approach
The built-to-change approach
Question 8
What did a meta-analytical study by happiness expert Sonja Lyubomirsky and her colleagues find about the relationship between positivity, happiness, and success?
Happiness causes positivity.
Positivity causes happiness.
Positivity causes success.
Success causes positivity.
Question 9
Jennifer has always longed to become a veterinarian, but she instead keeps books and does accounting for the restaurant that has been in her family for more than 50 years. Which type of organizational commitment is Jennifer demonstrating?
cognitive
continuance
affective
normative
Question 10
Who perpetrates most cases of violent workplace fatalities?
strangers
disgruntled employees
repeat customers
vendors
Question 11
Which type of team is the most common and traditional?
self-managed
manager-led
cross-functional
project
Question 12
After discussing what to do about an ongoing budgeting problem, Barbara’s team decides on a course of action that is more conservative than what was advocated by individual team members. What is the name of this phenomenon?
risky shift
cautious shift
production blocking
groupthink
Question 13
Which of the following statements best captures current trends regarding organizational change in fast-paced and hard-to-predict climates?
Organizations are choosing to become more human-capital-centric than structure-centric.
Organizations are choosing to become more structure-centric than human-capital-centric.
