ASHWORTH BU350 ONLINE EXAM 2

From the 1930s through the mid-1980s, General Motors consistently gave promotions and bonuses to managers who kept a low profile and avoided controversy. This is an example of which of the following organizational constraints?

Your boss never gives you the benefit of the doubt. When you arrived late from lunch, he assumed that you had simply taken too much time. He never considered that the elevators were not working that day, forcing you to walk up ten flights of stairs. Your boss is guilty of __________.

Two people see the same thing at the same time yet interpret it differently. In this situation, factors that operate to shape their dissimilar perceptions reside in the __________.

Which of the following terms describes basic convictions that “a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite mode of conduct”?

Attribution theory suggests that when we observe an individual’s behavior, we attempt to determine whether it was internally or externally caused. That determination, however, depends largely on three factors. Which of the following is one of those three factors?

Leon Festinger argued that __________ follow(s. __________.

Decision-makers construct simplified models that extract the essential features from problems without capturing all their complexity. That is, they operate within the confines of __________.

The attitude-behavior relationship is likely to be much stronger if the attitude __________.

You are part of a group that’s deciding whether it is appropriate to discontinue research on a new drug. This new drug would save lives, but it is uncertain whether you can develop it within a reasonable time frame and at a reasonable cost. Your firm has already spent a small fortune on this drug. You have gathered so much information that you are unable to sort valuable information from superfluous data. You just feel that more research on this drug has merit. What form of decision-making are you using if you decide to continue researching this drug because you feel that doing so has merit?

In the real world, what do people typically do when making a decision about a problem?

Of the following components, the best predictor of turnover is __________.

Investors bragged about their investing expertise during the stock market rally between 1996 and early 2000. Knowing individuals rely on the self-serving bias to explain failure, which of the following explanations would an investor be most likely to make after the market imploded in 2000?

Business schools generally train students to follow __________ decision-making models.

__________ is as important for managers as for frontline employees, and among the Big Five traits, is most consistently related to job performance.

One of the core problems that created the financial meltdown of 2008 was that large loans were made to individuals who could not repay them, and finance companies had purchased these bad debts without realizing how poor the prospects of repayment were. Which of the following decision-making errors was made by the lenders and borrowers?

The theory of cognitive dissonance was proposed by __________.

Milton Rokeach created the Rokeach Value Survey (RVS.. It consists of two sets of values, __________ values and __________ values.

Individuals high in self-monitoring __________. ?

Why are agreeable people usually less successful in their careers?

Which of the following answer choices is the best definition of “attitude”?