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Human Behavior in Organization
Human Behavior in Organization
management.
- Complementary Transactions
The physical actions of a person that can be seen or heard such as smiling or whistling
- Human behavior
Is an applied behavioral science that is built on contributions from a number of behavioral disciplines
- Organizational Behavior
Aggressive communication can be sarcastic and spiteful, often offends the other person
- True
In Human Behavior it is important to know how people, as individuals and as groups, act within their
social circles.
- True
- Complementary Transactions
- True
From the 20th century onward with the advent of the modern era of scientific investigation and thought,
psychology begin to be defined in terms of study of behavior.
- False
- False
- Survey Method
- Ambiguity
The study of human behavior in organization, of the interaction between individuals and the
organization, and of the organization itself.
- Organizational Behavior
The style of common communication in organization is very influenced by the personal style of
communication.
- True
With regard to people, there are three basic assumptions: individual differences, a whole person, caused
behavior (motivation).
- False
- Barrier
The following are the characteristics of a successful supervisor EXCEPT:
- Leadership styles
Persuasion skills
Self-confidence
- Environmental factors like the socioeconomic and political conditions of the country. Personal
motivations, job and reward expectations.
- True
The Contingency Theory is a specific situation factors which can affect the direct relationships between
independent and dependent variables in the study of organizational behavior
- True
The _____________________________ is authentic, direct, reality based, fact seeking and problem solving.
Unfair discrimination is assuming stereotypes about groups and refusing to recognize differences
- True
- True
When people become nervous, they freeze up and act like they are dead.
Noise is the external sounds present in the channels of communication, which results in the reduction of
the audibility or omission of some words from the message.
- True
Semantics is the study of language with special concern for the meanings of words and other symbols
- True
- Controlling
- True
- Noise
- True
The capacity to do tasks demanding stamina, dexterity, strength, and similar characteristics
- Physical Abilities
A good leader is a person with integrity who is committed to the organization and the people who work
together to accomplish the organization’s mission ; this persons lead by example, communicates without
ceasing, and shows care, concern and consistency in all dealings
- True
The more you vary your responses to match the situation (choice), the more likely you will be in balance.
- True
- Organizing
- Political Science
Chaves (2014) cited that values are the expressions of the ultimate ends, goals or purposes of social
action; the society’s moral imperatives that deal with what ought to be;and are considered desirable and
important by the members of society.
- False
Marcelo (2010) has mentioned that the Philippines’ biggest competitive advantage in the global job
market is the proficiency of Filipino skilled workers in the English language.
- True
_____ is a field of study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on
behaviour within organizations.
- Organizational behaviour
- Self-Monitoring
- True
Humanistic psychologists believe that every person has a strong desire to realize his or her full potential,
to reach a level of self-actualization.
- True
Leadership is innate
- True
- Leading
Communication is complete only when the receiver understands the message. Many communication
problems arise because of misunderstandings.
- True
Semantic problems are problems arising from expression or transmission of meaning in communication.
- True
- Self-Efficacy
Makes use of the results from earlier stages of life and various heredity related issues
- Genetic Method
- True
The human resource department is primarily responsible for organizational behavior.
- False
A leader is expected to perform creative function of laying out goals and policies to persuade the
subordinates to work with zeal and confidence
- True
Organizational behavior is defined as the multidisciplinary field that seeks knowledge of behavior in
organizational settings by systematically studying individual, group, and organizational processes.
- True
Many employees and managers feel that if they have "said it to her" or "told him about it" they have
communicated
- True
- True
Assertive communication is asking for what you want or saying how you feel in an honest and respectful
way
- True
Personality is stable physical and mental characteristics responsible for a person's identity
- True
- Design of work
Two ego states within the same person but one disguises the other one.
- Ulterior transactions
A leadership style in which the leader is uninvolved and lets subordinates direct themselves
- Laissez-faire Leadership
ANDRES (1989) concepts which we use as points of reference or criteria for recognizing, expressing and
evaluating social realities in the environment in terms of: desirability, importance, significance, worth.
- False
Slang someone may use that not everyone would understand is known as
- Collaquialism
Keen observation refers to the skill in which a person notices things more when it comes to details than
the average person
- True
A leader works as a necessary link between the management and the workers
- True
Setting objectives and determining in advance how the objectives will be met
- Planning
- True
- Well-defined Goal
The principles of organizational behavior are universal in their application across cultures
- False
Pronouncing words clearly and correctly so that each sound can be heard
- Enunciation
- False
- Leading
It is the theory of Herzberg, it stated that individual workers have two different categories of needs that
are essentially independent of each other but affect behavior in different ways.
- Motivated Man
The term behavior is taken in its totally connecting a wide and comprehensive meaning meaning
- True
- Self-Talk
Organizational Behavior cuts across all levels of organizational functioning.
- True
Organization theory tells us about the ________________ between individuals and organization.
- False
- Observing yourself
Observation method is very useful in the areas where experiments cannot be conducted.
- True
- Learned Helplessness
The __________________________ means that the values, attitudes and behaviors of parents an integral part
of the personality of an individual.
The first man to define psychology as the science of behavior was an English psychologist, "William
McGregor."
- False
If the supervisor and the subordinate cannot get along, get them to sit down and talk it out that will
solve the problem
- True
- False
Lack of planning must be avoided for effects communication. There are innumerable examples of people
who would give an ill planned, long winding lecture while a short presentation with tables or graphs
would be sufficient.
- True
With his thoughts, feelings, emotions, and sentiments, the person exhibits behaviors similar or different
when he is in or out of organization.
- Human Behavior
Organizational behavior is based on the basic concept of human relations which is a noteworthy social
approach towards the establishment of inter-personal relationship between superiors and subordinates.
- True
People have much in common but each person in the world is also individually different. The idea of
______________ comes originally from psychology.
- Individual Differences
OB specialists derive knowledge from a wide variety of social science disciplines. ________ is useful for
studying negotiation and decision making.
- Economics
Communication uses symbol both verbal (words) and nonverbal through pictures, signs, and actions.
- Use of symbol
Organizations are _____________, consequently activities therein are governed by social laws as well as
psychological laws.
- Social System
Maslow's ideas have been criticized for their lack of scientific rigor
- True
- True
- Experimental Method
The contingency theory is a specific situation factors which can affect the direct relationships between
independent and dependent variables in the study of organizational behavior.
- True
A vision of a future state for the organization. It does not now exist but it will exist
- True
- True
Allow selection and building of cohesive team, provide leader with task training, and maintain his power.
- True
Extent to which work is well defined and standardized or ambiguous and vague
A blended discipline that has grown out of contributions from numerous earlier fields of study.
- Organizational Behavior
- Ability
Impel a person to make creative or productive effects on himself and his environment
- Growth
The science that seeks to measure, explain, and sometimes change the behavior of human.
- Psychology
- Task structure
Leader may be low-LPC who gains a sense of control and accomplishments by working in very low
situational control.
- True
-
Reflective listening to mirror the feelings and content in the message
Law are referred in this study as behavior and beliefs which may help the Filipinos to decide what is right
and wrong or how to act in a certain situation
- False
- True
- Halaga Buti
To be a leader, a person must have a deep- rooted commitment to the goal that he will strive to achieve
it even if nobody follows him
- True
The contingency theory is a specific situation factors which can affect the direct relationships between
independent and dependent variables in the study of organizational behavior.
- True
Questionnaires, checklists, rating scales, inventories are used to collect the required information in using
a survey method.
- True
___ are individuals who get things done through other people.
- Managers
- True
Moving your head, face, and eyes away from another person is often interpreted as a lack of ___________
- Self-confidence
Is one in which the sender sends message a behavior on the basis of his ego state, but this message is
reacted to by an unexpected ego state on the part of the receiver.
- Crossed transactions
Is the spiritual core of our traditional values and the essence of our collective sentiments or psyche as a
people
- Diwa
- True
- True
Maslow came to conclude that self-actualization was not an automatic outcome of satisfying the other
human needs
- True
Need is the intrinsic inducement that propels an individual to think, feel, and perform in a certain ways. It
is internalized, and the most important, yet elusive, determinant of work behavior.
- False
The communication process consists of three steps. In _____________, the receiver interprets the message
and translates it into meaningful information.
- Decoding
A social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and
consumption of goods and services
- Economics
- Observation Method
There is a positive relationship between leadership and personality characteristics and academic
performance
- True
The need to understand the behavior of others especially those we come in contact with, and the need
to anticipate and predict how others may act in certain situations are important since we are affected by
their actions.
- True
- Noise
The theory on the complex nature of man was posited by Maslow who averred that man’s needs fall into
hierarchy of relative prepotency.
Leadership functions:
- Task-oriented
Organizational behavior seeks to make organizations more profitable by addressing the treatment of pe
ople and the way they do their jobs
- True
Leader is a person who influences a group of people towards the achievement of a goal
- True
- True
Transformational leaders can get strong commitment to their vision from followers
- True
Standards which enable us to organize our ideas and interpret our experiences within the context of
commonly shared meaning of things, events oractions.
- Pamantayan
In reflective listening has a result: The relationship between the two persons develops
- True
According to McGrecor and Likert leadership appears in social science literature with 3 meanings: