SAMPLE MGT 600 EXAM QUESTIONS, Fall 2011
Your examination will consist of two types of questions – short-answer (worth 40%) and application (worth 60%) essays. The type of short-answer questions you may see are given below….
Sample Short-Answer Questions:
1. How might self-efficacy impact the Pygmalion Effect? Explain. 2. What is meant by internal and external equity and how is each achieved in organizations? 3. Differentiate between (a) content, and (b) process theories of motivation. 4. In Equity theory, what are two possible outcomes/ratios? What can an employee do to deal with inequity when it occurs? 5. How does Herzberg’s view of satisfaction/dissatisfaction differ from traditional views? How is his
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15. What is the Set-Up-To-Fail syndrome? (CP reading) What are the individual and organizational costs of the syndrome? How is it related to the Pygmalion Effect? 16. What is validity and how does it relate to personality testing? What is reliability? 17. Which performance measurement technique is most susceptible to perception biases and why? How might such biases be minimized? 18. Discuss how the Myers-Briggs assessment device might be used organizationally. 19. What are three necessary conditions to establish norms in the feedback process? (CP reading by Barnes) 20. According to the authors of “Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups,” teams are more innovative when they achieve participation, collarboration, and cooperation. How does emotional intelligence help to create such norms? 21. Discuss the fundamental attribution error and how it affects assessments of performance. 22. In the article, “Leadership Run Amok,” the authors note several downsides to a very high need for achievement. What are they, and what types of need profiles did the successful managers from IBM display? 23. Indicate how goal setting theory could be used to explain the results from failed organizational attempts to increase performance through performance based objective plans/targets? 24. What is the difference between internal and external attribution? Give examples of each. How do we ultimately
Negative publicity of the company and loss of credibility in the eyes of existing and potential customers impacting overall business
1. (TCO B) Identify four categories of measures that might constitute a Balanced Scorecard of performance measures and provide an example of each. Also explain how a Balanced Scorecard could assist your organization. This answer must be in your own words—significant cut and paste from the text or other sources is not acceptable. (Points : 30)
Max Weber theorized that a "Bureaucracy" is a social system achieves which of the following?
1. When a social scientists say that the concept of race is a "social construct", they mean that the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning.
1.1 Explain Models of practices that underpin equality, and diversity and inclusions in own area of responsibility.
People should make decisions every day, some of those decisions are easy to make, while others are quite difficult to implement. An appropriately combined and organized decision-making process will help to control this issue and bring a positive outcome for those involved. The decision-making process may become challenging for people due to “the lack of structure and entail risk, uncertainly and conflict” (Bateman and Snell, 2012, p. 86). That is why people trying to make important personal or professional decisions should have an appropriate model to follow in order to avoid these challenges. Bateman and Snell identified six steps or stages of decision-making process
1. Page 355 in the text: Questions for Thought and Discussion: Questions 5, 9, and 11
2 of Understanding and Managing Organizational Behavior: Exhibit 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7 MGT 312 WEEK 2 Personality Impact Paper
Which of the following is not an impact of the mass migration of users from PCs to mobile devices?
1.1) Explain Models of practises that underpin equality, and diversity and inclusions in own area of responsibility.
c. Explanation of the central points from the article(s): Avoid just using a quote from a source. Explain what you think the author means.
(b) While we don’t agree that Catmull’s statement applies to all systems, we agree with his thought process. In hindsight, he observed that both teams were operating in the same external
All employees analyze their environment and strive to be recognized and rewarded for their hard work and dedication they put into the company, in a word they are seeking justice. Justice can be defined as a person receiving what they feel they are entitled to and if they do not receive what they deserve, the situation may boarder on injustice. Unfortunately in today’s society justice and appreciation are not given out to all those deserving (Pinder, 1998). Within the Equity theory there are three justice theories. The first of which is distributive justice, this touches on if the referent feels that the outputs are fair that are given to the employees. This comes into play
1. What actions can Peanutty’s managers take to ensure the supply of raw materials for its operations, while reducing the risk of stockouts or high production costs?