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Question 51

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Which of these is one of the conditions necessary to establish causal inferences?

A) The two variables are not correlated.
B) Multiple alternative explanations exist for the correlation.
C) The presumed cause precedes the presumed effect in time.
D) The study was conducted in an open environment.
E) The sample size is large enough.

F) A) and D)
G) A) and B)

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Which of the following reflect(s) the degree to which employees feel that their company does business with fairness, honesty, and integrity?

A) Job satisfaction
B) Trust, justice, and ethics
C) Team processes
D) Personality and ability
E) Motivation

F) D) and E)
G) C) and D)

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Of the following methods, which suggests that people hold firmly to some belief because some respected official, agency, or source has said it is so?

Which of these takes all the correlations found in studies of a particular relationship and calculates a weighted average of them?

Leader power and negotiation summarize how individuals attain authority over others.

Which of the following argues that scientific findings should form the foundation for management education?

Briefly describe the four different ways of knowing things.Which way do you believe provides the soundest explanation and most compelling support?

Big decisions are visible to competitors and observable by industry experts.

According to the resource-based view of organizations, a firm's resources do not include resources related to organizational behavior, such as the knowledge, ability, and wisdom of the workforce.

Which of the following individual characteristics illustrated in the integrative model of OB reflect the various traits and tendencies that describe how people act, with commonly studied traits including extraversion, conscientiousness, and collectivism?

Understanding correlation is important because OB questions are not "yes or no" in nature.

Choose the method which suggests that people accept some belief because scientific studies have tended to replicate that result using a series of samples, settings, and methods?

What is meta-analysis?

Which of the following methods suggests that people hold firmly to some belief because it is consistent with their own experience and observations?

Which of the following correlations indicate a perfect statistical relationship between two variables?

Strategic management focuses on the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organization's profitability.

Much of what we know about organizational behavior is considered universal and "culture-free" showing that managing people faces the sane challenges everywhere.

To counter the effects of a bad product, effective management of OB can help make the product get better, incrementally, over the long term.

Learning and decision making deal with how employees gain job knowledge and how they use that knowledge to make accurate judgments on the job.

Given that good employees move from one organization to another, they do not create a resource valuable enough for creating competitive advantage.