TESTED AND CONFIRMED A+ ANSWERS
1. Human capital is the productive potential of an individual's knowledge and actions.
2. Research identified all but
... [Show More] one of the following strategies as critical in breaking the glass ceiling.
Which one?
A. Consistently exceeding performance expectations
B. Developing a style with which male managers are comfortable
C. Seeking out difficult or challenging assignments
D. Having influential mentors
E. All of the above are critical
3. Elian has a tendency to over-analyze situations. He also has a very high tolerance for ambiguity. Elian
can be described as an individual with the style of decision making.
A. behavioral
B. analytic
C. directive
D. conceptual
E. cultural
4. All of the following factors influence an employee’s expectancy perceptions except:
A. Self-esteem
B. Self-serving bias
C. Self-efficacy
D. Information necessary to complete the task
E. Help received from a supervisor and subordinates
5. Which of the following is NOT a managerial implication of Expectancy Theory?
A. Determine the outcomes of employee’s value
B. Link desired outcomes to employee efforts
C. Make sure employees can achieve targeted performance levels
D. Monitor the reward system for inequities
E. Make sure changes in outcomes are large enough to motivate high effort
6. are people who have a higher tolerance for negative inequity.
A. Entitleds
B. Strategists
C. Benevolents
D. Sensitives
E. Comparison others
7. Joe believes his past performance in college is due to the difficulty of courses he has taken and his bad
luck in getting tough instructors. Based on this, Joe
A. Has an external locus of control
B. Is a proactive personality
C. Is an extravert
D. Has a low degree of conscientiousness
E. Is emotionally intelligent
8. refers to the idea that decision makers are constrained by a variety of factors.
A. Optimizing
B. Unaided analytic strategy
C. Bounded rationality
D. Conceptual decision style
E. Escalation of commitment
9. is the practical application of Frederick Herberg’s motivation-hygiene theory of job
satisfaction.
A. Job rotation
B. The mechanistic approach
C. Job enrichment
D. The perceptual-motor approach
E. Job enlargement
10. is a learned predisposition toward a given object.
A. personality
B. perception
C. self-concept
D. self-efficacy
E. attitude
11. Gloria believes that she has always performed at her best at World Class Computers. She has also
received the best performance ratings from her supervisor every year. However, she has not been
promoted for the last five years. Many of her male counterparts have been promoted. Gloria is facing
which of these?
A. Self-serving bias
B. Glass Ceiling
C. Contrast effects
D. Fundamental attribution bias
E. Recency effect [Show Less]