True / False Questions
1.
People-centered practices are associated with higher profits and lower employee turnover.
True False
2.
Power can be provided to employees via centralization.
True False
3.
Providing training for employees leads to lower employee turnover.
True False
4.
Trust can be built in organizations through the sharing of critical information.
True False
5.
Organizations are a social invention helping us to achieve things collectively that we could not achieve alone.
True False
6.
OB is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to better understanding and managing people at work.
True False
7.
The three levels of OB analysis are individual, business, and strategic.
True False
8.
OB knowledge is derived exclusively from organization theory.
True False
9.
Organizational behavior is a vertical discipline functioning in the human resource realm.
True False
10.
Organizational behavior is a specific job category in most organizations.
True False
11.
Legalization of union-management collective bargaining helped foster the human relations movement.
True False
12.
Reanalysis of the original Hawthorne data explained that high-quality raw materials were responsible for high output in the relay assembly test room experiments.
True False
13.
Writer Elton Mayo advised managers to attend to employees’ emotional needs in his 1933 classic The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization.
True False
14.
Mary Parker Follett urged managers to demand job performance from employees instead of merely attempting to motivate them.
True False
15.
According to McGregor’s Theory Y, managers could accomplish more by believing that employees require close direction when they are working.
True False
