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Concepts and Terms
BUSI 240
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From an organizational behavior perspective, organizations are defined as groups of people who
work interdependently toward some purpose.
The stakeholder perspective provides the strongest case for ethics and corporate social
responsibility. In fact, it emerged out of earlier writing about ethics and corporate social
responsibility.
According to the multiple levels of analysis anchor, OB topics typically relate to the individual,
team, and organizational levels of analysis.
Organizational behavior knowledge:
helps us to understand, predict, and influence the behaviors of others in organizational settings
The greatest value of organizational behavior is that it:
helps us to get things done in the workplace
_________ refers to the study of moral principles or values that determine whether actions are
right or wrong and outcomes are good or bad:
ethics
A company's success is _______ by the quality of its CEO:
significantly influenced
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As part of the knowledge management process, experimentation is conducive to:
knowledge acquisition
The topic of ethics is most closely associated with the ______ perspective:
stakeholder
________ refers to an organization's moral obligation toward all of its stakeholders.
organizational behavior
*Corporate social responsibilities refer to an organization's moral obligation toward all of its
stakeholders. It is the view that companies have a contract with society, in which they must serve
stakeholders beyond shareholders and customers
The multiple levels of analysis studied by organizational behavior researchers include all of the
following except:
the customer
The understanding that no single solution is best in all circumstances is a variable for the
________ anchor:
contingency
*people and their work environments are complex, and the field of organizational behavior
recognizes this by stating that the effect of one variable on another variable often depends on the
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characteristics of the situation or people involved. In practice, this means that a single outcome
or solution rarely exists; a particular action may have different consequences under different
conditions
People who are self-motivated, organized, and can work effectively with technology are better
suited for:
Telecommuting
Mick works for a company as a financial analyst from home using information technology. He
does not work in a traditional physical workplace, rather he is utilizing:
virtual work
________ refers to goal-directed behaviors under the individual's control that support
organizational objectives:
task performance
Represents values that determine whether actions are right or wrong and outcomes are good or
bad?:
Ethics
The "Big Five" personality dimensions represent:
the cluster representing most known personality traits
