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Organizational-Behaviors-and-Leadership WGU Organizational Behaviors and Leadership (IBC1) Questions and Answers

Questions 4

A company switched from assembly lines to self-managed work teams.

What can team members do to improve the synergy and success of their teams?

Select one.

Options:

A.

Assign individual roles rather than mutual team roles

B.

Evaluate each other’s performance

C.

Change work group roles at random

D.

Share information but not engage in collective performance goals

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Questions 5

Management has noticed that the accounting work group is having difficulty because group members seem to be working in different directions.

Which suggested action can the company take to increase group cohesiveness?

Select one.

Options:

A.

Establish more rigid role definition for group members

B.

Give individual rewards rather than group rewards

C.

Have the group avoid competition with other groups

D.

Give group rewards rather than individual rewards

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Questions 6

Which option defines organizational culture?

Choose 1 answer

Options:

A.

A diverse cultural subset working together to strengthen impact

B.

A shared system of meanings that is unique to the organization

C.

An organizational segmentation according to cultural background

D.

A human resources department program for recognizing diversity

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Questions 7

A manager challenged an employee to produce an average of 24 assemblies each day for a week. This production goal was higher than the employee had ever achieved during any week. The manager

gave the employee a tally sheet to mark after each assembly was completed.

Considering the goal-setting theory of motivation, the manager was counting on which factors to influence the employee to achieve the production goal?

Choose 1 answer

Options:

A.

Challenge and direction

B.

Feedback and reflection

C.

Specificity and feedback

D.

Challenge and power

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Questions 8

What is true about social loafing in the work place?

Select one.

Options:

A.

It seeks to reconcile divergent attitudes and to align attitudes and behaviors so they appear rational and consistent.

B.

It challenges the logic that the productivity of a group should be at least equal to the sum of productivity of each individual in the group.

C.

It increases employee expectations that effort will lead to a lower level of performance when tasks are ambiguously structured.

D.

It supports low employee performance and satisfaction when employees are performing structured tasks in groups.

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Questions 9

A company decided to change their work organization from individuals working independently to production teams. However, they decided to continue their same approach to performance evaluation and salary adjustment, which had worked well since the performance evaluation process had been improved. After a year's experience with the new team structure, it was obvious that productivity had decreased. A consultant's conclusion was that the approach to performance appraisal and assigning rewards was a cause of the teams' failure to perform.

Which approaches to performance evaluation and granting rewards would have been more effective in this situation?

Select one.

Options:

A.

Individual and group evaluation with individual and group rewards

B.

Group performance evaluation with individual rewards

C.

Group performance evaluation with group rewards

D.

Individual performance evaluation with group rewards

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Questions 10

What is an advantage of a strong organizational culture?

Choose 1 answer

Options:

A.

Employee behavior is rarely affected.

B.

There is a lack of behavioral consistency

C.

The company has low employee turnover.

D.

Organizational purpose results in limited cohesiveness.

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Questions 11

Which statement is true about work teams?

Choose 1 answer

Options:

A.

The members' primary focus is on improving individual effort.

B.

The primary goal is to share information that is helpful to individual efforts.

C.

Members of the group generate positive synergy through coordinated effort.

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Questions 12

A person wants a comfortable life, a sense of accomplishment, and happiness.

Which type of values arethese?

Select one.

Options:

A.

Terminal values

B.

Intermediate values

C.

Determinate values

D.

Instrumental values

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Exam Name: WGU Organizational Behaviors and Leadership (IBC1)
Last Update: Nov 16, 2024
Questions: 78

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