[2024] Valid Organizational-Behaviors-and-Leadership test answers & WGU Organizational-Behaviors-and-Leadership exam pdf [Q43-Q62]

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[2024] Valid Organizational-Behaviors-and-Leadership test answers & WGU Organizational-Behaviors-and-Leadership exam pdf [Q43-Q62]

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Q43. What is an advantage of a strong organizational culture?
Select one.

The culture fosters ambiguity.

Employee commitments are weak.

The internal climate exhibits high behavioral control.

Core values are weakly held and shared by few employees.

Q44. When organizing a team to develop a new quality control system, management wanted to assign team members having characteristics common to effective teams.
Which list specifies common characteristics of effective teams?
Choose 1 answer

A climate of trust, members who fill role demands, and a large team size

Group performance evaluation, absence of conflict, and members who fill role demands

A manageable level of conflict, members who are conscientious, and effective leadership

Group performance evaluation, members who score low on the personality characteristic of extroversion, and effective leadership

Q45. When might an organization’s strongly-entrenched culture be a liability?
Select one.

When an organization’s environment is undergoing rapid change

When the shared values of an organization are in agreement

When core values are shared by members of a specific department

When top management is guiding the cultural development

Q46. What is a positive effect of a cohesive group?
Select one.

Reducing group norm effect

Bringing heterogeneity to the process

Promoting value flexibility

Improving group productivity

Q47. Employees A and B work together on the same project team. When the team faces a complex problem, the team leader usually asks B to generate alternative solutions for the team to consider.
Experience has shown that B is more likely to take initiative, to set ambitious goals, and to feel that the team can effectively influence its environment. Employee A tends to do well on jobs that are routine, is plagued with self doubt, and feels that the team is largely powerless over its environment.
Which statement is correct?

Employee A exhibits positive core self evaluation, and employee B exhibits negative core self evaluation.

Employee A exhibits negative core self evaluation, and employee B exhibits positive core self evaluation.

Employee A exhibits negative core self evaluation, and employee B exhibits negative core self evaluation.

Employee A exhibits positive core self evaluation and employee B exhibits positive core self evaluation.

Q48. Which approach might be used to mentor a less-experienced employee?
Choose 1 answer

Coaching and threatening

Refereeing and counseling

Counseling and sponsorship

Threatening and sponsorship

Q49. What is a characteristic of cross-functional teams?
Select one.

Team members’ votes on decisions are sequenced according to the hierarchy of the function they represent.

Team members are from a vertical cross-section of the organization.

Although team members cross functions they come from the same work area.

Team members are from about the same hierarchical level.

Q50. What is a difference between a work group and a work team
Select one.

A work group’s performance is greater than the sum of the individual inputs while a work teamfocuses on improving individual efforts.

Work group members work individually while work teams accomplish work through a coordinated effort.

Work group skills are complementary while work team skills are random and varied.

The goal of work groups is collective performance while the goal of work teams is to share information that is helpful to each worker.

Q51. What is a characteristic of problem-solving teams that is different than cross-functional teams?

Problem-solving team members meet only on a virtual basis.

Problem-solving team members come from different work units.

Problem-solving team members come from the same work unit.

Problem-solving teams use only computer technology to tie them together physically

Q52. An employee enjoys having a large span of responsibility and is motivated to do well because of personal feelings.
Which kind of reward is this?
Choose 1 answer

Intrinsic reward

Extrinsic reward

Affiliation reward

Compensatory reward

Q53. Recognize how workplace politics influence behavior within an organization.
How do employees often respond when feeling threatened by organizational politics?
Choose 1 answer

With defensive behaviors

With proactive behaviors

With high performance pressures

With organizational investment

Q54. A company is changing their work organization from employees working individually to the use of teams.
Which reward system could be used to foster long-term team effectiveness?
Choose 1 answer

Reward system that recognizes only group activity

Reward system that rewards only individual performance

Reward system that discourages collaboration by individuals

Q55. What is true about the relationship between performance evaluation and motivation?
Select one.

Employees must have confidence that the effort they exert will lead to a favorable performance evaluation.

Employees must have confidence that the performance evaluation will measure their emotional state.

There is no relationship if the performance evaluation is tied to the employee’s superordinate goals.

Employees see a negative exponential relationship to the performance evaluation.

Q56. Three employees meet face-to-face to identify a problem and resolve it through open discussion.
Which type of conflict resolution technique is this?
Select one.

Compromising

Devil’s advocate

Smoothing

Problem solving

Q57. A team was assigned a project. Halfway through the project it was obvious that the team was failing to meet expectations. Management had made sure that individuals assigned to the team had good interpersonal skills as well as good problem-solving and decision-making skills. However, they overlooked other abilities of team members required for accomplishing the work.
Which ability necessary for team members was overlooked?
Choose 1 answer

Type D personality

Technical expertise

Authoritarian personality

Propensity for social loafing

Q58. What type of team is formed when employees from about the same hierarchical level but from different work areas come together to accomplish a task?
Choose 1 answer

Virtual team

Diverse team

Divergent team

Cross-functional team

Q59. What is an advantage of a cohesive group?
Select one.

When organized by department, task subgroups compete within the group.

When performance-related goals are low, a cohesive group is more productive.

When performance-related goals are high, a cohesive group is more productive.

When organized by department, task subgroups do not form and command groups emerge.

Q60. Which dimension of the Fiedler contingency model is associated with the degrees of influence a leader has over variables such as hiring, firing, discipline, promotions, and salary increases?

Task structure

Leader-member exchange

Position power

Leader-member relations

Q61. 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.

Individual and group evaluation with individual and group rewards

Group performance evaluation with individual rewards

Group performance evaluation with group rewards

Individual performance evaluation with group rewards

Q62. Which option defines organizational culture?
Choose 1 answer

A diverse cultural subset working together to strengthen impact

A shared system of meanings that is unique to the organization

An organizational segmentation according to cultural background

A human resources department program for recognizing diversity