BU288 Midterm #1 Latest Update 2024-2025 Actual Exam 110 Questions and 100% Correct Answers Guaranteed A+
Affective commitment - CORRECT ANSWER: Commitment based on identification and
involvement with an organization.
Affective events theory - CORRECT ANSWER: Organizational events give rise to
emotions and moods depending on how the events are appraised.
Attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER: A fairly stable evaluative tendency to respond
consistently to some specific object, situation, person or category of people.
Attribution - CORRECT ANSWER: Is the process by which we assign causes or motives to explain people's behaviour.
Behaviour modelling training - CORRECT ANSWER: One of the most widely used and
effective methods of training, involving 5 steps based on the observational learning component of social cognitive theory.
Behavioural plasticity theory - CORRECT ANSWER: People with low self esteem tend to be more susceptible to external and social influences than those who have high self- esteem.
Bureaucracy - CORRECT ANSWER: Max Weber's ideal type of organization that
included a strict chain of command, detailed rules, high specialization, centralized power, and selection and promotion based on technical competence.
Central traits - CORRECT ANSWER: Characteristics are of particular interest to a perceiver.
Classical conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER: Learning occurs through conditioned
stimuli. Pavlov - Salivating dog 1 / 2
Classical viewpoint - CORRECT ANSWER: An early prescription on management that
advocated high specialization of labour, intensive coordination, and centralized decision making.
Cognitive dissonance - CORRECT ANSWER: A feeling of tension experienced when
certain cognitions are contradictory or inconsistent with each other.
Contingency approach - CORRECT ANSWER: An approach to management that
recognizes that there is no one best way to manage, and that an appropriate management style depends on the demands of the situation.
Continuous commitment - CORRECT ANSWER: Commitment based on the costs that
would be incurred in learning an organization.
Contrast effects - CORRECT ANSWER: Previously interviewed job applicants affect an interviews perception of a current applicant, leading to an exaggeration of differences between applicants.
Control group - CORRECT ANSWER: A group of research subjects who have not been
exposed to the experimental treatment.
Convergent validity - CORRECT ANSWER: When two variables that should be related, are.
Core self evaluations - CORRECT ANSWER: A broad personality concept that consists of more specific traits that reflect the evaluations people hold about themselves and their self worth.
Corporate social responsibility - CORRECT ANSWER: An organization taking
responsibility for the impact of its decisions and actions on its stakeholders.
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