Description Question 1 The three types of organizational commitment are continuance, normative, an ...
Description Question 1 The three types of organizational commitment are continuance, normative, and affective. Question 1 options: 1) True 2) False Question 2 Affective commitment is defined as a desire to remain a member of an organization due to an emotional attachment to, and involvement with, that organization. Question 2 options: 1) True 2) False Question 3 Continuance commitment is defined as a desire to remain a member of an organization due to a feeling of obligation. Question 3 options: 1) True 2) False Question 4 The social influence model of withdrawal behavior suggests that employees with fewer bonds will be most likely to quit the organization. Question 4 options: 1) True 2) False Question 5 Continuance commitment tends to create more of a passive form of loyalty than affective commitment. Question 5 options: 1) True 2) False Question 6 Continuance commitment exists when there's a profit associated with staying and a cost associated with leaving. Question 6 options: 1) True 2) False Question 7 Exit is defined as a passive, destructive response to a negative work event in which interest and effort on the job declines. Question 7 options: 1) True 2) False Question 8 When employees engage in moonlighting, they use work time and resources to complete something other than their job duties, such as assignments for another job. Question 8 options: 1) True 2) False Question 9 Survivor syndrome refers to the anger, depression, fear, distrust, and guilt of the employees who remain after an organization downsizes. Question 9 options: 1) True 2) False Question 10 Research suggests that the continued participation of Baby Boomers in the workforce will subtract a significant amount from the U.S. economic output. Question 10 options: 1) True 2) False Question 11 Which of the following is one of the three types of organizational commitment? Question 11 options: 1) Reactive commitment 2) Associative commitment 3) Normative commitment 4) Proactive commitment 5) Distributive commitment Question 12 The desire to remain a member of an organization due to emotional attachment to, and involvement with, that organization is called _____ commitment. Question 12 options: 1) continuance 2) affective 3) evaluative 4) normative 5) associative Question 13 The _____ model suggests that employees with fewer bonds will be most likely to quit the organization. Question 13 options: 1) social influence 2) social impact 3) erosion 4) decay 5) continuity Question 14 The _____ model suggests that employees who have direct linkages with "leavers" will themselves become more likely to leave. Question 14 options: 1) social influence 2) affective 3) continuance 4) decay 5) social identity Question 15 Maria is rather quiet at her workplace. Her only friend at work, Nancy, quit the company a month ago. The _____ model suggests that Maria is more likely to quit her job because Nancy is no longer working in the same organization. Question 15 options: 1) social identity 2) continuance 3) progression 4) embedded 5) social influence Question 16 Which of the following terms refers to the work and nonwork forces that bind us to our current employer? Question 16 options: 1) Normative impact 2) Affective influence 3) Industry regulations 4) Embeddedness 5) Social influence Question 17 Normative commitment from employees can result from all of these except: Question 17 options: 1) the personal work principles of employees. 2) organizational socialization. 3) creating a feeling that the employee is in the organization's debt. 4) increasing the organization's charitable activities. 5) implementing a matrix structure in the organization. Question 18 Jess, Frank, and Ted are coworkers at Crossroad Inc., all having worked at CI for five years now. The three were discussing their careers one day during lunch break when they heard that their coworker Mary just quit and went to work for a competitor. Frank remarks that it is not worthwhile for him to leave like Mary because he has put in the time and hard work for a promotion. If he left for another company, he would not likely get this opportunity again soon. Ted replies to Frank that for him, it's the company's relaxed atmosphere and his best friends at CI that keeps him working there. When they asked Jess about how he felt, Jess indicated that Mary had no bonds to CI. She was relatively new and had not invested any time at CI. "For me," Jess says, "CI gave me an opportunity and invested so much in mentoring me, preparing me for the position, and showing me the ropes to success. There is no way that I can desert them by leaving for another company." Of the three employees, Frank is exhibiting: Question 18 options: 1) continuance commitment. 2) affective commitment. 3) evaluative commitment. 4) normative commitment. 5) associative commitment. Question 19 A passive, constructive response to negative events that maintains public support for the situation while the individual privately hopes for improvement is referred to as _____. Question 19 options: 1) voice 2) exit 3) neglect 4) loyalty 5) ignorance Question 20 Organizational commitment should decrease the likelihood that an individual will respond to a negative work event with _____ or _____. Question 20 options: 1) exit; neglect 2) loyalty; neglect 3) neglect; voice 4) exit; voice 5) exit; loyalty Question 21 Which of the following types of employees possesses high commitment and high performance and are held up as role models for other employees? Question 21 options: 1) Dogs 2) Apathetics 3) Stars 4) Lone wolves 5) Citizens Question 22 The talented employees who display high level of task performance but never seem to want to get involved in important decisions about the future of the company are most likely to be _____. Question 22 options: 1) citizens 2) dogs 3) apathetic 4) lone wolves 5) stars Question 23 Apathetics tend to respond to negative events with _____ because they are low performers who lack marketable skills and who do not have a high enough level of organizational commitment needed to engage in acts of citizenship. Question 23 options: 1) loyalty 2) exit 3) influence 4) voice 5) neglect Question 24 Tim is a new hire at The Journal, a weekly publication. He does not like his job and is not committed to the organization. He hardly exerts even the effort that is required to keep his job. Tim is staying with The Journal because he does not want to be unemployed. Tim is a(n) ______. Question 24 options: 1) star 2) citizen 3) lone wolf 4) apathetic 5) dog Question 25 _____ refers to conversations about nonwork topics that go on in cubicles and offices, in the mailroom, or at vending machines. Question 25 options: 1) Satisficing 2) Moonlighting 3) Daydreaming 4) Socializing 5) Cyberloafing Question 26 _____ is an intentional desire on the part of the employee to look like he or she is working, even when not performing work tasks. Question 26 options: 1) Looking busy 2) Moonlighting 3) Daydreaming 4) Socializing 5) Cyberloafing Question 27 According to the _____ model of withdrawal, various withdrawal behaviors are uncorrelated with one another, occur for different reasons, and fulfill different needs on the part of employees. Question 27 options: 1) independent forms 2) compensatory forms 3) progression 4) normative 5) nominal Question 28 The _____ syndrome is characterized by anger, depression, fear, distrust, and guilt that affects the employees who remain with an organization after a downsizing. Question 28 options: 1) employee 2) survivor 3) stress 4) erosion 5) decay Question 29 EuroOne, a mutual fund company, is cutting its workforce in large numbers because of the current recession. The employees who still have their jobs are angered and depressed by the layoffs. They have lost the trust they had in management and are not sure if their future is secure with EuroOne. They are facing the _____ syndrome. Question 29 options: 1) outsourcing 2) survivor 3) decay 4) erosion 5) progression Question 30 Many companies pay all or part of an employee's tuition for master's degree programs. If an employee has taken advantage of this, it can increase the employee's level of ______ commitment. Question 30 options: 1) normative 2) affective 3) continuance 4) psychological 5) educational Explanation & Answer: 30 questions User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool's honor code & terms of service.
