31) Examples of off-the-job training include all of the following except _____.
A. Internet courses
B. apprenticeship programs
C. public seminars
D. videotapes
E. classroom lectures
32) Between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s, the use of written tests declined because they were characterized as _____.
A. unreliable
B. discriminatory
C. invalid
D. mathematically flawed
E. unprofessional
33) Which type of skill training has become increasingly important in organizations?
A. problem solving
B. technical
C. interpersonal
D. social
E. financial
34) According to a recent survey, about ___ percent of employees working in the 1,000 largest U.S. corporations receive ethics training.
A. 50
B. 10
C. 75
D. 25
35) _____ can be used to increase the perception that employees are treated fairly.
A. Multiple raters
B. Due process
C. Documenting with a journal
D. Focusing on subjective evaluations
E. Selective evaluation
36) Whenever Jane is successful she takes full credit for what has happened, but whenever she is unsuccessful she attributes her failure to bad luck or blames one of her fellow employees. She is guilty of _____.
A. the halo effect
B. attribution bias
C. distinctiveness
D. self-serving bias
E. fundamental attribution error
37) A task that is subdivided into many separate jobs is considered to have _____.
A. a high degree of work specialization
B. a low degree of decentralization
C. a low degree of structure
D. a high degree of matrix structuring
E. a high degree of departmentalization
38) Organizational structure has six key elements. Which of the following is not one of these elements?
A. work specialization
B. departmentalization
C. formalization
D. location of authority
E. centralization
39) What term is used for the tendency of an individual to attribute his own successes to internal factors while putting the blame for failures on external factors?
A. consistency
B. stereotyping
C. self-serving bias
D. fundamental attribution error
E. selective perception
40) Which of the following is not a primary force for change in organizations?
A. decreasing skill sets
B. the nature of the workforce
C. economic shocks
D. technology
E. social trends
Total 500 Questions from 5 set of actual exams (5 sets x 100 questions) with double checked answers
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