Scenario: Allison Albright Your Roommate, Allison Albright, Is a Non-Business

question 15

Multiple Choice

Scenario: Allison Albright Your roommate, Allison Albright, is a non-business major.When she discovered that you are taking a course in Organizational Behavior, she was thoroughly confused as to why one would need to study OB and what it entails.Based on what you have studied, can you help Allison obtain knowledge of organizational behavior?
To help Allison understand some preliminary information about OB, which of these statements about the field is true?

• A)Organizational behavior scholars give more importance to individual characteristics than structural characteristics.
• B)The field of organizational behavior is independent of the concepts and theories from other fields of inquiry.
• C)Organizational behavior emerged as a distinct field late in the 1990s.
• D)Given the specific utility of the field, OB is useful for the managers in the organizations but not for the employees.
• E)Organizational behavior scholars study what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations.

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Definitions:

Gender Biased

Prejudice or favoritism towards one gender over another, often resulting in unfair treatment or discrimination.

Correlation Coefficient

A statistical measure that indicates the extent to which two or more variables fluctuate together, signifying the strength and direction of their relationship.

The Mean

A statistical measure representing the average value in a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all values by the number of values.

The Median

A statistical measure representing the middle value in a given set of numbers, where half the numbers are above and half are below this value.