In the Field of Organizational Behavior, Organizations Are Best Described

question 37

Multiple Choice

In the field of organizational behavior, organizations are best described as:

• A)legal entities that must abide by government regulations and pay taxes.
• B)physical structures with observable capital equipment.
• C)social entities with a publicly stated set of formal goals.
• D)groups of people who work interdependently towards some purpose.
• E)any social entity with profit-centered motives and objectives.

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Definitions:

Spurious Relationship

A false or misleading correlation between two variables that appear to be connected but are actually related due to the presence of a third, hidden factor.

Control Variable

A variable that is kept constant during an experiment to ensure that any changes in the outcome are due to the independent variable.

Independent Variables

Factors in a study or experiment that are altered or adjusted in order to examine their impacts on the variables that depend on them.

Dependent Variables

In research, these are the variables that are tested to see if they are affected by changes in independent variables, essentially the outcome of interest.