Table 11.1 Students from an Organizational Behavior Class Are Studying Group Conflict

question 68

Multiple Choice

Table 11.1
Students from an organizational behavior class are studying group conflict and cooperation by observing the work of academic committees on their campus. They notice that some faculty seem to go out of their way to do things for their committee and committee members, yet have no hope of any type of return for these actions. Some student members of committees are doing more than is expected of them, even though they don't have to, and they frankly don't expect an return for their actions. These students have found that the committees treat them as peers, the faculty treat them fairly, and that they actually have a voice in the processes.
-Refer to Table 11.1. The behavior of some of the faculty is an example of:

• A) prosocial behavior.
• B) reciprocity-based behavior.
• C) a distributive orientation.
• D) organizational citizenship behavior.

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