Revision for Final Exam - OB

Date: Dec.12, 13:00-16:00 Exam format: 30 MCQs: 30 marks 8 short answers: 40 marks 2 long answers: 20 marks 1 mini case study: 10 marks

MCQs

Lectures 3, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

Short answers

Lectures 4, 6, 10, 12, 14

Long answers

Lectures 10, 11, 12, 13

Case study:

Lectures 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

Examples of short answers

Discuss how job satisfaction can impact employee productivity, absenteeism and turnover

List and explain the four ways employees can express job dissatisfaction

Discuss cognitive dissonance theory and three ways in which individuals might alliviate dissonance

Examples of short answers

Formal vs. informal groups 4 common classes of norms Group size and group’s behavior

Examples of short answers

Transformational leaders vs. transactional leaders

Charismatic leaders Leaders vs. managers

Examples of short answers

Forces that drive organizational change Forces that resist organizational change

Examples of short answers

Innovation stragegy, cost-minimization strategy and imitation strategy

Centralization vs. decentralization Virtual organization and a real example Advantages and disadvantages of narrow

span of control

Examples of long answers

Trust and its implications for leaders What power tactics can employees use to

translate their power bases into specific actions?

Organizational strategies and its proper designs

How does culture begin and how can an organization keep its culture alive

Good luck