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Assignment Print View 106. Stakeholders are individuals, organizations, or other entities who affect, or are affected by the organization. → True False 107. Stockholders are stakeholders. → True False 108. Values represent an individual's short term beliefs about what will happen in the future. True → False 109. Values guide our preferences and motivate our actions. → True False 110. Values are relatively stable, long-lasting beliefs about what is important in a variety of situations. → True False 29 of 44 Assignment Print View 111. The concept of values is an important aspect of the stakeholder perspective. → True False 112. Ethics refers to the study of moral principles or values that determine whether actions are right or wrong and outcomes are good or bad. → True False 113. One reason why workplace values have become more important is that employees increasingly value command-and-control direct supervision. True → False 114. One survey reported that most Canadian would choose to leave their current job for a more environmentally friendly employer. → True False 115. The "triple bottom line" philosophy says that successful organizations focus on financial performance three times more often than do less successful organizations. True → 30 of 44 False Assignment Print View 116. According to a recent survey, 93 percent of Canadians believe that corporate social responsibility is as important to companies as profit and shareholder value. → True False 117. Globalization may have both positive and negative implications for people working in organizations. → True False 118. Reduced job security and increased work intensification may be partly caused by globalization. → True False 119. Two of the most prominent workforce diversity forms are: age, ethnicity and occupation. True → False 120. Surface-level diversity refers to observable demographic and other overt differences in people. → True False 31 of 44 Assignment Print View 121. People born between 1946 and 1964 are referred to as Baby Boomers. → True False 122. Workforce diversity does not consider the differences in psychological characteristics of employees. True → False 123. According to your text, 47 percent of Canadians identify themselves as members of a visible minority group. → True False 124. Research indicates that baby boomers and Generation-X employees bring the same values and expectations to the workplace. True → False 125. Studies suggest that deep level diversity exists across generations. → True False 32 of 44 Assignment Print View 126. According to one study, Millennials and Gen-Xers value extrinsic rewards significantly more than Boomers. → True False 127. Workforce diversity potentially improves decision making and team performance on complex tasks. → True False 128. When we describe multiculturalism we are primarily referring to surface-level diversity. → True False 129. Teams with diverse members usually take longer to perform effectively. → True False 130. The emerging employment relationship in Canada is that people must give up their legal rights regarding employment discrimination in return for long-term employment. True → 33 of 44 False Assignment Print View 131. One employment relationship trend is the focus away from work/life balance and virtual work, because of the extra stress these place on workers. True → False 132. According to recent surveys about one-third of Canadians would take a pay cut to improve their work-life balance. → True False 133. Some researchers suggest that telecommuting potentially reduces employee stress. → True False 134. Work/life balance refers to the length of time one remains in the workforce during one's lifetime. True → False 135. Work/live balance refers to minimizing conflict between work and nonwork demands. → True False 34 of 44 Assignment Print View 136. Teleworking forces employers to evaluate employee performance based on 'face time' rather than work output. True → False 137. Successful teleworkers tend to be self-motivated and are able to fulfill their social needs outside of the work context. → True False 138. In virtual work, employees rely on information technology to perform jobs away from the traditional workplace. → True False 139. Telecommuting is the most common form of virtual work. → True False 140. Most organizational behaviour theories have been developed by OB scholars rather than from other disciplines. True → 35 of 44 False Assignment Print View 141. Psychology and sociology have contributed many theories and concepts to the field of organizational behaviour. → True False 142. Communications, marketing, and information systems are three emerging fields from which organizational behaviour is now acquiring knowledge. → True False 143. Sociology is one of the few disciplines that has not made any contribution to organizational behaviour knowledge. True → False 144. The field of organizational behaviour relies on common sense to understand organizational phenomena. True → False 145. The systematic research anchor relies mainly on qualitative data and subjective procedures to test hypothesis. True → 36 of 44 False Assignment Print View 146. The contingency anchor in organizational behaviour suggests that a particular action may have different consequences in different situations. → True False 147. Most organizational events may be studied from all three levels of analysis: individual, team and organization. → True False 148. The contingency anchor in organizational behaviour suggests that we need to diagnose the situation to identify the most appropriate action under those specific circumstances. → True False 37 of 44