73.
Sean was recently hired to join the marketing team at Axon International. He will be
starting at the company in two weeks. Sean has the reputation of being an expert in ad
campaigns and catching the attention of the target audience. However, he also has the
reputation of not getting along with anyone. He doesn’t care much about where and for
whom he works but is primarily motivated to achieve goals for himself and beat his own
records. As soon as Amanda heard about Sean joining the team, she turned in her
resignation. Ashton, another team member, called Sean and met him for lunch to express
all the team members’ concerns and to smooth things out before Sean formally joins the
team.
Amanda’s reaction can be described as _____.
74.
Sean was recently hired to join the marketing team at Axon International. He will be
starting at the company in two weeks. Sean has the reputation of being an expert in ad
campaigns and catching the attention of the target audience. However, he also has the
reputation of not getting along with anyone. He doesn’t care much about where and for
whom he works but is primarily motivated to achieve goals for himself and beat his own
records. As soon as Amanda heard about Sean joining the team, she turned in her
resignation. Ashton, another team member, called Sean and met him for lunch to express
all the team members’ concerns and to smooth things out before Sean formally joins the
team.
Ashton’s reaction can be described as _____.
75.
Sean was recently hired to join the marketing team at Axon International. He will be
starting at the company in two weeks. Sean has the reputation of being an expert in ad
campaigns and catching the attention of the target audience. However, he also has the
reputation of not getting along with anyone. He doesn’t care much about where and for
whom he works but is primarily motivated to achieve goals for himself and beat his own
records. As soon as Amanda heard about Sean joining the team, she turned in her
resignation. Ashton, another team member, called Sean and met him for lunch to express
all the team members’ concerns and to smooth things out before Sean formally joins the
team.
Sean can be described as a(n) _____.
76.
_____ possess low levels of organizational commitment but high levels of task
performance and are motivated to achieve work goals for themselves, not necessarily for
their company.
77.
“Lone wolves” are one of the four types of employees based on the degree of their
organizational commitment and level of task performance. “Lone wolves” are likely to
respond to negative events with _____.
78.
The talented employees who display high level of task performance but never seem to
want to get involved in important decisions about the future of the company are most
likely to be _____.
79.
A(n) _____ merely exerts the minimum level of effort needed to keep his or her job.
80.
_____ possess low levels of both organizational commitment and task performance.
81.
Apathetics tend to respond to negative events with _____ because they are low performers
who lack marketable skills and who do not have a high enough level of organizational
commitment needed to engage in acts of citizenship.
82.
Tim is a new hire at
The
Journal
, a weekly publication. He does not like his job and is not
committed to the organization. He hardly exerts even the effort that is required to keep his
job. Tim is staying with
The
Journal
because he does not want to be unemployed. Tim is
a(n) ______.
83.
_____ is a form of withdrawal in which employees appear to be working but are actually
distracted by random thoughts or concerns.
84.
Jonas continually breaks off from his assigned tasks to check sports news or check his
friends’ Facebook updates. He is engaging in ______, which is a type of ______.
85.
_____ refers to conversations about nonwork topics that go on in cubicles and offices, in
the mailroom, or at vending machines.
86.
_____ is an intentional desire on the part of the employee to look like he or she is working,
even when not performing work tasks.
87.
When employees engage in _____, they use work time and resources to complete
something other than their job duties, such as assignments for another job.
88.
The most widespread form of psychological withdrawal among white-collar employees is
_____, using Internet, e-mail, and instant messaging access for their personal enjoyment
rather than work duties.
89.
Which of the following is a psychological withdrawal behavior?
90.
Which of the following is a form of physical withdrawal?
91.
Missing meetings is a form of _____ withdrawal.
92.
_____ reflects the tendency to arrive at work late, or leave work early.
93.
The most serious form of physical withdrawal is _____.
94.
According to the _____ model of withdrawal, various withdrawal behaviors are uncorrelated
with one another, occur for different reasons, and fulfill different needs on the part of
employees.