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Which of the following is not a behavior that research found in the employees' schemata of good leaders?

A) Telling people they had done well
B) Setting specific goals for the group
C) Maintaining definite standards for performance
D) Letting other group members make decisions
E) Using an autocratic approach

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The stages of perception, in order, are selective attention/comprehension, encoding and simplification, storage and retention, and retrieval and response.

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The outer layer of the diversity wheel is that of organizational dimensions.

Joe, a marketing major, believes that Mary is probably better at math than he is because she is a finance major. This is an example of a stereotype.

Whites will continue to constitute the majority among U.S. racial groups through 2050.

About what percent of the labor force holds a college degree?

Affirmative action plans:

Causal attributions are the suspected or inferred causes of behavior.

Identify the five "generations" that are in, or about to enter, the U.S. labor force. Give the birth years each generation represents, and discuss the broad traits of each. Give an example of an age-related conflict in values or traits from your own experience.

Kelley hypothesized that people make causal attributions by observing:

A(n) ______ is an individual's set of beliefs about the characteristics of a group.

Janelle, one of Abdul's employees, has performed poorly on many aspects of her job since she was hired four months ago. This is likely to be attributed to:

Kelley identified three dimensions of behavior that people observe when making attributions: consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency.

Implicit cognition represents our events, semantic, and person memories.

The fundamental attribution bias says that we tend to overattribute others' behaviors to _________ factors.

Sharon observes her co-worker, Robert, being rude to a newcomer. She has seen this behavior in Robert whenever the company brings in new people. She decides that Robert is being a bully and asks him to stop. Which of the following stages of information processing has Sharon just undergone?

Which of the following statements about the progress of women in the workplace is false?

Explain Kelley's model of attributions, making sure to discuss both the dimensions of behaviors and the types of attributions people can make.

Joyce finds that the members of the project team to which she has been assigned in her management class are all athletes on the college's football and basketball teams. She immediately considers dropping the class because she thinks her experience with that team will be negative. Joyce is likely to be reacting to a:

Encoding information into schemata allows us to simplify input into our senses.