You overhear a subordinate complaining that their end-of-year evaluations were unfair, that they had fallen behind because construction meant they were late, their project manager already didn’t like them, and the office was so loud that it was impossible to get things done. Other employees have told you that the project manager was very fair in their ratings. How should you respond?

At your new job, you have your first meeting with your manager. He tells you that he prefers a laid back approach to leadership, so has come up with a list of goals for you to work on for this year, and in 12 months you will reconvene and review what progress you’ve made. He tells you that you can make progress at whatever pace you want, as long as they’re all done in 12 months. What about this should make you nervous?

Isaac is expressing ____ when he says “I can beat the old Sonic game on my tablet before school.”

You work as the Chief Human Resources Officer at a top tier hedge fund (company whose purpose is to make money through trading stocks), where there is a strong expectation of success from each of the traders. After a week of bad performance, your regular satisfaction checks show a downturn, particularly from one manager’s employees. They also are making fewer trades. As the rest of the company returns to performing well, this group continues to show ever worse performance. A day later, you see one of the employees, formerly a model employee, screaming at the manager. This employee tenders their resignation later that day. What do you suspect may be happening? Choose the best answer.

Why do we use stereotypes?

I find that I’m largely extrinsically motivated. Which of the following would be the best example of this?

Someone scoring _____ would be nervous, tense, angry, and worried.

When a person assumes all people within a particular category possess the same traits or characteristics (for example, when a person says “All business school professors wear bow ties”), which step of stereotype building is this?

You’re managing a work team, and have just conducted satisfaction surveys. You discover relatively higher job dissatisfaction than you were expecting. What might you do to remedy this from a motivator-hygiene theory perspective?

“______ is the interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding and managing people in groups.