MGS 3400 Final Exam Paper

October 29, 2012

To: All MGS 3400 Instructors

From: Rhonda S. Palladi

RE: Content and Security in the MGS 3400 Final Exam

Hello,

The content of the final exam will be focused on the learning objectives of the course as follows:

MGS 3400 FINAL EXAM CONTENT (Fall 2012)

Topic Chapter

Job Performance 2

Organizational Commitment 3

Motivation 6

Learning & Decision Making 8

Personality (Including the following sections of the chapter only) 9
Personality and Cultural Values
How Can We Describe What Employees Are Like?
The Big Five Taxonomy
Other Taxonomies of Personality

Ability (Including the following sections of the chapter only) 10
Ability
What
Does It Mean for an Employee to Be “Able”?
Cognitive Ability
Emotional Ability

Team Characteristics 11

Leadership: Power & Influence 13

Organizational Structure 15

Organizational Culture 16

As those of you who have taught MGS 3400 before know, it is virtually impossible to help a class review for a departmental final.
If your students are worried about what to study, they must study the book. Limiting the number of chapters they have to study should help relieve some of their apprehension. This examination is a requirement as part of our AACSB accreditation, as are the departmental exams in marketing, finance, and accounting. Our exams are certainly no more rigorous than any of those.

Tips for studying would include:
There are 100 multiple-choice questions on the exam.
Pay special attention to definitions in the book, as well as the review sections of each chapter.
10-12 questions have been selected from each chapter, so the topics are evenly spread throughout the chapters listed.
Questions will include both definitions and application of concepts.
The questions are not randomly selected. The questions consist of concepts that are important for students to know having completed an Organizational Behavior course.
Remember, the questions count 1 point each, so students would have to miss a large number of questions to do poorly on the exam.
These ideas may, (or may not), help your students reduce their anxiety about the
exam.

Security of the Exam
Danielle Teaque will be handling the preparation and distribution of the Final Exam for MGS 3400 for the summer semester. As I mentioned in an earlier memo to you, security for this exam is of utmost importance and must be maintained by everyone who is involved with preparing, distributing, or administering the exam.

There is a new exam administered each semester, so I asked Danielle to include a space for the student's name on the top of each exam.

1. Please take care in distributing your exams to students in terms of counts and when they turn in their final, please see that they are turning in a scantron and their original test form.
2. I have asked Danielle to hold the exams for each instructor until the day of your scheduled final exam. In other words, there will be no advance copies of the exam distributed to instructors.
3. Once the exams are finished, the instructor should return the exams to Danielle, as we have always done, who will dispose of them.

Thank you for your help in keeping our departmental final exam as secure as possible! Please let me know if you have questions or concerns regarding the final exam.