Questions and Answers of Behavior In Organizations

Explain the different trajectories of innovation.
Identify three misconceptions about innovation.
Some of the characteristics attributed to innovators include internal locus of control, tolerance for ambiguity, and calculated risk taking. Discuss how these relate to the innovative mindset.
Explain the motivation of innovation.
What are the major drivers of innovative ideas? Explain and give an example of each.
What are the key myths associated with innovation? Debunk each.
What are four causes of stress among innovators? How can stress be managed?
What are two reasons that such a strong desire to develop corporate innovators has arisen in recent years?
What are some of the corporate obstacles that must be overcome to establish a corporate innovative environment?
What are the two major domains that comprise corporate entrepreneurship?
Define a “corporate innovation strategy.”
Identify the five key elements on which managers should concentrate to develop a corporate innovation strategy.
Identify the five specific innovative climate factors that organizations need to address in structuring their environment.
Identify the key roles that members of an innovation team could fulfill.
Describe the elements that are involved in sustaining corporate innovation.
Describe creativity. Explain how it is important for managers in a company.
What are the eight myths of creativity?
What are the three elements of creativity? How could a manager incorporate these elements into their company? How could a manager use these elements to become more creative themselves?
What is the difference between divergent and convergent thinking? Why are these important skills?
Why is Disney such a creative company?
What role does a mentor or teacher play in shaping creativity?
Explain each phase of the creative process.
How does your brain come up with new ideas?
Describe the seven areas in which people can be creative.
What steps can you take today to become more creative in your own work?
What is the difference between creativity and innovation?
Why is mentorship important?
What are the deliberate practices of innovation?
What is the difference between closed innovation and open innovation?
When would a company use closed innovation?
When would a company use open innovation?
Why is collaboration important for innovation?
Where can managers find opportunities for new business?
Why do customer wants provide opportunities for new business?
What is the difference between a need and a want?
What avenues do managers have for seizing opportunity?
Provide your own example of a customer experience. What makes it unique?
Explain the four realms of customer experience. Provide your own example of a company that delivers value in these four realms.
Provide your own example of a transformative experience. Why are transformative experiences like this rare?
What is the process for converting an opportunity into an innovation?
What is the difference between design and creativity? LO-1
What is the difference between design and innovation? LO-1
What factors can enhance design, innovation, and entrepreneurship? LO-1
What is design? LO-1
How does a designer think? LO-1
How does a designer handle challenges and opportunities? LO-1
What was Peter Drucker’s favorite entrepreneurial example? Why? LO-1
What are five myths of design? Why are they myths? LO-1
What role do constraints play in design? LO-1
What is humility? Why is it good for design? LO-1
What guidelines do good designers follow? LO-1
How do designers convert opportunities into innovations? LO-1
Why is iteration such an important part of design? LO-1
Describe the three steps of iteration. LO-1
What caveat must the designer consider when working on an idea? LO-1
Explain the profession of engineering.
Explain the different kinds of engineering.
What structural shift is taking place in today’s economy?
What role will design play in this economic shift?
What basic approaches do engineers apply to problems?
How do engineers think like economists?
What is industrial design?
What role does drawing play in design?
How would you make a model of an idea?
What calculations can you perform to get a sense of the business viability of an idea?
What is conceptual prototyping?
How is rapid prototyping improving the design process?
What are the three dimensions of a good prototype?
What is the purpose of a working prototype?
When would you use a presentation prototype?
What does the term “tooling up” mean?
What should you consider before manufacturing a product?
Why is the DIY movement changing the world?
How could embracing the DIY movement help you to become a better designer?
How would design skills help your career?
How can design help create commodity innovations?
How can design help create service innovations?
How can design help create experience innovations?
How can design help create transformation innovations?
What impact do you foresee more widespread design having on the world?
An SD does not cause or elicit the appearance of a response the way a _______ does.(a) UR(b) US(c) CS(d) CR
To investigate switching on concurrent schedules:(a) use a Findley procedure(b) use a single-response key that changes color with the schedule(c) use a changeover key(d) use all of the above
What did Thorndike (1911) conclude from imitation experiments with animals?(a) animals show amazing intelligence(b) animals can easily imitate another member of their species(c) animals do not show a
If a picture of a dog, the spoken word “dog,” and the written word DOG all regulate the same behavior, we say that the stimulus classes are:(a) overlapping(b) the same(c) equivalent(d) confounded
Level 1 of the ABC school program for children with autism involves:(a) teaching of “splinter skills” to able students(b) teaching of stimulus generalization to those who are advanced(c) training
The behavior of invertebrates such as Aplysia is totally:(a) controlled by genes(b) learned(c) reflexive(d) none of the above
What does a duckling inherit in terms of imprinting?(a) the behavior of following its mother(b) the behavior of following a “duck-sized object”(c) the capacity to be reinforced by reducing the
According to Baer, Wolf, and Risley (1968), what is the difference between basic and applied behavior analysis?(a) basic research is likely to look at any behavior and any variable(b) applied
Which of the following statements are true of the new-style behaviorists (behavior analysts) and their views?(a) they adopted the behaviorism of John B. Watson(b) they studied behavior for its own
Drug tolerance has been shown to be a result of:(a) generalization(b) metabolization(c) elicited CRs(d) US habituation
Mechner notation describes:(a) stimulus effects(b) dependent variables(c) response contingencies(d) independent variables
If wheel running is a higher-frequency operant, then wheel running will____________ drinking;if wheel running is a lower-frequency operant, then wheel running will __________ drinking.(a) decrease;
Research on the use of skin-shock punishment in the treatment of self-injurious behavior:(a) shows many side effects of punishment(b) indicates that skin shocks have no effect on non-targeted
The time between shocks or the ________________interval and the time away from shocks produced by responses or the ________________interval are two aspects of escape and avoidance.(a) temporal shock;
Skinner (1953) reported a game played by sailors in the 18th century. This game involved the following:(a) tying several boys in a ring(b) telling each boy to hit another boy when he himself was
According to Falk (1977), schedule-induced or adjunctive behavior occurs in situations that are generally positive for the organism but:(a) result in high levels of aggressive behavior(b) lead to
_________is the alteration (or maintenance) of an organism’s behavior due to__________a behavior; causesb learning; lifetime eventsc culture; social normsd evolution; genes
The experimental analysis of behavior is:a a natural- science approach to understanding behavior regulationb concerned with controlling and changing factors that affect behaviorc concerned with the
A ________is behavior that is elicited by a biologically relevant stimulus, while a ________ is behavior that is controlled by its consequences.a reflex; respondentb respondent; voluntaryc reflex;
Selection by consequences occurs at three levels. What are these?a natural selection, behavior selection, and cultural selectionb artificial selection, culture, and linguistic selectionc natural

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