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What is Organizational Behavior (OB)?
The systematic study and application of knowledge about how individuals and groups act within the organizations where they work
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What are the 3 levels of Analysis?
- Organization: How organizations culture affects managers behavior
- Group: How managers personality affects the team
- Individual: The Managers personality itself
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What are the Learning Styles?
- Visual: Pictures, Charts, Take notes
- Auditory: Study groups, Records, written instructions
- Kinesthetic: Schedule breaks, Takes notes even tho they get it, Avoids long lectures
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What is one of the Primary methods for collecting information in OB?
Conducting Surveys
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Field Studies
- -Have Experimental design
- - Population is divided into a treatment & Control group
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Laboratory Studies
- -Consist of Manipulation groups & Control Groups
- -Determines Causal relationships
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Case Studies
- -In depth description of a single company or industry
- -Great deal of detail about the topic being studied, but difficult to generalize to other areas
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Meta-Analysis
-Technique used to summarize what other researchers have found on a given topic
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What is the concept of a "Flattening World"?
- -Increase in access to information
- -Led to an increase in innovation,
- -Knowledge can be shared across time zones and cultures.
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What are the elements of the "Triple Bottom Line"
- Economic:Revenue,Accounting,Supply/Demand
- Social:Humanitarian, Responsibility
- Environmental:Reuse/Recycle, Going green
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What is a Shamrock Organization?
- An equal number of regular employees, temporary employees, and consultants and contractors.
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What is a Person-Organization Fit
Degree to which a person’s values, personality, goals, and characteristics match the organization
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What is a Person-Job Fit?
Degree to which a person’s skill, knowledge, abilities, and characteristics match the job demands
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What are the Big 5 Personality traits?
- Openness
- Conscientiousness
- Extaversion
- Agreeableness
- Neuroticism
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Define the personality trait: Openness
Curious, original, intellectual, creative, and open to new ideas.
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Define the personality trait: Conscientiousness
Organized, systematic, punctual, achievement-oriented, and dependable.
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Define the Personality Trait: Extraversion
Outgoing, talkative, sociable, and enjoys being in social situations.
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Define the Personality Trait: Agreeableness
Nice, tolerant, sensitive, trusting, kind, and warm.
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Define the Personality Trait: Neuroticism
Anxious, irritable, aggressive, temperamental, and moody.
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What are the trait pairings in the "Meyers-Briggs Indicator"
- -Extraversion/Introversion
- -Sensing/Intuition
- -Thinking/Feeling
- -Judgment/Perception
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What is Perception?
How individuals detect and interpret environmental stimuli.
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Managers and researchers who hold a contingency perspective of organizational behavior:
Will be open to the idea that effective results can be achieved by different and apparently contradictory approaches to management.
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As discussed in class, Henry Mintzberg used a/n _____ method to identify ______
- Observational;
- The activities and behaviors of CEOs in their job.
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Astrological signs, as an indicator of personality, has been show to have:
High reliability but low validity.
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Compared to observational and correlational methods, experimental methods
Are better at revealing cause and effect relationships in the setting under investigation
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Other things being equal, individuals who are high in the personality dimension of conscientiousness are likely to perform _____ individuals who are low on this dimension, _____.
- Better than;
- On all types of jobs
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The personality trait of self-monitoring:
Helps the individual adapt and behave flexibly according to the situation
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