Intro
Getting work done with minimum effort, expense, or waste
Efficiency
Concerned citizens who band together to try to influence the business practices of specific industries, businesses, and professions.
Advocacy groups
A term used to describe when team members withhold their efforts and fail to perform their share of the work.
Social Loafing
A test used to screen out potentially unethical employees.
Ethical integrity tests
Values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by organizational members
Organizational culture
Determining organizational goals and a means for achieving them
Planning
The number and the intensity of external factors in the environment that affect organizations
Environmental complexity
A type of team assembled to accomplish a one-time task, and the team is dissolved upon completion of the task.
Project teams
A type of deviance that relates to engaging in activities such as stealing and damaging or sabotaging company equipment.
Property deviance
Inspiring and motivating workers to work hard to achieve organizational goals
Leading
Managers who are in charge of enacting firm strategies and meeting objectives. Examples include plant managers, general managers, divisional managers, and etc.
Middle-level managers
The element of the general environment that relates to demographic characteristics, general behavior, attitudes, and beliefs of people in society
Sociocultural
Emotional reactions that can occur because of personal disagreements.
Affective or a-type conflict
The degree of concern people have about an ethical issue.
Ethical intensity
A team composed of geographically and/or organizationally dispersed coworkers who use telecommunication and information technology to accomplish an organizational task
Virtual Team
A subcomponent of the managerial decisional role that deals with determining how resources are given out within the firm.
Resource Allocator
The degree to which a company relies on a provider because of the importance of the provider's product to the company and the difficulty of finding other sources of that product.
Supplier Dependence
The extent to which members are attracted to a team and motivated to remain in it
Coheasion
A business's obligation to pursue policies, make decisions, and take actions that benefit society.
Social Responsibility
Social role that a company fulfills beyond its economic, legal, and ethical responsibilities.
Discretionary Responsibility
The set of managerial skills that deal with a manager's ability to strategize and see the organization as a whole.
Conceptual skills
Having managers and employees perform new behaviors that are central to and symbolic of the desired organizational culture.
Behavioral Addition
The stage of group development where team members begin to settle into their roles, group cohesion grows, and positive team norms develop
Norming
A model which states that an organization’s overriding goal should be profit maximization for the benefit of shareholders.
Shareholder model
Searching the environment for important events or issues that might affect an organization.
Environmental Scanning