Foundations of OB
Personality and Values
Emotional Intelligence
Motivation 1
Motivation 2
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This is the principle goal of OB. Phrased differently, what is OB trying to explain?
The principle goal of OB is to predict and understand human behavior in organizations so that we can best manage employees to improve organizational performance.
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This Big Five personality trait is most positively related to job performance.
Conscientiousness
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Empathy is associated with which component of emotional intelligence?
Social awareness (understanding of other's emotions)
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This is one way that Nucor Steel motivated their employees.
Flattened hierarchy, linking pay to performance, or increasing employee participation
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This theory is the most influential theory to explain individual motivation.
Expectancy Theory
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What are three primary factors that impact behavior in organizations? What are examples of each?
Individual (ex. individual personalities, values, needs, self-efficacy) Group (ex. group dynamics such as norms, conformity, power, decision making) Organizational level (ex. organizational structures and culture)
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Name each of the Big Five Personality Traits.
Conscientiousness, agreeableness, openness, neuroticism, and extraversion
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These are the 4 components of Emotional Intelligence.
Self-awareness, self-management, social awareness (understanding of other's emotions), and relationship management
200
These are two limitations of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
We do not proceed linearly through the needs; multiple levels of needs motivate simultaneously; even when a need is mostly satisfied the need may continue to motivate
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This theory suggests that when a person has low confidence in their personal ability to accomplish a task, their effort will be lower.
Self-efficacy Theory
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This discipline contributed to OB primarily by explaining communication, power, conflict and intergroup behavior?
Sociology
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This Big Five personality trait is highly related to intelligence.
Openness to new experiences
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This is why EI is positively related to learning.
Better awareness of self, learning needs and behaviors, develop relationships, less fearful of failure
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These are four sources of self-efficacy and therefore, four areas that managers could focus their attention to increase self-efficacy in employees.
Past experiences, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasion, and emotional cues.
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This is one of Goal Setting Theory's four basic premises.
Goals should be (1) specific and (2) challenging Employees must (3) accept the goal Employees must receive (4) feedback on goal attainment
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Name a specific behavior that is an outcome of interest for OB? (Textbook Ch. 1)
Job satisfaction, absenteeism, organizational citizenship, deviant workplace behaviors, turnover, productivity.
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What is the difference between person-job fit and person-organization fit? Which is increasing in significance?
Person-organization fit is increasing in significance as changes in the environment cause people to take on numerous roles in an organization over their tenure.
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What are the cases for and against emotional intelligence (See Textbook)
For: Tends to be related to factors that are important such as work performance. Against: Difficult to measure and may be tied to many other factors.
400
These are demotivators (or hygiene factors) according to Motivation-Hygiene Theory
What are extrinsic factors, pay, work conditions, supervision
400
This is why getting employee participation in goal setting is important to goal attainment and organizational performance.
Employees have more buy-in for the goal and the goals reflect better information and are thus more meaningful
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Why was OB added to business school curriculum across business schools?
Employers provided feedback that students were prepared with technical skills needed for the workplace, but not with the interpersonal skills or frameworks needed to function within the workplace.
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Name one strength and one weakness of the Myers Briggs framework.
Strength: Widely used??, Good for self awareness Weakness: Research shows validity is questionable; forces a person to fall into a single category.
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The article "What makes a leader" found that emotional intelligence was most important to differentiate effective and ineffective workers at this level of the organization.
Top levels
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_________ Theory was developed to overcome limitations of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and it involves these 3 needs.
ERG Theory; Existence, Relatedness and Growth
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This goal setting practice involves setting an overarching goal for the organization and then having each level of the organization set goals to help accomplish the higher order goal.
Management by Objective
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