Week 1
The field of study relating to understanding, explaining and improving attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations
What is Organizational Behaviour?
Nature and Nurture
Where does personality come from?
High Turnover
What does Job satisfaction NOT lead to?
A type of leader (any type)
What is Laissez-faire, democratic, transformational or autocratic?
Abbreviated r
What is correlation?
Conscientiousness
What leads to a Higher Job Performance?
A Collection of attitudes people have towards their job
What is job satisfaction?
When women act traditionally feminine, they are liked but not seen as leadership material
What is the Double bind?
A research technique that averages correlation across multiple studies
What is a meta analysis?
A personality that some salespeople have and is known as being talkative and social
What is Extraversion?
Motivation that stems from the work environment external to the task
What is extrinsic Motivation?
Bias against mothers at work
What is the motherhood penalty?
Job performance and organisational commitment are two primary goals for most workers
What are individual outcomes?
One of the most commonly used measure of personality that is used by Apple and is featured with low reliability and low validity
What are MBTI and its cons?
Motivation that stems from the direct relationship between the worker and the task and is usually applied by the self
What is intrinsic motivation?
Personality is more predictive in a situation that doesn’t have clear behavioural expectations, incentives, or instructions that make differences between individuals less important
What is a weak situation?
People prefer to feel they have control over their actions, so anything that makes a previously enjoyed task feel more like an obligation than a freely chosen activity will undermine intrinsic motivation
What is the self determination theory?