Organizational Behaviour
What is organizational behaviour?
A field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups in organizations
What is personality?
Strengths and weaknesses, how you work best, where you belong, how you think/feel about things
What are a person's values?
Those things people consciously or subconsciously want to seek or attain
I.e. pay (high salary, secure salary), promotions (frequent, based on ability), supervision (good relations, praise for good work)
Pros and cons of virtual teams
Pros: accessibility, can work with people from all over the world
Cons: missing a face-to-face connection, difficult to coordinate on certain tasks
What is evidence-based management?
A perspective that argues that scientific findings should form the foundation for management education, much as they do for medical education
What are the big 5 of personality traits?
Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness to experience, Extraversion
Give 3 examples of Intrinsic motivation and why it can be better than extrinsic
feeling of achievement, send of purpose/meaning, challenges, feelings of self worth etc.
Give an example of a real-world social dilemma
Roommate issues: Cleaning the shared kitchen, taking out the trash, buying toilet paper for shared bathroom
Group projects
What is an inimitable skill
Things so uniquely extraordinary as to not be copied or equaled
Give an example of low agreeableness
Rude team member, cold, selfish etc.
Give an example of a job with low task significance
ex. Filing documents at a large organization
Explain what a free rider is
someone who does not contribute to the collective efforts of the group
What makes meaningful and satisfying career in life?
An alignment of requirements of a work role and one's one belief's, values and behaviour. Different for everyone!
Describe the Situational approach
Organizational setting influences people's feelings, attitudes, and behaviours
What are 3 of the 5 motivating job characteristics all jobs should have
Skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, feedback
what are some informal solutions of free riding?
punishing free riders, gossiping about free riders → can lead to bad reputation for loafers, guilt/shame/morality
What is the MBTI and what is a critique of it?The
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has been criticized for its lack of scientific validity and reliability
Describe the Interactionist Approach to personality
Needing to know something about an individual's personality AND the setting they work in to determine their personality
Why can extrinsic motivators make job performance worse? Give example.
Because it often gets in the way of intrinsic motivators and capitalizes
What is predictable sequencing?
Forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning