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Culture Club
100
An idea about a topic that can be tested
What is a hypothesis?
100
Three levels or organizational behavior analysis are individual, group and _____________.
What is organizational?
100
The trend that explores to what degree works are involved and enthusiastic about their work.
What is employee engagement?
100
The ways in which people are similar or different from each other
What is diversity?
100
Traits highly visible to us and those around us such as age, race and gender
What is surface-level diversity?
200
In-depth descriptions of a single industry or company.
What are case studies?
200
Generalizations about a particular group of people
What are stereotypes?
200
An example of this trend is an estimation that 40% of experienced electricians are going to retire in the next ten years.
What is an aging workforce?
200
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaws discrimination based on age, gender, race, national origin or __________.
What is religion?
200
Policies designed to recruit, promote, train and retain employees belonging to a protected class.
What is affirmative action?
300
A term that describes the strength of the relationship between two variables
What is correlation?
300
Stable life goals people have reflecting what is most important to them
What are values?
300
This trend can range from poor judgment to illegal behavior
What are ethical challenges?
300
The tendency to be more attracted to individuals who are similar to us
What is Similarity Attraction Phenomenon?
300
The degree to which the society views an unequal distribution of power as acceptable
What is power distance?
400
The process of summarizing research findings from studies on related topics?
What is meta-analysis?
400
The feelings that people have about their jobs
What is job satisfaction?
400
This trend provides economic, social and environmental benefits
What is sustainability (or green practices)?
400
Negotiating salary is important because small amounts can have a __________ effect over time?
What is compounding?
400
The belief that one's own culture is superior to other cultures
What is ethnocentrism?
500
Another term for the consistency of outcomes
What is reliability (or precision)?
500
The body's reaction to a change that requires physical, mental or emotional adjustment or response.
What is stress?
500
This type of outsourcing moves some work functions to another country
What is off-shoring?
500
The very important chart that will in some form be on the mid-term that describes systemic interests across cultures
What is the Hofstede chart?
500
An attribute along which a group is split up into subgroups
What is a faultline?
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