Structurally Speaking
This researcher's model of organization structure added to classical theory by proposing a comprehensive explanation of how organizations evolve to reach a certain shape and form.
Who is Mintzberg?
This type of team is created for a limited duration and designed to address one particular problem.
What is an ad-hoc team?
This is the process of how an organization manages and aligns all of its resources to achieve high performance.
What is performance management?
This theory of work motivation is based on how fair individuals see situations and interactions.
What is Equity Theory?
This is the degree to which a person feels invigorated, dedicated, and absorbed in his or her work.
What is employee engagement?
This principle within classical theory of organizations deals with the organization's vertical growth and chain of command.
What is the scalar principle?
This term represents the fundamental differences among team members with regard to tastes, preferences, goals, and interests within the team structure.
What is value diversity?
These types of errors in a rater's opinion are when the rater generally has a favorable attitude toward the employee that permeates all evaluation of that employee.
What are halo errors?
One of the principle activities in this theory of work motivation is job enrichment.
What is Work Design Theory?
This theory of positive emotions (work attitude)posits that positive emotions prompt individuals to expand their thinking and action, which results in increased resources and enhanced functioning.
What is broaden-and-build?
This component of organizations refers to the employees who possess specific technical expertise that facilitates operation of the organization.
What is the technostructure?
These are the cognitive processes held in common by members of a team regarding how they acquire information, analyze it, and respond to it.
What are shared mental models?
This kind of motive in seeking feedback is based in the desire to defend or enhance their views of themselves.
What is ego-based motive?
This theory of work motivation suggests that people have feelings of being "in the zone".
What is Flow Theory?
This is the informal exchange relationship between the individual employee and the organization.
What is a psychological contract?
This layer of organizational culture represents the beliefs or concepts that are specifically endorsed by management or the organization at large.
What are espoused values?
In this stage of the team life cycle, there is a great deal of interpersonal conflict and jockeying for position and status within the group.
What is storming?
This method of performance appraisal, predicated on the forced-distribution model, is where we identify the bottom 10% and eliminate their positions.
What is top-grading?
This theory of work motivation proposes that individuals have three basic needs (autonomy, competence, and relatedness), of which fulfillment results in motivation.
What is Self-Determination Theory?
This form of organizational justice is manifested by providing knowledge about procedures that demonstrate regard for people's concerns.
What is Informational Justice?
This is the uncertainty about behaviors to be exhibited by a particular job or position.
What is role ambiguity?
This role within a team that helps serve a leadership function does so by influencing the way in which team efforts are applied, directing attention to priorities, and imposing a pattern to the outcome of team activities.
What is a shaper?
This type of performance appraisal rating scale in which the scale points are descriptions of behavior (combines critical incidents and rating-scale methods).
What are behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS)?
In the expectancy theory of work motivation, this component is he perceived degree of relationship between performance and outcome attainment.
What is Instrumentality?
This dimension of organizational citizenship behavior refers to avoiding complaints, petty grievances, gossip, and falsely magnifying problems.
What is Sportsmanship?