Class one - Intro to Organization Behaviours
True or False: there is rarely a straightforward answer to questions regarding humans and organizations
True
Name the five-factor model of personality.
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, neuroticism
What is the term for the human tendency to quickly adapt to new and novel things and return to a happiness set point?
Hedonic Adaption/ Hedonic treadmill
What is the type of leader that is most effective for a group of experts?
Laissez-faire leaders
In the RSM260 class, you and your teammates are doing a group project. One of your teammates consistently demonstrates a high level of self-discipline, is well-organized, and tends to finish his part of the work ahead of time. Before starting the project, he set clear goals for the team and built up a timeline for the entire working process.
Which of the following Big Five Personality traits best describes your teammate's behaviour?
Conscientiousness
What is O.B. the study of
attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups
Do neurotic people hold an internal or external locus control?
external
What is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation?
Intrinsic stems from the direct relationship between the worker and the task, where extrinsic motivation stems from the work environment, external from the task. (applied by others)
What type of leader governs a team that is satisfied but generally doesn’t get much work done in the early stages?
democratic
There is a heavy, sudden deadline that has come up for the team that needs to be met within 2 hours. There are specific requirements, and an inability to fully meet this deadline will result in a penalty for the team. What leadership style is most likely to be adopted by the overseer of the team, and why?
Autocratic. Specific requirements minimise room for creativity, autocracy results in high productivity, time is optimised because instructions are given clearly.
True or False: Person 1, who won the lottery, is happier than person 2, who got into a car accident
False
What are the three ways to assess personality?
self-report, informant, personality artifacts aka behavioural residue
What is desensitization?
Where each added occurrence in a given domain in life has less of an impact on us.
What are the three reasons why there are fewer women leaders than men?
he double bind, opt-in reluctance, motherhood penalty
The richer a country is, the higher its obesity rate.
What could explain the relationship between variables described above?
This is correlation, not causation. The relationship between these two variables may be affected by a lurking variable – richer countries have easier access to and affordability of food, such fast-food restaurants.
Why doesn’t correlation equal causation?
A lurking variable
What are the two culture taxonomies?
hofstede dimensions and project GLOBE dimensions
Why are gratifications (eudaimonic activities) more impactful to us than pleasures (hedonic activities)?
gratifications are deep, meaningful, pursuits often connected with personal growth and a sense of achievement or contribution to the well being of others/society.
True or false? Traits are more predictive of leader emergence rather than leader effectiveness.
True
You are a talented writer who makes blog posts for fun. You later get approached by a media company that offers to pay you to write for them and you accept the offer. After some time, you realise that you haven’t posted on your blog for a while, and have stopped writing for fun altogether. This is an example of what phenomenon?
crowding-out or overjustification effect
What are the most common O.B research methods?
observation, interview
What does the acronym RIASEC stand for?
realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional
what percentage of each individual’s ‘happiness setpoint/baseline’ is passed down to us through genetics?
40% is given from genes
What are some stereotypes of leaders classified in the double bind?
aggressive, assertive, confident, tough, taking charge, competent
There is a poor family in a particular society that has been poor for multiple generations. They generally do not go out of their way to change their own circumstance because according to them, there are meant to be poor people and the rich have their ordained space in society as well. What type of cultural value might be held by this family?
Power distance (high)