Lecture 1
The most common answer to Observational Behaviour questions
What is “It depends?”
The five factor model of personality.
What is OCEAN?
This type of motivation comes from within and is driven by enjoyment in the task itself, rather than external rewards.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
This leadership style encourages suggestions from team members.
What is Democratic/Participative?
The tools that O.B. uses to answer questions, and some examples of this method
What is scientific methods; observation, case study, interview, survey, etc?
An employer should hire based on personality if the job involves these two factors.
What is weak situations, and personality being relevant to the job role?
The phenomenon where humans quickly adapt to changes in their environment, making new experiences feel normal and reducing their impact on long-term happiness.
What is Hedonic Adaptation?
A disadvantage of this leadership style is that team members might blindly follow their leader, never questioning their decisions as a result.
What is Transformational?
Why firms that are good at O.B. tend to be more profitable.
What is “talented and motivated employees are rare and inimitable, they will create a valuable resource for creating competitive advantage?”
The three ways to measure someone’s personality.
What is informants, personality artifacts, and self-report questionnaires?
This model proposes that people are motivated by the expectation that their effort will lead to performance, which will then lead to desired outcomes.
What is Expectancy Theory?
This phrase describes a phenomenon in which women tend to be less confident in the workplace, and therefore rarely seek out promotions or take risks.
What is opt-in reluctance?
Drawbacks of relying on human intuition.
What is biases and emotional influence that can distort judgment?
Issues with MBTI.
What is scientific criticism, binary choices, cultural bias, little evidence of predicting job satisfaction, motivation, performance or commitment?
Anything that makes a previously enjoyed task feel more like an obligation than a freely chosen activity which undermines intrinsic motivation.
What is self-determination theory?
When women act traditionally feminine, they are liked but not seen as leadership material. When women act traditionally masculine, they are disliked and not seen as leadership material.
What is the double bind?
Hiring based on personality becomes less important when the job involves mostly ____ situations.
What is strong situations?
This word from the Big 5 personality dimensions is the most important to consider during the hiring process.
What is conscientiousness?
The process of extrinsic motivations overshadowing intrinsic motivations
What is crowding out effect?
Apple’s transition from Steve Jobs as CEO to Tim Cook represents a shift between these two leadership styles.
What is autocratic to democratic?