Personality Trait
Social Style with quick reaction and sensory input.
What is Driver
Employees being asked to make decisions about their jobs.
What is industrial democracy?
A colloquial term for Scientific Management- when used is often from a negative sense.
What is taylorism?
The social network created by individuals inside an organization
What is informal organization?
Belief in universal "truths" over relative (case-by-case) "truths"
What is universalism?
Social Style Type: Imagination and Thought
What is Expressive?
People who coordinate others to achieve specific objectives
What is management?
Term used in class to refer to management theories that may be popular but not backed by rigorous scientific method
What is infomercial theories?
Loss of employees due to layoffs or retirements
What is attrition?
Focus on the group in terms of welfare, planning, decision making, as well as traditions, authority, and conformity
What is collectivism?
Decision making based on an individual case, in a subjective manner based on what they
believe to be right within their own value systems
What is Feeling
A study of how people, groups, and organizations behave.
What is organizational behavior?
The study of worker efficiency and safety in the working environment.
What is ergonomics?
Loss of employees due to any reason
What is turnover?
An organization with poor management / worker relationships that severely impacts productivity, job satisfaction, and retention
What is toxic organization?
Preference in communicating within/individual activity.
What is introvert?
Voluntary groups of employees engaged in decision making at the lowest practical level
of the organization.
What is quality circles?
Sending jobs of an organization to other countries
What is offshoring?
A technique used by researchers to summarize the collected works of others often through statistical correlations that is used to find concurrence and themes with respect to findings
What is meta-analysis.
The belief that one's own culture is superior any / all others
What is ethnocentrism?
Evaluating external data and methodically making decisions.
What is judging?
Encourages everyone in the organization to provide customers with reliable products and
services.
What is total quality management?
Involuntary attrition where employer terminates several employees with goal to reduce workforce
What is reduction in force?
Given discretionary opportunities, employee will act in the best interest of the organization.
What is employee engagement?
Relative comfort and acceptance with the individual differences and inequities that exist in a society
What is power distance?