Motivation
Perception & Learning
Emotions, Attitudes, and Stress
Creativity & Innovation
Everything Else
100

The two categories of needs motivation theories

What are content and process theories?

100

The perceptual bias in which we judge people on the basis of the first information we receive about them

What is the primacy effect?

100

The phenomenon where emotions spread from person to person

What is emotional contagion?

100

Idea generation, Problem solving, and Implementation

What are the steps in the innovation process?

100

One of the three levels of analysis in organizational behavior

What is individual, team, or organization?

200

The need theory that describes how hygiene factors and motivator factors at work influences employee job satisfaction

What is Herzberg's Two-Factor theory?

200

The name of the learning theory that includes such concepts as self-efficacy and vicarious learning

What is social cognitive theory?

200

The type of stressors that can have a positive/helpful influence on job performance

What are challenge stressors?

200

One of the three components of the Three-Component Model of Creativity

What is Expertise, Creativity skills/processes, or Motivation?

200

The "Big 5" personality trait that has the strongest positive relationship with typical job performance

What is Conscientiousness?

300

The type of motivation in which people perform tasks out of interest or the innate satisfaction of the work.

What is intrinsic motivation?

300

The perceptual error in which we focus only on aspects of situations that align most closely with our own interests, values, and attitudes

What is selective attention?

300

The process where we outwardly present positive emotions even when it is contrary to how we actually feel inside

What is emotional labor?

300

The type of innovation that results in an incremental improvement in a product, process, etc.

What is exploitative innovation?

300

The type of diversity that includes characteristics like gender, race, and age

What is surface-level diversity?

400

The element of expectancy theory that could be phrased as "What's the probability that, if I work very hard, I'll be able to do a good job?"

What is expectancy?

400

The perceptual error Annie is using when she concludes that the reason Joe is late to meetings all the time is because he is lazy and unmotivated.

What is the fundamental attribution error?

400

What your employer is using when they hang posters in the breakroom that read, “Smile! The customer is always right.”

What are display rules?

400

The Big 5 personality trait that is most strongly related to creativity

What is Openness to Experience?

400

One of the three ways that human capital creates competitive advantage in organizations

What is Value, Rareness, or Inimitability?

500
The motivation theory that would explain why John lowers his work performance after finding out that Mary is being paid more than him for the same amount of work.

What is equity theory?

500

The behavioral technique in which you do the dishes every night right after dinner so that your mom stops hiding your car keys

What is negative reinforcement?

500

The type of stressor that is created when your boss sends you out to get coffee for him right before a big report deadline you need to meet

What is a hindrance stressor

500

The type of innovation that relies heavily on risk-taking, radical thinking, and experimentation

What is exploratory innovation?

500

The Big 5 trait that has demonstrated negative relationships with job satisfaction and other job attitudes

What is Neuroticism?