Week 1-3
The father of I-O Psychology
What is Hugo Munsterberg?
The meaning of Generation
What is a group of members who share birth years & significant life events?
What is a system that defines behavior in the context of organizational goals?
Definition of Trust
What is a belief in how a person or organization will act on some future occasion?
Definition of Team
What is teams have members whose tasks are interdependent and work towards a common goal & share responsibility for outcomes?
The meaning of horizontal culture
What is the culture that minimizes distances between individuals?
The meaning of Job Analysis
What is a process that determines the “essence” of a collection of tasks falling within the scope of a particular job title?
Father of Stress
What is Hans Selye?
Explain a Charismatic Leader
What is the followers are emotionally attached to leader, never question leader’s beliefs or actions, & see themselves as integral to accomplishment of leader’s goal?
Definition of Organization
What is a group of people who have common goals & who follow a set of operating procedures to develop products & service?
The meaning of the acronym KSAO
What is knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics?
Definition of Cognitive Task Analysis
What are methods for decomposing job & task performance into discrete, measurable units with special emphasis on eliciting mental processes & knowledge content?
Difference between Reliability and Validity
What is Reliability refers to the consistency of a measure while Validity refers to the accuracy of a measure?
Explanation of Affirmative Action
What is providing specific mechanisms for reducing the under-representation of particular demographic groups?
Responsible for Resource Theory
What is Pfeffer?
The three measures of central tendency
What is mean, mode, and median?
Definition of Hawthorne Effect
What is the alteration of behavior by the subjects of a study due to their awareness of being observed?
What is False-negative is an applicant rejected but would have performed well and a False-positive is an applicant accepted but performed poorly?
Three sections of Training Needs Analysis
What is organizational analysis, task analysis, and person analysis?
4 Types of Team Processes
What is Norms, Communication & Coordination, Cohesion, and Decision Making?
Five categories in the FFM
What is Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional stability, and Openness to Experience
The motivation in the workplace
What is about the choice of an employee to go to work, perform well, and stay if needed? It is all about choices.
What is a concept that proposes that some violent acts can be understood as reactions by an employee against perceived injustice?
Four sections of Kirkpatricks Model
What are Reaction, Learning, Behavior/Transfer, and Results?
5 Stages of Team Development
What is Orientation (forming)Conflict (storming),Structure (norming),Work (performing).Dissolution (adjourning)?