Unit 1: Introduction
Organizational behavior is a blended discipline that has grown from contributions from numerous earlier fields of study.
What is psychology, engineering, anthropology, sociology, management, and medicine?
A relatively stable set of characteristics that influence an individual's behavior.
What is personality?
This disease's symptoms include loneliness and social isolation resulting from the absence of heartfelt communication in relationships.
What is communicative disease?
This is defined as a specified work and task activities that engage an individual in an organization.
What is a job?
The year in which the United States Indian Industrial Training School was established.
What is 1884?
The tools, knowledge, and/or techniques used to transform inputs into outputs.
What is technology?
These mental states include feelings, physiological changes, and the inclination to act.
What are emotions?
The failure of a group member to contribute to personal time, effort, thoughts, or other resources to the group.
What is social loafing?
A centralized form of organization that emphasizes a small technical and support staff, strong centralization of decision-making in the upper echelon, and a minimal middle management.
What is a simple structure?
This is the Department in which Haskell is funded by in the U.S. Government.
What is the Department of Interior?
A manager who works in a country other than their home country.
What is an expatriate?
The ability to recognize and manage emotion in oneself and in others.
What is emotional intelligence?
A deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment resulting from pressures within the group.
What is groupthink?
What do members of an organization say they value called?
What are espoused values?
The first baccalaureate degree was offered at Haskell.
What is Elementary or Teacher Education?
The degree to which a culture accepts unequal distribution of power.
What is power distance?
What is healthy normal stress?
What is eustress?
The process of guiding and directing the behavior of people in the work environment.
What is leadership?
The pattern of work-related experiences spans the course of a person's lifetime.
What is a career?
The current president of Haskell.
Who is Dr. Frank Arpan?
A transparent barrier that keeps women from rising above a certain level in organizations.
What is the glass ceiling?
This is a psychological response to job stress that Maslach characterizes along three dimensions - emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced perceptions of personal accomplishment.
What is burnout?
A healthy, constructive disagreement between two or more people.
What is functional conflict?
Who created the model for change which includes the process of - unfreezing, moving, and refreezing?
Who is Kurt Lewin?
This residential hall was named after Haskell's first Indigenous superintendent.
What is Roe Cloud?