Structurally Speaking
There's No "I" in Team
Feedback Loop
I Have a Theory (of Motivation)
Lotsa Work 'Tude
100

This researcher's model of organization structure added to classical theory by proposing a comprehensive explanation of how organizations evolve to reach a certain shape and form.

Who is Mintzberg?

100

This type of team is created for a limited duration and designed to address one particular problem. 

What is an ad-hoc team?

100

This is the process of how an organization manages and aligns all of its resources to achieve high performance.

What is performance management?

100

This theory of work motivation is based on how fair individuals see situations and interactions.

What is Equity Theory?

100

This is the degree to which a person feels invigorated, dedicated, and absorbed in his or her work.

What is employee engagement?

200

This principle within classical theory of organizations deals with the organization's vertical growth and chain of command. 

What is the scalar principle?

200

This term represents the fundamental differences among team members with regard to tastes, preferences, goals, and interests within the team structure.

What is value diversity?

200

These types of errors in a rater's opinion are when the rater generally has a favorable attitude toward the employee that permeates all evaluation of that employee. 

What are halo errors?

200

One of the principle activities in this theory of work motivation is job enrichment. 

What is Work Design Theory?

200

This theory of positive emotions (work attitude)posits that positive emotions prompt individuals to expand their thinking and action, which results in increased resources and enhanced functioning.

What is broaden-and-build?

300

This component of organizations refers to the employees who possess specific technical expertise that facilitates operation of the organization. 

What is the technostructure?

300

These are the cognitive processes held in common by members of a team regarding how they acquire information, analyze it, and respond to it. 

What are shared mental models?

300

This kind of motive in seeking feedback is based in the desire to defend or enhance their views of themselves.

What is ego-based motive?

300

This theory of work motivation suggests that people have feelings of being "in the zone".

What is Flow Theory?

300

This is the informal exchange relationship between the individual employee and the organization.

What is a psychological contract?

400

This layer of organizational culture represents the beliefs or concepts that are specifically endorsed by management or the organization at large. 

What are espoused values?

400

In this stage of the team life cycle, there is a great deal of interpersonal conflict and jockeying for position and status within the group. 

What is storming?

400

This method of performance appraisal, predicated on the forced-distribution model, is where we identify the bottom 10% and eliminate their positions.

What is top-grading?

400

This theory of work motivation proposes that individuals have three basic needs (autonomy, competence, and relatedness), of which fulfillment results in motivation. 

What is Self-Determination Theory?

400

This form of organizational justice is manifested by providing knowledge about procedures that demonstrate regard for people's concerns.

What is Informational Justice?

500

This is the uncertainty about behaviors to be exhibited by a particular job or position.

What is role ambiguity?

500

This role within a team that helps serve a leadership function does so by influencing the way in which team efforts are applied, directing attention to priorities, and imposing a pattern to the outcome of team activities. 

What is a shaper?

500

This type of performance appraisal rating scale in which the scale points are descriptions of behavior (combines critical incidents and rating-scale methods). 

What are behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS)?

500

In the expectancy theory of work motivation, this component is he perceived degree of relationship between performance and outcome attainment.

What is Instrumentality?

500

This dimension of organizational citizenship behavior refers to avoiding complaints, petty grievances, gossip, and falsely magnifying problems. 

What is Sportsmanship?