Week 1
Social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort
What is Organization?
What kind of situations are ambiguous with no clear way to behave?
What is a weak Situation?
Research has shown that these types of motivators can lead to worse performance than having no incentive at all.
What is Extrinsic?
What is the tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others?
What is Fundamental Attribution Error?
What are the topics of focus in the field of organizational behaviour?
What is understanding, explaining, and improving the attitudes and behaviours of individuals and group in organizations?
Neuroticism is also often called?
What is emotional stability?
This theory of motivation suggests that the needs you personally focus on the most are the ones that motivate you the most
What is McLelland's Theory of Needs?
What theory believes that specific behaviours differentiate leaders from non-leaders?
What is the Situational Theory?
List two examples of organizational behavior research methods?
What is observation, interviews, surveys, case studies, experiments?
What is the name of the test that companies often use to measure personality?
What is the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) ?
This theory states that employees calibrate effort levels based on their perception of fair treatment in the workplace
What is Equity theory?
What leadership style can lead to low productivity, low satisfaction and low motivation?
What is Laissez-Faire?
What are the factors to consider when setting goals?
What is ambitions, Attainable, Well defined, Shared by all?
According to what theory does job satisfaction depend on whether you perceive that your job supplies things that you value?
What is the Value Percept Theory?
Performance is determined by these two factors.
What are Motivation and ability?
What are the two reasons we learnt as to why there are more male leaders than female?
What are the double bind and motherhood penalty?
What is essential when consensus is not achieved, trust, respect, psychological safety.
What is Cohension?
Name all of the Big 5 personality traits?
What are Openness to experiences, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, and Extraversion?
These five facets of a job can be used to evaluate job satisfaction.
What are Pay, promotion, supervision, coworker, the work itself?
What leadership style is useful in high-stress/urgent situations & when a high level of structure is needed?
What is Autocratic?