LEC 1
Organizational behavior matters because it helps organizations understand human behavior in the workplace, enabling effective management practices and enhancing overall performance. In essence, OB is essential for creating productive, collaborative, and successful work environments.
Why OB matters?
_____ helps us remember the five personality traits.
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism
A type of motivation driven by internal rewards, such as personal satisfaction or joy from performing an activity
What is intrinsic motivation?
A leader style that consult with team members, encourage participation, and treat subordinates as equals, while leader has final say.
Democratic/participative leadership
For a job like the paper crane production which doesn't require input or creativity from employees, this leadership type would theoretically produce the most paper cranes:
Observation, Interviews, Existing Cases/Case Studies/Archival Data Analyses, Surveys, Questionnaires, Experiments
Methods to research OB?
Self-report questionnaires, Informant Ratings, Personality Artifacts
What are the three primary ways of measuring personality?
This concept explains why, despite changes in our circumstances, our level of happiness tends to return to a baseline over time
What is The Hedonic Treadmill?
Leadership style that is very charismatic, always create an inspirational vision to motivate team members, appeal to values, passions, and ideals and inspire intrinsic motivation.
Transformational leadership
A self-report questionnaire indicating 16 differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions
Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Organizational behavior (OB) is a field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ulti- mately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations
Definition of OB
___ depends on the situation whether it is a strong/weak situation and the role of the job.
Does personality matter in organizations?
This term, also known as the 'over-justification effect,' explains why extrinsic motivators like money can sometimes lead to worse performance than no motivator at all
What is the crowding out effect?
The concept finds that when women act traditionally feminine, they are liked but not seen as leadership material. When they act traditionally masculine, they are disliked and not seen as leadership material
The double blind
Due to _____, people convince themselves that they don’t feel as bad as they expect they should be from negative scenarios.
Rationalization
Organizational Commitment/ job performance
what is individual outcome?
One of the Hofstede’s cultural values that defines how people expect and accept that power is distributed equally vs. unequally
What is the definition of Power Distance?
This concept suggests that individuals will experience longer durations of happiness when engaging in these types of activities, which include mastering a skill or volunteering
What are gratifications?
This concept finds that stereotypical mother is one who stays home with the children and prioritizes her children over everything else, including a career. So they should not be hired, promoted and paid more.
Motherhood penalty
The happiness from enduring stressful scenarios is just as joyful as the happiness experienced from good events due to _____ adaptation.
Ability
Personality & Cultural Value
what are individual characteristics?
One of the values of Hofstede’s cultural values measures people’s openness to uncertainty and novelty. Another level of the value system defines people’s focus on past tradition or future innovations.
This phenomenon occurs when individuals are so absorbed in an activity that they lose track of time, often leading to high levels of satisfaction and reduced susceptibility to hedonic adaptation
What is flow state?
The concepts finds that women are less likely to be confident or over-confident and self-promote. They seek out risk and seek out competition. As a result, women are less likely to opt-in to competitive selection processes, like promotions.
Opt-in reluctance
High-aware people are those who identify the situation and react accordingly. Low-aware people know exactly what they want regardless of the scenario they are in and are hence "less aware" of their surroundings.