Week 1
It’s a term that describes how individuals and groups within an organization interact and behave, and how it influences one another.
What is organizational behavior?
This word refers to the structures and propensities inside people that explain their characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behaviour
What is personality?
Your boss offering you a pay raise for completing a project is an example of this motivation
What is extrinsic motivation?
Often regarded as someone who consults with team members, encourages participation and treats subordinates as equals.
What is a democratic leader?
Often regarded as the performance, job, satisfaction and overall well-being of employees in a workplace.
What is the individual outcome?
The traits that constitute this model are extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.
What is the five-factor model?
How humans are “programmed” to quickly adapt to new things. What’s novel becomes the norm.
What is Hedonic Adaptation?
Often regarded as someone who provides directions acts as the sole expert and do not seek input or encourage suggestions
What is an autocratic leader?
The term holds that there is no single rule for the best way to manage an organization, it’s dependent upon the internal and external situation.
What is the contingency approach?
This term refers to a situations where there are fewer norms and people can behave freely and naturally
What is a weak situation?
The phenomenon that each added occurrence in a given domain of life has less of an impact on us
What is Desensitization?
The term often used when when women act traditionally feminine, they are liked but not seen as leadership material. However act traditionally masculine, they are disliked and not seen as leadership material.
What is the double bind?
It is an approach that involves using critical thinking and best available evidence to make decisions rather than relying on personal opinion and accepted conventions.
What is Evidence-Based Management?
This term refers to when people expect and accept that power is distributed equally vs. unequally
What is power distance?
An activity you lose track of time and all factors outside that activity.
What are the Flow States?
Often regarded as very charismatic, appeal to values, passions, ideals and inspire intrinsic motivation. They create an inspirational vision to motivate team members
What is a transformational leader?
It refers to the processes of interaction and collaboration within teams to achieve common goals and outcomes
What is a group mechanism?
This term refers to when people are open to uncertainty and novelty vs. people find uncertainty threatening and prefer established rules
What is Uncertainty Avoidance?
Getting rewarded for an activity but feeling less desire to do that activity demonstrates this effect in behaviour.
What is the crowding-out effect?
The term given for women when stereotypes translate into workplace outcomes
What is the motherhood penalty?