Intro
This makes it ok to fail
What is psychological safety?
In the 5 factor model of personality, what does C stand for?
What is Conscientiousness?
The framework used to understand motivation
What is expectancy theory?
This occurs when individuals exert less effort when working in a group.
What is social loafing?
This level of organizational culture includes visible elements like clothes, symbols, and traditions.
What are artifacts?
The skill that is most important to major employers
What are interpersonal skills?
What is the difference between weak and strong situations?
Weak situations have no obvious way to behave;strong ones expected specific behaviour
Something managers/coworkers can do to improve the link from rewards to personal goals (valence)
What is give recognition/praise?
This occurs when group members prioritize harmony and conformity over critical evaluation of ideas.
What is groupthink?
This is the final stage of socialization, when a new member fully internalizes the organization’s behaviours and norms.
What is the adaptation stage?
The key attribute that helped kindergarteners do better in the marshmallow challenge
What is experimentation?
What is the main difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset?
Fixed:traits can’t change; growth:traits can improve with effort
One of the three links in expectancy theory that fairness is a key part of
What is performance to reward (instrumentality)?
The key factor predicting successful teams wasn’t individual skill or personality, but this shared belief that members can speak up without fear of humiliation.
What is psychological safety?
This form of conformity happens when people go along with others to meet expectations or gain approval resulting in compliance rather than genuine belief.
What is normative conformity?
Goals set by successful teams have these 3 attributes
What is specific, ambitious, and attainable?
What is job enrichment according to the job characteristics model?
Increasing job motivation by adding variety, autonomy and feedback
The strongest predictor of meaningfulness in a job
What is the belief that the job has a positive impact on others?
This cognitive bias causes individuals to believe they see the world objectively and assume others who disagree are ignorant or irrational.
What is naïve realism?
This problem occurs when groups spend most of their time discussing information everyone already knows, rather than sharing unique perspectives.
What is the common knowledge problem?
The three factors necessary for causation
What is correlation, temporal antecedence (cause before effect), no third factor driving both?
What is value-percept theory?
Job satisfaction depends on whether your job supplies the things you value.
Main cause of the Hanoi Rat Debacle
What is narrow focus/gaming the system?
Conflict focused on ideas and approaches rather than personalities can actually improve group performance by encouraging critical evaluation.
What is task conflict?
Strong cultures create cohesion but can also discourage questioning and new ideas. This tension captures what drawback of having a strong culture?
What is a lack of diverse opinions and openness to outside perspectives?