Intro to OB
The study of how individuals and groups think, act, and interact in groups and organizations
What is organizational behaviour?
These five traits make up the Big Five personality model.
What are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism
After a big raise, your happiness spikes and then drifts back to baseline. This phenomenon is sometimes called this exercise themed name.
What is the hedonic treadmill?
A group of students who work together on a project get a worse grade than their average grade than they would have got if they had worked individually. This is called ______ ->
What is Process Loss
People feel much more committed to things that they put a lot of work into, even if the work wasn’t directly related to the job. This concept is called _____.
What is Effort Justification
This bias comes from making conclusions by examining the people who succeeded while overlooking the people who followed similar paths and did not
What is survivorship bias?
This method of assessing personality has advantages like being efficient and providing insight into how people perceive themselves, but has the disadvantage that responses may be biased or influenced by social desirability.
What are self-report questionnaires?
According to Expectancy Theory, an employee believes that working harder will improve their performance, but doubts that better performance will lead to a bonus.
What is extrinsic/intrumentality
During a group meeting, members avoid expressing disagreements because they want to maintain harmony and reach a unanimous decision. Name this phenomenon
What is conformity bias, groupthink, or a desire to maintain cohesion? (any answer works)
This is the bias where members tend to discuss the information that everyone already knows rather than unique information held by individuals during group work.
What is Shared-Information bias
Scientific findings should form the foundation for management education, just like it should for medical education, based on THIS perspective.
What is Evidence-Based management?
A _____ situation could cause someone's personality be less predictive of their behaviour, such as when they are in a highly structured workplace.
What is a strong situation? (Which constrains behaviour through clear rules and expectations).
A manager gives employees greater freedom to decide how they complete their work, making them feel more personally responsible for their tasks. This job characteristic is being increased?
What is autonomy?
This is someone who does not contribute to the collective efforts of the group, but still reaps the benefits.
What is a free rider
When most people in a group behave in the same way, individuals are likely to do this, even if their initial behaviour is different under the conformity concept?
What is change their behaviour (to match the majority)