Foundations of OB
Personality/Values
Personality/Values
Emotions/Moods/SS
Emotions/Moods/SS
100
This is the principle goal of OB.
To predict behaviors that lead to positive organizational performance.
100
This Big Five personality trait is most positively related to job performance.
What is Conscientiousness?
100
What is the difference between terminal and instrumental values and provide examples of both?
Instrument= Behavior Terminal= Endstate
100
Empathy is a major component of this component of emotional intelligence?
What is social awareness?
100
People in this social style are good at getting others excited about a project because they are fun.
Expressives
200
These are the three levels of analysis in OB.
Individual, group, organizational
200
These are the Big Five Personality Traits.
What are conscientiousness, agreeableness, openness, neuroticism, and extraversion?
200
What is a negative information bias and what personality trait is associated with a negative information bias?
See negative information in neutral scenarios. Neuroticism.
200
This is why EI is positively related to learning.
Better awareness of self, learning needs and behaviors, develop relationships, less fearful of failure
200
Amiables tend to evaluate success according to this criteria?
Positive impact on people
300
This discipline contributed to OB primarily by explaining communication, power, conflice and intergroup behavior?
What is Sociology?
300
This Big Five personality trait is highly related to intelligence.
What is Openness?
300
What is Machiavellianism?
Belief that the ends justifies the means.
300
These are the 4 components or Emotional Intelligence.
What are self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management?
300
Which social styles are process oriented rather than outcome oriented?
Amiables and Expressives
400
This discipline contributed to OB by helping us to understand differences in fundamental values, culture, attitudes, and behavior among people in different countries and within different organizations.
What is Anthropology?
400
These two Big Five personality traits appear to be related to physiological differences in the brain.
What are Neuroticism and Extraversion?
400
Organization-person fit has become increasingly important. Why?
Roles in the organization change.
400
The article "What makes a leader" found that emotional intelligence was most important to differentiate effective and ineffective workers at this level of the organization.
What are top levels of management?
400
Name one research finding about EI?
Positive related to task performance.
500
Over the past two decades, more and more business school are incorporating people skills into their curriculum. Why?
Managers need to understand human behavior if they are to be effective.
500
This personality trait is not related to job performance most likely because this trait is associated with not claiming responsibility for successes, not shirking the blame for failures, and poorer negotiating skills.
What is agreeableness?
500
Holland's Vocational Preference Inventory deals with Person-_________ fit?
Job.
500
What is emotional dissonance?
Differences in the emotions displayed and emotions felt.
500
What does Affective Events Theory suggest?
Workplace events -> emotions ->behaviors