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Organizational Behavior Test 2
Organizational Behavior Test 2
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Undergraduate 4
03/29/2012

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Affect
Definition
Broad range of emotions people experience
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Emotions
Definition
Intense feelings that are directed at someone or something
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Moods
Definition
Feelings that tend to be less intense than emotions and that lack a contextual stimulus
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Basic Emotions
Definition
Anger, Fear, Sadness, Happiness, Disgust, Surprise
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Emotional Labor
Definition
An employee's expression of organizationally desired emotions during interpersonal transactions at work...the difference between actual and displayed emotions
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Types of Emotions
Definition
Felt: Actual emotions
Displayed: required or appropriate emotions
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Affective Events Theory (AET)
Definition
Work Environment->Work Events->Emotional Reactions->Job Satisfaction--Job Performance
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Emotional Intelligence (EI)
Definition
Persons ability to: Be self aware, detect emotions in others, manage cues and info
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Emotions and Moods affect
Definition
Negociation, Customer Service, Job Attitudes, Deviant workplace behaviors
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Personality
Definition
The way an individual reacts and interacts with others, includes genetics and life experience
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Myers Briggs Type Indicator
Definition
ESTJ (extrovert, Sensing, Thinking, Judging)

INFP (Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Percieving)
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Extroversion
Definition
Socialble, gregarious, assertive
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Agreeableness
Definition
Good natured, cooperative, trusting
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Conscientiousness
Definition
Responible, dependable, persistent, organized
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Emotional Stability
Definition
Calm, self confident, secure under stress
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Openness to Experience
Definition
Curious, imaginative, artistic, and sensitive
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Traits relevant to OB
Definition
Core Self Eval, Machiavellianism, Narcissim, Self monitoring, risk taking, Type A, Proactive Personality
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Values
Definition
"how to" live life properly
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Terminal value
Definition
desirable end-states of existence; a lifetime goal
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Instrumental Value
Definition
preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values
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Perception
Definition
process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment
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Selective Perception
Definition
term to identify the behavior all people exhibit to tend to "see things" based on their particular frame of reference
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Halo Effect
Definition
one trait influencing others in one's judgement of another person or object
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Contrast Effects
Definition
perception of something affected by other things close to it
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Stereotyping
Definition
commonly held beliefs about certain things
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Attribution Theory
Definition
Observation--Interpretation--Attribution of cause
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Fundamental Attribution Error
Definition
underestimate external, overestimate internal (blame people first, not situation)
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Self Serving Bias
Definition
Take credit for success, blame others for failure
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Rational Decision Model
Definition
model of decision making that rests on two major assumptions===People have access to all info, people make best decision
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Rational Decision Process
Definition
1) Define problem
2) Identify decision criteria
3) Weight criteria
4) Generate Alternatives
5)Rate alternatives
6) Computer optimal decision
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Bounded Rationality
Definition
Simpliflying complex situations to better understand them
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Satisficing
Definition
Choose first solution that satisfies minimum criteria
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Overconfidence Bias
Definition
someone's subjective confidence in their judgments is reliably greater than their objective accuracy, especially when confidence is relatively high
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Anchoring Bias
Definition
rely too heavily, or "anchor," on one trait or piece of information
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Confimation Bias
Definition
is a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs
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Availability Bias
Definition
choosing the solution that is most easily imaginable
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Escalation of Commitment
Definition
investing more into a wrong decision to make it right
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Randomness Error
Definition
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Hindsight Bias
Definition
seeming to know something all along when looking in hindsight
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Motivation
Definition
Intensity, Direction, Persistance of effort towards a goal
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Intensity
Definition
How hard someone tries
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Direction
Definition
effort that is channeled toward and consistent with, organized goals
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Persistence
Definition
how long a person can maintain effort
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Maslow's Hiearchy of Needs Theory
Definition
Physiological-->Safety-->Love/Belonging-->Esteem-->Self Actualization
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McGregors Theroy X and Theory Y
Definition
X--employees are lazy and have to be micromanaged
Y--Employees love work and need more freedom
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Herzbergs Two Factor Theory
Definition
2 Factors for workplace satisfaction--Motivators and Hygiene factors
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McClelland's Theory of needs
Definition
Power, achievement and affiliation
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Goal Setting Theory
Definition
Basic Premise-->Specific, difficult goals produce better results than easy goals
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Management by Objective (MBO)
Definition
Each level of hierarchy negotiates with the level below to set goals
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Self Efficacy
Definition
A persons belief that they can perform a task
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Enactive Mastery
Definition
Performing behaviors which provoke feelings of anxiety and worry
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Vicarious modeling
Definition
Have people observe similar or high status people successfully modeling the behavior to be adopted
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Verbal Persuasion
Definition
friends, coworkers and leaders can persuade an employee that they "can get the job done"
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Adams' Equity Theory
Definition
Self--Outcomes/imputs Referent Outcomes/inputs
Overpayment Self>referent
Underpayment Self
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Distributive Justice
Definition
Fairness of Outcome
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Procedural Justice
Definition
Fairness of outcome process
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Interactional Justice
Definition
Being treated with dignity and respect
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Expectancy Theory
Definition
Motovation=expectation
Valence
Instrumentality
Expectnacy
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