BUAD 337 CHAPTER 1

disseminator

According to Mintzberg's classification of managerial roles, the role of a disseminator is a type of informational role which involves transmitting information received from outsiders or from other employees to members of the organization.

Resource Allocator

According to Mintzberg's classification of managerial roles, the role of a resource allocator is to make or approve significant organizational decisions and assign human, physical, and monetary assets.

reflected best-self

Positive organizational scholars have studied a concept called "reflected best-self" asking employees to think about when they were at their "personal best" in order to understand how to exploit their strengths.

Human Skills

The ability to understand, communicate with, motivate, and support other people, both individually and in groups, may be defined as human skills. Managers get things done through other people, and it is crucial for them to have good human skills

Which of the following is true of contingency variables?

a. They indicate that everyone is motivated by money and financial perks. b. They refer to situational factors that moderate the relationship between two or more variables. c. They refer to scientific factors which are based on universal truths. d. They remain constant irrespective of any change in the environment. e. They make simple, accurate, and sweeping generalizations about concepts in organizational behavior.

Which of the following determinants of behavior does organizational behavior study?

a. job satisfaction b. collective bargaining c. individuals Correct d. profits e. perks

Processes

are actions that individuals, groups, and organizations engage in as a result of inputs and that lead to certain outcomes. At the individual level, processes include emotions and moods, motivation, perception, and decision making.

contingency Variables

are variables that moderate the relationship between two or more variables. For example, an OB study can say x leads to y, but only under conditions specified in z. Humans are unpredictable in nature and thus, all organizational behavior studies must have contingency variables.