OB Final
This occurs when employees willingly embrace the culture of the company
assimilation
first step in a merger
assimilation
Departmentalization types
divisional structure- geographic functional structure- knowledge matrix structure- overlays two
Which leadership characteristic takes into account people task oriented and people oriented styles
e- b and c (behavioral and path goal)
T/F: Conscientiousness is one of the best personality traits for predicting job performance
t
T/F: the distributive justice theory- states that people who are similar in relevant ways should receive the same benefits and burdens
t
cognitive dissonance= when we see any inconsistencies in our thoughts, emotions and behaviors
t
stereotyping is an extension of the social identity process
t
artifacts
the OBSERVABLE symbols and signs of an organization's culture
Ritual
the programmed routines of daily organizational life that dramatized the organization's culture
Which leadership theory or perspective adopts the view that people are agents of change
transformation perspective
First step in the strategy to minimize change
unfreezing
leadership substitutes
A theory identifying contingencies that either limit the leader's ability to influence subordinates or make that particular leadership style unnecessary.
action research
Approach to organizational change: a problem-focused change process that combines action orientation (changing attitudes and behavior) and research orientation (testing theory through data collection and analysis)
to develop the most accurate assessment of an organizations culture we should....
all the above
Restraining forces
Employee behaviors that block the change process (communicate first, coercion last)
T/F: Boomer and Gen X bring the same values and expectations to the workplace
F
T/F: Counterproductive workplace behavior do not include threats and work avoidance
F
T/F: Exposed values represent the values you and your spouse have in common
F
T/F: Job Satisfaction is a positive work evaluation
F
T/F: People born between 1946-1964 are generation X
F- Baby boomers
T/F: Conscientiousness refer to sensitive, flexible, creative and curious a person is
F-neurotic
Which of these characteristics is supported by lots of large scale studies of the most important leadership characteristic
Integrity
Mars model
Motivation and ability are effected by role perception and situational factors to create behavior and results
when does organizational socialization start
Pre-employment socialization
T/F: Ethics refers to the study of moral principles or values that determine weather actions are right or wrong, outcomes are good are bad
T
T/F: In terms of cross cultural values Americans tend to have relativity high individualism with a high achievement oriented attitude, and low power distance
T
T/F: Knowledge management improves an organizations capacity to acquire, share and use knowledge in ways that improve survival and success
T
T/F: The field of OB is based on theory and concepts of psychology and sociology
T
T/F: The individual rights principle is challenged when one individual right conflicts with another
T
T/F: Values are relatively stable evaluative beliefs about what is important
T
T/F: Values have strong influence on our priorities , preferences and desires
T
T/F:Distributive justice ethical system states that people who are similar is relative ways should receive equal treatment
T
T/F:The big 5 personality dimensions represent 5 clusters that represent most personality traits (ocean)
T
Leaders as a an agent of change=
Transformational leadership
path-goal
a contingency theory of leadership based on the expectancy theory of motivation that relates several leadership styles to specific employee and situational contingencies
Appreciative inquiry 4 stages
discovery, dreaming, designing, delivering
Strong culture helps by providing
control system, social glue, sense-making
strong culture hurts when
culture misaligned with environment, blind employees, suppress sub cultural values
values that sub conscientiously guide actions
culture structure
What do firms do as the environemnt becomes more complex
decentralize
an organic structure has....
decentralized decision making
hidden elements of an organization include
employee beliefs and values
motivation
energizes directs and maintains
T/F: people with high power distance expect relatively equal power sharing
f
T/F: Job satisfaction is a positive work evaluation
false
fundamental attribution error with cause the supervisor to believe that an employees lateness due to factors beyond the employees control
false
tacit knowledge is best learned from formal classroom instruction
false
which model of organizational change explicitly refers to unfreezing the current situation and refreezing the desired state.
force filed analysis
standardize rules and procedures for training
formalization
shift divisional structures away from
geography
Appreciative inquiry starts with
identifying the cause of the element (discovering)
Counterculture
important source of surveillance & critique over the dominant order encourage constructive conflict and more creative thinking about how the organization should interact with its environment
ocean
openness contentiousness extroversion agreeableness neurotic
highly participative team
parallel learning curve
one view of charismatic leadership is it refers to
personal traits
ceremony
planned displays of organizational culture, conducted specifically for the benefit of an audience
which of the following is a strategy to prove a decision is wrong
saving face
future search
system-wide group sessions, usually lasting a few days, in which participants identify trends and identify ways to adapt to those changes
Emotional intelligence represents a set of abilities
t
In the EVLN model some upset employees engage in voice constructively giving solutions about their dissatisfaction
t