Organizational Behavior

Storage and retention

retaining info over time

The steps of implementing a goal setting program are, in order:

set the goal, promote goal commitment, provide support and feedback, and create action plan.

Which of the following is not one of the stages of social perception?

Action and decision making

__________ is the process of becoming consciously aware of something or someone.

Attention

What kind of goals can be used in most jobs?

Behavioral

Perception is a (n) ____________ process that enables us to interpret and understand our surroundings.

Cognitive

Apologies-saying "I'm sorry " are perceived the same in all societies.

False

Direction pertains to the amount of effort being invested in an activity.

False

Intensity refers to how long an activity is in the focus of a person's attention.

False

Japanese people see apologies as an admission of wrongdoing.

False

Motivation refers to the processes that underlie the persistence of behavior, not but not its intensity.

False

Performance management involves monitoring, measuring, and evaluating, but does not include providing consequences for employees performance.

False

Performance management is the same thing as performance appraisal.

False

While perception is a part of the integrative framework for understanding and applying OB, it is a relatively unimportant process.

False

Persistence

How long an activity is the focus of ones attention

Why is it important for managers to understand Motivation.

It is important to understand motivation if you want to achieve personal goals or manage others in pursuit of organizational goals.

Which of the following is to a tip for increasing goal commitment and success?

Keep your goals to yourselves.

A head chef of a restaurant always encouraged his subordinates to be creative in the culinary art. He did not believe in using prescribed recipes while cooking. He allowed them to create unique recipes and use different ingredients to prepare dishes. This implied that the head chef established _______ goals.

Learning

What is motivation?Describe three facets of motivation. Why is understanding motivation important for managers.

Motivation refers to the psychological process that underlies the direction, intensity, and persistence of behavior or thought. Direction pertains to what an individual is attending to at a given time; intensity is the amount of effort invested in the activity and persistence represents for how long the activity is the focus of one's attention. It is important to understand the principles of motivation if you want to direct your behavior toward achieving personal goals or to manage others in pursuit of organizational goals.

Encoding and simplification

interpretation and categorization

Retrieval and response

judgments and decisions

Which of the following stimuli would be most salient?

A twelve -year -old student in a. MBA class.

The first step in effective performance management is:

Defining performance

Which of the following is not part of effective performance management? A. Reviewing performance B. Monitoring performance C. Providing consequences D. Defining performance E. All of the above are parts of effective performance management.

E. All of the above

In the _________ stage of social perception, we translate raw information into mental representations.

Encoding and simplification

What kind of goal is best for jobs with clear and readily measured outcomes?

Obejctive

Process that enables us to interpret and understand our surroundings is called:

Perception

Barry set himself. Goal of bowling at least one game above 250 ( out of 300 possible) before the end of the season. This is a ____________goal.

Performance

The two basic types of goals are:

Performance and learning

A set of processes and managerial behaviors that involve defining, monitoring, measuring, evaluating, and providing consequences for performance expectations is known as:

Performance management

Direction

Pertains to what an individual is attending to at a given time.

selective attention/Comprehension

Process of becoming consciously aware of something or someone.

The last step of the social perception process is:

Retrieval and response

When something is ______, it stands out from its context.

Salient

A ____________represents a person's mental picture or summary of a particular event or type of similes.

Schema

In the ____________stage of social perception, people choose to perceive subsets of environmental stimuli.

Selective attention and comprehension

The first step of the social perception process is:

Selective attention and comprehension

In the context of goal setting, SMATY stands for;

Specific, measurable, aligned, results-oriented, time-bound

The type of goals that is best for jobs that are dynamic but in which nearer-term activities and milestones can be defined is:

Tasks

Intensity

The amount of effortbeing invested in an activity

Identify and describe the stages of social perception, and give an example of each stage from your own experiences.

The four stages of social perception are selective attention/comprehension- process of becoming consiously aware of something or someone; Encoding and simplification-interpret or translate raw information into mental representations; Storage and retention-storate of information in events, semantic and personal memory compartments and retrieval and response-retrieve information from memory when they make judgements and decisions. My son is in his final year of highschool therefore we are researching for the best Mechanical engineering universities. We may visit many universities open houses in order to gather relevant information. Once the information is compiled from the various universities a comparison is made to determine the difference (advantanges and disadvantages) and or equivalance there are based on competitiveness, environmental stimuli, people, events and objects. At the right time the best university is chosen based on specific events or experiences at the universities, general knowledge, about the college by world standards and the information shared by the various presenters. And lastly application is made to the university best suited based on impressions from memory and the university is selected by remebering the decision made some time agom

Motivation is inferred from one's behavior or from the results obtained; it cannot be viewed directly.

True

Motivation refers to psychological processes that underlie the direction, intensity, and persistence of behavior or though.

True

Perception is a cognitive process that enables us to interpret and understand our surroundings.

True