Organizational Behavior Chapter 7 Vocab

Optimists

Often view successes as due to their "personal, permanent, and pervasive causes, and negative events to external, temporary, and situation-specific ones.

Virtuousness

Represents "what individuals and organizations aspire to be when they are at their very best

Organizational Practices

Refers to a host of procedures, policies, practices, routines, and rules that organizations is to get things done.

Attentional Deficit

Reflects the inability to focus vividly on an object

Well-Being

Is the combined impact of five elements- positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and achievement (PERMA)

Intention

Represents an end point or desired goal you want to achieve

Flourishing

Represents the extent to which our lives contain PERMA

Conscious Capitalism

A philosophy of management that proposes that organizations exist for purposes beyond making a profit

Temperance

A shared belief in showing restraint and control when faced with temptation and provocation. It promotes self-control, humility, and prudence.

Restorative Justice

A shared belief in the importance of resolving conflict multilaterally through the inclusion of victims, offenders, and all other stakeholders

Compassion

A shared value that drives people to help others who are suffering.

Forgiveness

Defined as, "the capacity to foster collective abandonment of justified resentment, bitterness, and blame, and, instead, it is the adoption of positive, forward-looking approaches in response to harm or damage.

Organizational Climate

Employees' perceptions "of formal and informal organizational policies, practices, procedures, and routines

Attentional Hyperactivity

Happens when our minds are racing or wandering, resulting in compulsive daydreaming or fantasizing

Mindlessness

Is a state of reduced attention. It is expressed in behavior that is rigid, or thoughtless

Flow

Is defined as the state of being completely involved in an activity for its own sake.

Meaningfulness

Is defined as, "belonging to and serving something that you believe is bigger than the self

Social Support

Is the amount of perceived helpfulness derived from social relationships

Positivity Effect

Is the attraction of all living systems toward positive energy and away from negative energy, or toward that which is life giving and away from which is life depleting

Buffering Effect

Positive Practices buffer or reduce the impact of negative events and stressors

Prosocial Behaviors

Positive acts performed without expecting anything in return

Amplifying Effect

Positive practices have an amplifying or escalating effect on positive outcomes because of their association with positive emotions and social capital

Positive Deviance

Successful performance that dramatically exceeds the norm in a positive direction

Mindfulness

The awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment

Upward Spirals of Positivity

Where your positive behaviors, feelings, and attitudes feed your own and those of others in a continual, reinforcing process

Resilient

You have the capacity to consistently bounce back from adversity and to sustain yourself in the face of the demands of positive events

Hope

You need to have a goal and determination to achieve it (willpower), and you need to see one or more alternative paths to achieve your goal, even when face with adversity (waypower).

Positive OB (POB)

involves the study and application of positively oriented human resource strengths and psychological capacities that can be measured, developed, and effectively managed for performance improvement in today's workplace

Positive Psychological Capital (PsyCap)

those with a high level have HOPE (preserving toward goals and, when necessary, redirecting paths to goals in order to succeed), EFFICACY (Having confidence to take on and put in necessary effort to succeed at challenging tasks), RESILIENCE (When beset by problems and adversity, sustaining and bouncing back and even beyond to attain success, and OPTIMISM (Making a positive attribution about succeeding now and in the future).