Organizational Behavior - Chapter 7 : Positive Organizational Behavior- Quiz 4

To have hope you need to have:

-A goal and the determination to achieve it -A path to achieve the goal

Which of the following are characteristics of positive organizational behaviors?

-Emphasizing meaningfulness -Practicing humility

A study in the Harvard Business Review reported that flourishing employees exhibited:

-Greater commitment to their employers -Better overall performance -Decreased in burnout

The mediation can be learned through practice is recognized by large companies such as General Mills and Google because it:

-Improves attention and awareness -Fosters positive outcomes at group levels

The components of virtuous leadership most frequently discussed in OB research include

-Intergrity -Trust -Focus on the greater good

It is important to recognize negative emotions because:

-It is realistic to recognize that we experience loss, betrayal, and anger -To ignore them subverts health

What can result when your positivity lacks sincerity?

-Loss of credibility -Erosion of trust -Reduction of influence

For the benefits of positive organizational behavior to occur, you must have several ____ experiences for every ____ experience

-Positive -Negative

Researchers of positive and negative experiences agree that the following statements are true:

-Positive experiences turn on a supportive orientation -Negative experiences stimulate a survival orientation -You must have more than one positive experience to remedy a negative one

Restorative justice

Resolve conflict by giving all parties a chance to express their thoughts and feelings, producing solutions that focus on the greater good

Social companionship

Spending time with others in recreational activities

Positive emotions combat negative emotions

True

What organizations and individuals aspire to be when they are at their very best is:

Virtuous leadership

An intention represents an end point or desired ____ you want to achieve

goal

Optimism

making a positive attribution about success now and in the future

It is realistic to recognize that ____ emotions are also important because we sometimes experience loss, betrayal, or fear

negative

Hope

persevering toward goals to succeed

Which of the following positive outcomes can occur with greater efficacy?

-Enhanced positive outlook -Increased effectivenes -Improved confidence

Positive relationships provide:

-Esteem support -Social companionship -Informational support

Strategies to increase your own positivity include:

-Expressing kindness -Establishing enriching connections -Countering negative self-talk and thoughts

Pursuing achievement for its own sake helps build which of the following characteristics?

-Feelings of competence -Feelings of self-efficacy -Feelings of mastery

The ways that the text authors suggest you can build meaning in your life include:

-Finding a way to build your personal strengths into your personal and work life -Going out and helping someone -Identify activities you love doing and do more of them and build them into your work life

When organizations are defined by greed and secrecy, which of the following become central to employees?

-Profitability achievement -Uncertainty management

The framework of positive OB is driven by

-Psychological capital -Positive emotions -Mindfulness

Recent research done at the organizational level show that virtuous leadership has a positive effect over time on:

-customer satisfaction -financial performance -organizational climate

Factors that lead to attentional deficit include

-lack of interest -boredom -conflicting priorities

Emotions that are ___ result in actions that are narrow and specific, while emotions that are ___ often widen someone's mindset

-negative -positive

Which of the following describes mindfulness?

-paying attention on purpose -being non-judgementally aware of what is happening -being in the present moment

To make interactions into positive, worthwhile connections, you can

-trust others to meet your expectations and let it show -support others to achieve a goal -engage the other person by being present and attentive

The study and application of positively oriented human resource strengths and the study and application of positively oriented psychological capacities

Positive organizational behavior

Temperance

Promotes self-control, humility, and prudence when faced with temptation and provocation

Instrumental support

Provides financial aid, material resources, or needed services

Informational support

Provides help in defining, understanding, and coping with problems

The combined impact of positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and achievement is:

Well-being

The field of OB has started focusing on mindfulness because it can improve managerial skills linked to performance management such as:

-Giving feedback -Coaching -Recognizing others

Compassion

Help others by showing sympathy, kindness, tenderness, and love

Esteem support

Provides information that a person is accepted and respected despite problems or inadequacies

Sources of efficacy

1. mastery experiences or performance attainments (practicing basketball) 2. vicarious experiences or modeling (getting a mentor) 3. social persuasion (contrastive feedback) 4. psychological and psychological arousal (born tall)(want to learn more so aroused psychologically)

3 levels of positive psychology

1. valued subjective experiences 2. positive inherited traits- flow things u like to do 3. civic virtue and the institutions that move people toward better citizenship- do things for other people?

Decision-making discretion

Gives employees a sense of control and more chances to learn

The concept that positive practices escalate positive outcomes because of their association with positive emotions and social capital is known as the

Amplifying effect

Daydreaming about a vacation during class is an example of

Attentional hyperactivity

What term is also used to describe engagement?

Being "in the zone"

Employees have greater commitment, performance, satisfaction, and are retained more often when they:

Believe organizational practices support them

Efficacy development

Break larger goals into smaller subgoals, create plans, and seek feedback

The idea that positive practices in organizations lessen the effect of stressors is the

Buffering effect

An organization that values vitality, appreciation, collaboration, and meaningfulness is one that

Develops thriving people and positive energy

Hope development

Generate a work related goal, develop multiple plans for achieving it, and ask for feedback from others

Share information

Helps employees understand the larger picture of how their work fits in the goals of the company

Minimize incivility

Hiring employees who treat others well and with respect

Optimism development

Identify negative expectations and possible impediments. Check to see if they're valid and check with others to challenge your assumptions

Increased focus

Improved decision making benefits one's job performance

Better retention

Improving working memory can be achieved through meditation

A view of organizations that focuses on achieving profitability and wealth but includes conflict, burnout, abuse, and formulating a plan to defeat the competition

Is traditional but negative

How does mindfulness improve your interactions with other people?

It increases your ability to focus on people

Resilience development

List your skills and talents and how they can be used to achieve your goal. Identify obstacles and how to avoid them.

The sense of belonging to and serving something that you think is bigger than the self is known as

Meaningfulness

Attentional deficit and attentional hyperactivity are two key inhibitors of:

Mindfulness

A state of mind that requires minimal information processing and is similar to being on "automatic pilot" is

Mindlessness

Provide feedback

Offers assessments that are both motivational and instructional

The characteristic that is the mind's way to motivate us to move forward in the fact of uncertainty is

Optimism

People view their successes as due to their personal causes and negative events to temporary external and situational ones are

Optimists

More effective interpersonal effectiveness

Paying attention to others' emotions reduces conflict and lessens negativity when conflict does occur

Your perspective about how to overcome challenges is broadened by ___ emotions

Positive

Research about positive and negative experiences agrees that

Positive and negative experiences are not equals

The inability to focus on what is happening right now is

attentional deficit

Resilience

bouncing back after problems or adversity

Positive psychological capital

can be developed can be extended beyond work into other life domains such as relationships and health supports effective organizational change positive correlation with desired employee attitudes, behaviors, and performance.

happiness is related to health and longevity, relationship, and effectiveness at work.

direct correlation with job satisfaction

4 areas of positive psychology

efficacy optimism hope resiliency

The extent to which our lives contain PERMA is the extent to which we

flourish

The state of being completely involved in an activity for its own sake is known as

flow

Exceptionally _____ means above and beyond expectations

positive

Hope

positive motivational state where two basic elements- successful feeling agency (or goal oriented determination) and pathways (or proactively planning to achieve those goals) interact -the willpower and the way-power -"hope for the best" -hope can be learned - hope has a powerful impact in the workplace

resilience

positive was of coping with adversity or distress. In organizational aspect, it is defined as an ability tp recuperate from stress, conflict, failure, change, or increase in responsibility.

When living systems seek the positive over the negative, it is an example of the:

positivity effect

A positive act that is done without expectation of something in return is a(n) _____ behavior

prosocial

Breathing meditation cab be done almost anywhere and can be beneficial if done for 5 minutes twice a day. Experts recommend that you get started by practicing diaphragm breathing. List the remaining steps in breathing meditation with the first step at the top.

-Sit comfortably in a chair, feet flat, and back erect -Close your eyes and breathe deeply -Add counting to four or five to your breaths in and out

Which of the following are need for mindfulness?

-Sustained attention -Nonemotional attention -Attentional balance

Which of the following are the processes that lead to positive outcomes under the framework of positivity?

-The positivity effect -The buffering effect -The amplifying effect

Tp reap the benefits of positivity, you must:

-be sincere and authenic -realize that insincere positivity can be harmful

The ability to abandon justified resentment and adopt positive, forward-looking approaches in response to harm or damage is

forgiveness

subjective well being

happiness. broader and defined as peoples attitudes (moods and emotions) and cognitive evaluations of their lives

Efficacy

having confidence to take on challenging tasks believe you are good at something

Both willpower and way power are needed to have

hope

positive psychology

optimal human functioning, is an attempt to respond to the systematic bias inherent in psychology historical emphasis on mental illness rather than on mental wellness

Positive businesses do well and do good because they are profitable and they

-believe supporting and developing employees is valuable in itself -make the well-being of their stakeholders important

Organizational climate is defined as employees' perceptions of

-formal and informal organizational policies -practices and procedures

A set of personal characteristics that helps us to be resilient in the face of difficulties is _____ capital

Psychological

Less contemplation of current or past challenges

Reducing rumination helps alleviate the undesirable emotional impact it can cause

How someone is able to bounce back from adversity and sustain oneself in the face of the demands of positive events is known as

Resiliency

The upward spiral of positivity means that:

Your positive behaviors, attitudes, and feelings continually reinforce your own and those of others

Optimism

state like place where you react to something knowing that you can get through it and you are confident. power of positive thinking cognitive characteristic *Believe that negative events are temporary -optimism as human nature -as individual difference

happiness is a process, not a place. required a way of experienced life and the world that includes positive attitudes , meaning, and spirituality.

there is an "optimal level" of happiness. those "too happy" may perform less well at school and work and even be less healthy