Management 305

Maria strongly disliked working in groups in college because she always felt there was someone who did not pull his weight. However now that she is a manager she must organize teams in her firm Assuming she only received good advice which of the following is not a tip to prevent social loafing she has received from other managers in her company?

Choose a larger number of employees for each team

According to Kerr, physicians have an incentive to...

Commit Type 1 errors over Type 2 errors

Organizational Citizenship behavior

Behavior that is above and beyond the call of duty

Counterproductive Work Behavior

Behavior that violates organizational norms, and causes harm to the organization and/or employees

According to expectancy theory, if you wanted to increase the expectancy of your employees, you might:

Ensure that your employees are well trained and have the tools and support they need to do their jobs.

Which of the following are examples of surface-level diversity traits?

Ethnicity, Hair color, Sex, and Race

True or False: According to Baez There is broad consensus among industrial psychologists that personality tests should be used in employee selection.

False

True or False: According to Dr. Amen, using brain imaging to diagnose brain dysfunction is like throwing darts in the dark.

False

True or False: An axiom is a theoretical statement Good axiom are testable accurate generalizable parsimonious and predictive.

False

True or False: Conflict in teams is always bad.

False

True or False: In expectancy theory, "expectancy" is the value of a reward.

False

True or False: Needs of workers are similar across cultures.

False

True or False: Offering an innovation prize ($5,000) for new inventions is a great way to encourage creativity in the workplace.

False

True or False: Positive Psychology focuses on diagnosing what is wrong with people and fixing what is broken.

False

True or False: The overall organizational structure (four main parts) of the brain is very different in humans compared to worms' shark, and bids?

False

True or False: When the purpose motive is decoupled from the profit motive, good things generally happen good things like new ideas for products and service.

False

True or False: Where there is diversity, good things happen. Always. Regardless of context.

False

Which statement offers the best description of the thesis of Kerr's argument in "on the Folly"?

Fouled-up incentive systems are those that reward organizational actors for doing things that are not in the organization's interests

Which of the following scientists were discussed in the first week's lecture (or in the assigned Readings

Galileo Galilei, Edwin Hubble, Copernicus, Stephen Hawking

Resilence

Having the capability to bounce back from adversity/failure and to recover and succeed despite setbacks.

In 1514, a polish priest named Nicholas Copernicus published an updated model of the universe. However, he didn't want his name attached to the model. Why did he likely publish his work anonymously?

He was worried about being labeled a heretic by his church.

Organizational Justice

How an employee judges the behavior of the organization and the employee's resulting attitude and behavior.

Where did Goates grow up?

Idaho

The degree to which you believe outcomes are lined with performance is represented by?

Instumentality

The Primary function of the cerebrum is...

Integration

After working as a salesperson in an appliance store for a while, you believe the company needs to take its marketing more seriously and you begin to suggest to your boss ideas for various promotions. If allowed to pursue these ideas, Hertzberg would say you are more likely to experience?

Job Satisfaction

Goates Office Hours

M: 11-12:30 T/Th: 9-10:45

What was one of the primary conclusions from the experiment involving Bionicle (and the Sisyphus condition)?

Motivation to complete a task is reduced substantially when people do not feel like there is any point to the work they are doing.

Michael is part of an organization behavior group. Group decides on the overall theme of its project and individual members are now completing specific sections of the project. Michael has been emailing Rachel almost every day asking her opinion on various parts of his section. The group tends to sit together in class and they have even decided to go out for coffee next Tuesday. What phase of group development is Michael's group

Performing

Agreement Rating Scale

Raters respond to the degree to which they agree or disagree with a statement; Also known as Likert scale

Frequency Rating Scale

Raters respond to the frequency that they observe or experience an item

A Small company relies on the health care exchange created under the Affordable Care Act for its employees to procure insurance. With the political uncertainty regarding the future of the A.C.A, some employees are worried they may lose their insurance and may, ultimately, not be able to find affordable health insurance should the A.C.A be repealed. These employees are concerned about?

Safety and security needs

In "Patriarchy at the checkout Counter: Walmart is being accused of discriminating based on....

Sex

An archetype reflects the central tendency (average) of a population on a given trait; a ____ is believing that everyone within a social group has the same or similar character tics

Sterotype

Jenn has been very emphatic in her comments supporting the new addition to the product line. Christ has been equally spirited in his opposition to the new item. G and A seem to be learning to Jen perspective while Mar supports Christ. The discussion about the product has consumed the last hour of the meeting of the marketing group at what of Tuckman's model does this group seem to be functioning?

Storming

Which of the following statements regarding team size and diversity is correct?

Teams that believe in the value of diversity perform better than those which do not.

Behavioral Intent

observed behavior, verbal statements about intentions

Research doing research in personality prefer which personality test?

the Five Factor Model (Big Five)

workplace deviance

the deliberate (or intentional) desire to cause harm to an organization

When you care about diversity because you recognize that society is segmented, that some segments of society enjoy more privilege and power than others, but that people outside the dominant segment should be afforded opportunities in the workplace you have adopted...

the social justice model for embracing diversity

Independent Construct

The construct that is theoretically predictive of an outcome construct, something that predicts something else; the causal concept.

Maintaining a diverse workforce because you believe that doing so helps your firm better understand the marketplace and recruit better talent is illustrative of...

The deficit model of embracing diversity

Social Support

The degree to which employees believe that their organization values their contributions and cares about their well-being and fulfills socioemotional needs.

Purpose

The desire for our work to matter

Mastery

The desire to continually improve

Instrument

The device used to measure variables and test hypotheses; survey instruments contain a series of items collected into scales that measure independent and/or dependent variables

Affect

The emotional component of an attitude

Autonomy

The freedom to direct our own lives

Rating Scale

The method that the rater uses to respond to an item

Social learning

The process of deriving attitudes from family, peer groups, religious organizations, and culture

Identification

The propensity of a member of an organization to identify with that organization

Scale

The set of items used to measure a variable

Organizational Commitment

The strength of an individual's identification with an organization.

Dependent Variable

The variable used to measure the dependent construct; the variable that is changed by the independent variable

Independent Variable

The variable used to measure the independent construct; the predictive or casual variable

Satisfaction with Life

The way in which people show their emotions, feelings (moods) and how they feel about their directions and options for the future.

Operationalization

Transforming the theoretical to the measurable

True or False: Individual psychological characteristics consist of both traits and states

True

True or False: One of the weaknesses of the Myer-Briggs Type indicator is that its authors, Myers and Briggs didn't actually understand Carl Jung's theory of psychological frames upon which they claimed their personality test was based.

True

Item

a discreet question on a scale; one specific measure of a variable

Attitude

a psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating something with a degree of favor or disfavor.

Dependent Construct

an outcome construct that is theoretically predicted by an independent construct of construct; something that predicts something else

Scientific theory beings with observations but what other factors can influence theory?

- Assumptions that sort of fill in the gap between what we know from our observations - Personal bias - Politics - Personal prejudice.

Developing functional team norms is the most important thing team members can do to assure the success of the team. What sorts of team norms are most important?

- High Social sensitivity - Equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking.

Organizational Behavior

- The study of individual behavior and group dynamics in organizations. - The study of organizational behavior is primarily concerned with the psychosocial interpersonal and behavior dynamics in an organization. -Organization behavior is about people, about how people interact with each other in the work organizations, and about the nature of organizations themselves.

According to Hawking. The Greeks had at least three goods reasons for believing the Earth was round What were they?

- They noticed that when a ship was coming into port folks on the shore could see the mast before they could see the hull - As they traveled north, they noticed the North Star rose in the sky, and as they traveled south it dropped - During an eclipse of the moon, the shadow of the Earth always appeared round

Construct

A distinct theoretical concept, "An abstract concept used in a particular theoretical manner to relate different behaviors according to their underlying features or causes."

Optimism

A future focused developable state-like characteristic that offers an explanatory style that attributes positive events to permanent and pervasive causes, and negative events to external temporary and situation-specific ones.

job satisfaction

A pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's job or job experience.

Confidence

A present to future focus developable state-like defined as believing in one's ability to obtain specific outcomes.

Hypothesis

A specific, testable, theoretical statement.

Cognitive dissonance

A state of tension produced when an individual experiences conflict between attitudes and behavior

Which of the following is an appropriate synonym for the word incentive?

All of the above: Stimulus, impetus, Motive, Inducement

Analyses of companies that utilize teams indicate some impressive results. Team-based organizations tend to show all the following?

An increase in marketing

Hope

An individual future focused developable state-like characteristic described as having the will power and pathways to attain goals.