Organizational Behavior Chapter 7 Quizlet

Resilience

When hampered by problems and adversity, sustaining, and bouncing back and even beyond attain success. The capacity to consistently bounce back from adversity and to sustain yourself in the face of challenges.

Benefits of Mindfulness PT 1

-Less Rumination -Reduced Stress -Improved Memory -Better Focus -Self Awareness -Greater Interpersonal Effectiveness and Satisfaction

Organizational Climate

Consists of employee' shared perceptions of organizational policies, practices, procedures, and routines.

Hope

Preserving toward goals and, when necessary, redirecting paths in order to succeed. Example when Princess Leia call for the help of Obi Wan Kenobi.

Restorative Justice

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

Flourishing

Represents the extent to which our lives contain PERMA.

Virtuous Leadership

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

Engagement

The extent to which you are physically, cognitively, and emotionally involved with an activity, task, or project.

Organizational Practices

The procedures, policies, practices, routines, and rules that organizations use to get things done.

Meaningfulness

The sense of belonging to and serving something that you believe is bigger than the self.

Positive Emotions Are Contagious

Upward spirals of positivity, where positive behaviors, feelings, and attitudes feed your own and those of others in a continual, reinforcing.

Benefits of Mindfulness PT 2

-Increased physical, mental, and interpersonal effectiveness -More effective communications -More balanced emotions -Personal satisfaction

Strategies to Increase Positivity

- Create high-quality connections - Cultivate kindness - Develop distractions - Dispute negative self-talk and thoughts

Benefits of Efficacy

-Influences the world around you and your ability to deal with inherent challenges and opportunities -When high, leads to being more confident and positive

Negative Emotions

-Are limiting -Spur you to act in narrow or specific ways

Positive Emotions PT 1

-Are resources that fuel individual, group, and organizational success -Help build social, psychological, and physical resources -Combat negative emotions

Positive Emotions PT 2

-Broaden your mindset, open you to consider new things -Have benefits which endure over long periods of time

Well-Being & Flourishing (Positive Emotions)

-Broaden your perspective about how to overcome challenges in your life -Build on themselves resulting in a spread of positive emotions -Strengthens relationships with others

Social Support Offers

-Esteem Support -Informational Support -Social Companionship -Instrumental Support

Benefits of Virtuous Leadership

-Financial Performance -Customer Satisfaction -Positive Organizational Climate -Measures of Organizational Effectiveness

Virtuousness Offers

-Greater Good -Integrity -Forgiveness -Trust

Benefits of Positive OB Associated with Positive Deviance

-Higher Overall Job Performance -Less Burnout -Increased Commitment -Higher Job Satisfaction Fewer Sick Days

Positive Emotions Have Desirable Effects

-Organizational Commitment -Creativity -Decision Making -Intentions to Quit -Performance -Stress

Optimism Are?

-Realistic and flexible -Self-inspirational

Mindfulness Contains

-Requires effort because the brain works in ways that detract from staying focused -Improves interpersonal communication -Requires attentional balance

Organizational Values

-Restorative justice -Compassion -Temperance

Organizational Practices Offer

-Training -Support Programs -Human Resources -Practices programs and policies

Mindlessness Contains

-Typified by a failure to control emotions -Requires minimal information processing -Automatic -Associated with poor mental and physical health

Temperance

A shared belief in showing restraint and control when faced with temptation and provocation.

Compassion

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

Cultivate Kindness

Aim for actions that make a difference and come at no cost to you. Assess what those around you might need the most and make a place, but execute your plan so acts of kindness occur on the same day to further enhance the impact.

Create High-Quality

Any social interaction, whether with family, coworkers, classmates, or the person ahead of you in line, is a chance to create a high-quality connection. These connections are energizing and enhance your positivity.

Positive OB

Focuses on positive human characteristics that can be measured, developed, and effectively managed for performance improvement.

Attentional Hyperactivity

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

Willpower

Having goal and the determination to achieve it.

Efficacy

Having the confidence to take on challenging tasks and put in the effort necessary to succeed. To have confidence in your ability to do something.

Attention Deficit

Inability to focus vividly on an object.

Optimism

Making a positive attribution about succeeding now and in the future. Views success as due to their personal, permanent, and pervasive causes, and negative events to external, temporary, and situation-specific causes.

Waypower

Means for achieving the goal. Need to see alternative paths to achieve paths the goal.

Positive Emotions Offset Negative Emotions

Need multiple positive experiences to counter a negative experience.

Flourish

Occurs with achievement is pursued for its own sake.

Develop Distractions

One of the best ways to break from negativity is to distract yourself.

Achievement

Pertaining to the extent to which you have a self-directed life, containing achievement for its own stake.

Prosocial Behaviors

Positive acts performed without expectation of anything in return.

Relationships

Positive emotions are associated with activities involving others.

PERMA

Positive emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Achievement

Buffering Effect

Positive practices and resources reduce the impact of negative events and stressors.

Amplifying Effect

Positive practices from one individual result in additional positive practices by others, which spur positivity in others, which generate other positive outcomes.

Positive Psychological Captial

Possess considerable hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism (HERO).

Flow

State of being completely involved in an activity for its own sake.

Mindlessness

State of reduced attention expressed in behavior that is rigid or thoughtless.

Positive Deviance

Successful performance that dramatically exceeds the norm in a positive direction.

Social Support

The amount of perceived helpfulness derived from social relationship.

Mindfulness

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

Well-Being

The combined impact of five elements (PERMA).