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chapter 10 managemen
dynamics of behavior in organizations
Question | Answer |
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functions of management | planning organizing leading controlling |
leading | the use of influence to motivate employees to achieve the organizations goals |
dynamics of behavior in organizations | OB.. interdisciplinary field dedicated to the study of how individuals and groups tend to act in organizations.. psychology, sociology, economics |
management | attainment of organizational goals in an effective and efficent manner through 4 functions |
OB | human behavior in organizational contexts.. what causes people to behave the way they do in organizations |
attitude | an evaluation either + or - the predisposed a person to act in a certain way.. determines how people percieve things, interact and behave on the job |
attitude components | cognitive- beliefs opinions and info the person had about the object of the attitude affect- emotions and feelings about the object of the attitude behavioral-intention to behave toward the object of the attitude |
high performance work force | attitudes related: job satisfaction &Organization commitment |
job satisfaction | positive attitude towards one jobs |
organizational commitment | loyalty to and engagement in ones organization |
how to increase commitment | treat fairly; keep informed;give opportunites to make decisions; reward them |
perception | making sense out of the environment (selecting organizing interpreting) |
perceptual selectivity | we tune in some data and tune out other; we select stimuli that satisfy our needs |
perceptual distortions | stereotyping & halo effect & projection & perceptual defence |
stereotyping | the tendency to assign an individual to a group or broad catergory and then attribute generalizations about the group or indv |
halo effect | creating and overall impression of a person or situation based on one attribute either favorable or unfavorable |
projection | the tendency to see ones own personal traits in toher people |
perceptual defense | the tendency of percievers to protet themselves by disregarding ideas bjects or people that are threatening them |
personality | set of characteristics that underlie relatively stable attern of behavior in response to ideas, objects, or people in the environment; dominant qualitites that distinguish that person from a group |
extroversion | the degree to which a person is outgoing, sociable, assertive, and comfortable with interpersonal relationships |
agreeableness | the degree to which a person is able to get along with others by being good natured, liable, dependable, persistent, and chievement oriented |
conscientiousness | the degree t which a person is focused on a few goals this behaving in ways that are responsible, dependable, persistant, and achievement oriented |
emotional stability | the degree to which a person is calm, enthusiastic, and self confident, rather than tense, depressed, moody or insecure |
openness to experience | the degree to which a person has a broad range of interests and is imaginative, creaticve, artiscally sensitive, and willing to consider new ideas |
extraversion | directed outward, want to change the world, relaxed and confident, perfers to be around others, likes action oriented environments |
intraverted | directed inward, wants to understand the world, reserved and questioning, perfers to be alone, likes quiet enviroments |
sensing | 5 senses to experience, details and practicality, life as it is, perfers using lerned skills and pays attention to details |
intuition | 6th sense, see possibiliteis, patterns and innovations, change and rearrange life, prefers adding new skills, looks at big picture |
thinking | logic of situation, truth, principles, business like, treats others fairly, impersonal |
feeling | human values and needs, harmony, naturally friendlly, personal, treats others as they need to be treated, loyal, care and concern |
judging | decisive, planful, purposeful, be right, focus on task completing, makes decisions, awants only essentials |
prception | curious, spontaneous, flexible, tolerant, miss nothing, fosuc on starting take, postpones decisions, |
persn job fit | the extent to which a persns ability and personality match the requirements f a job |
emotional intellegence | the skill or ability to identify, assess, and control the emotions of onesself of others and of groups.. self-awareness.. self management.. socialawarness relationship awareness |