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Organizational Behavior

Subject : business-skills
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1. Are groups of employees (typically 10-15) who perform highly related or interdependent jobs and take on many responsibilities of their former supervisors.






2. Relates to content and goals of work-OK if functional






3. A term that reflects the different types of activities - and interactions that occur within teams that contribute to their ultimate goal.






4. Can exist w/out dependence on an external environment






5. Higher quality - marked by especially strong levels of mutual respect/obligation and followers trust in leaders






6. Tendency to evaluate people or objects by comparing them with characteristics of recently observed people or objects.






7. More administrative - managing complexity of organization - structure things - have plans






8. A job design model that relates the motivational properties of jobs to specific personal and organizational consequences of those properties. 1) Core job characteristics (skill variety - task I&S autonomy) 2) Critical psychological states (meaningfu






9. The time at which we see an object or event can influence attention - as can location - light - or any number of situational factors






10. Misunderstandings - insufficient exchange of information - don't communicate enough - sometimes we'd rather not communicate (easiest to resolve)






11. Applicants select companies based on compatible values.






12. Sets of Standards for behavior and models effective behavior






13. When we make judgments about the behavior of others - we tend to underestimate external influence and overestimate internal influence- b/c I don't have insight about what going on in your personal life






14. Inspire followers to transcend their own self-interests






15. Teams made up of employees from about the same hierarchical level but from different work areas - who come together to accomplish a task- takes time to build teams with different backgrounds.






16. Heuristics are shortcuts that people make in decision making to reduce info processing.






17. Means that trust is rooted in a rational assessment of the others trustworthiness - based on his or her integrity - competence - and benevolence.






18. We tend to attribute our own successes to internal factors and but the blame for failure on external factors.






19. Extent to which a person has a high need for structure or control in his/her life






20. Both give a little when: when parties have equal power - wan to settle quickly - and/or parties lack trust and openness for collaboration






21. To what extent do team members believe in the collective (as a whole) ability of the team.






22. The tendency to attribute others behaviors to internal factors






23. 1) Self awareness 2) Self management 3) Social awareness 4) Relationship management (REVIEW)






24. Occur during the later stages of team development as team members work on the task






25. The process of identifying and choosing alternative courses of action to meet the demands of a situation.






26. You do this or else (LEAST EFFECTIVE)






27. Different Political times






28. Concern for the goals of others






29. Increased group performance- Improves the quality of decisions - stimulates creativity and innovation - encourages interest and curiosity among group members - provides the medium through which problems can be aired and tensions relates and foster






30. To what extent do alternative sources of the resource or alternatives to the resource exist?






31. Provides followers input into decision making that affects the organization






32. Collaborating: Win-win - seeking mutually beneficial alternatives - focus on underlying interests - Perceived Compatible goals






33. A mode of thinking (blind conformity) that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group - when the members' strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action.






34. Substantial agreement followed by initiative and persistence in pursuit of common goals (change in behavior and attitudes) BEST/MOST EFFECTIVE






35. How I feel about it - how to handle. Five different individual styles-Avoiding - Competing - Compromising - Accommodating - and Collaborating. People differ in the degree to which they generally rely on these strategies but the approach will als






36. First impressions/most recent information dominates our perceptions.






37. The mental filtering of incoming stimuli to reduce it to a manageable level. The filters can be based on interests - background - experience - and attitudes-so much going on - we can't take in everything at the same time.






38. Close relationships form - settle into a pattern- ends when everyone's on the same page






39. The relationship of a target to its background also influences perception - as does our tendency to group close things and similar things together






40. Management decisions take into account the effects of outcomes on people in the organization






41. Appeals to their values - needs - needs and goals.






42. Focus on high expectations and on intrinsic higher level needs (self-actualization)






43. Activities are organized around teams and collaboration in teams is a critical component of how work gets done






44. A specific case of selective perception: decision makers seek to affirm data that confirms their solution but ignore and criticize data that contradicts their solution.






45. Sometimes also called the network - or modular organization; typically small - core organization that outsources major business functions.






46. Occur in early stages of team development and focus on preparation for future work






47. To improve organization's effectiveness






48. Means that it depends on feelings toward the authority that go beyond any rational assessment.






49. Appeal to friendship and relationship and loyalty






50. Staying with a decision even when there is clear evidence that it is wrong- in business don't abandon quick enough.