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Exam 2
Organizational Behavior Exam 2
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Business
Undergraduate 1
07/28/2011

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compensation award
Definition
An organizational cost resulting from court awards for job distress.
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counterdependence
Definition
An unhealthy, insecure pattern of behavior that leads to separation in relationships with other people.
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distress
Definition
The adverse psychological, physical, behavioral, and organizational consequences that may arise as a result of stressful events.
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ego–ideal
Definition
The embodiment of a person’s perfect self.
Put forth by Freud
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homeostasis
Definition
A steady state of bodily functioning and equilibrium.
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overdependence
Definition
An unhealthy, insecure pattern of behavior that leads to preoccupied attempts to achieve security through relationships.
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participation problem
Definition
A cost associated with absenteeism, tardiness, strikes and work stoppages, and turnover.
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performance decrement
Definition
A cost resulting from poor quality or low quantity of production, grievances, and unscheduled machine downtime and repair.
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personality hardiness
Definition
A personality resistant to distress and characterized by commitment, control, and challenge
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preventive stress management
Definition
An organizational philosophy that holds that people and organizations should take joint responsibility for promoting health and preventing distress and strain.
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primary prevention
Definition
The stage in preventive stress management designed to reduce, modify, or eliminate the demand or stressor causing stress.
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secondary prevention
Definition
The stage in preventive stress management designed to alter or modify the individual’s or the organization’s response to a demand or stressor.
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self–image
Definition
How a person sees himself or herself, both positively and negatively.
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self–reliance
Definition
A healthy, secure, interdependent pattern of behavior related to how people form and maintain supportive attachments with others.
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strain
Definition
Distress
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stress
Definition
The unconscious preparation to fight or flee that a person experiences when faced with any demand
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stressor
Definition
The person or event that triggers the stress response.
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tertiary prevention
Definition
The stage in preventive stress management designed to heal individual or organizational symptoms of distress and strain.
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transformational coping
Definition
A way of managing stressful events by changing them into less subjectively stressful events.
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Type A behavior pattern
Definition
A complex of personality and behavioral characteristics, including competitiveness, time urgency, social status insecurity, aggression, hostility, and a quest for achievements.
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workaholism
Definition
An imbalanced preoccupation with work at the expense of home and personal life satisfaction.
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