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OBM Lecture 4/11/14
Final Exam
11
Management
Undergraduate 1
05/14/2014

Additional Management Flashcards

 


 

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Term
Personality Traits
Definition

- On the micro level:

- Deep-seeded

- enduring pattern that reflects how we behave

Term
Work Ethic (Protestant)
Definition

- Anchored in our 'belief' system

- Grandparents age = Protestant Work Ethic

 

- Work is a virtue

- God gave you certain gifts

- Ear way into next life by using gifts

Term
Type A Personality
Definition

- Intense desire to achieve, extremely competitive, sense of urgency, tense

 

- Impatient, can be hostile, not great team players, "get things done"

Term
Type B Personality
Definition

- Relaxed, easy going, not as urgent, less competitive

- Make good team players

Term
Need for Power (Control)
Definition

- Anchored in our "Motive" structure

- Need to be able to influence their environment

- Desire to shape/influence things

Term
Authoritarian Personality
Definition

- Beleives in structure

- Wants things orderly and controlled

- Make good commanders

- Very willing to be subordinates

- Comfortable with upper level power having structure, order, and control

Term
Social Need
Definition

- The strength of an individuals' need for presence of others

Term
Need for Achievement
Definition

- Have an incredible appetite for feedback

- Strong need to be the cause

- Looking for a moderate degree of challenge

- Spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the job itself

Term
Locus of Control
Definition

- Internal: those who believe they can shape their own destiny, They are the reason for their own successes

 

- External: Those who think their destiny is shaped by their environment, or it is not controlled by their own successes/failures

Term
Self-Concept
Definition

- Not a personality trait

- Collection of self-oriented personality

 

- Multiple conceptualizations about yourself

Term
Self-efficacy
Definition

- One self conceptualization

- How competent and capable you feel yourself as being

- To what extent you can find resources necessary to deal with life's challenges

 

- Can exist as a State and a Trait

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