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Organizational Behavior Chapters 6,7,8,9,10,11 and 13
Test 2
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Management
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11/09/2010

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What is MBO?
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Management by Objectives- A goal setting program based on interaction and negotiation between employees and managers
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Performance Management
Definition
Process of defining, measuring, appraising, providing feedback on, and improving perforamcne
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Performance Appraisal
Definition
The evaluation of a person's performance
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360 Degree Feedback
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A process of self-evaluation and evaluations by a manager, peers, direct reports, and possibly customers. 
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Stress
Definition
Unconscious preparation to fight or flee that a person experiences when faced with any demand
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Stressor
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The person or event that triggers the stress response
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Distress
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The adverse psychological, physical, behavioral, and organizational consequences that may arise as a result of stressful events
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Strain
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Distress
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What are the 4 approaches to stress?
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Homeostatic/ Medical Approach, Cognitive Appraisal Approach, The person-environment fit Approach and the Psychoanalytic Approach
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Cognitive Appraisal Approach
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Homeostasis
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A steady state of bodily functioning and equilibrium
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Ego-Ideal
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The embodiment of a person's perfect self
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Self-Image
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How a person sees himself or herself, both positively and negatively
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Preventative Stress Management
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An organization philosophy according to which people and organizations should take joint responsibility for promoting health and preventing distress and strain.
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Type A Behavior Pattern
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A complex of personality and behavioral characteristics, including competitiveness, time urgency, social status insecurity, aggression, hostility, and a quest for achievement. 
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Personality Hardiness
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Personality characterized by commitment, control and challenge and, hence, resistant to distress
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Transformational Coping
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A way for managing stressful events by changing them into less subjectively stressful events
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Self-Reliance
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A healthy, secure, interdependent pattern of behavior related to how people form and maintain supportive attachments with others
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Counterdependence
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An unhealthy, insecure pattern of behavior that leads to separation in relationships with other people
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Reflective Listening
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Carefully listening to a message and immediately repeating it back to the speaker
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Barriers to Communication
Definition
Factors that distort, disrupt, or even halt successful communication
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Gateways to Communication
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Openings that break down communication barriers

 

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Defensive Communication
Definition
Messages that are aggressive malevolent, passive, or withdrawn
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Nondefensive Communication
Definition
Messages that are assertive, direct, and powerful
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Group
Definition
Two or more people with common interests, objectives, and continuing interaction
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Work Team
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A group of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common mission, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable
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Norms of Behavior
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The standards that a work group uses to evaluate the behavior of its members
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Social Loafing
Definition
The failure of a group member to contribute personal time, effort, thoughts, or other resources to the group
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Empowerment
Definition
Whether through self management or teamwork empowerment requires the development of certain skills if it is to be enacted effectively 
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Wild Turkey
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A devil's advocate who keeps top management on track by challenging conventional thinking
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Programmed Decision
Definition
A simple, routine matter for which a manager has an established decision rule
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Nonprogrammed Decision
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A new, complex decision that requires a creative solution
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Z Problem-solving model: 4 Steps
Definition

Examine facts and details

Generate alternatives

Analyze the alternatives objetively

Weigh the impact

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Escalation of Commitment
Definition
The tendency to continue to support a failing course of action
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Cognitive Style
Definition
An individual's preference for gathering information and evaluating alternatives
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Risk Aversion
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The tendency to choose options that entail fewer risks and less uncertainty
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Intuition
Definition
A fast, positive force in decision making that is utilized at a level below consciousness and involves learned patterns of information
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Creativity
Definition
A process influenced by individual and organizational factors that results in the production of novel and useful ideas, products, or both
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5 Interpersonal Forms of Power
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Reward Power

Coercive Power

Legitimate Power

Referent Power

Expert Power

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Coercive Power
Definition
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Reward Power
Definition
Power based on an agents ability to control rewards that a target wants 
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Coercive Power
Definition
Power that is based on an agents ability to cause an unpleasant experience for a target
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Legitimate Power
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Based on position and mutual agreement; agent and target agree that the agent has the right to influence the target

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Referent Power
Definition
An elusive power that is based on interpersonal attraction
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Expert Power
Definition
The power that exists when an agent has specialized knowledge or skills that the target needs
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Personal Power
Definition
Power used for personal gain
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Social Power
Definition
Power used to create motivation or to accomplish group goals
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Powerlessness
Definition
A lack of power
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Influence Tactics
Definition

Used for impression management, individuals use influence tactics to control other's impression of them. 

 

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8 Examples of Influence Tactics
Definition

Pressure

Upward Appeals

Exchange

Coalition

Intigration

Rational Persuasion

Inspirational Appeals

Consultation

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Empowerment
Definition
Sharing power in such a way that individuals learn to believe in their ability to do the job
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 5 Styles of Conflict Management
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Competing, Collaborating, Compromising, Avoiding and Accommodating
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Nonaction
Definition
Doing nothing in hopes that a conflict will disappear
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Secrecy
Definition
Attempting to hide a conflict or an issue that has the potential to create conflict
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Character Assassination
Definition
An attempt to label or discredit an opponent
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Superordinate Goal
Definition
An organizational goal that is more important to both parties in a conflict rather their individual or group goals
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3 Types of Defense Mechanisms
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Aggressive Mechanisms

Compromise Mechanisms

Withdrawal Mechanisms

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Aggressive MEchanisms
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Fixation

Displacement

Negativism

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Compromise Mechanisms
Definition

Compensation

Identification

Rationalization

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Withdrawal Mechanisms
Definition

Flight/ Withdraw

Conversion

Fantasy

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Functional Conflict
Definition
Works for the team
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