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Leadership and Organizational
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Business
Undergraduate 2
11/19/2008

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Term
Human behavior in organizational settings?
Definition
Individual Processes
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The interface between human behavior and the organization?
Definition
Interpersonal Processes
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The organization itself?
Definition
Organizational Processes
Term
Process through which members of a minority group are forced to learn the ways of the majority group?
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Assimilation
Term
Methods used to create products both tangible and intangilbe?
Definition
Technology
Term
Transforms resources into tangible outcomes that are then sold?
Definition
Manufacturing Organization
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Transforms resources into an intangible output creating time/place utility for customers?
Definition
Service Organization
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Knowledge workers are?
Definition
Employees who add value simply because of what the know
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The practice of hiring other firms to do work previously performed by the organization itself?
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Outsourcing
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A persons overall set of expectations regarding what he/she will contribute to the organization and what the organization will provide in return?
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Psychological Contract
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The extent to which the contributions made by the individual match the inducements offered by the organization?
Definition
Person-Job Fit
Term
The relatively stable set of psychological attributes that distinguish one person from another?
Definition
Personality
Term
The Myers-Briggs Framework has ___ dimensions and are called___, ____, ___, ____.
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4 dimensions

 

Sensing, intuiting, judging, and perceiving.

Term
The extent to which a person's behavior makes a positive overall contribution to the organization?
Definition
Organizational Citizenship
Term
What are the "Big Five" personality traits?
Definition

1.Agreeableness

2. Conscientiousness

3. Negative Emotionality

4. Exraversion

5. Openness

Term
The ability to get along?
Definition
Agreeableness
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The number of goals on which a person focuses?
Definition
Conscientiousness
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Characterized by moodiness and insecurity?
Definition
Negative Emotionality
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The quality of being comfortable with relationships?
Definition
Extraversion
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The capacity to entertain new ideas and to change?
Definition
Openness
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The belief in one's capabilities to perform a task?
Definition
Self-Efficacy
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The extent to which a person believes that he or she is worthwhile and deserving individual?
Definition
Self-Esteem
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The extent to which a person believes that power and status differneces are appropriate within hierarchies?
Definition
Authoritarianism
Term
Behaving in ways to gain power and control over the behavior of others?
Definition
Machiavellianism
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The degree to which a person is willing to take chances and make risky decisions?
Definition
Risk Propensity
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P=M+A+E
Definition

P- Performance

M- Motivation (must want to do the job)

A- Ability (must be able to do the job)

E- Environment (must have the resources to do the job)

Term
Based on the relatively simple premise that people in organizations want to be treated fairly?
Definition
Equity Theory
Term
The belief that we are being treated fairly in relation to others?
Definition
Equity
Term
The belief that we are being treated unfairly in relation to others?
Definition
Inequity
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A reward or other desirable consequence that follows behavior?
Definition
Positive Reinforcement
Term
People are motivated by how much they want something and the likelihood they perceive of getting it?
Definition
The basic expectancy model
Term
Occurs when employees have a voice in decisions about their own work?
Definition
Participation
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The process of enabling workers to set their own work goals, make decisons, and solve problems within their sphere of responsibility?
Definition
Enpowerment
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Compressed work week: Employees work a full forty hour week in fewer than the traditional five days?
Definition
Variable Work schedules
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Flex time: Employees gain more personal control over the hours they work each day?
Definition
Flexible Work schedules
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A useful method of enhancing employee performance?
Definition
Goal setting
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The total array of money (wages, salary, commission), incentives, benefits, perquisites, and awards provided by the organization?
Definition
The compensation package
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Piecework programs?
Definition
# of units produced
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Gain-sharing programs?
Definition
Cost of reduction ideas
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Bonus systems?
Definition
Lump sum
Term
Long-term compensation?
Definition
Stock performance, earnings per share
Term
Merit pay?
Definition
Performance
Term
Profit-sharing?
Definition
Predetermined portion of company profits
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Employee stock option plans?
Definition
Reduced rate
Term
People feel threatned by unknown situations and prefer to be in a clear and unambiguous situations?
Definition
Uncertainty avoidance
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Emphasis on aggressiveness and the aquisition of money and other possessions as opposed to concern for people and overall quality of life?
Definition
Masculinity
Term
Skills necessary to accomplish specific tasks within the organization?
Definition
Technical
Term
Skills used to communicate with, understand, and motivate individuals and groups?
Definition
Interpersonal
Term
Skills used in abstract thinking?
Definition
Conceptual
Term
Skills to understand cause-effect relationships and to recognize optimal solutions to problems?
Definition
Diagnostic
Term
A ____ is two or more people who interact with one another such that each person influences and is influenced by each other person.
Definition
Group
Term
All members are committed to a commin goal?
Definition
Team
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Members don't necessarily have a common goal?
Definition
Group
Term
What is the meaning of leadership as a process?
Definition
Leadership is the use of noncoercive influence to direct and coordinate activities of group members to meet a goal
Term
What is the meaning of leadership as a property?
Definition
Leadership is the set of characteristics attributed to those who are perceived to use such influence successfully
Term
Power granted by virtue of one's position in the organization?
Definition
Legitimate Power
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The extent that a person controls rewards another person values?
Definition
Reward Power
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The extent to which a person can punish or physically or psychologically harm someone else?
Definition
Coercive Power
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The extent to which a person controls information or knowledge that is valuable to someone else?
Definition
Expert Power
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Exists when one person wants to be like someone else or imitates someone else. Similar to charisma?
Definition
Referent Power
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The set of values that helps the organization's employees understand which actions are considered acceptable and which actions are considered unacceptable?
Definition
Organization Culture
Term
A major breakthrough that changes or creates whole industries?
Definition
Radical innovation
Term
Creates a new functionality by assembling parts in new ways?
Definition
Systems innovation
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Continues the technical improvement and extends the applications of radical and systems innovation?
Definition
Incremental innovation
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