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| The failure to report to work. |
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| Assets + Liabilities = Owner's Equity |
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| The study of societies to learn about human beings and their activities. |
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| Exchanging routine information and processing paperwork. |
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| The mental ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations. |
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| Situational factors: variables that moderate the relationship between two or more other variables. |
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| Monitoring activities to ensure they are being accomplished as planned and correcting any significant deviations. |
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| A response that is affected by an independent variable. |
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| Deviant Workplace Behavior |
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| Voluntary behavior that violates significant organizational norms and, in doing so threatens the well-being of the organization or it members. Also called Antisocial Behavior or Workplace Incivility. |
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| Disseminator Role (Informational Role) |
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| Transmits information received from outsiders or from other employees to members of the organization. |
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| Disturbance Handler Role (Decisional Role) |
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| Responsible for corrective action when organization faces important, unexpected disturbances. |
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| The ratio of effective output to the input required to achieve it. |
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| Putting employees in charge of what they do. |
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| Entrepreneur Role (Decisional Role) |
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| Searches organization and its environment for opportunities and initiates projects to bring about change. |
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| Situations in which individuals are required to define right and wrong conduct. |
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| Figurehead (Interpersonal Role) |
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| Symbolic Head; Required to perform a number of routine duties of a legal or social nature. |
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| Human Resource Management |
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| Motivating, disciplining, managing conflict, staffing, and training. |
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| The ability to work with, understand, and motivate other people, both individually and in groups. |
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| The presumed cause of some change in the dependent variable. |
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| A gut feeling not usually supported by research. |
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| A positive feeling about one's job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics. |
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| Leader (Interpersonal Role) |
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| Responsible for the motivation and direction of employees. |
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| A function that includes motivating employees, directing others, selecting the most effective communication channels, and resolving conflict. |
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| Liaison (Interpersonal Role) |
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| Maintains a network of outside contacts who provide favors and information. |
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| Individuals who achieve goals through other people. |
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| Mintzberg's Managerial Roles |
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| 10 roles that can be grouped into three categorizes: Interpersonal, Informational, and decisional. |
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| An abstraction of reality. A simplified representation of some real world phenomenon. |
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| Monitor Role (Informational Role) |
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| Receives wide variety of information;serves as nerve center or internal and external information of the organization. |
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| Negotiator (Decisional Role) |
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| Responsible for representing the organization at major negotiations. |
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| Socializing, politicking, and interacting with outsiders. |
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| A consciously coordinated social unit, composed of two or more people, that functions on a relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals. |
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| A field of study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on behavior within organizations, for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization's effectiveness. |
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| Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) |
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| Discretionary behavior that is not part of an employee's formal job requirements, but that nevertheless promotes the effective functioning of the organization. |
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| Detemining what task are to be done, who is to do them, how the task are to be grouped, who reports to whom, and where decisions are to be made. |
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| A process that includes defining goals, establishing strategy, and developing plans to coordinate activities. |
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| A performance measure that includes effectiveness and efficiency. |
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| The science that seeks to measure, explain, and sometimes change the behavior of humans and other animals. |
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| Resource Allocator (Decisional Role) |
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| Makes or approves significant organizational decisions. |
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| An area within psychology that blends concepts from psychology and sociology and that focuses on the influence of people on one another. |
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| The study of people in relation to their social environment or culture |
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| Spokesperson Role (Informational Role) |
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| Transmits information to outsiders on organization's plans, policies, actions, and results; serves as expert on organization's industry. |
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| Looking at relationships, attempting to attribute causes and effects, and drawing conclusions based on scientific evidence. |
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| The ability to apply specialized knowledge or expertise. |
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| Decision making, planning, and controlling. |
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| The voluntary and involuntary permanent withdrawal from an organization. |
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| The concept that organizations are becoming more heterogeneous in terms of gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and inclusion of other diverse groups. |
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