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| The extent to owhich colective action is required to complete an entire piece of work. |
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| Each job or department contributes to the whole independently |
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| Sequential Interdependence |
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| Work must be performed in succession, as one group's or job's outputs become the inputs for the next group or job. |
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| Reciprical Interdependence |
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| Different jobs or groups work together in a back and forth manor to complete a process. |
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| Permanently passing decision making authority and responsibility from managers to workers. |
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| A feeling of intrinsic motivation, in which workers perceive their work to have meaning and perceive themselves to be competent, having an impact, an capable of self-determination. |
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| Inerorganizational Process |
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| Colection of activities that occur among companies to transform inputs into outputs that customers value. |
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| The degree to which workers have the discression, freedom, and independence to decide how and when to accomplish their jobs. |
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| Workers are responsible for doing the work, but they have little to no responsibiity or control over their work. |
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| Employee Involvement Teams |
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| Have somewhat more autonomy and meet on company time to provide advice or make suggestions to management concerning specific issues. They do not have the authority to make decisions. |
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| Semi-Autonomous work groups |
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| Provide advice and suggestions to management but also have the authority to make decisions and solve problems related to the major taks required to produce a product or service. |
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| team members manage and control all of the major tasks directly related to production of a product or service without first getting approval from management. |
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| Can control and change the desighn of the team itself, the tasks they do, and how and when they do them. |
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| Getting aquainted stage in which team members first meet each other , form initial impressions, and try to get a sense of what it will be like to be part of the team. |
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| As team members begin working together, different personalities and work stypes may clash. Team members become more assertive and more willing to state opinions. |
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| Team members begin to settle into their roles as team members. Positive team norms will have developed by this stage, and teammates should know what to expect from each other. |
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| Performance improves because the team has finally matured into an effective, fully functioning team. |
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| giving teams the ability to change organizational structures, policies, and practices if doing so helps them meet their stretch goals. |
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| Teams no longer have to go through the processess of multilevel reviews and sign-offs to get management approval before making changes. |
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| Degree to which a person believes that people should be self-sufficient and that loyalty to ones self is more important to that of one's team or company. |
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| Average level of ability, experience, personality, or any other factor on a team. |
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| The variences or differences in ability, experience, personality, or any other factor on a team. |
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| Intentional discrimination that occures when two people, despite being qualified, are intentionally not given the same hiring, promotion, or membership opertunities as other employees because of their race, color, sex, ethnicitym or religious beliefs. |
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| Unintentional discrimination, occures when members of a particular race, sex, or ethnic group are unintentionally harmed or disadvantaged because they are hired, trained, or promoted at substantially lower rates than others. |
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| Adverse impact occures if the decision rate for a procted group of people is less than four-fifths of the decision rate for a non-protected group. |
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| Occures when employment outcomes, such as hiring, promotion, or simply keeping one's job, depend on whether an individual submits to being sexually harrassed. |
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| Occures when unwelcome and demeaning sexually related behavior creates an unwelcoming work environment |
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Measure the extint to which an applicatnt possesses a particular kind od ability needed to do a job well.
They are also called aptitude tests |
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| Measure the extent to which applicants have abilities in perceptual speed, verbal comprehension, numerical aptitude, general reasoning, and spatial aptitude. |
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| extensive surveys that ask applicants questions about their personal backgrounds and life experiences. |
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| performance tests which require applicants to perform tasks that are actually done on the job. |
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| use a series of job specific simulations that are graded by multiple trained observers to determine applicants ability to perform managerial work. |
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| Employees are paid at a set rate for each item produced up to some standard |
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