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MNGT 3400 Exam 1
Organizational behavior exam one hollbrook
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Management
Undergraduate 2
02/13/2014

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Diversity
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The host of individual characteristics that make people different from and similar to each other.
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Individual differences
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The ways in which people are similar and how they very in thinking, feeling, and behavior
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Self awareness
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being aware of one's own behaviors, perferences, styles, biases, and personality
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Self Concept
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The view individuals have of themselves as physical, social, and moral beings
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Self Esteem
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Belief about one's own worth based on an overall self evaluation
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Self Efficacy
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Individuals belief about the likelihood of successfully completing a specific task
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Values
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Broad preferences concerning appropriate course of action or outcome
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Culture
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Learned and shared way of thinking and acting among a group of people in a society Primary values and practices that characterize a particular country
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Power Distance
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Cultures acceptance of the status and power among members
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Uncertantity avoidance
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Tendancy to be uncomformable with uncertantity and risk in everyday life
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Individualism Collectivism
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Tendancy of members of a culture to emphasize individual self interest group relationship
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Masculinity Femininity
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Degree to which a society values assertiveness or relationships
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Long term Short term
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Degree to ehich a culture emphasizes long term or short term thinking
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Types of diversity
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Race, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability
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Emotion
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Strong positive or negative feeling toward someone or something. They are always associated with a source
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Emotional Intelligence
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An ability to understand emotions and manage relationships effectively
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Self awarness
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Ability to understand our emotions and their impact on our work and on others
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Self Management
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Ability to think before acting and to be in control of otherwise disruptive impulses
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Moods
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Generalized positive or negitive feellings or states of mind that may persist for some time
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Attitude
Definition
predisposition to respone in positive or negative way to someone or something in one's environment
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Attitude Components
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cognative, behavioral, affective
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cognative
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underlying beliefs, opinion, knowledge, or information a person possesses
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Behavioral
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Intention to behave in a certain way based on a affect in ones attitude
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Affective
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specific feeling regarding the personal impact of the antecedent conditions in the cognative component
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perception
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Process through which people receive and interpret information in their enviroment
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Factors influencing perception
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the perceiver, the setting, the perceived
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__________ is an academic discipline devoted to understanding individual and group behavior, interpersonal processes, and organizational dynamics.
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Organizational behavior
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In a(n) __________, members are encouraged to work together in ways that meet higher order human needs.
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CONSTRUCTIVE CULTURE
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The ability to gain rapport with others and build good relationships is known as
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SOCIAL SKILL
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Lifelong learning
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OCCURS CONTINUOUSLY FROM DAY-TO-DAY WORK EXPERIENCES, CONVERSATIONS WITH COLLEAGUES, COUNSELING PROVIDED BY MENTORS, AND OTHER DAILY OPPORTUNITIES
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The study of __________ attempts to identify where behavioral tendencies are similar and where they are different.
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INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
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The overall combination of characteristics that captures the unique nature of a person is
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PERSONALITY.
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A person’s ability to adjust her or his behavior to external, situational (environmental) factors is known as
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SELF-MONITORING
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When forces in an individual’s personal life affect them at work, this is known as
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THE SPILLOVER EFFECT
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A(n) __________ is a strong positive or negative feeling directed toward someone or something.
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EMOTION
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When the customer “catches” the emotions of the salesperson it is due to
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EMOTION AND MOOD CONTAGION
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__________ involve(s) hiding true feelings while displaying very different ones.
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SURFACE ACTING
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The predisposition to respond in a positive or negative way to someone or something in one’s environment is known as
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AN ATTITUDE.
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__________ is choosing a course of action to deal with a problem or opportunity.
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DECISION MAKING
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__________ are made as standardized responses to recurring situations.
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PROGRAMMED DECISIONS
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__________ involve choosing the first alternative that appears to give an acceptable or satisfactory resolution of the problem
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SATISFICING DECISIONS
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__________ are/is a form of decision entrapment that leads people to do things that the facts of a situation do not justify.
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ESCALATING COMMITMENT
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Through __________, people process information inputs into responses involving feelings and action.
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PERCEPTION
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__________ are cognitive frameworks that represent organized knowledge about a given concept or stimulus developed through experience.
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SCHEMAS
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__________ is the tendency to single out those aspects of a situation, person, or object that are consistent with one’s needs, values, or attitudes.
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SELECTIVE PERCEPTION
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__________ is the tendency to deny personal responsibility for performance problems but to accept personal responsibility for performance success.
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SELF-SERVING BIAS
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The Perciever
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A persons past experiences, ned or motives, personality,values and attitude influence the perception process
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The setting
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The physical, and organizational context can influence the perseption process
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The perceived
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Characteristics of the percieved person, object, or event are also imporant in the perception process
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Stages of Perception Process
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Attention and Selection, Organization, Interpretation, Retriveval
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Selective Screening
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Allowing only a portion of available information to enter perception
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Schemas
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Cognative framworks that represent organized knowledgedeveloped through experience about people, object, or events
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Script Schemas
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Knowledge framework that describes the appropriate sequence of events in a given situation
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Self Schemas
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Information about a persons own appearance, behavior, and personality
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Person Schemas
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Way individuals sort others into catagories
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Person in situation schemas
Definition
combine schemas build around persons and events
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Attention and selection in perception process
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Information we pay attention to and other info we disregard
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Organization in Perception process
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Organization of information into schemas that enable use to use it
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Interpretation in perception process
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Reasoning behind perception actions
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Retrieval in perception process
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Ways of accessing information stored in our minds
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Common Perseptual Distortions
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Stereotypes, Halo effect, Selective perception, Projection, Contrast effects, Self-Fulfilling Peophecies
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Stereotypes
Definition
Assigns attributes commonly associated woth a group of people
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Halo- Effect
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Uses one attribute to develop an overall impression of a person or situation
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Selective Perception
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The tendency to define problems from one's own point of view
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Projection
Definition
Assigns personal attributes to other individuals
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Contrast effect
Definition
when the meaning of something that takes place is based om a contrast with another recent event
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Self Fulfilling Prophecies
Definition
creating or finding in a situation that which you expected to find in the first place
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Attribution
Definition
The process of creating explanations for events
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Three Factors influencing causality
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,Distinctiveness, Consensus, Consistency
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Distinctiveness
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Considers how consistant someone is across different situations
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Consensus
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Consideres how likely all those facing similar situation are to respone in the same way
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Consistency
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Concerns wheather an individual responds the same way over time
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Fundamental attribution error
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Overestimating internal factors and inderestimates external factors as influences on someones behavior
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Self Serving Bias
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Underestimates internal factors and overestimates external factors as influences on someones behavior
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Self efficacy
Definition
A persons belief that he or she is capable of performing a task
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Decision making
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The process of chossing a course of action for dealing with a problem or opportunity
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Steps of decision making
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Define Problem, Analyze Alternatives, Make a choice, Take action, Evaluate results
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Classical Decision model
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Views decision makers as acting in a world of complete certainty
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Behavior dicision making model
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Views decision makers as acting only in the terms of what they percieve about a given situation
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Heuristics
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Simplifying startegies or rule of thumb used to make decisions
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Availablity Heuristic
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Bases a decision om recent events to situation at hand
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Bases dicison on relating to situation at hand
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Anchoring and adjustment heuristic
Definition
Bases decisions om incremental adjustments to an initial value determined by historical precedent or some reference point
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