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| Goals of Organizational Behavior |
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| To explain, predict, and influence behavior |
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| Evaluative statements - either favorable or unfavorable - concerning objects, people, or events. |
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| Cognitive component of Attitude |
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| Refers to the beliefs, opinions, knowledge, or information held by that person |
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| The emotional or feeling part of an attitude |
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| Refers to an intention to behave in a certain way toward someone or something |
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| The degree to which an employee identifies with his or her job, actively participates in it, and considers his or her job performance to be important to his or her self-worth |
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| Organizational commitment |
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| The degree to which an employee identifies with a particular organization and its goals and wishes to maintain membership in the organization. |
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| The process by which individuals give meaning to their environment by organizing and interpreting their sensory impressions. |
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| Influencing factors of perception |
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| The Perceiver, the Target, the Situation |
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| Suggests that when we observe an individual's behavior, we attempt to determine whether it was internally or externally caused. |
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| Fundamental attribution error |
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| Tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others |
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| Tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal factors while putting the blame for failures on external factors. |
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| Judging a person on the basis of one's perception of a group to which he or she belongs |
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| General impression of an individual based on a single characteristic |
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| The unique combination of psychological characteristics that affect how a person reacts and interacts with others. |
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Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator:
-Consists of more than 100 questions about how people usually act or feel in different situations |
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Social Interaction (Extrovert or Introvert)
Preference for gathering data (Sensing or Intuitive)
Preference for Decision Making(Feeling or Thinking)
Style of making decisions(Perceptive or Judgmental) |
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Five factor-model of personality that includes:
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
Emotional Stability
Openness to Experience |
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| The term applied to the theory that behavior is a function of its consequences. |
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| Psychologist who argued that creating pleasing and desirable consequences to follow some specific behavior will increase the frequency of the behavior |
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| Any relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as a result of experience |
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| A theory of learning that says people can learn through observation and direct experience. |
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| The process of systematically reinforcing each successive step that moves an individual closer to the desired behavior |
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| Which personality trait classification model has the most evidence to support it? |
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| Additional Personality Insights |
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1. Locus of Control
2. Machivellianism
3. Self-Esteem
4. Self-Monitoring
5. Risk-Taking |
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