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Organizational Behavior
Nelson/Quick ORGB2
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Business
Undergraduate 3
05/15/2013

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What are three key strategies for managing resistance to change?
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Pariticipation, empathy, support
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Fear of loss and unknown are?
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reasons why individuals resist change
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The most massive scope of change is known as
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Transformational
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Change Agent
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person who acts as an initiator and assumes responsibilities for change management
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Competition/globalization, economic conditions, nature of the workforce
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forces for an organization to change
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Primary purpose of socialization
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transmission of core values to new organization members
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Adaptive organizational culture
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encourages confidence and risk taking among employees
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Assumptions
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deeply held beliefs that guide behavior of organized members
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How can corporate leaders greatly influence and shape organizational culture?
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paying attention to detail and letting others attend to the big picture
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espoused value
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spoken value
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enacted value
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implemented value
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ritual
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everyday organizational practices that are repeated over and over
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artifacts
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the most visible accessible level of culture
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What are the three levels of culture defined by Edgar Schein?
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artifacts, values, and basic assumptions
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fixation
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a defense mechanism in which an individual continues dysfunctional behavior that clearly doesn't resolve the issue.
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Person-role
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when a person's values conflict with his job demands
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emotional intelligence
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the power not only to control emotions but also to perceive them
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transformational leaders tend to
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inspire followers to perform beyond expectations
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The path-goal theory assumes that leaders
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adapt their behavior and style to fit the characteristics of the work environment and followers
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contingency theories
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leadership concerned with identifying the specific leader behaviors that are most effective in specific leadership situations
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Important underlying behaviors of the Ohio State leadership studies
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consideration and initiating structure
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self-management
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critical factor that increases empowerment in relation to the critical job dimensions
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its easier to encourage employee empowerment with the organization highly values
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reward, coercive
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Delphi Technique
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Gathering independent judgments through iterative process and combining them into a group decision even though persons are not in a face to face situation
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Group Polarization
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Tendency of groups position to shift to more extreme options than individuals alone would do
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Groupthink
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An undesirable group decisional phenomenon that results from within group pressure
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Brainstorming
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an open non-evaluative group problem solving technique that produces the greatest number of options
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Synergy
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the greater outcome and quality of decision options resulting from the group process
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Social decision making scheme
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The majority rule in group decision making
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Evoking of shared or common meaning in another person is called
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communication
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what percent of meaning in the message can be conveyed by non-verbal means
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65-90
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proxemics
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seating arrangements and dynamics can be examined by a _____ study
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Polyphasic activity
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doing more than one thing at a time
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Heuristics
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shortcuts in decision making that save mental activity
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the right side of your brain does what?
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develop visions and strategic plans
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tertiary prevention
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the stage in preventative stress management designed to heal individual or organizational symptoms of distress
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distress
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the adverse psychological, physical, behavioral or organizational consequences that may occur as a result of stressful events
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Organizations get the performance that they
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reward
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what is a form of operant conditioning?
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behavior modification
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the expectancy theory of motivation focuses on?
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Personal perceptions
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whats the difference between motivators and hygiene factors?
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One deals with job characteristics that are intrinsic to the job and the other deal with characteristics of the work environment extrinsic to the job
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According to Herzberg which is related to job dissatisfaction?
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hygiene factors
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Maslow's hierarchy of needs model begins and ends with what
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physiological, self-actualization
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low mach persons value
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loyal and personal friendships
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terminal values
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goals to be achieved or the end states of existence
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expertise, trustworthiness, attractiveness
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major aspects of the source characteristic affecting persuasion
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affective commitment
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one based on an individuals desire to remain in an organization
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psychosocial, interpersonal, and group dynamics in organizations
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what the study of organizational behavior is concerned with
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Hofstede studied what?
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dimensions of cultural differences
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Hawthorne studies
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done in the 1920s and 1930s that suggested the importance of the normal organization
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