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Chapter 1: Organizational Behaviour & Management Flashcards

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What is Organization

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Social invention to reach common goal through group effort

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Social invention

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There are PEOPLE in it

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Goal Accomplishment

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how organisation can SURVIVE & ADAPT TO CHANGE (INNOVATE)

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Group effort

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practice EFFECTIVE TEAMWORK

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What is Organizational Behaviour?

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Attitudes & behaviour of individual & groups in organizations

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Attitudes

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how satisfied ppl with their jobs, how committed they feel to their goals,

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Behaviours

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cooperation, conflict, innovation, resignation, etc

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Human Capital

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knowledge, skills, abilities of an organization’s employees

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Social Capital

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social resources that individual obtains from participation in a social structure, that can assist in work & career

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Internal relationship

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relationship formed inside an organization

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External Relationship

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relationship developed w/ external ppl outside organization

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Management Practices of The Best Companies to Work

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  • Flexible work schedule
  • Mentorship programs
  • Extensive training & development program
  • Performance bonuses
  • On-site fitness, daycare, & wellness facilities
    Etc
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3 Goals of Organizational Behaviour

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  • Predicting the behaviour of others
  • Explaining why events in organizations occur
  • Management
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What is Management?

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Art of getting things accomplished in organization through others

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What is Evidence Based Management?

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translating principles based on best scientific evidence into organizational practices

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Early Classification on the “Correct” way to manage an organization

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  • Classical view
  • Scientific Management
  • Bureaucracy
  • Hawthorne studies
  • Human relations movement
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Classical View

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advocate high specialization of labour, intensive coordination, & centralized decision making

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Scientific Management

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Frederick taylor’s system for using research to determine the optimum

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Bureaucracy

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mac weber’s ideal type of organization that included a strict chain of command, detailed rules, high specialization, centralized power, and selection and promotion based on technical competence

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Hawthorne studies

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psychological & social processes affect productivity and work adjustment

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Human relations movement

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advocate management styles that were more participative & oriented towards employee needs → critic towards the classic & bureaucracy

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What is Red-Tape Mentality

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regulations or conformity to formal rules or standards which are excessive, rigid or redundant, or to bureaucracy claimed to hinder or prevent action or decision-making

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What is Contemporary Management: The Contingency Approach?

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Approach to management that the appropriate management style depends on the situation

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3 Types of Managerial Role

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  • Informational Role
  • Interpersonal Role
  • Decisional Role
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Informational Role (MoDiSpok)

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establishing & maintaining interpersonal relations

  • Monitor : managers scan internal → to follow current performance | scan external → to keep up w/ ideas and trends
  • Disseminator : send info (both facts & preference) to others
  • Spokesperson : sending message to external
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Interpersonal Role (FiLeLi)

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establishing & maintaining interpersonal relations

  • Figurehead : symbol of organization rather than active decision makers
    –> Ex : speech to a trade group, entertaining clients
  • Leader : select, mentor, reward, discipline employees
  • Liaison : maintain horizontal contact in & outside organization (establish & maintain relationships)
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Decisional role [EDaN]

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decision-making

  • Entrepreneur : turn problem & opportunities to plans for improved change
  • Disturbance handler : deal w/ problems; employee conflicts & address threats to resources and turf (wilayah)
  • Negotiator : negotiate w/ other individual / organization
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4 Behaviours of Managers

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  1. Routine Communication
  2. Traditional Management
  3. Networking
  4. Human Resource Management
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Routine Communication

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Sending & receiving info, handling paperwork

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Traditional Management

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Plan, decision-making, control

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Networking

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interact w/ ppl outside organization, socializing & politicking w/ insiders

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Human Resource Management (Manager Behaviour)

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motivate, reinforce, manage conflict, punish, staff, train, develop employees

  • Climb up the ladder quickly → more network than HRM
  • Unit effectiveness & employee satisfaction commitment → more HRM than network
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Managerial Agendas: Behaviour Patterns of Successful Managers

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  • Agenda Setting
  • Network
  • Agenda Implementation
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Network

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allows information & establishment of cooperative relationship

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Agenda Setting

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setting agenda on what they want to accomplish for the org.

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Agenda implementation

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use the NETWORKS to IMPLEMENT AGENDA

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Managerial Minds: How Managers Think!

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Use intuition to:
1. Sense a problem exist
2. Perform well-learned mental tasked quickly (ex : sizing up a written contract)
3. Synthesize isolated piece of info & data
4. Double-check more formal / mechanical analyses (do these projections look correct?)

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What is Good Intuition?

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problem identify & solving based of systematic & extensive education & experience, allow manager to locate problems within a network of previously acquired info

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What is International Managers?

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The appropriateness of various leadership styles, motivation technique, communication method, depends on where one is in the world

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Contemporary Management Concerns

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  1. Diversity (Local & Global)
  2. Employee Health and Wellbeing
  3. Talent Management & Employee Engagement
  4. Alternative work arrangements
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Workplace spirituality?

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provide employee w/ meaning, purpose, sense of community, connection to others

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Organizational Care

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values & principles centred on employee needs, best interest, contribution

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Positive Organizational Behaviour

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study & application of positively oriented human resource strength and psychological capacities that can be measured, developed, effectively managed for performance improvement in today’s workplace

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Psychological Capital

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individual positive psychological state of development thats characterized by self-efficacy, optimism, hope, resilience, thriving at work → these can be changed, modified, developed

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Talent Management

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attracting, retaining, deploying ppl w/ the required skills to meet business needs

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Employee Engagement

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employee’s vigour, dedication, absorption

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Alternative Work Arrangements

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ensure workers have equitable opportunities, fair living wage, not exposed to dangerous working condition, discrimination, job insecurity, etc

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Precarious Work

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work that’s risky, uncertain, unpredictable for workers → pay is low / unreliable, no benefits, hours are uncertain & inconsistent

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Corporate social responsibility

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org. social impact (they have to be socially responsible)

Internal –> Focused on the internal workforce

External –> Focused on community, environment, and consumer

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