Chapters 1 - 8 Flashcards
Depersonalization (230)
The treatment of people as objects
Derogation of target bias (240)
Individuals see those they wish to make (or have made) targets of aggressions as evil, immoral, or untrustworthy
Fight-or-flight response (221)
The biochemoical and bodily changes that represent a natural reaction to an environmental stressor
Hardiness (233)
Reduces the negative effects of a stressful event
Hardy personality (233)
The personality of a person with a cluster of characteristics that includes feeling a sense of commiment, responding to each difficulty as representing a challenge and an opportunity, and preceiving that one has control over one’s own life.
Harm model of aggression (244)
a continuum that ranges from harassment to aggression to rage to mayhem.
Hostile attribution bias (239)
the assumption that people tend to be motivated by the desire to harm others
Intimate partner violence (246)
refers to the rage committed by a spouse, ex-spouse, or current or former boyfriend/girlfriend
Job burnout (230)
refers to the adverse effects of working conditions under which strong stressors are perceived as unavoidable and relief from them is interpreted as unavailable.
Life stressors (227)
tensions, anxieties, and conflicts that stem from pressures and demands in people’s personal lives
Mobbing (242)
the ganging up by coworkers, subordinates, or superiors to force someone out of the workplace through rumpor, intimidation, humiliation, discrediting, and/or isolation
Post-traumatic stress disorder (229)
a psychological disorder brought on, for example, by horrible experiences in combat during wartime, acts of violence and terrorism, and the like.
Potency bias (239)
the assumption that interactions with others are contests to establish dominance versus submissiveness
Retribution bias (240)
individuals think that taking revenge (retribution) is more important that preserving relationships
Role ambiguity (224)
occurs when an employee is uncertain about assigned job duties and responsibilities.
Role conflict (224)
refers to differing expectations of or demands on a person at work that become excessive.
Role overload (223)
exists when the demands of the job exceed the capacity of the individual to meet all of the demands adequately.
Social discounting bias (240)
individuals believe that social customs reflect free will and the opportunity to satisfy their own needs
Stress (221)
the excitement, feeling of anxiety, and/or physical tension that occurs when the demands or stressors placed on an individual are thought to exceed the person’s ability to cope
Stress management (235)
refers to the actions and initiatives that reduce stress by helping the individual understand the stress response, recognize stressors, and use coping techniques to minimize the negative impacts of severe experienced stress
Type A personality (232)
refers to a person involved in a never-ending struggle to achieve more and more in less and less time.
Wellness program (238)
a health management initiative that incorporates the components of disease prevention, medical care, self-care, and health promotion
Type B personality (232)
refers to a person who tends to be easygoing and relaxed, patient, a good listener, and takes a long-range view of things.
Workplace aggression (239)
includes behaviors that are intended to have the effect of harming a person within or directly related to (e.g., customer, service representative, employee) the organization or the organization itself
Workplace bullying (240)
repeated and persistent negative actions directed toward one or more individuals that involve a power imbalance and create a hostile work environment
Workplace incivility (225)
refers to rudeness, lack of regard for one another, and the violation of workplace norms for mutual respect
Workplace violence (244)
is any act in which a person is abused, threatened, intimidated, or assaulted and that represents an explicit or implicit challenge to the person’s safety, wellbeing, or health at work.
Cafeteria-style benefit programs (209)
flexable benefit programs
Feedback (199)
provides information to the employee about how well he or she is doing
Flexible benefit programs (209)
allow employees to choose the benefits they want, rather than having management choose for them. Often called cafeteria-style benefit programs.
Goal clarity (195)
A goal must be clear and specific if it is to be useful in directing effort.
Goal commitment (197)
refers to an individual’s determination to reach a goal, regardless of whether the goal was set by that person or someone else
Goal difficulty (195)
a goal should be challenging by not impossible to achieve
Goal setting (192)
the process of specifying desired outcomes toward which individuals, teams, departments, and organizations will strive and is intended to increase organizational efficiency and effectiveness
Goals (192)
future outcomes (results) that individuals and groups desire and strive to achieve
Informal rewards (207)
rewards that result from interactions between people
Management by objectives (MBO) (195)
a management system that uses goal difficulty and goal clarity as its foundation for motivating employees
Profit-sharing programs (207)
provide employees with a portion of the company’s earnings
Skill-based pay programs (209)
based on the number and level of job-related skills that an employee has learned
Task complexity (199)
the cognitive process that is needed by a person to solve a task
Ability (159)
a person’s natural talent, as well as learned competencies, for performing goal-related tasks
Achievement motivation model (164)
states that individuals are motivated according to the strength of their desire either to perform in terms of a standard of excellence or to succeed in competitive situations
Affiliation needs (162)
the desire for friendship, love, and a feeling of belonging
Autonomy (171)
the extent to which the job provides empowerment and discretiion to an employee in scheduling tasks and in determining procedures to be used in carrying out those tasks
Contextual factors (173)
include cultural values, organizational policies, and administration, technical supervision, salary and benefit programs, interpersonal relations, travel requirements and work conditions (lighting, heat, safety, hazards, and the like).
Deficiency needs (163)
the three lowest categories of needs – physiological, security, and affiliation (social)
Equity model (180)
focuses on an individual’s feelings of how fairly she is treated in comparison with others
Esteem needs (162)
the desires for feelings of achievement, self-worth, and recognition or respect
Expectancy (176)
the belief that a particular level of effort will be followed by a particular level of performance
Expectancy model (175)
states that individuals are motivated to work when they believe that they can achieve things they want from their jobs
Extrinsic factors (169)
factors external to the job
First-level outcomes (176)
results of behaviors associated with doing the job itself, including level of performance, amount of absenteeism, and quality of work
Goal (160)
a specific result that an individual wants to achieve
Growth-need strength (173)
the extent to which an individual desires the opportunity for self-direction, learning, and personal accomplishment at work
Growth needs (163)
esteem and self-actualization needs
Hygiene factors (169)
include company policy and administration, technical supervision, salary, fringe benefits, working conditions, job security, and interpersonal relations
Inequity (181)
causes tension within and among individuals
Inputs (181)
represent what an individual contributes to an exchange
Instrumentality (176)
the relationship between first-level outcomes and second-level outcomes
Intrinsic factors (169)
directly related to the job and are largely internal to the individual
Job characteristics model (170)
involves increasing the amounts of skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback in a job
Job feedback (171)
the extent to which carrying out job-related tasks provides direct and clear information about the effectiveness of an employee’s performance
Motivating potential score (MPS) (171)
an overall measure of job enrichment
Motivation (158)
the forces acting on or within a person that cause the person to bahave in a specific, goal-directed manner
Motivator factors (169)
include the work itself, recognition, advancement, and responsibility
Motivator-hygiene model (169)
proposes that two sets of factors - motivators and hygienes - are the primary causes of job satisfaction and job dissatisfaction
Need for achievement (163)
behavior toward competition with a standard of excellence
Need for affiliation (164)
the desire to be liked and to stay on good terms with others
Need for power (163)
the desire to influence individuals and events
Needs (159)
deficienceies that a person experiences at a particular time
Needs hierarchy model (161)
individuals have a complex set of exceptionally strong needs, that can be arranged in a hierarchy
Organizational citizenship behavior (184)
exceeds formal job dutities and is often necessary for the organization’s survival, including its image and acceptance
Outcomes (181)
what an individual receives from an exchange
Physiological needs (162)
the desire for food, water, air, and shelter
Second-level outcomes (176)
the rewards (either positive or negative) that first-level outcomes are likely to produce
Security needs (162)
the desire for safety, stability, and the absence of pain, threat, or illness
Self-actualization needs (162)
individuals realizing their full potential and becoming all that they can become
Skill variety (171)
the extent to which a job requires a variety of employee competencies to carry out the work
Task identity (171)
the extent to which a job requires an employee to complete a whole and identifiable piece of work, that is, doing a task from beginning to end with a visible outcome
Task significance (171)
the extent to which an employee perceives the job as having a substantial impact on the lives of other individuals, whether those individuals are within or outside the organization
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) (165)
a test that uses unstructured pictures that may arouse many kinds of reactions ni the person being tested.
Valence (177)
is an individual’s preference for a particular second-level outcome
Vertical loading (173)
the delegation to employees of responsibilities and tasks that were formerly reserved for management or staff specialists
Anteccedent (135)
preceedes and is a stimulus to a bahavior (instructions, rules, goals, and advice from others that help individuals to know which behaviors are acceptable and which are not, and the consequences of such bahaviors)
Aversive events (135)
undesireable, or displeasing, to the employee
Classical conditioning (133)
the process by which individuals learn to link the information from a neutral stimulus to a stimulus that causes a response
Consequence (135)
the result of a behavior, which can be either positive or negative in terms of goal or task accomplishment
Contingency of reinforcement (135)
the relationship between a behavior and the preceeding and following environmental events that influence that behavior
Continuous reinforcement (145)
means that the behavior is reinforced each time it occurs and is the simplest schedule of reinforcement
Empowerment (151)
giving employees the authority, skills, and self-control to perform their tasks
Escape learning (140)
an unpleasant event that occurs until an employee performs a behavior or terminates it