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Safety and education programs effective when

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Practice, feedback, reinforcement

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Night shift work

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Increased error decreased output

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Rest breaks

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Ups morale and productivity
4th and 8th hr
Reduces fatigue boredom

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Flex time

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Mixed findings
No diff on productivity, satisfaction
Better morale, productivity
May decrease lateness, absence, turnover

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Compressed work week

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Positive, effects wear off after time
Increase satisfaction
Decrease turnover, anxiety

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Longer the work day or week

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Lower productivity even for motivated

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Music

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Better production for simple repetitive tasks

For demanding work, no difference

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Color

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Blues greens soothing
Yellow alert
Red excitement

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Noise

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Constant continuous easier to adapt
Intermittent is a problem
Perception of control important

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Illumination

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More light sources better, rather than one main overhead

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Temperature and humidity

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Increases in both lowers performance

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Groupthink

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Members seek concurrence, consensus, unanimity more than best alternative

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Response polarization

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More extreme in views

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Risky shift

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Riskier decisions made in groups

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Brainstorming

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Brainstorming alone better than in a group

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Heterogenous groups

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Better decisions than homogenous

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Ideal group size for decision making

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5-7

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Groups work best when

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Common goals more important to members than individual

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Disjunctive tasks

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One group member responsible for group outcome

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Conjunctive tasks

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Group accomplishment limited by one person, weakest link

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Additive tasks

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Group members various diversity positively impacts group as whole

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Social loafing aka ringelmann effect

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People don’t t work as hard in groups as alone

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Decentralized networks

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More satisfaction
Best for problem solving
Slower

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Greater the cohesiveness

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Greater the power to conform

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Stages of group development

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Forming
Storming - conflict
Norming
Performing
Adjourning
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Centralized networks

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Best for simple tasks, fast communication

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27
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What is key for successful organization culture

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High involvement high participation

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28
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Organizational development

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Systems approach

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29
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Quality control circles

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Level of production, improving finished product

Workers have higher responsibility
Participate in decisions
Lowers turnover
Increases production

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Quality of work life programs

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Greater effect on satisfaction than performance

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Participative organizational style assumptions

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participation in decisions
High involvement
People have valuable knowledge

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32
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Traditional organizational structure

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Top down bureaucracy

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33
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Project organizational structure

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Divided into production areas

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Team organizational structure

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Work teams report to upper level

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35
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Multidimensional organizational structure

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Involves multiple structures

36
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Job enlargement

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Less responsibility
Increasing more tasks
Satisfaction but less performance

37
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Job enrichment

Cue: r

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R = responsibility
Increases responsibilities

Better satisfaction and performance
Decrease turnover, absence

38
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Psychological approach

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Emphasizes satisfaction

Efficiency, effectiveness - more satisfaction

39
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Human factors approach

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Physical aspects

Machine interaction

40
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Absenteeism

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More in females
Less in small companies
Less in older workers

41
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More turnover rates

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Routine work

42
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Less turnover

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Tenure
Pay
Opportunity for promotion

43
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Job satisfaction and productivity

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Weak but positive correlation

44
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Pay and satisfaction

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Positive correlation

45
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Job satisfaction and turnover

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Moderate negative correlation

46
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Age and satisfaction

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Better as age increases

47
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Genetic factors and job satisfaction

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30-40%

48
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The reinforcement model

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Set of principles

Performance contingent awards are strongly correlated with performance and satisfaction

49
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Cognitive theories of motivation

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General expectancy theory
Adams equity
Locke’s goal setting

50
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Locke’s theory

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Goals 5 points:

Specific
Moderate to challenging difficulty
Receiving feedback 
Sense of self efficacy
Person must accept the goals
51
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Adams equity theory

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Social comparison

Performance based on what we view as fair

52
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General expectancy theory
Aka
Vrooms VIE theory

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Behaviour based on expectancy of rewards

Instrumentality - expecting reward
Valence - value of the reward to individual
Expectancy - expecting success on a task

53
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Theories of motivation

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Maslow
Herzberg
Alderfer

54
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Maslow

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5 needs
Low validity in workplace
Lowest to high:
Physiological
Safety
Belonging
Esteem
Self actualization
55
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herzberg

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What creates or avoids Dissatisfaction:

Lower level needs ( dissatisfied)

  • if not met, dissatisfaction results
  • meeting them may not produce satisfaction
  • pay, working condition, supervision

Higher level needs

  • if not met, dissatisfaction does not result
  • if met, can increase satisfaction, motivation
  • achievement, opportunity, responsibility
56
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Alderfer

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Existence,relatedness, growth

All needs influence at same time

Satisfying a need can make the need stronger!

57
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Principle of frustration- regression

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If frustrated, person moves to previous met need

58
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Administrative approach

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Herbert Simon
Satisficing style
Ambiguous , partial knowledge
First satisfying alternative chosen

59
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Rational economic model

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Careful analysis, picking best optimal option

60
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Types of power

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Reward
Coercive
Legitimate
Referent
Expert
61
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Referent power

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Liking the leader

62
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Most effective power

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Referent and expert

63
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Transformational leader

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Broadens and elevates goals of oeopke

64
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Transactional leader

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Cold, less invested in workers, more concerned with performance, production

65
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Situational contingency theories of leadership

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Fiedler 
Cognitive resource theory
Vroom and yettons normative model
Houses path goal theory 
Hersey and Blanchard situational leadership
66
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Fiedler

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High LPC is relationship
Low LPC is task

Low Lpc effective in highly favourable or unfavourable

High LPc effective in moderate favourable condition

67
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Cognitive resource theory

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Directive vs non directive based on cognitive resources of employees

68
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Vroom and Yetton normative model

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Allowing employees in on Decision making

69
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Houses path goal theory

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Leaders help reduce roadblocks and increase path to more incentives and rewards for each employee

70
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Hersey and Blanchard situational theory

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Readiness of employees
More ready less direction
Less ready more direction

71
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Theory x

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Assumes workers are lazy

72
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Theory y

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Believes people seek challenge, responsibility, are creative

Participative leadership

73
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Theory z

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Japanese

Loyalty, tenure with same company

74
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Hawthorne effect

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Observation influences behaviors

75
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Holland’s theory

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Personality types matches to work environments

2-3 letter codes from below options

Realistic- physical
Investigative - thinking
Artistic - ambiguous, unsystematic
Enterprising - power
Social
Conventional - orderly, rule based
76
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Holland

Congruence vs consistency

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Congruence - matches personality to work environment

Consistency - how related a persons letter codes are

77
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Holland

Differentiation

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Distinct profile - a dominant personality type

78
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Super theory

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Lifespan

Stages

Growth up to 13
Exploration
Establishment 25-45
Maintenance
Decline - 65+
79
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Krumboltz

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Modelling
Reinforcement
Social influence

80
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Tiedeman and ohara

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Differentiation
Integration
Self awareness

81
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Schein career anchor theory

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anchors tied to self concept

Autonomy, independence
Security, stability
Technical, functional competence
General managerial competence
Entrepreneurial creativity
Service, dedication to cause
Pure challenge
Life style
82
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Differential validity

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A test predicts better success in one group more than others

83
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Unfairness

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Minorities and non minorities score different on predictor tests, but same performance on the criterion

84
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Griggs vs duke power

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Unfair to use tests measuring broad abilities that produce difference in scores between minority and non minority groups

85
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Civil rights act 1964

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Can not discriminate

86
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Scientific management

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Views workers as machines

87
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Human relations approach

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Looks at and values people’s worth, contributions, seeks to encourage better work by understanding these

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