I/O Flashcards

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Adam’s Equity Theory

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compares ratio of input/output outcomes with others

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Additive tasks

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individual performances are added to a combined effect

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3
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Adverse impact

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% of minorities selected >= 80% of non-minorities selected

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4
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Alderger’s ERG Theory

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3 needs: existence, relatedness, growth

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5
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Arbitration

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third party acts as judge

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6
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BARS

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Beh Anchored Rating Scales, based on critical incidents

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7
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base rate

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rate of successful hiring without a given selection procedure

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Biographical Inventory (BIB)

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applicants life in detail and corr with (un)desirable work beh

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BOS

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Beh Observation Scale, extent engages in every beh

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10
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Cognitive Resource Theory

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Compares directive vs non-directive leadership on various factors

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11
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common reality

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what the individual is told to do

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12
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Conjunctive tasks

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outcome limited by least effective member

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13
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Contrast effect

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ratings of candidates affected by previous candidate

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14
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Critical incident technique

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ascertaining the actions for success and failure

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15
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Differential validity

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test more valid in predicting for one group than the other

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16
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Disjunctive tasks

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outcome affected by most effective member

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17
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Distributive negotiation

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parties claiming part of the pie

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18
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Fiedler’s Contingency (LPC) Theory

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High LPC (relationship) - effective in moderate, Low LPC (task) - effective in extreme

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19
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Forced Choice

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choose between two equally pos or neg choices

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20
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forced distribution

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distribute employees into perdetermined categories

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21
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Griggs vs. Duke Power Company

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biases in testing in industry

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22
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Groupthink

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group members think alike and lose critical eval capacities due to pressure to conform

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23
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Hawthorne effect

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a change in behavior that results from being observed, focused on psychologial factors

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24
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Hersey & Blanchard’s Situational Leadership

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looks at employees’ readiness to perform (telling, selling, participating, delegating)

25
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Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory

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Motivator-Hygiene Theory, lower vs higher level needs, job enrichment vs enlargement

26
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Holland’s Typology

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Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional

27
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House’s Path-Goal Theory

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increase personal payoffs and smoothens the paths to the payoffs

28
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In-basket technique

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promotion assessment, after vacation problems

29
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Integrative/principled negotiation

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attempting to enlarge the pie

30
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Job analysis

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description (tasks) + specification (requirements) + evaluation; determine salary

31
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Job evaluation

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process to determine the financial worth of a specific job to an organization

32
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Krumboltz’s Social Learning Theory

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Career choices are made through modeling and reinforcement

33
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Locke’s Goal Setting Approach

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specific, intermediate, feedback, self-efficacy, accept goals

34
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Lower level needs

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hygiene factors, not met-dissatisfaction

35
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MBO (Management by Objectives)

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goal setting and performance review

36
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McClelland’s Acquired Needs Theory

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nAch, nAff, nPower

37
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organizational justice

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distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice

38
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personal athoritiative reality

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what feels right to do

39
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QCC (Quality Control Circle)

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improving quantity and quality of production

40
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QWL (Quality-of-work-life)

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improving extrinsic and intrinsic factors related to satisfaction

41
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rational-economic model (classical decision)

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examines all possible solutions before choosing one

42
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relative methods

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comparing employees with one another

43
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Response polarization

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people in groups become more extreme in their views

44
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Ringelmann effect (social loafing)

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work less hard in group settings as compared to individual settings

45
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Risky shift

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people make riskier decisions in group settings

46
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Schein’s Career Anchor Theory

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autonomy, security, technical, managerial, entrepreneurial, service, challenge, life style

47
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Super’s Career Rainbow

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Growth-> Exploratory-> Establishment-> Maintenance-> Decline

48
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Theory X

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scientific management approach, workers are lazy

49
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Theory Y

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human relations approach, workers are industirous and find satisfaction with their work

50
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Theory Z

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Japanese management strategies: loyalty, non-specialized career path, group decision

51
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Tiedeman & O’hara’s Theory

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Career development focuses on differentiation and integration

52
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Transactional leaders

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more traditional, influences through emotionless exchanges

53
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Transformational leaders

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broaden and elevate goals or subordinates, utilize charisma

54
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Unfairness

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minorities and non-minorities score diff but perform similarly

55
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Upper level needs

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motivators/satisfiers, met-satisfaction

56
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utility analysis

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benefits generated from an intervention

57
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vestibule training

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simulation of work conditions

58
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Vroom & Yetton’s Normative Model

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extent to which the leaders allow subordinates to participate in decision making

59
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Vroom’s General Expectancy Theory (VIE)

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behave in how they expect rewards to follow - expectancy, instrumentality, valence