I/O Psychology Flashcards
Super believed that employees should choose a job that matched with their…
self concept (abilities, interests, values, and personality)
job analysis
identifies the characteristics and requirements of the job
job evaluation
determines the worth of a job and someone’s wage
Assessment Centers were designed for…
selection, promotion, and training of managerial-level staff
Super’s theory involves
lifespan developmental stages
Hollands theory involves
personality and environment match (RIASEC)
Driver, Bosseau, and Hunsaker are known for creating
5 Decision-Making Styles
decisive, flexible, integrative, systemic, and hiearchic
Decision making model proposed by Simon…
rational-economic vs. *administrative
Lewin, Lepitt and White created
Three styles of leadership
laissez faire, autocratic, democratic
Transactional type leaders
focus on rules and maintain the status quo
Transformational leaders…
raise the consciousness of their employees
Hershey and Blanchard leadership requires a leader to respond to work situations with the appropiate
task and relationship orientation
(i.e., for low maturity workers, leader should adopt a “telling style”— high task, low relationship)
Five types of group tasks
additive
complementary
conjuctive
disjunctive
compensatory
Additive group task
members work on a goal individually and sum of their efforts is graded
complementary task
members contribute different abilities or knowledge and final product is more than what one member can produce alone
(orchestra)
