Intro to OB

Question 1

Organizational behavior

Answer 1

A social science dedicated to understanding
how people think, feel, and act in organizations

Question 2

Fundamental questions in OB

Answer 2

What makes people effective at their jobs? (Job Performance)
What makes them want to stay with their employers? (Organizational Commitment)

Question 3

Evidence-based management

Answer 3

A perspective that argues that
managers should use research evidence to inform their work

Question 4

Statistical concepts of OB

Answer 4

correlation, models/diagrams, meta analysis

Question 5

Contingency

Answer 5

not everything has an easy answer ‘well… it depends’

Question 6

Meta Analysis

Answer 6

• A statistical summary of the relationship between two variables across many
  different studies.
• A way of combining all the evidence, since individual studies don’t always
  agree with each other.

Question 7

1/8 Rule

Answer 7

1/8 of companies succeed in using OB practices
(1/2 of companies believe in a connection between OB practices and profit, 1/2 of those implement a comprehensive approaches, 1/2 of those companies persist long enough to see profit)

Question 8

Correlation
(What does a positive, negative, and no correlation mean? What is a small, medium, and large correlation in OB?)

Answer 8

Positive: as one variable increases, the other increases
Negative: as one variable increases, the other decreases
No Correlation: There is little visible pattern between variables
Small: <0.10 or -0.10
Medium: 0.10 - 0.50 or -0.50 - -0.10
Large: >0.50 or -0.50