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Question 0

A high LPC leader is characterized by? Does best in what situations?

Answer 0

Describe least preferred coworker in positive terms and is person centered. Does best in moderately favorable situations

Question 1

What is ERG theory of motivation?

Answer 1

Involves three categories of needs: existence, relatedness, and growth. Needs are on a continuum and people can move back and forth on the continuum.
-Similar Maslow’s Need Hierarchy Theory

Question 2

A low LPC leader is characterized by? Does best in what situations?

Answer 2

Low LPC = task motivated leader and describes least preferred worker in negative terms and are most effective in very favorable (high control) or very unfavorable situations (low control).

Question 3

What is expectancy theory?

Answer 3

States work motivation is related to three phenomena: beliefs about effort and performance, performance and outcome and desirability of outcomes (valence)

Question 4

Forced distribution

Answer 4

System of personnel evaluation where employees are ranked against each other and to distribute rating in a specified way - 1 out of 100 or top 10%

Question 5

Forced choice

Answer 5

Uses multiple choice scale to evaluate employees on a variety of dimensions. The tater must select one statement from a set of two or more that eat describes the employee

Question 6

BARS

Answer 6

Behaviorally anchored Rating Scale: doing a job analysis to identify vertical incidents or specific behaviors that are associated with good or poor performance. Using this scale, a tater would choose the behavior that most characteristic of the employee being evaluated

Question 7

Criterion contamination has what effect…

Answer 7

Increases the validity coefficient of a job selection test…makes a predictor seem more valid that it actually is…

Question 8

What is Herzberg’s Two-factor theory?

Answer 8

Divides job elements into two types: hygiene factors (extrinsic to work itself) and motivators (intrinsic to work). Hygiene factors result in job dissatisfaction when absent but not job satisfaction when present. Motivators result in job satisfaction when present.

Question 9

What are the big five personality traits?

Answer 9

OCEAN
Openness 
Conscientiousness
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism

Question 10

What may result in a job performance measure with low validity with good reliability?

Answer 10

Criterion deficiency

Question 11

What is centralized and decentralized communication networks? What type if tasks are each most effective with?

Answer 11

Centralized communication - passes through one person on a chain of command. Best for simple tasks.
Decentralized communication - information moves between many people. Best for complex tasks.

Question 12

The concept of career anchor refers to:

Answer 12

His or her self-concept consisting of self-perceived talents and abilities, basic values, motives, and needs as they pertain to the career. There are eight anchors-priorities, technical competence, general managerial competence, autonomy, entrepreneurial creativity, service/dedication, pure challenge, lifestyle

Question 13

What are Holland’s six personality types?

Answer 13

RIASEC
Realistic
Investigative
Artistic
Social
Enterprising
Conventional

Question 14

Item characteristic curve

Answer 14

Graphs that depict individual test items in terms of the percentage of individuals in different ability groups who answered the item correctly

Question 15

Theory Z

Answer 15

Examines how workers contribute and proposes that workers naturally wish to cooperate and are loyal to the organization

Question 16

Three-needs theory

Answer 16

McClelland
People learn needs from culture and when one need is strong it has the potential to motivate behavior that leads to satisfaction
1. Need do affiliation
2. Need for power
3. Need for achievement

Question 17

Trainability test

Answer 17

Determine potential employees suitability for training. How well employee does on a job sample not to directly predict how well he person will do the job itself

Question 18

What theory of leadership uses a decision tree

Answer 18

Vroom an Yetton’s normative model

Question 19

Paired comparison is used to

Answer 19

Appraise performance

Question 20

Delegating leadership style

Answer 20

Low task and low relationship

Question 21

Participating leadership style

Answer 21

Low task and high relationship

Question 22

Selling leadership style

Answer 22

High task and high relationship

Question 23

Telling leadership style

Answer 23

High task and low relationship

Question 24

Paired comparisons vs merit comparisons

Answer 24

A rater compares each person with every other person. Specific but time consuming. Precise but difficult.

Merit comparisons has the rater rank order people in terms of some criterion , such as overall job performance. Less precise and less time.

Question 25

Of the Big Five personality traits which in is the most stable and the least table over time?

Answer 25

Most stable - extraversion

Least stable - neuroticism

Question 26

What is the purpose if a utility analysis?

Answer 26

Summarize and identify key variables that describe the consequences of HR programs to improve decision making

Question 27

Research on the effects of gender on leadership found

Answer 27

Females and makes are equally effective overall however males were more effective at first level management an females were more effective at middle level management.

Question 28

Opponent process theory states

Answer 28

Job attitudes emanate from a person’s physiological state. When a person experiences an extreme emotional state, his or her central nervous system mechanisms attempt to bring him back to a state of equilibrium and progress to the opposite emotional state. Opposite emotions!!

Question 29

Job dissatisfaction theory

Answer 29

2 separate groups of factors influencing job satisfaction and dissatisfaction. One group is called motivators and lead to satisfaction. The second group called hygiene (extrinsic) lead to dissatisfaction.

Question 30

Vitamin model

Answer 30

Certain features in the workplace act similarly to vitamins. The level and combination if stressors have an effect in well being and some features start to have a negative effect if try increase beyond recommended daily dose

Question 31

Model of facet satisfaction

Answer 31

Posits that job satisfaction is conceived in terms if different facets of the job - a compilation of feelings of satisfaction on an array of situational, biological, social and environmental factors. People compare what job should provide with what facets it currently provides.

Question 32

What are the major findings from Lewin’s study on leadership styles?

Answer 32

3 leadership styles - authoritarian, democratic, laissez-faire

Laissez-faire was the least successful in terms of quantity and quality of work output despite personality type

Authoritarian les to highest quantity of work and democratic the highest quality and most satisfaction.

Some children preferred one style over the other

Question 33

Work samples are an effective selection technique because

Answer 33

Less likely to discriminate against members of minority groups
Good predictors of performance
However work samples of motor skills have more validity than work samples of verbal skills