Lecture 1 Flashcards

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1
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What is the role of a manager?

1 point

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Get things done through other people

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What are people skills?

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Ability to, individually & in groups:

  • work with
  • understand
  • motivate other people
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3
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Better human / interpersonal skills result in?

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Lower turnover of quality employees

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4
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What are personality aspects of strong leaders?

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1) They seek status : Dominance, capacity for status, self acceptance
2) Focussed on others : sociability, social presence, empathy
3) Typical big five : extraverted, emotionally stable, agreeable, conscientious, open to new experience

  • Prototypical
  • Socially attractive
  • In-group members
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5
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What do strong leaders exchange with their followers?

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Value in strong partnership with followers (The partnership needs to develop)

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Explain the principle of “Influence through identification”

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  • People = perceives as belonging to group — IN-GROUP

- Leaders embody ideals of group - they have INFLUENCE

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Effective VS Successful managers

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Successful

  • Lots networking
  • Good communication
  • About equal traditional management & human resource management

Effective

  • Lots of communication
  • Good networking and traditional management
  • Traditional management
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What is OB?

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OB = Organizational Behaviour

  • Field of study about how to:
    - Understand + explain + predict
    - improve human behaviour in organizational context
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What other fields are related to OB?

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  • Psychology
  • Social psychology
  • Sociology
  • Anthropology
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What does OB aim to explain?

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Input - Processes - Outcomes

  • Dependent (Y)
  • Independent (X)
  • Mediator (M)
  • Moderator/Contingency variable (W)
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What are the OB factors?

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  • Individual factors
  • Group factors
  • Structure factors
  • Management factors
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What are the different levels/contexts of OB?

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From smallest to largest:

  1. Individual
  2. Group
  3. Organizational
  4. National
  5. Global
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What is Micro OB?

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Behaviours of individuals

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What is meso OB?

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Behaviours of people working in teams or groups

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What is Macro OB?

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Behaviours of entire organizations + the impact on lower levels of analysis.

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16
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What is HRM?

A

Human Resource Management

17
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What is OT?

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Organizational Theory

18
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What is OD?

A

Organizational development

19
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How would you classify the following concepts? OT, OB, OD, HRM

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OT: Theoretical and Macro
OD: Applied and Macro
HRM: Applied and Micro
OB: Theoretical and Micro

20
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What are 7 HR functions?

A
  • Benefit program
  • Pay
  • Managing turnover
  • Job design
  • Managing work-life conflicts
  • Diversity management
  • Talent management
21
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What is the HPWS?

A

High-Performance Work Systems

22
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Explain how the HPWS works.

A
  • Group of separate BUT interconnected HR practices designed to enhance employee effectiveness
23
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What is the most traditional selection method?

A

Job interviews, but they are less objective.

24
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What is IM?

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Impression management.
- Related to interview’s ratings of interview performance

2 types:

  • Honest IM
  • Deceptive IM
25
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Give 6 types of training for ongoing learning.

A
  • Basic skills
  • Technical skills
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Civility training
  • Ethics training
26
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Give 2 methods of training for ongoing learning.

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  • Formal VS informal

- On VS off the job

27
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What is performance?

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  • Task performance
  • OCB (Citizenship behaviours)
  • Counter productivity
28
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What do performance evaluation help with?

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  • Make human resource decisions
  • Identify training & dvlpt needs
  • provide feedback