Lecture 1 Flashcards
What is the role of a manager?
1 point
Get things done through other people
What are people skills?
3 points
Ability to, individually & in groups:
- work with
- understand
- motivate other people
Better human / interpersonal skills result in?
1 point
Lower turnover of quality employees
What are personality aspects of strong leaders?
3:3 points
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
What do strong leaders exchange with their followers?
1 point
Value in strong partnership with followers (The partnership needs to develop)
Explain the principle of “Influence through identification”
2 points
- People = perceives as belonging to group — IN-GROUP
- Leaders embody ideals of group - they have INFLUENCE
Effective VS Successful managers
2:3 points
Successful
- Lots networking
- Good communication
- About equal traditional management & human resource management
Effective
- Lots of communication
- Good networking and traditional management
- Traditional management
What is OB?
2 points
OB = Organizational Behaviour
- Field of study about how to:
- Understand + explain + predict
- improve human behaviour in organizational context
What other fields are related to OB?
4 points
- Psychology
- Social psychology
- Sociology
- Anthropology
What does OB aim to explain?
Input - Processes - Outcomes
- Dependent (Y)
- Independent (X)
- Mediator (M)
- Moderator/Contingency variable (W)
What are the OB factors?
- Individual factors
- Group factors
- Structure factors
- Management factors
What are the different levels/contexts of OB?
From smallest to largest:
- Individual
- Group
- Organizational
- National
- Global
What is Micro OB?
Behaviours of individuals
What is meso OB?
Behaviours of people working in teams or groups
What is Macro OB?
Behaviours of entire organizations + the impact on lower levels of analysis.