Management 363 Exam 1 - FLASHCARDS - Exam 1 review
What is organizational behavior?
Field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations.
What is human resource management?
Field of study that focuses on the applications of organizational behavior theories and principles in organizations.
How are organizational behavior and human resource management different?
For example, an organizational behavior study might explore the relationship between learning and job performance, while human resource management might look at the best ways to structure training programs to promote employee learning
- What are the two primary individual outcomes with which OB is concerned?
Job performance and organizational commitment
What are employee behaviors that have some expected value to organizations (positive or negative)?
Job performance
Organizational behavior seeks to understand, explain, and improve employees’ attitudes and _____
Behaviors
An employee’s desire to remain a member of an organization that she or he respects is referred to as his or her
Organizational commitment
What are the five individual mechanisms that influence job performance and organizational commitment?
Job Satisfaction
Stress
Motivation
Trust, Justice, & Ethics
Learning & Decision Making
What are the two individual characteristics that improve the five individual mechanisms?
Ability
Personality & Cultural Values
What are the four group mechanisms that have an impact on job performance and organizational commitment?
Leadership styles & behaviors
Leadership power & negotiation
Team processes & communication
Teams characteristics & diversity
What are the two organizational mechanisms that have an impact on job performance and organizational commitment?
Organizational culture and organizational structure
The energetic forces that drive employees’ work effort is best described as
Motivation
The group mechanism that details how individuals gain power over others within the organization is referred to as
Leadership power and negotiations
According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, what would be categorized as organizational mechanisms that contribute to individual mechanisms?
Organizational structure and organizational culture
The organizational mechanism that captures the shared knowledge about the values and beliefs of the organization is called
Organizational culture
What organizational mechanism is a system that outlines how certain activities are directed in order to achieve the goals of an organization?
Organizational structure
The individual mechanism that deals with workers’ psychological reactions to overtaxing job demands is referred to as
Stress
What is the belief that at best one-eighth, or 12 percent, of organizations will actually do what is required to build profits by putting people first?
The rule of one eigth
What are the four methods of knowing?
Method of experience, method of intuition, method of authority, and method of science
What method is it when people accept some belief because scientific studies have tended to replicate that result using a series of samples, settings, and methods?
Scientific method
What method is it when people hold firmly to some belief because it is consistent with their own experience and observations?
Method of experience
What method is it when people hold firmly to some belief because it “just stands to reason”—it seems obvious or self-evident?
Method of intuition
What method is it when people hold firmly to some belief because some respected official, agency, or source has said it is so?
Method of authority
In order to test market acceptance of the company’s new product, Marketing Manager Francesca has conducted a number of focus group interviews and has also had an independent firm conduct several market surveys. Which basis for knowledge is Francesca relying upon?
Scientific method
Which of the following is required in order to establish a causal inference between two variables?
That the variables be correlated
According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, ______ would include such elements as motivation, stress, and job satisfaction.
Individual mechanisms
A correlation of -1 between two variables suggests what?
Perfect negative relationship
A correlation of 1 between two variables suggests what?
Perfect positive relationship
A correlation of 0 between two variables suggests what?
No correlation
The statement, “A change in X produces a change in Y” is an example of
Casual inference
According to the integrative model of organizational behavior, ______ would include such elements as motivation, stress, and job satisfaction.
Individual mechanisms
How to we measure relationships between variables?
correlation
*more compact = strong (.50)
*less compact = weak (.10)
How can we prove causality?
Make sure the variables are correlated, that the cause precedes the effect in time, and that no alternative explanation exists for the correlation
What is meta-analysis?
A method that combines the results of multiple scientific studies by essentially calculating a weighted average correlation across studies (with larger studies receiving more weight).
How do meta-analyses reinforce what we know about correlation?
It can form the foundation for evidence-based management, which is a perspective that argues that scientific findings should form the foundation for management education.
Which is more important regarding performance? Behaviors or outcomes?
Behaviors
What are the three types of job performance?
Task performance, citizenship behavior, and counterproductive behavior
What is job performance?
the value of the set of employee behaviors that contribute, either positively or negetively, to organizational goal accomplishment. Not the consequences or results of behavior, the behavior itself
What is task performance?
the behaviors directly involved in transforming organizational resources into the goods or services an organization produces (that is, the behaviors included in one’s job description). Typically a mix of routine task performance, adaptive task performance, and creative task performance
What is routine task performance?
Well-known or habitual responses by employees to predictable task demands.
What is adaptive task performance?
Employee responses to unusual or unplanned task demands. Don’t happen all the time, not planned. For example fires, school shootings
What is creative task performance?
Figuring out more efficient ways to do your job. For example, going to zoom during covid
What are citizenship behaviors?
Voluntary activities that may or may not be rewarded but that contribute to the organization by improving the quality of the setting where work is done
What are the two types of citizenship behaviors?
Organizational and interpersonal
What are organizational citizenship behaviors?
Voice, civic virtue, boosterism,
What are interpersonal citizenship behaviors?
Helping, courtesy, sportsmanship
What is civic virtue?
doing things that you are not required to do
What is boosterism?
activity that takes place outside of the organization. For example, volunteering while wearing organization’s logo
You can also help your coworkers with work they have to do, being curteous and making sure that coworkers know what they need to to do their job, and maintaining a positive attitude through sportsmanship. What are these?
Interpersonal citizenship behaviors
What are employee behaviors relevant to job performance?
Task performance, citizenship behavior, and counterproductive behavior
What refers to the set of explicit obligations that an employee has for fulfilling a job?
Task performance
What are employee behaviors that are directly involved in the transformation of organizational resources into the goods and services that the organization produces?
Task performance
Horatio works as a parking attendant at a municipal parking lot. He monitors the parking lot to prevent vandalism and theft, collects fees from motorists, and makes periodic rounds to check for expired permits. These duties would be considered as
Routine task performance
What is a job analysis?
A process by which an organization determines requirements of specific jobs.
What are steps of a job analysis?
- Generate a list of activities involved in a job. 2. Have a subject matter expert list each activity by importance or frequency. 3. Define task performance based on the activities that are important or frequently performed
True or false: Counterproductive behavior encompasses employee behaviors that intentionally or unintentionally hinder organizational goal accomplishment?
False. Counterproductive behaviors are intentional
Job performance that consists of voluntary employee activities that help a company by improving the overall quality of the setting or context in which work takes place is called _____ behavior.
Citizenship
Citizenship behaviors, such as supporting and defending the company, working to improve its operations, and being especially loyal to the company, are known as
______ citizenship behaviors?
Organizational
What is a performance evaluation system that uses ratings provided by supervisors, coworkers, subordinates, customers, and the employees themselves? We get evaluated based on what we are supposed to be doing and how well we have done those things. Goal is to get a better picture of the person’s performance
360 degree feedback
What is Management by Objectives (MBO)?
A management philosophy that bases employee evaluations on whether specific performance goals have been met. If we meet our objectives, we will have good performance evaluation
The performance management practice that measures performance by directly assessing job performance behaviors is referred to as
A behavioral anchored rating scale (BARS)
True or false: Employees with high levels of task performance seldom have counterproductive behaviors.
FALSE
Students in Professor Alsever’s class make a final project presentation before their classmates, and other department professors are invited to attend. The grade on the final project is based on weighted feedback from Professor Alsever, classmates, and the other professors in attendance. What type of performance management system is Professor Alsever using for evaluating the final project?
360 degree feedback
What are the four types of counterproductive behaviors?
Production deviance, political deviance, property deviance, and personal aggression
What refers to behaviors that harm the organization’s assets and possessions?
Property deviance
What refers to behaviors that intentionally reduce organizational efficiency of work output?
Production deviance
What refers to behaviors that intentionally disadvantage other individuals?
Political deviance
Which counterproductive behaviors are types of political deviance?
Gossiping and incivilty