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Motivation

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The psychological processes that arouse and direct goal-oriented behavior

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Intrinsic Rewards

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The natural rewards and satisfaction that comes from performing a task itself

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Maslow’s 5 levels of need

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  1. ) Physiological
  2. ) Safety
  3. ) Love
  4. ) Esteem
  5. ) Self-Actualization
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Alderfer’s 3 basic needs that influence bahavior

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ERG

  1. ) Existence
  2. ) Readiness
  3. ) Growth
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Positive Reinforcement

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The use of positive consequences to strengthen a particular behavior

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Negative Reinforcement

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The process of strengthening a behavior by withdrawing something negative

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Extinction

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The method to weaken a behavior by ignoring it or making sure it is not reinforced

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Punishment

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The process of weakening a behavior by presenting something negative or withdrawing something positive

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Expectancy Theory

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The theory that suggests that people are motivated by

  1. ) How much they want something
  2. ) How likely they think they are to get it
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Instrumentality

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According to Expectancy Theory, this is the outcome I think I will receive if I perform at this level

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Valence

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According to Expectancy Theory, This is how much I want the outcome

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Equity Theory

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The motivational theory that asks how fairly do I think I am being treated in relation to others

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What is goal-setting Theory?

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The motivation theory that suggests that people can be motivated by objectives that are specific and challenging but achievable

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Theory X

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Basically negative and assumes that employees inherently dislike work and, whenever possible, will attempt to avoid it

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Theory Y

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Basically positive and assumes that employees can view work as being as natural as rest or play

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McClelland’s 3 Needs

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  1. ) Achievement
  2. ) Affiliation
  3. ) Power
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What do the 3 Needs do, according to McClelland?

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They determine people’s behavior in the workplace

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Herzberg

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Proposed that work satisfaction arises from motivating factors and work dissatisfaction arises from hygeine factors

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Job Characteristics Model characteristics

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  1. ) Skill Variety
  2. ) Task Identity
  3. ) Task Significance
  4. ) Autonomy
  5. ) Feedback
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What seemingly outrageous benefit are companies like Virgin and Netflix offering employees?

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Seemingly Unlimited Vacation Time

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What company could have created the personal computer but instead gave their idea to Steve Jobs?

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Xerox

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3 Stages of Lewin’s Change Model

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  1. ) Unfreezing
  2. ) Changing
  3. ) Refreezing
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What happens in the Unfreezing stage of Lewin’s Change Model?

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Creating motivation for change

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What happens in the Changing stage of Lewin’s Change Model?

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Learning new ways of doing things

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What happens in the Refreezing stage of Lewin’s Change Model?

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Making new ways normal

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What are Kotter’s 8 steps to Leading Organizational Change?

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  1. ) sense of urgency
  2. ) guiding coalition
  3. ) vision and strategy
  4. ) Communicate the vision
  5. ) broad-based action
  6. ) short-term wins
  7. ) Consolidate gains
  8. ) Anchor new approaches
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What are 4 of the many reasons for resisting change?

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  1. ) Fear of the unknown
  2. ) Personality - Predisposition to change
  3. ) Fear of Failure
  4. ) WIIFM (Whats in it for me)
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One of the best ways organizations can innovate

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Embrace failure. Experiment. Learn. Repeat.

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What is the purpose of the Strategic Human Resource Process?

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To get optimal work performance to help realize the company’s mission and vision

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Job Description

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Summarizes what the holder of the job does and how and why he or she does it

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What legislation first established the US Federal minimum wage?

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Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

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What legislation established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?

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The Civil Rights Act

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What act prohibits the discrimination against essentially equally qualified employees with physical or mental disabilities or chronic illness and requires reasonable accommodation be provided so they can perform duties?

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Americans with Disabilities Act

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Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment

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When employment outcomes, such as hiring, promotion, or simply keeping one’s job, depend on whether an individual submits to sexual advances

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Hostile work environment (in terms of sexual harassment)

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What results when unwelcome and demeaning sexually-related behavior creates an intimidating or offensive workplace

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Unstructured Interview

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The type of interview when the hiring manager asks probing questions in a conversational way to find out what the candidate is like. No fixed set of questions

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Behavioral Description Interview

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Structured Interview. The interviewer asks questions exploring what the candidate has actually done in the past

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Reliability

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The degree to which a test measures the same thing consistently

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Forced Ranking

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All employees within a business are ranked against one another and grades are distributed along some sort of bell curve

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What was Barcelona Restaurant Group’s 3-step hiring process?

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  1. ) The interview
  2. ) The Spend
  3. ) The Trial
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Selection Test Examples:

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in-basket exercise, assessment center, leaderless group discussion, and a cognitive ability test

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Whistle Blowers

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Employees who raise ethical concerns or issues in an organization

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What are the 4 Levels of Carroll’s Global Corporate Social Responsibility Pyramid?

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  1. ) (BOTTOM) Economic Responsibility
  2. ) Legal Responsibility
  3. ) Ethical Responsibility
  4. ) (TOP) Philanthropic Responsibility
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What does Economic Responsibility mean in Carroll’s Pyramid?

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  1. ) Do what is required by global capitalism

2. ) Be Profitable

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What does Legal Responsibility mean in Carroll’s Pyramid?

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  1. ) Do what is required by global stakeholders

2. ) Obey the law

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What does Ethical Responsibility mean in Carroll’s Pyramid?

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  1. ) Do what is expected by global stakeholders

2. ) Be ethical

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What does Philanthropic Responsibility mean in Carroll’s pyramid?

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  1. ) Do what is desired by global stakeholders

2. ) Be a good global corporate citizen

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Who proposed 3 levels of moral development?

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Laurence Kohlberg

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What are the 3 levels of moral development according to Kohlberg?

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  1. ) Preconventional
  2. ) Conventional
  3. ) Postconventional
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Preconventional level of moral development

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People tend to follow rules and obey authority to avoid unpleasant consequences

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Conventional level of moral development

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People are conformist, but not slavish, generally adhering to the expectations of others in their lives

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Postconventional Level of Moral Development

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Managers are independent souls who follow their own values and standards, focusing on the needs of their employees and trying to lead by empowering these working for them

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What is Milton Friedman’s famous quote?

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A company will become distracted from its task to maximize profits when it practices social responsibility

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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The notion that companies are expected to go above and beyond following the law and making a profit

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What does the ethical intensity model do?

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Evaluates the impact of a decision based on the intensity of the issue

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Motivation

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The psychological processes that arouse and direct goal-directed behavior

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Extrinsic Reward

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The payoff, such as money, that a person receives from others for performing a particular task

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Intrinsic Rewards

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The satisfaction, such as a feeling of accomplishment, that a person receives from performing the particular task itself

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Content Perspectives

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Need Based Perspectives

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Need Based Perspectives

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Theories that emphasize the needs that motivate people

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Needs

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Physiological or psychological deficiencies that arouse behavior

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4 Content Perspective Theories

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  1. ) Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
  2. ) Alderfer’s ERG Theory
  3. ) McClelland’s Acquired Needs Theory
  4. ) Herzberg’s 2-Factor Theory
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What does Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need do?

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Proposes that people are motivated by 5 levels of need

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What are Maslow’s 5 levels of need? (Bottom to Top)

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  1. ) Physiological
  2. ) Safety
  3. ) Love
  4. ) Esteem
  5. ) Self-Actualization
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What does Alderfer’s ERG Theory do?

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Assumes that 3 basic needs influence behavior

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What does ERG stand for? (What are Alderfer’s 3 basic needs?)

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  1. ) Existence
  2. ) Relatedness
  3. ) Growth
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What does McClelland’s Acquired Needs Theory do?

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States that 3 needs are major motives for determining people’s behavior in the workplace

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What are the 3 needs in McClelland’s Theory?

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  1. ) Achievement
  2. ) Affiliation
  3. ) Power
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What does Herzberg’s 2-Factor Theory do?

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States that work satisfaction and dissatisfaction arise from two different factors.

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What are Herzberg’s 2 Factors?

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  1. ) Work Satisfaction arises from motivating factors

2. ) Work Dissatisfaction arises from hygiene factors

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What are motivating factors according to Herzberg?

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Factors associated with job satisfaction that affect the job content or the rewards of work performance.
Ex: Achievement, Recognition, and Advancement

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What are hygiene factors, according to Herzberg?

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Factors associated with job dissatisfaction that affect the job context in which people work.
Ex: Salary, Working Conditions, Interpersonal Relationships, Company Policy

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Process

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Concerned with the thought processes by which people decide how to act

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What are the 3 Process Perspectives?

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  1. ) Equity Theory
  2. ) Expectancy Theory
  3. ) Goal-Setting Theory
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Equity Theory

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Focuses on employee perceptions as to how fairly they think they are being treated compared to others

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Elements of Equity Theory

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  1. ) Inputs
  2. ) Outputs or Rewards
  3. ) Comparison
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Inputs of Equity Theory

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What do you think you’re putting into the job

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Outputs or Rewards of Equity Theory

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What do you think you’re getting out of the job?

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Comparison of Equity Theory

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How do you think your ratio of inputs and rewards compares with those of others?

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What are the 3 ways to use Equity Theory to Motivate Employees

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  1. ) Employee Perceptions
  2. ) Employee Participation
  3. ) Having an Appeal Process
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Expectancy Theory

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Suggests that people are motivated by 2 Things: How much they want something, and how likely they think they are to get it

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What are the 3 Elements of the Expectancy Theory?

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  1. ) Expectancy
  2. ) Instrumentality
  3. ) Valence
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Expectancy

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The belief that a particular Level of effort will lead to a particular level of performance

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Instrumentality

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The expectation that successful performance of the task will lead to the outcome desired

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Valence

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The importance a worker assigns to the possible outcome or reward

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How to Use Expectancy Theory to Motivate Employees

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  1. ) Make sure they value the rewards
  2. ) Make sure they know what objectives and performance levels you desire
  3. ) Make sure rewards are linked to performance
  4. ) Make sure employees believe you will deliver the right rewards for the right performance
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Goal-Setting Theory

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Suggests that employees can be motivated by goals that are specific and challenging but achievable

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How to achieve goals in goal setting theory

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  1. ) Set specific goals
  2. ) Make goals challenging but achievable
  3. ) Link goals to action plans
  4. ) Goals don’t have to be set jointly to be effective
  5. ) Give feedback
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Job Design

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The division of an organization’s work among its employees and the application of motivational theories to jobs to increase satisfaction and performance

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Job Simplication

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The process of reducing the number of tasks a worker performs

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Job Enlargement

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Increasing the number of tasks in a job to increase variety and motivation

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Job Enrichment

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Building into a job motivating factors such as responsibility, achievement, recognition, stimulating work, and advancement

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What are the 5 Characteristics of the Job Characteristics Model?

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  1. ) Skill Variety
  2. ) Task Identity
  3. ) Task Significance
  4. ) Autonomy
  5. ) Feedback
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Skill Variety

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How many different skills does your job require?

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Task Identity

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How many different tasks are required to complete the work?

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Task Significance

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How many people are affected by your job?

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Autonomy

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How much discretion does your job give you?

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Feedback

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How much do you find out how well you’re doing?

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What are the 3 psychological states that the Job Characteristics Model affects?

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  1. ) Motivation
  2. ) Performance
  3. ) Satisfaction
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Reinforcement Theory

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Attempts to explain behavior change by suggesting that behavior with positive consequences tends to be repeated, whereas behavior with negative consequences tends not to be repeated.

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Reinforcement

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Anything that causes a given behavior to be repeated or inhibited

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4 Types of Reinforcement

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  1. ) Positive
  2. ) Negative
  3. ) Extinction
  4. ) Punishment
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Positive Reinforcement

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The use of positive consequences to strengthen a particular behavior

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Negative Reinforcement

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The process of strengthening a behavior by withdrawing something negative

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Extinction

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The weakening of behavior by ignoring it or making sure it’s not reinforced

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Punishment

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The process of weakening behavior by presenting something negative or withdrawing something positive

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Pay for Performance

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Bases pay on one’s results

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Pierce Rate

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Employees are paid according to how much output they produce

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Sales Commission

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Sales representatives are paid a percentage of the earnings the company made from their sales

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Bonuses

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Cash awards given to employees who achieve specific performance objectives

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Profit Sharing

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The distribution to employees of a percentage of the company’s profits

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Gainsharing

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The distribution of savings or “gains” to groups of employees who reduced costs and increased measurable productivity

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Stock Options

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Certain employees are given the right to buy stock at a future date for a discounted price

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Pay for Knowledge

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Ties employee pay to the number of job-relevant skills or academic degrees they earn

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Human Resource (HR) Management

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The activities managers perform to plan for, attract, develop, and retain an effective workforce.

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Strategic Human Resource Management Process

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Get optimal work performance to help realize company’s mission and vision

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What are the steps of the Strategic Human Resource Management Process?

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  1. ) Establish the Mission and Vision
  2. ) Establish the Grand Strategy
  3. ) Formulate the strategic plans
  4. ) Plan human resources needed
  5. ) Recruit and select people
  6. ) Orient, train, and develop
  7. ) Perform appraisals of people
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Human Capital

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The economic or productive potential of employee knowledge, experience, and actions

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Knowledge Worker

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Someone whose occupation is principally concerned with generating or interpreting information, as opposed to manual labor

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Social Capital

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The economic or productive potential of strong, trusting, and cooperative relationships

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Strategic Human Resource Planning

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Developing a systematic, comprehensive strategy for understanding current employee needs and predicting future employee needs

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Job Analysis

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Determine, by observation and analysis, the basic elements of a job

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Job Specification

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Describes the minimum qualifications a person must have to perform the job successfully

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Human Resource Inventory

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A report listing your organization’s employees by name, education, training, languages, and other important info

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National Labor Relations Board

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Enforces procedures whereby employees may vote to have a union and for collective bargaining

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Collective Bargaining

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Consists of negotiations between management and employees about disputes over compensation, benefits, working conditions, and job security

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Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

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Established minimum living standards for workers engaged in interstate commerce, including provision of a federal minimum wage

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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Enforce anti-discrimination and other employment-related laws

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Workplace Discrimination

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Occurs when people are hired or promoted - or denied hiring or promotion - for reasons not relevant to the job

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Adverse Impact

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Occurs when an organization uses an employment practice or procedure that results in unfavorable outcomes to a protected class over another group of people

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Disparate Treatment

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Results when employees from protected groups are intentionally treated differently

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Affirmative Action

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Focuses on achieving equality of opportunity within an oganization

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2 Types of Sexual Harassment

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  1. ) Quid Pro Quo

2. ) Hostile Environment

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Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment

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The person to whom the unwanted sexual attention is directed is put in the position of jeopardizing being hired for a job or obtaining job benefits

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Hostile work Environment Sexual Harassment

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Doesn’t affect hiring or firing but still awkward

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Two types of recruiting

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  1. ) Internal

2. ) External

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Unstructured Interview

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Involves asking probing questions to find out what the applicant is like

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Structured Interview

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Involves asking all applicants the same questions and comparing their responses to a standardized set of answers

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Situational Interview

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The interviewer focuses on hypothetical situations

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Behavioral-Description Interview

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The interviewer explores what applicants have actually done in the past

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Reliability

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The degree to which a test measures the same thing consistently

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Validity

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The test measures what it purports to measure and is free of bias

143
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What are the 5 steps of the training process?

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  1. ) Assessment
  2. ) Objectives
  3. ) Selection
  4. ) Implementation
  5. ) Evaluation
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Performance Appraisal

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Consists of assessing an employee’s performance and providing him or her with feedback

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Performance Management

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The continuous cycle of improving job performance through goal setting, feedback, and coaching, and rewards and positive reinforcement.

146
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What are the 3 parts of Compensation?

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  1. ) Wages or salaries
  2. ) Incentives
  3. ) Benefits
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Labor Unions

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Organizations of employees formed to protect and advance their members’ interests by bargaining with management over job-related issues

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Right to Work Laws

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Not everyone in an organization has to join the union

149
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2-Tier wage contracts

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Veteran employees make more than new employees

150
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Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Clause

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Future wage increases must be adjusted to increases in the cost of living

151
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Givebacks

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The union agrees to give up previous wage or benefit gains in return for something else

152
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Grievance

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A complaint by an employee that management has violated the terms of the labor-management agreement

153
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Mediation

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The process in which a neutral 3rd party listens to both sides in a dispute, makes suggestions, and encourages them to agree on a solution

154
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Arbitration

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The process in which a neutral 3rd party listens to both parties in a dispute and makes a decision that the parties have agreed will be binding on them

155
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What does Collins’ Five Stages of Decline do?

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Recognizes the need for change

156
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What are Collins’ 5 Stages of Decline?

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  1. ) Hubris Born of Success
  2. ) Undisciplined Pursuit of More
  3. ) Denial of Risk and Peril
  4. ) Grasping for Salvation
  5. ) Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death
157
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What is the Innovators Dilemma?

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When new technologies cause great firms to fail

158
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What are the 2 Types of Change?

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  1. ) Reactive

2. ) Proactive

159
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What are Outside forces that cause change?

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  1. ) Demographic
  2. ) Market Changes
  3. ) Technological Advancements
  4. ) Shareholder & Customer Demands
  5. ) Supplier Practices
  6. ) Social & Political Pressures
160
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What are Inside forces that cause change?

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  1. ) Employee Problems

2. ) Managers’ Behavior

161
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What are the 4 areas that change is often needed?

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  1. ) People
  2. ) Technology
  3. ) Structure
  4. ) Strategy
162
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What are the 3 causes of resistance to change?

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  1. ) Employee Characteristics
  2. ) Change-Agent Characteristics
  3. ) Change Agent - Employee Relationship
163
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Adaptive Change

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Reintroduction of a familiar practice

164
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Innovative Chage

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The introduction of a practice that is new to the organization

165
Q

Radically Innovative Change

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Introducing a practice that is new to the industry

166
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What are the 3 parts of Lewin’s Change Model?

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  1. ) Unfreezing
  2. ) Changing
  3. ) Refreezing
167
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Steps of Organizational Development

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  1. ) Diagnosis
  2. ) Intervention
  3. ) Evaluation
  4. ) Feedback
168
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What are the 2 Myths of Innovation?

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  1. ) Innovation Happens in a Eureka Moment

2. ) Innovation can be Systematized

169
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What are the 6 Seeds of Innovation?

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  1. ) Hard work in a specific Direction
  2. ) Hard work with direction change
  3. ) Curiosity
  4. ) Wealth and Money
  5. ) Necessity
  6. ) Combination of Seeds
170
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What are the 4 Steps to Foster Innovation?

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  1. ) Recognize Problems and Opportunities and Devise Solutions
  2. ) Gain allies by communicating your vision
  3. ) Overcome employee resistance, and Empower and reward them to achieve progress
  4. ) Execute well by effectively managing people, groups, and organization processes and systems in the pursuit of innovation
171
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Stakeholders

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The people whose interests are affected by an organization’s activities

172
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Internal Stakeholders

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Employees, owners, and the board of directors

173
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External Stakeholders

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People or groups in the organization’s external environment that are affected by it

174
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Task Environment

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People who give you daily tasks to handle

175
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Who are the 11 groups in the task environment?

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  1. ) Customers
  2. ) Competitors
  3. ) Suppliers
  4. ) Distributors
  5. ) Strategic Allies
  6. ) Employee Organizations
  7. ) Local Communities
  8. ) Financial Institutions
  9. ) Government Regulators
  10. ) Special-Interest Groups
  11. ) Mass Media
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General Environment (Macroenvironment)’s 6 forces

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  1. ) Economic
  2. ) Technological
  3. ) Sociocultural
  4. ) Demographic
  5. ) Political-Legal
  6. ) International
177
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Ethics

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The standards of right and wrong that influence behavior

178
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Values

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Relatively permanent and deeply held underlying beliefs and attitudes that help determine a person’s bahavior

179
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What are the 4 Approaches to Deciding Ethical Dilemmas?

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  1. ) Utilitarian
  2. ) Individual
  3. ) Moral-Rights
  4. ) Justice
180
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Utilitarian Approach

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What will result in the greatest good for the greatest number of people

181
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Individual Approach

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What will benefit me and eventually help everyone else

182
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Moral-Rights Approach

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Respecting Rights shared by everyone

183
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Justice Approach

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Impartial standards of fairness

184
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2 Types of White Collar Crime

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  1. ) Insider Trading

2. ) Ponzi Scheme

185
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Insider Trading

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Illegal trading of a company’s stock by people using confidential company information

186
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Ponzi Scheme

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Using cash from newer investors to pay off older investors

187
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

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Established requirements for proper financial record keeping for public companies and punishments for not doing so

188
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Corporate social Responsibility

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The notion that corporations are expected to go above and beyond following the law and making a profit

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