NST Chap 22

Question 1

Theconcept of power in the workforce has a

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Negative connotation

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Within aspects of power, the power that is inherent in the authority of the position you have is

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Position power

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Contemporary motivation is a three-phased approach to

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Motivation

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Positive norms are those that support the organization’s

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Goals, objectives, and behaviors directed achieving those goals

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Negative norms are those that sanction criticism of the company, theft, absenteeism, and low levels of

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Productivity

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Positive norms lead the person to see the organization as

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His or hers

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Negative Norms foster individuality, secrecy, and the belief that success is achieved by an attitude of

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Every man for himself

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Promoting a positive norm is even more criticall as all military branches and government agencies work together to counter global threats and to combat terrorism at

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Both home and abroad

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Negative norms cause supervisors to assume more

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Active roles mentoring airmen

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Positive norms result in supervisors assuming the role of subordiate’s

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Helpers, trainers, and developers

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The group of norms that determines, to a large degree, whether original and creative behaviors are supported and encouraged are: creativity and

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Innovativeness

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Negative norms support the status quo and discourage

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Experimentation

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In today’s total and joint forces environment, we must encourage everyone to bring innovativeness and creativity to the table in order to meet the dynamic threats that

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Terrorism has brought to our shores

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Understanding that norms exist, that they can be either positive (supportive of organization) or negative (incongruent with organizational goals), and that they can be categorized drives the need to measure those norms and develop a

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Normative profile

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The profile that is a statement of organizational strengths and weaknesses on a

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Behavioral level

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Transactional Analysis is a theaory of personality as well as a systematic psychotherapy for personal

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Both growth and change

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One area of TA is the study of individual

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Ego states

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Another aspect of TA deals with

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Time structuring

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Within time structuring, an option a person may use is one that involves no risk and has minima social rewards because there is minimal contact, is

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Withdrawals

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The systematic two way discussion between supervisor and subordinate concerning duty performance

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Is performance counseling

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Wishing performance counseling the ability and willingness to communicate effectively is the key to

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Supervisor success

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One of the most important tools for maintaining control and developing people is the proper use of

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Feedback

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Feedback has been categorized as

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Both positive and negative

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The feedback used to reinforce behavior that is effective and desirable

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Supportive

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One of the most damaging and erroneous assumptions that many supervisors make is that good performance and appropriate behavior are to be expected from the

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Employee

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If a supervisor concentrated on what the employees were doing well, then superior work is what the employees

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Would become aware of

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The type of feedback used to alter behavior that is ineffective or inappropriate is

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Corrective

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The most important rule in giving feedback is that managers should always be

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Specific

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Although the manager’s personal approval (I am glad to see…) or disapproval (I’m disappointed that…) can give emphasis to feedback. It must be supported by specific data in order to effect a

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Chang in behavior

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Feedback must be specific and observable to be

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Effective

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The more that corrective feedback is cast in specific behavioral terms, the more it supports problem solving and the easier it is to

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Control

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Managers should never follow any feedback with the word

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But

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Managers, when feasible, use the supportive feedback to cushion the

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Corrective feedback

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The first major principle that governs the use of feedback is

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Conducted

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The second major principle that governs the use of feedback

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Supports growth

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Remember o feedback should be accepted as legitimate if it cannot be demonstrated by an

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Observable behavior

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Steps that are suggested as a strategy for supportive feedback include help the subordinate to take full responsibility for the success, thank the subordinate for the good performance, and

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Acknowledge the specific action to be reinforced

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The second major principle that governs the use of feedback is feedback supports growth, which is very important because we cannot always see ourselves as

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Others see us

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A strategy for corrective feedback is

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Develop a plan to deal with the issues