OBHR EXAM Flashcards
Task force
Temporary group put together to achieve a specific goal or solve a specific problem
Commitee
Permanent groups to handle recurring issues that cannot not be handled by the normal hierachial system
Tuckmans stage development model
Forming- finding out about group members and the task
Storming - conflict about leadership and the task
Norming- developing norms and cohesion
Performing- getting the job done
Adjourning- leaving the group
Effects of group size on performance
Additive- potential created by adding performance together
Conjunctive- potential determined by weakest member
Disjunctive- potential determined by the best member
Group Norms
Generally agreed upon informal rules that guide group member behaviour
Group cohesion is influenced by
Time spent together, external threat and competition, success, member diversity, size, initiation rights
Self - managed teams
Perform challenging tasks that require high interdependence under reduced supervision
Compliance
Prompted by the desire to acquire rewards or avoid punishment.
Indentification
Prompted by perceptions that those who promote the norm are attractive or similar to oneself
Internalization
Prompted by true acceptance of the beliefs, values and attitudes that underlie the norm.
Anticipatory Socialization
Before entering the organization
Role Management
fine-tuning and managing the role
Prospect Theory
- Framing options as losses or gains»>risk taking or risk avoidance
-A gain of a given amount is much less attractive than the loss of the same amount is averse
-Adapt more quickly to gains than losses
-We perceive equal size gains or losses differently depending on relative amounts that we are dealing with.
