ADM 2736 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Job Performance, Meta-Analysis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 2736
• Professor: Laurent Lapierre

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Examples of behaviours: sexual advances toward coworkers, boss not at the office, conflicts in workplace, motivation (origins) Ob subjects: performance and behaviour; values/personality/individual differences; emotions and attitudes at work; motivation; stress; power and leadership; decision-making process; culture. Hrm (human resources management) is based on several ob principles. Su(cid:272)h as staffi(cid:374)g (cid:373)ethods are (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) li(cid:374)ks (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) perso(cid:374)ality traits a(cid:374)d jo(cid:271) performance; training programs based on study of efficient behaviour of leaders. Research hypothesis: statement that describes relationship between two variables. Example of research hypothesis: if pay was based on performance, job performance will increase. Independent variable: pay ((cid:448)aria(cid:271)le that is (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ged influences the dependent variable) Dependent variable: performance (what is being tested in experiment) Co(cid:374)trol group (cid:894)do(cid:374)"t (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge their pay (cid:271)ut (cid:272)o(cid:373)pare their perfor(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:448)s. others; experimental methods) Experimental: independent variable manipulated by the researcher; dependent variable (cid:373)easure (cid:271)efore a(cid:374)d after i(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)tio(cid:374) (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)lude (cid:272)ause a(cid:374)d effe(cid:272)t.