HROB 2100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Matthew Effect, Job Satisfaction, Job Analysis
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The feeling you get when you walk into an organization. How a company plans to achieve its goals. Narrow division of labour: jobs narrowly defined. High centralization of work procedures (rules and regulations, standardization) Span of control: much hierarchy, many levels of administration. Low formalization of work procedures (rules and regulations, standardization) Span of control: little hierarchy, few levels of administration. Primacy: more likely to remember the first thing a person did; relying on early, first impressions. Recency: more likely to remember the last/ most recent thing a person did; most recent information dominates perception. Implicit personality theories: a group of personality characteristics or traits that you believe to go together; personal theories that people have about which personality characteristics go together. Halo effect: one trait that forms a general impression of a person (a person does one good thing, and they are perceived as being good or having good behaviour)