MAN 336 Study Guide - Spring 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - Social Loafing, Organizational Behavior, Extraversion And Introversion
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Organizational behavior: study of the influence that individuals, groups, and organizational design have on behavior within organizations. Differences in personality, values, attitudes, beliefs, thoughts, and feelings. Discrimination: allowing behavior to be influenced by stereotypes of groups of people. Attitudes: evaluative statements that reflect how one feels about something. Principle of consistency: people usually expect behaviors to be consistent with the attitudes they hold. Inconsistency between two or more attitudes, or between behavior and attitudes. Justify behavior by making it right in our mind: risk of alienation. Add new cognitions: risk of accepting a certain type of behavior. Summation score method: identifies key elements in the job and asks for specific feelings about them. Job involvement: degree to identifying with the job. Organizational commitment: degree to identifying with organization and its goals. Perceived organizational support: organization"s care about employees" well-being. Emotions and moods have been historically absent from the study of organizational behavior. Effects of openness of emotions in organizations.
