PSYC340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Job Satisfaction, Big Five Personality Traits, Fundamental Attribution Error
30 Mar 2016
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Leadership: when paricular inidivuals exert inluence on the goal achievement of others in an organizaional context. Path-goal theory: proposed that leader"s responsibility is to show subordinates the path to vaued goals. Te style of the leader will posiively or negaively afect suboridnates saisfactoion, motvaiton, and performance, depending on both the subordinates personality and work environment. Need hierarchy theory is considered with what morivates people. Equity theory: employees are moivated to achieve a condiion of equity or fairness in their dealings with other people in their organizaions. Input = output, and employee then feels fair and equitable exchanges exist within their organizaions. Making sense of others in the work environment. Social percepions: process of understanding or making sense of people; process of selecing and interpreing informaion about how we view others and our selves. Errors that disotord the percepion process00that in turn lead to faulty judgements.
