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  1. What are the two primary individual outcomes with which OB is concerned?
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Job performance, organizational commitment

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What does organizational behavior study?

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Understanding, explaining, and improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations

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what are the 5 individual mechanisms that influence Job performance and org commitment?

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1) Job satisfaction
2) stress
3) motivation
4) trust justice and ethics
5) learning and decision making

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What are the 2 individual characteristics of the 5 individual mechanisms of job performance & org commitment?

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1) ability
2) Personality and cultural values

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4 group mechanisms of job performance & org commitment

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1) Leadership: styles & behaviors
2) Leadership: power and negotiation
3) Teams: processes and communication
4) Teams: characteristics and diversity

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Two organizational mechanisms of job performance and org commitment

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1) organizational culture
2) organizational structure

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1/8th rule?

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At best, 1/8th or 12% of organizations will actually do what is required to build profits by putting people first

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the 4 ways we know something

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1) method of experience
2) method of intuition
3) method of authority
4) method of science

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how do we measure relationships between variables

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Through correlation; r. 0.5 = strong, 0.3 = moderate, 0.1= weak

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How does meta-analysis reinforce what we know

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Meta analysis takes the result of many studies to see if there is still correlation across all studies

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how do we prove causality

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1) two variables are correlated
2) presumed cause precedes presumed effect in time
3) no alternative explanation exists for the correlation

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Which is more important regarding performance, behaviors or outcomes?

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Behaviors, because outcomes leads to bad employee mentality, employees may violate policies to enhance performance, results are often out of employee control

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3 types of performance

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1) task performance
2) citizenship behavior
3) counterproductive behavior

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3 types of task performance

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1) routine: habitual responses to routine demands
2) adaptive: responses to unusual demands
3) creative: degree employees develop useful and unique ideas

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How do we know what tasks are associated with a job

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Job analysis

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what is citizenship behavior?

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voluntary employee behaviors that contribute to organizational goals by improving the context in which work takes place

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6 types of citizenship behavior

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split into two categories organizational and interpersonal.
Organizational: 1) voice 2) civic virtue 3) boosterism
Interpersonal: 1) helping 2) courtesy 3) sportsmanship

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What is counterproductive behavior?

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Employee behaviors that intentionally hinder organizational goal accomplishment

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Types of counterproductive behavior

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Production deviance: wasting resources

Property deviance: sabotage, theft

Political deviance: Gossip

Personal aggression: harassment

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4 ways to manage performance/employee evaluations

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1) management by objective: have/have not specific goals been met
2) behaviorally anchored rating scales: use specific incidents
3) 360 degree feedback: ratings from everyone you interact with
4) forced ranking: managers rank employees into top 20, vital 70, and bottom 10

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3 types of organizational commitment

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1) affective commitment: want to
2) continuance commitment: cost based, need to
3) normative commitment: obligation based, should/ought to

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What is the role of the erosion model in affective commitment

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Erosion model suggests employees with fewer bonds are most likely to quit, have lower affective commitment.

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what do people who are affectively committed feel after they leave

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sad

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why do people who are affectively committed stay?

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their membership to an org is a sense of self

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why do people with continuance commitment stay?

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stay because they need to: tight job market, due for promotion, benefits

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How do people with continuance commitment feel after they leave?

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anxious

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Role of sunk costs and embeddedness in continuance commitment

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Sunk costs: already put so much into the org
Embeddedness: employee’s sense of fit into the org and community

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Why do people with normative commitment stay?

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stay because they should. boss has done a lot for them, gave them their start.

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How do people who are normatively committed feel after they leave

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guilty

30
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To whom or what are people committed?

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their boss/manager

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EVLN model of withdrawal behavior

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Exit, voice, loyalty, neglect

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Exit (EVLN)

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absent from work/quitting, active destructive response

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Voice (EVLN)

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employee speaks up for change. Active constructive response

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Loyalty (EVLN)

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maintaining effort despite unhappiness. Passive constructive

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Neglect (EVLN)

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interest and effort decline. Passive destructive

36
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4 categories of employees

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1) lone wolves: low org commitment, high task performance
2) Stars: high both
3) citizens: high commitment, low performance
4) apathetics: low both

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5 types of psychological withdrawal behaviors

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1) daydreaming
2) looking busy
3) cyberloafing
4) socializing
5) moonlighting

38
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5 types of physical withdrawal behaviors

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1) tardiness
2) missing meetings
3) quitting
4) long breaks
5) absenteeism

39
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3 models that show relationship between physical and psychological withdrawals

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1) independent forms: various withdrawal behaviors are uncorrelated
2) compensatory forms: behaviors are negatively correlated
3) progression: positively correlated

progression is most accurate

40
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2 types of psychological contracts

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1) transactional contract: low org commitment, employee owes attendance, org owes paycheck
2) relational contract: high org commitment, employee owes loyalty/citizenship behavior, org owes support/development

41
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How can organizations improve commitment?

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Increase perceived organizational support

42
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Job satisfaction definition

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good emotion resulting from the appraisal of one’s job. How you feel about your job.

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2 components of job satisfaction

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1) cognitive: beliefs about the org
2) affective: feelings induced by the org

44
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Value percept model of job satisfaction

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job satisfaction depends on whether employee perceives that their job supplies things they value

45
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5 facets of job satisfaction

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1) pay satisfaction
2) promotion satisfaction
3) supervision satisfaction
4) coworker satisfaction
5) satisfaction with the work itself

46
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5 core job characteristics

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VISAF; variety, identity, significance, autonomy, feedback

47
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3 psychological states of job characteristics model

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1) meaningfulness of work
2) responsibility for outcomes
3) knowledge of results

48
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2 moderators of job characteristics model

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1) knowledge and skill: do employees have the knowledge and skill to be successful
2) growth need strength: degree employees desire to develop themselves
Moderators influence the strength of relationships between variables, dont directly affect other variables

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3 methods of used to improve job satisfaction

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1) job rotation
2) job enlargement: increasing job duties in quantity
3) job enrichment: increasing job duties in quality

50
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Moods

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mild states of feeling that arent directed at anything. Last a while

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emotions

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intense feelings, are directed at someone/something, short periods of time

52
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emotional labor

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when employees must manage their emotions to complete job duties successfully. Ex: customer service

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emotional contagion:

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emotions are contagious

54
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job satisfaction relation to job performance

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moderate positive effect

55
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job satisfaction relation to org commitment

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strong positive effect

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stress

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psychological response to demands when there is something at stake for you, and coping with these demands tax or exceed your capacity

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stressors

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demands that cause stress

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strains

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negative consequences of stress response

59
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transactional theory of stress

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1) primary appraisal: evaluate whether demand is stressful and its implications
2) secondary appraisal: figure out how to deal with stress

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hindrance stressors

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demands that get in the way of personal goals
work ex: role conflict/ambiguity/overload
nonwork ex: work-family conflict, negative life events

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challenge stressors

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demands that give an opportunity to improve
work ex: time pressure, work complexity/responsibility
nonwork ex: family demands, positive life events

62
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ways people cope with stress

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Behavioral: action based
Cognitive: thoughts used to deal with stress
Problem focused: managing stressful situation itself
Emotion focused: manage their own emotional reactions to stress

63
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3 types of strains

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1) Physiological strains: illness, aches/pains
2) Psychological strains: depression, anxiety
3) Behavioral strains: alcohol/drug use, gluttony

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3 individual differences that influence the impact of stress

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if employee is;
1) type A or B
2) has sufficient recovery
3) has high or low social support

65
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Hindrance stressors relation to job performance

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weak negative

66
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Hindrance stressors relation to org commitment

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strong negative

67
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Challenge stressors relation to job performance

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weak positive

68
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challenge stressors relation to org commitment

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moderate positive

69
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how do orgs manage stress?

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1) assess causes of stress; stress audit
2) reduce stressors
3) provide resources
4) reduce strains

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