Final Exam Flashcards
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The collective mind
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The ability to access and use distributed expertise efficiently
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What is organizational psychology?
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Focuses on the task as central to understanding the dynamics of teamwork. The task sets minimum requirements for the resource pool.
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Team climate
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The overall objective, mission, or strategic imperative of the group
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Emotional contagion
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Spread of emotions from person to person
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Sad moods
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- more likely to generate arguments that are persuasive and well thought out
- sad moods help people think in a more bottom-up, systematic manner
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Happy mood
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- generate creative and original arguments
- come up with more arguments
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Principles of emotional intelligence
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- Emotion is information
- We can try to ignore emotion, but it doesn’t work
- We can try to hide emotions, but we are not as good at it as we think
- Decisions must incorporate emotion to be effective.
- Emotions follow logical patterns
- Emotional universals exist, but so do specifics.
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Emotional reappraisal
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We look at the issues but attempt to reframe them in a more constructive / adaptive way
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Emotional labor
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Employees are taught to suppress their feelings and put on a happy face.
Surface acting - feel one way but don’t show how you are feeling
Deep acting - try to change current feeling to match desired feeling
Linked to performance burnout and turnover
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Normalizing emotion
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We do not show strong emotions or emotions that the organization deems inappropriate
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Positive emotions
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Open us up to our environment for exploration and discovery
- broaden and build - expand our thinking, help generate new ideas, and encourage us to consider possibilities
- promote social bonds
- inoculate against negative events
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Negative emotions
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- clearer focus
- motivate more efficient search for errors
Tend to be experienced more strongly than positive emotions
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Emotional display rules
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Hidden knowledge - we are aware of it, but not sure how we acquired it.
Our society/culture teach us when it’s ok to show how we feel and when it’s not.
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Secondary emotions
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Self conscious emotions
Unlike basic emotions, these have a strong social or cultural component
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Abilene paradox
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Team members pursue course of action that is in contradiction to what they really want to do. They fail to communicate their beliefs and just go along with the group.
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Self censorship
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Rather than rock the boat, stop making efforts to think critically.
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Self limiting behavior
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Abilene paradox
Self censorship
Social loafers / free riders
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Why team members self limit
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- Presence of someone with expertise
- Presentation of a compelling argument
- Lack of confidence in one’s ability to contribute
- An unimportant/meaningless decision
- Pressure from others to conform to team’s decision
- Dysfunctional decision-making climate (believe that other team members are frustrated, indifferent, disorganized, or unwilling to commit to a decision)
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To prevent self limiting - before the meeting begins
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- choose right mix and number of team members
- frame the team decision task appropriately
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To prevent self-limiting - during the meeting
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- set the tone of the meeting early
- monitor the process (second chance meeting)
- encourage self management by team members
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To prevent self limiting - after the meeting
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- provide feedback as to the final outcome and rationale.
- praise individual and group accomplishments
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Lessons from Sports Teams
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- Integrate cooperation and competition
- Orchestrate some early wins
- Break out of losing streaks
- Carve out time for practice
- Call half time
- Keep team membership stable
- Study the game video
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Caveats to sports team analogy
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- Choose right sports team as a model
- Don’t confuse coaching with managing
- Build bridges, not boundaries
- Don’t assume winning is the only thing
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Reflexive loop
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Our beliefs influence what data we select next time
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Used of the ladder of inference
- reflection - become more aware of your own thinking and reasoning
- advocacy - make your thinking and reasoning more visible to others
- inquiry - inquire into others thinking and reasoning
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Persuasive techniques
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Liking
Reciprocity
Social proof
Consistency (active, public, voluntary)
Authority
Scarcity
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Adaptability
Selecting, crafting, stretching
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Personality traits
Habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, acting
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Big 5
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Extraversion
Emotional stability
Agreeableness
Openness
Conscientiousness
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Transactional
Create context for employee and organizational success.
Set goals, clarify expectations, give feedback, provide rewards.
Useful for business as usual.
Take actions to correct problems.
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Transformational
Inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, individualized consideration, idealized influence
Critical in times of crisis, threat, opportunity.
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Culture
A system of shared values (defining what is important) and norm (defining appropriate attitudes and behaviors).
Must be strategically relevant, strong, and must contain norms/values that promote innovation and change.
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Strong culture
High levels of agreement among employees about what's valued.
High levels of intensity about these values.
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Tools to manage/change culture
- Recruit/select people for culture fit.
- Socialization and training (acquire cultural knowledge and bond)
- Reward system
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Hypocrisy attribution dynamic
Emphasizing cultural values gives us high standards to judge others. We become attentive to possible violations.
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Actor observer bias
Tendency to explain one's own behaviors generously and others' behavior unsympathetically
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3 Cs of culture
Clear
Consistent
Comprehensive
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Key leadership behaviors
- setting direction
- aligning and motivating others
- setting strategy
- coaching others to implement strategy
- shaping the organizational culture
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Knowing-doing gap
We know what we should do but we don't do it
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Key teamwork behaviors
- assigning, completing, and coordinating tasks
- providing performance feedback
- giving help and sharing information
- adapting to change
- focusing on shared goals
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Foundations of teamwork and leadership
- emotional intelligence
- group decision-making
- negotiating with others
- difficult conversations
- group dynamics
- social influence
- leading change and culture
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Emotional operative
Leader has to understand all of the emotions in the room
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Why pay attention to emotions
- emotions drive thinking
- emotions motivate
- emotions communicate
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How we read emotions
7% spoken words
55% facial expression / body language
38% tone of voice
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Amygdala hijacking
Emotional response from people which are immediate/ overwhelming. Person can react irrationally and destructively.
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Cognitive reappraisal
Have thoughts intervene before emotions lead to behaviors. We can exercise self control to overcome instinct.
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Types of interdependence
Pooled
Sequential
Reciprocal
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Abilene paradox
Groups often agree to a course of action that none of them wants because each member assumes the others want it
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Groupthink
Overconfidence often leads groups to experience a deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgments
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Group polarization
Group judgments are often more extreme than the sum of the judgments of individual members
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Common knowledge effect
Collaborators tend to discuss what everyone already knows instead of their unique info
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Redundant info guides decisions
Information held by more members before team discussion has more influence on team judgments than info held by fewer members
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How to improve info sharing
- structure the process (information gatherer, discuss pros and cons of each option before disclosing preferences)
- engage in advocacy - make a consistent case for minority opinion as it forces divergent thinking
- engage in inquiry - unearth the silent minority and direct attention to unshared knowledge
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Problems with large teams
Each new person adds many new relationships so info sharing is more difficult.
Motivation / accountability - people free ride
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Ideal team composition
4-7 (5.5)
External connections outside team (can have smaller team bc get info from their networks. Diversify info for the team bc can have scout go get info)
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Ambassador
Focus on getting political capital
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Reactive devaluation
When you underperform on a metric, you then decide that metric isn't very important
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Creative abrasion
One person has a thought, then the next person takes that and had another thought to build on it.
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Problems with group brainstorming
- production blocking - not everyone can say what they want to say and ppl may wave white flag
- evaluation apprehension - don't want to look like an idiot (stifle most creative ideas)
- conformity - want to run with a good idea
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Brain writing
Individuals generate ideas independently and submit anonymously. Discuss as a group.
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Team effectiveness defined
- performance - output meets quantity/quality standards
- development and well being - involve my contributes to growth/satisfaction of members
- viability - team retains ability to work together in the future
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Conflict resolution
Bases of power - reward, coercive, legitimate, informational, expert, referent
Fairness norms - equity, equality, need
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Ladder of inference
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Actions
Beliefs
Conclusions
Assumptions
Selected data
Observable data
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Confirmation bias
The beliefs I hold affect the data I select
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Types of conflict
Relationship
Task
Procedural
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Extraversion
Center of attention, sensation seeking
| Optimal levels of neocortical arousal
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Conscientiousness
Dependability, achieve goals, dedication
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Agreeableness
Promoting harmony
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Espoused
What people say is important
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Enacted
What is actually important
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Org culture triangle
Artifacts and practices (verbal, physical, norms and rules of conduct)
Espoused values and enacted values
Basic underlying assumptions (habits of perception, taken for granted assumptions)
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Values
Distinctive
Central
Lasting / enduring
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Problems with too many values
- attention gets diffused (diff ppl focus on diff values)
- ppl start to interpret the same value in different ways.
Best to have about 3 values
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Characteristics of strong cultures
- ability to attract / retain employees
- high motivation to achieve the vision
- uniquely skilled and talented individuals
- feelings of fit and cohesion
- homogeneity and groupthink
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Why cultures matter in JVs and mergers
- mergers tend to emphasize quantifiable issues
- in group / out group biased lead to conflict
- culture is resistant to change
