OBM Flashcards
OBM stands for which of the following?
Organizational Behavior Management
Abernathy (2013) states “In most cases, the results of an employee’s performance are more important to the organization than are the details of the behavior that produced the result.” Which of the following is an example of a result of employee performance?
decrease in challenging behaviors
Colleen completes yearly performance reviews for her employees, but otherwise does not provide formal feedback on performance. A few times a year an employee is fired for overall poor performance, and usually they are surprised. When this happens, she sees a decrease in late arrivals and sick calls among her others workers, and an increase in worker productivity overall. She thinks this is a good thing-seeing colleagues being fired definitely works to get her workers “in line”. Which principle of behavior analysis is demonstrated by the change in the other worker’s behaviors?
negative reinforcement
According to Abernathy (2013), which of the following is an example of effective performance pay plans?
piece rates
Performance management focuses on management’s attention on three events in the sequence of employee performance. These three events, more broadly know as the 3-term contingency are ________________. Select the option below that best fills in the blank.
antecedents, behaviors and consequences
Many traditional wage and salary compensation systems tend to rely heavily on __________________ to manage employee performance than on _______________________________. Select the option below that best fills in the blanks.
negative reinforcement/positive reinforcement
Which of the following is not a barrier to more organizations using applications of ABA in business settings?
using positive reinforcement can be more effective and efficacious
In 1977, the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management was first published by a consulting firm called Behavioral Systems, Inc. The first editor to serve that publication has continued to contribute to OBM and now leads one of the most well known and successful international consulting companies. This man’s name is which of the following?
Aubrey Daniels
Feedback is an important component of performance management. When a manager meets with an employee to discuss progress on a project, and provides positive feedback in the form of verbal praise the employee’s behavior is likely to be strengthened by that praise. This positive feedback likely functions as which of the following?
generalized conditioned reinforcer
Taking a selectionist approach to understanding behavior means that the OBM technician will be especially interested in determining the __________________________ of employee behavior. Select the option below that best fills in the blank.
consequences
