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BUSN 160
Human/Labor Relations
Question | Answer |
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What are the two databases to search in Highline library? | 1. Business Search Complete 2. Academic Search Complete |
What is Human Labor Relations? | The study of relationships among people and how they interact. |
Reflection, in our course, is defined as: | The analysis of people’s own preconceptions, thoughts, bias’, behaviors and outcomes. |
Human Relations (HR) | Interactions among people |
Goal of Human Relations | To create a win-win situation by satisfying employee needs while achieving organizational objectives. |
Win-Win Situation | Occurs when the organization and the employees both get what they want. |
Total Person Approach | Realizes that an organization employs the whole person, not just his or her job skills. |
Behavior | What people do and say. |
Levels of Behavior | Are individual, group and organizational. |
Group Behavior | Consists of the things two or more people do and say as they interact. |
Organization | Is a group of people working to achieve one or more objectives. |
Organizational Behavior (OB) | Is the collective behavior of an organization's individuals and groups. |
Performance | Is the extent to which expectations or objectives have been met, and is a relative term. |
Systems effect | All people in the organization are affected by at least one other person, and each person affect the whole group or organization. |
Elton Mayo | -Is called the "father of human relations." -Hawthorne Effect |
Hawthorne Effect | Refers to an increase in performance caused by special attention given to employees, rather than tangible changes in the work. |
Theory Z | Integrates common business practices in the United States and Japan into one middle-ground framework appropriate for use in the United States. |
Intrapersonal Skills | Are within the individual and include characteristics such as personality, attitudes, self-concept, and integrity. |
Interpersonal Skill | Is the ability to work well with a diversity of people. |
Leadership Skill | The ability to influence others and work well in teams. |
Eric Berne | Transactional Analysis (TA). |
William Ouchi | Theory Z |
Robert Own | The father of personnel administration. |
Tom Peters | Excellence in American Corporations. |
Frederick Taylor | Father of Scientific Management |
Written and oral communication | Able to communicate effectively orally and in writing |
Ethical Understanding and Reasoning | Able to identify ethical issues and address the issues in a socially responsible manner |
Analytical thinking | Able to analyze and frame problems. |
Information Technology | Able to use current technologies in business and management contexts |
Interpersonal relations and teamwork | Able to work effectively with other and in team enviornments |
Diverse and multicultural work enviornments | Able to work effectively in diverse environments. |
Reflective Thinking | able to understand oneself in the context of society |
Application of knowledge | Able to translate knowledge of business management into practice. |
10 Human Relation Guidelines | -Be Optimistic -Be Positive -Be Genuinely Interested in Other People -Smile and Develop a Sense of Humor -Call people by Name -Listen to People -Help Others -Think before you Act -Apologize -Create Win-Win Situations |
3 Myths | 1. Technical Skills are more Important than Human Relation skills 2. It's just common Sense 3. Leaders are born, not made |
Systems Approach | Focuses on the whole system with an emphasis on the relationships between its parts. |
Psychological contract | Is the shared expectations between People |
Personality | Is a relatively stable set of traits that aids in explaining and predicting individual behavior. |
Type A personality | Is characterized as fast moving, hard driving, time conscious, competitive, impatient, and preoccupied with work. |
Locus of control | Is a continuum representing one’s belief as to whether external or internal forces control one’s destiny. |
Big Five Model of Personality | Categorizes traits into the dimensions of surgency, agreeableness, adjustment, conscientiousness, and openness to experience. |
Stress | Is an emotional and/or physical reaction to environmental activities and events. |
Stressors | Are situations in which people feel anxiety, tension, and pressure. |
Burnout | Is the constant lack of interest and motivation to perform one’s job because of stress. |
Controlling Stress Plan | Includes: step 1, identify stressors; step 2, determine their causes and consequences; and step 3, plan to eliminate or decrease the stress. |
Intelligence | Is the level of one’s capacity for new learning, problem solving, and decision making. |
Perception | Refers to a person’s interpretation of reality. |
Stereotyping | Which is the process of generalizing the behavior of all members of a group. |
Perceptual Congruence | Refers to the degree to which people see things the same way. |
Primacy Effect | Is the way people perceive one another during their first impressions. |
Four-minute barrier Image | Is the time we have to make a good impression. |
Accommodators | Prefer learning by doing and feeling. Tend to learn primarily from hands-on experience. Act on gut feelings, relying more on other people for information than on technical analysis. |
Divergers | Prefer learning by observing and feeling. Have the ability to view concrete situations from many different points of view. Take their time gathering and analyzing many alternatives. |
Convergers | Prefer learning by doing and thinking. Seek practical uses for information focusing on solutions. Prefer dealing with technical tasks and problems rather than with interpersonal issues. |
Assimilators | Prefer learning by observing and thinking. Effective at understanding a wide range of information and putting it into a concise, logical form. Tend to be more concerned with abstract ideas and concepts than with people. |
5 Components of Emotional Intelligence: | -Self-awareness -Managing emotions -Motivating yourself -Empathy -Social skills |
Learning organizations | Cultivate the capacity to learn, adapt, and change with the environment in order to be innovative with speed. |