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week 6-10

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Personality Propensities that explain a person's thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. (What people are like)
Cultural Values Shared Beliefs about conduct in a given culture (What people can do)
Ability Stable capabilities people have---Not skills you learn (Where people are from in a cultural sense)
Big 5 Personality Traits Conscientiousness(dependable), Agreeableness(kind), Neurotisism (emotional/unstable), Openness(creative), Extraversion (social)
Conscientiousness Prioritize "accomplish striving", strong desire to accomplish goals. This has the biggest influence on job performance.
Agreeableness Prioritize "communion striving", strong desire to gain acceptance, focus on getting along. This is beneficial in some areas.
Neuroticism High in "negative affectivity", (Experience unpleasant moods). Locus of control is external, driven by luck. Negatively related to job performance.
Openness to Experiences Curious. Valuable in jobs that require high levels of creativity.
Extroversion Prioritize "status striving", or obtain power and influence. Easiest to judge when you first meet someone. High "positive affectivity" or want to experience pleasant moods. With twins, extroversion is proven genetic.
Locus of control Whether people attribute the causes of events to themselves/environment. Neurotic people- external LOC is driven by luck. Non-neurotic people- Internal LOC is driven by behavior.
Myers Briggs Type Indicator(MBTI) Evaluates individuals on 4 types of preferences: 1)Extroversion v. Introversion, 2) Sensing(facts) v. Intuition(hunches), 3) Thinking v. feelings, 4) Judging v. Perceiving
Cultural Values Influences traits, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals.
Cultural Values' importance to multinational companies Differences in management styles, negotiation approaches, and reward preferences.
Hofstede's Dimensions of Cultural Values Employees in different countries prioritize different values: 1)Individualism v. Collectivism, 2) Power Distance, 3) Uncertainty Avoidance, 4) Masculinity v Femininity, 5) Short-term v. Long-term Orientation
Strong v. Weak Situations- Principle of Situational Strength Strong situations have clear behavior expectations. Weak situations lack behavior cues.
Principle of Trait Activation Some situation gives cues that trigger expressions.(snapping out in anger when that doesn't usually happen)
Ability Capability people have to perform certain job task, with stable relativity, function of genes and the environment, includes cognitive and emotional ability.
Cognitive Ability Capabilities related to the acquisition and application of knowledge.
Verbal Ability Oral comprehension, written, oral expression, written expression
Quantitative Ability Number facility, Mathematical reasoning
Reasoning Ability Problem sensitivity, deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, originality
Spatial Ability Spatial orientation, visualization
Perceptual Ability Speed and flexibility of closure, Perceptual speed
Cognitive Ability People who are high on verbal abilities tend to be high on others. Similarity explained by general cognitive ability called "G."
Emotional Ability/Intelligence Ability that affects social functioning
Self-awareness Understand/Express your emotion
Other-awareness Understand/Express another person's emotion
Emotion Regulation Recovery from Emotional Experiences
Use of Emotion Harness emotion and use them to improve situation
Teleological Perspective (Goal-Oriented) Outcomes...Answering questions in form of what end/purpose the thing being talked about aims at, its final result.
Deontological Perspective Intention...Deontologists argue the rightness or wrongness of an action does not depend on the goodness or badness of its consequences
Utilitanianism the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its usefulness in maximizing utility as summed among all people. One vs. 1 million situations
Theory of Rights Humanity
Theory of Justice Fairness/equality
Theory of Values Ethical is locally/cultural norms.
Leadership use of power & influence to direct followers' activities toward goal achievement
Power Ability to influence others' behaviors...Ability to resist influence attempts of others
Influence Use of behavior that cause changes in others
Organizational Power Legitimate power, Reward power, Coercive power
Legitimate power position of authority; "formal authority"
Reward power control over the resources/rewards another wants
Coercive power Control over punishments
Personal Power Expert Power, Referent Power
Expertise Power Expertise, skill, knowledge
Referent Power Others have desire to identify and be associated with a person. EX. Emotional relationships, Oprah
Leader has ability to influence others' increases when 1.no substitutes for resources,2. leader has freedom to decide,3. leader's role is important,4.others are aware of leader & resources leader can provide
Influence Tactics Rational Persuasion, Inspirational appeal, Consultation, collaboration...work best when combined, tends to be "softer" in nature
Rational Persuasion Logical arguments & facts to prove request
Inspirational appeal Appeal to target's values and ideals
Consultation Help target complete the request
Collaboration Help target complete the request
Engagement most effective way... makes target commit to objective, make changes of attitude and behavior to the organization
Compliance target completes work but does not care.
Resistance target doesn't care & ignores boss/request
Negotiation 2 or more individuals attempt to come to agreement
Handling conflicts Comes down to 2 factors, how assertive & cooperative the leader is
Styles of Conflict Resolution Competing, Avoiding, Accomplishing, Collaboration, Compromise
Competing One attempts goals w/o concern of others
Avoiding One wants to remain neutral
Accommodating one gives in to others
Collaboration Both parties work to max outcomes
Compromise Resolved conflict w/ give&take concession
Decision-making styles Autocratic, Consultative,Facilitate, Delegative
Autocratic leader makes decisions w/o opinions
Consultative leader makes decisions w/ opinions
Facilitative consensus opinion to make decisions w/ leader's opinion
Delegative w/o leader's opinion employees decide
Time driven model of leadership Decision significance, importance of commitment, leader expertise, likelihood of commitment, shared objectives, employee expertise, teamwork skills,
Decision significance is decision significance to organization's success
Importance of commitment how committed is worker/leader to organization
leader expertise leader's knowledge of subject
likelihood of commitment caring about topic
Shared Objectives Employees' agenda on topic
Employee expertise Employees' knowledge of subject
Teamwork skills Employees working together
Ohio State Studies initiating structure, Consideration (Good leaders do both)
Initiating Structure When a leader defines and structures employee's roles
Consideration When leaders create relationships characterized by mutual trust, respect, and consideration
Michigan Studies Identify production-centered(tasks) and employee-centered(relationships), leaderships behavior.... Leaders cannot have both
Transformational leadership transform the way followers view their work and themselves
4 Dimensions of Transformational Leadership Idealized influence, Inspirational motivation, Intellectual Stimulation, Individual consideration
Idealized influence earn admiration and respect followers want to emulate leader
Inspirational motivation enthusiasm for the future
Intellectual stimulation challenging followers to be creative
Individualized consideration helping followers
Transactional leaders reward/punish workers for performance
Active/Passive management by exception waits for mistakes
Contingent reward uses reward to get follower agreement on what needs to be done
Laissez-Faire leaders avoid leadership altogether
Team 2/more who work interdependently to accomplish goals
Work teams designed to be relatively permanent, created to produce goods/services, require full-time commitment from their members
Management teams designed to be relatively permanent,, responsible for coordinating activities of subunits
Parallel teams members from various jobs, provide recommendations for managers
Project teams created for "one-time" tasks that are complex & require input from members w/ different expertise
Action Teams Perform tasks that are limited in duration, complex & visible to an audience
Stages of Development (in order) Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing
Forming Members try to understand boundaries & expectations on team
Storming Members remain committed to ideas; triggers conflict
Norming Members realized they need to work together
Performing Members are comfortable working within their roles; team makes progress toward goals
Punctuated Equilibrium revision of procedures
Task Interdependence Degree to which members interact with and rely on other members
Pooled Interdependence Members complete work interdependently, work is "piled up"
Sequential Interdependence Requires interaction among member and task are done in order
Reciprocal Interdependence requires members to be specialized to perform specific tasks, members interact with some other members to complete tasks
Comprehensive Interdependence requires level of coordination; members decide what they do and with whom they interact
Goal Interdependence Team members have shared vision of team's goals and align their own goals with it; formalized mission statement can be fostered
Outcome Interdependence Team members share the reward the other team earns
Team task roles direct facilitate accomplishment of tasks; ex planner
Team building roles influence quality of team's social climate; ex encourager
Individualistic roles benefits individual at expense of the team; ex recognition seeker
Ability teams w/ member who have higher cognitive ability perform better
Team Personality Traits affect how teams function; conscientious, agreeable, extroversion
Conscientious traits team works best, work gets done
Agreeable traits people promote positive attitude & have smooth interactions
Extroversion traits people are optimistic & more effective interpersonal contexts
Team Diversity degree to which members are different from one another, valued in problem solving approach, provides pool of knowledge
Similarity-attraction approach diversity is detrimental, people are attacted to other who are similar
Surface-level diversity Observable attributes(age,sex,race)
Deep-level diversity Non-physical (attitudes, values, personality)
Team size members are happiest with size of 4-5
Team process Interactions that occur within teams & contribute to their goals
Process gain getting more from the team that you would from its members (synergy)
Process loss getting less from the team that you would from its members
Coordination loss members have to coordinate their activities, consume time & energy
Production blocking members have to wait on others to continue work
Motivation loss members do not work as hard
Social loafing when members exert less effort when working on team tasks that they would if they worked alone.
Taskwork Processes Activities that relate to that accomplishment team tasks
Creative behavior Brainstorming, Nominal group technique
Brainstorming meetings where ideas are thrown out, quiet members wont interact
Nominal group technique members write down their ideas on their own, and then bring ideas together
Decision Informity whether the members process adequate info
Staff validity members recommends ideas to leader
Hierarchical Sensitivity leader weighs recommendations
Types of teamwork proceses transition process, action process, and interpersonal process
transition process Focus on preparation for future work
action process occur while taskwork
interpersonal process important before,during, or in between periods of taskwork
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