ADM 2336 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Job Performance, Job Satisfaction, Conscientiousness
12 Oct 2018
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Department
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ADM 2336
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Learning Objectives
Understanding the influence of
Individual
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Interpersonal
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Organization factors on the person and commitment of individuals in the
organizational
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History of Organizational Behaviour
Frederick Taylor
A scientific management
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Changed how OB works
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Created the idea of paying people for their amount of work
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Hawthorne - Western Electric Company Studies
Discovered that people need interactions
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Is Organization Behaviour Common Sense?
Grosse & Lerner (2012) - Relative status influences well-being, those in
leadership positions generally experience less
Perceived stress
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Stress hormones
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Anxiety
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Whitehall Studies
Those in higher organization positions show lower mortality rates/live
longer
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Experimental Methods in OB
Paradigmatic theories
This is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental
practices of a scientific discipline
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Causality theories
This is a progressive and controversial theory based upon cause and effect
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Descriptive theories
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Class 1 -Jan. 9th
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
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Descriptive theories
This is where you have a theory that describes a situation or phenomenon
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Predictive theories
This is when you have two variables that cause a correlation
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Characteristics of Good Hypothesis
A hypothesis must propose an adequate answer to a question
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Hypothesis must be likely and coherent
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Hypotheses must be parsimonious
It must use a minimal of resources
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A hypothesis must be verifiable
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Document Summary
Organization factors on the person and commitment of individuals in the organizational. Created the idea of paying people for their amount of work. Grosse & lerner (2012) - relative status influences well-being, those in leadership positions generally experience less. Those in higher organization positions show lower mortality rates/live longer. This is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline. This is a progressive and controversial theory based upon cause and effect. This is where you have a theory that describes a situation or phenomenon. This is when you have two variables that cause a correlation. A hypothesis must propose an adequate answer to a question. Understanding the job performance of employees is very important. First the job performance needs to be defined. After that the job performance needs to be measures. Then the performance is measured, a reward is given. Pros and cons of results based on job performance.
