Organizational Behavior: Key Concepts & Exam Prep

Organizational Behavior Exam 1 Study Guide

Meyer’s Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Understand the Meyers-Briggs dimensions and be able to describe them in terms of the types’ preferences or traits.

  • Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator
  • Identifies 8 personality preferences: 4 pairs of opposites
  • The 4 preferences are your “type” and are based on 4 different types of questions

Energy Source

  • (E) or (I): Extraversion vs. Introversion
  • Extraversion: Preference for drawing energy from the outside world of people, activities,
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Key Concepts in Workplace Dynamics and Leadership

Power Currencies (RICE Model)

The RICE model describes different ways people gain influence in conflicts or workplace situations.

  • Resource Control: Power derived from possessing valuable resources like money, job positions, or materials. Example: A manager controls promotions or raises, influencing employee behavior.
  • Interpersonal Linkages: Power gained through connections with influential people. Example: An employee befriended by the CEO might secure visibility for their team’s projects.
  • Communication
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Leadership Theories and Team Dynamics: A Comprehensive Analysis

Trait Theory and the Big 5

Trait Theory is a framework for understanding personality through stable patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion. The Big Five personality traits are Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism (emotional stability). These traits describe how a person typically thinks, feels, and behaves. For instance, Conscientiousness predicts high performance in both individual and team settings, and Extraversion correlates with leadership potential.

Main

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Enhancing Team Dynamics: LMX Theory, Cohesion, and Diversity

Developing Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Theory

Minimum requirements for a leader-member exchange:

Liking (Affect)

  • Customizing personal information in emails to different team members.
  • Chatting with members about personal matters to enhance the socio-emotional bond.
  • Relationship-building behaviors from leaders promote positive perceptions and increase the likelihood of followers seeing leaders as close.

Loyalty (Fostering Loyalty in a Virtual Setting)

  • Public support for members: Defending members who are
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Motivation Theories: Maslow, Herzberg, and More

Understanding Motivation in the Workplace

Individuals base their behavior not on the way their external environment actually is but rather on what they see or believe it to be.

Key Elements of Motivation

  1. Intensity: Measures how hard a person tries. This is the element most of us focus on when we talk about motivation. However, high intensity is unlikely to lead to favorable job-performance outcomes unless the effort is channeled in a

  2. Direction: Benefits the organization.

  3. Persistence: Measures how long

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Cultural Dimensions in Business Negotiations

Unit 7: Cultural Dimensions Impacting Negotiations

Power Distance

  • Power Distance has been defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of organizations and institutions (like the family) accept and expect that power is distributed unequally.
  • It suggests that a society’s level of inequality is endorsed by the followers as much as by the leaders.
  • Refers to the acceptance of authority differences between people; thus, protocol, formality, and hierarchy are considered important.
  • In high-power
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