Industrial Psych Test 1

Front 1

Organization

Back 1

Is a social construct
- Non-tangible

Front 2

Margin Strategies

Back 2

What it costs and how to gain income

Front 3

Differences between non-profit and profit

Back 3

Non-profit - Private Sector
Profit - Commercial Enterprise

Front 4

Non- Profit Organization

Back 4

- Educational
- Religion
- Charity
- Government
Can make a profit, it is a modest profit

Front 5

Profit Organizations

Back 5

- Food Industry
- Transportation
- Retail
- Manufacturing
- Hospitality

Front 6

2 Strategies in Profit

Back 6

- Volume Strategy
- Margin Strategy

Front 7

Examples of 2 Strategies

Back 7

Apple - on a margin strategy and needed IBM to survive
IBM - on a volume strategy

Front 8

Value Consumer

Back 8

- Save the money
-coupons
-Wal-Mart

Front 9

Margin Companies

Back 9

Sell to status markets/consumers

Front 10

Psychology Distinctions

Back 10

Size
- Small
- Medium
- Large

Front 11

Small Pscyh

Back 11

Under 50, 100+ is not small
- People have multiple roles

Front 12

Medium Psych

Back 12

More than 50, less than 250
- Break out of department
- Retained legal/accounting services, not in house

Front 13

Large Psych

Back 13

More than 250
- Legal in-house
- Accounts in-house

Front 14

Revenue Distinctions

Back 14

Small
Medium
Large

Front 15

Small Capitalization

Back 15

7 Million or less

Front 16

Medium Capitalization

Back 16

Between 7 and 50 Million

Front 17

Large Capitalization

Back 17

50 Million and higher

Front 18

Organizations as systems

Back 18

- came from biology and physics
- some set of interrelated parts and that ultimately transacts with the outside

Front 19

Three Components of Every System

Back 19

- Inputs
- Throughputs
- Outputs

Front 20

Inputs

Back 20

The raw material that is entering the system
- visual System - light
- Hospital system - Patients

Front 21

Throughputs

Back 21

Transformational process, changes from raw state to finished state
- Visual system - Process in eye
- Hospital system - treatment

Front 22

Outputs

Back 22

The final product
- Visual system - image
- Hospital system - treated patient

Front 23

Closed System

Back 23

- Not transacting with outside
- Like a box
- Highly predictable, rational, hydrolic
EX: The break pedal

Front 24

Open System

Back 24

- Boundaries are permeable
- like an amoeba
- All parts effect each other
- Dynamic, a rational, no logic
- All have the capability to take down an organization equally, inside and out

Front 25

Closed Systems Continued

Back 25

are determinant/fatal
Not focused on interpersonal relationships

Front 26

Open Systems Continued

Back 26

not determinant
focus on interpersonal relationships

Front 27

The biggest left in organizations

Back 27

Time

Front 28

Systems

Back 28

- Closed systems are subsumed in open systems
- All systems are nested with all systems and have systems subsumed in them

Front 29

General Systems Theory

Back 29

Thought of in 1931

Front 30

Bolding

Back 30

Dealt with different types of systems
- Physical
- Biological

Front 31

Physical Systems

Back 31

Most Primary
- Frameworks
- Clockwork
- Cybernetic

Front 32

Frameworks

Back 32

Level 1 system
- Static Structures

Front 33

Clockwork

Back 33

Simplest dynamic
- predetermined motions

Front 34

Cybernetic

Back 34

Self Regulation
- Some externally prescribed

Front 35

Biological Systems

Back 35

Level 4 Starts Biological
- Self Maintenance, regulates itself

Front 36

Blue Printed Growth System

Back 36

Level 5
- Reproduce by production of seeds or eggs containing programed instruction on growth

Front 37

Internal Image System

Back 37

Level 6
- Detailed awareness of the environment in which info is received and organized into an image or knowledge structure

Front 38

Symbol Processing System

Back 38

Level 7
- Posses self-consciousness

Front 39

Social Systems

Back 39

Level 8
- Multi comprising actors functioning at 7 who share a common social structure and language

Front 40

Transindental System

Back 40

Level 9
- Systems composed of the absolutes and inescapable unknowables

Front 41

Entrapy

Back 41

2nd Law of thermo dynamic
- all systems left alone move toward entrapy
- Maximum disorder, chaos, disarray

Front 42

Equifinality

Back 42

- All systems that relate to entrapy
- Fatalistic notion
- All systems go to the same end
- Freedom exist in a confined place

Front 43

Ectropy

Back 43

- With continued inputs within the environment
- One system with its sustained environment

Front 44

Work

Back 44

Refers to an activity involving a force and movement in the direction of the force

Front 45

Energy

Back 45

The capacity to do work
Kinetic and Potential

Front 46

Power

Back 46

- Rate of doing work
- Rate of using energy

Front 47

Morphostasus

Back 47

- Tends to be quality of maintaining structure
- Leadership, good selection etc.

Front 48

Morphogenisus

Back 48

- Activities that relate to growth, development, differentiation and change of a system

Front 49

Negative Entrapy

Back 49

- Maintaining order, structure
- Good thing

Front 50

Positive Energy

Back 50

- Decay, Chaos
- Competition

Front 51

Investor Strategies

Back 51

- Growth Strategies
- Income Strategies

Front 52

Growth Strategy

Back 52

- Tend not to give dividends
- Belief

Front 53

Income Strategy

Back 53

- Pay dividends
- Reliable

Front 54

4 Features that make science different

Back 54

1. Empirical
2. Logical
3. Systematic
4. Critical

Front 55

Empirical

Back 55

- Get evidence/ difference between philosophy

Front 56

Logical

Back 56

- Rational

Front 57

Systematic

Back 57

Scientific Method

Front 58

Critical

Back 58

- Share with philosophy

Front 59

Basic Goals of Science

Back 59

1. Describe
2. Predict
3. Understand
4. Explain