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20 Cards in this Set
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Basic Research in OB
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Trying to find out what is, each person is motivated by something
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What are two factors in OB?
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Cultural themes and communications
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What is the contingency approach?
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the "it depends" theory
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Who was one of the first people who find out that people were wasting their talents (Time in motion study)
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Frederick Taylor in 1912 (The scientific Management)
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The Scientinfic Management
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How are we gonna make things faster
Youre going to get the most out of people if they are experts at a certain trade |
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Hawthorne studies
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was the relay room where they asked if changing the environment has an effect on people
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Theory X
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Workers don't want the responsibility so you have to "crack the whip" to get them to work
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Theory Y
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People can enjoy responsibility, but you have to set up things accordingly
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Contemporary issues in OB
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Globalization
Divergence Demography Technology Quality Research Methods |
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Contemporary Issues in OB:
Globalization |
convergence - the world is becoming more American
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Contemporary Issues in OB:
Divergence |
Individualistic
Power Distance Long-term orientation Ambiguity Tolerance Masculine |
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Divergence:
Individualistic |
caring about "me", trying to draw attention to yourself
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Divergence:
Power Distance |
How stratified is this culture
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Divergence:
Long-term orientation |
It'll take a long time for things to happen
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Divergence:
Ambiguity Tolerance |
cultures differ about the unknown
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Divergence:
Masculine |
Materialistic/relational
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Contemporary Issues in OB:
Demography |
the way society has view of people and what has happened in the work place
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Contemporary Issues in OB:
Technology |
work flexibility-telecommunting; flextime, job share, permanent temporary work
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Contemporary Issues in OB:
Quality |
Deming, each phase has to have to double check the work to make sure
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Contemporary Issues in OB:
Research methods |
Correlation
Experiments Field experiments |
