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Stress (Organizational Behavior)
What is Stress? How is it related to Organizational Behavior? Stress occurs when a demand exceeds an individual's coping ability and disrupts his or her psychological equilibrium. Stress occurs in the workplace when an employee perceives...
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Strategic Maneuvering
Strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse consists in reconciling two simultaneous tendencies: aiming for effectiveness and maintaining reasonableness.
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Strategic Contingency Model
Strategic Contingencies Theory focuses on tasks that need to be done in the form of problems to be solved, thus de-emphasizing personality. If a person does not have charisma but is able to solve problem, then s/he can be an effective...
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Stanford Prison Study - Zimbardo Studies
The Stanford prison experiment was a psychological experiment conducted in the summer of 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behaviors.
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Socio-Psychological Theory (Neo-Freudian)
What is Socio-Psychological Theory? What is Neo-Freudian theory? These theorists, referred to as neo-Freudians, generally agreed with Freud that childhood experiences matter, but deemphasized sex, focusing more on the social environment...
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Social Networks in Organizations
What are Social Networks in Organizations? Social networks are visual maps of relationships between individuals. They are vital parts of organizational life as well as important when you are first looking for a job.
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Social Network Analysis
What is Social Network Analysis? Social network analysis is the process of investigating social structures through the use of networks and graph theory. It characterizes networked structures in terms of nodes and the ties, edges, or...
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Social Facilitation Theory
Social facilitation is a social phenomenon in which being in the presence of others improves individual task performance. That is, people do better on tasks when they are with other people rather than when they are doing the task alone.
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Social Choice Theory
What is Social Choice Theory? Social choice theory or social choice is a theoretical framework for analysis of combining individual opinions, preferences, interests, or welfares to reach a collective decision or social welfare in some...
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Social Capital
What is Social Capital? Social capital is "the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively".
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What are some approaches to managing problem team members_
What are some approaches to managing problem team members?
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Uncertainty Avoidance
What is Uncertainty Avoidance? In cross-cultural psychology, uncertainty avoidance is how cultures differ on the amount of tolerance they have of unpredictability.
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Types of Power
French and Raven, researchers at the University of Michigan, identified five bases — or sources — of social power in 1959: legitimate, reward, referent, expert, coercive
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Categories of Long-Term (Plant) Assets - Accounting
Categories of Long-Term (Plant) Assets - Accounting
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Big Five Model of Personality Traits
What is the Big Five Model of Personality Traits? The Big Five personality traits are extraversion (also often spelled extroversion), agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. The Big Five remain relatively stable...
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Cost Behavior
Costs change or react to changes in other organizational levels or variables. Most notably, the Cost Volume Profit analysis analyzes changes in cost related to profitability and volume.
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Understanding Cost Behavior and its Impact on Managerial Judgment
This video explores the concept of cost behavior and its relevance to managerial judgment. The video introduces two common methods for assessing cost changes: the high-low method and regression analysis. The video emphasizes that...
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Conflict Theory
What is Conflict Theory? Conflict theories are perspectives in sociology and social psychology that emphasize a materialist interpretation of history, dialectical method of analysis, a critical stance toward existing social arrangements,...
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Conflict (Organizational Behavior)
What is Conflict? How does it relate to Organizational Behavior? Organizational conflict refers to the condition of misunderstanding or disagreement that is caused by the perceived or actual opposition in the needs, interests, and values...
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Examples of Distributive Negotiation Tactics
This Video Explains Examples of Distributive Negotiation Tactics
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Enneagram of 9 Personalities
What is the Enneagram of 9 Personalities? Nines value harmony, comfort and peace. They are motivated by a need to always keep the peace and avoid conflict at all costs.
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Endowment Effect
What is the Endowment Effect? n psychology and behavioral economics, the endowment effect is the finding that people are more likely to retain an object they own than acquire that same object when they do not own it.
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Enactment Theory
What is Enactment Theory? Enactment theory goes be- yond the conventional scope of theories of action by acknowledging tiordances in the environment, needs of individuals and organizations, decision and preparation, motivation, planning...