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Emotions (Organizational Behavior)
What are Emotions? How do emotions relate to Organizational Behavior? Emotions shape an individual's belief about the value of a job, a company, or a team. Emotions also affect behaviors at work. Research shows that individuals within...
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Emotional Labor
What is Emotional Labor? Emotional labor is the process of managing feelings and expressions to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job. More specifically, workers are expected to regulate their personas during interactions with...
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Emotional Intelligence
What is Emotional Intelligence? Emotional intelligence is most often defined as the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions.
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Elements of Human Relations Theory
Dr. Kyle Huff explains what are the Elements of Human Relations Theory
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Determining Ethical Behavior in a Negotiation
Ethics in negotiation can involve expectations of fairness, equity, and honesty but circumstances might lead you to behave unethically.
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Dimensions of Relational Work
What are the Dimensions of Relational Work? According to Butler and Waldroop the following Four Dimensions of Relational Work are important: Influence, Interpersonal Facilitation, Relational Creativity and Team leadership.
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Institutional Theory
What is Institutional Theory? In sociology and organizational studies, institutional theory is a theory on the deeper and more resilient aspects of social structure. It considers the processes by which structures, including schemes,...
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Influence (Organizational Behavior)
Influence is the ability to affect the actions and behaviors of others. Influence is similar to power and derivers from numerous sources. Researchers identified six sources of power, which include legitimate, reward, coercive, expert,...
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Individual Values
What are Individual Values? How doe values pertain to management and organizational behavior? Values are the guiding forces behind decision-making, perception, and behavior. Managers seek to understand their employees values. This...
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How does Ethics Interact with Marketing
How does Ethics Interact with Marketing
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House's Path Goal Theory (Situational Leadership)
What is House's Path Goal Theory (Situational Leadership)? Robert J. House, founder of Path-Goal theory, believes that a leader's behavior is contingent to employee satisfaction, employee motivation and employee performance. Path-Goal...
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Holland's Personality Job Fit
What is Holland's Personality Job Fit? Holland found that people needing help with career decisions can be supported by understanding their resemblance to the following six ideal vocational personality types: Realistic (R) Investigative...
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Heuristics
What are Heuristics? How are they relevant to organizational behavior? Heuristics are mental shortcuts that can facilitate problem-solving and probability judgments. These strategies are generalizations, or rules-of-thumb, that reduce...
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Hersey Blanchard Situational Leadership Model
What is the Hersey Blanchard Situational Leadership Model? The Situational Leadership Model, is a model created by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard, developed while working on Management of Organizational Behavior. The theory was first...
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Hawthorne Experiments
Dr. Kyle Huff explains what are the Hawthorne Experiments
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Hartman's Value Profile
What is Hartman's Value Profile? a Hartman Value Profile assessment reveals underlying values that drive behavior and why these behaviors result in success (or failure) across leaders and teams. The assessment can also be repeated over...
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Halo Effect
What is the Halo Effect? The halo effect is the tendency for positive impressions of a person, company, country, brand, or product in one area to positively or negatively influence one's opinion or feelings in other areas.
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Gestalt Theory
What is Gestalt Theory? Gestalt psychology, gestaltism, or configurationism is a school of psychology that emerged in the early twentieth century in Austria and Germany as a theory of perception that was a rejection of basic principles...
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Generation Y (Gen Y) or Millenials
What is Generation Y (Gen Y) or Millenials? Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z.
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Generation X (Gen X)
What is Generation X (Gen X)? Generation X is the demographic cohort following the baby boomers and preceding the millennials. Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1960s as starting birth years and the late 1970s to early...
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Frame Dependence
What is Frame Dependence? Frame dependence means that people make decisions that are influenced by the manner in which the information is presented. Frame dependence manifests itself in the way that people form attitudes towards gains...
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Fiedler's Contingency Model
What is Fiedler's Contingency Model? The contingency model by business and management psychologist Fred Fiedler is a contingency theory concerned with the effectiveness of a leader in an organization.
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Allport Vernon Lindzey Study of Values
What is the Allport Vernon Lindzey Study of Values? It is a psychological tool designed to measure personal preferences of six types of values: theoretical, economic, aesthetic, social, political, and religious.
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Propositions in Behavioral Science
Dr. Kyle Huff explains what is Propositions in Behavioral Science