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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...
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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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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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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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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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Behavioral Approach to Leadership
What is Behavioral Approach to Leadership? The behavioral leadership theory focuses on how leaders behave, and assumes that these traits can be copied by other leaders. Sometimes called the style theory, it suggests that leaders aren't...
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Balance Theory (Cognitive Balance)
What is Balance Theory, also known as Cognitive Balance? Cognitive balance theory was devised by Heider (1946, 1958) to explain how people resolve inconsistencies in their interpersonal affects. For example, if a person p likes another...
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Attribution Theory
What is Attribution Theory? Attribution is a term used in psychology which deals with how individuals perceive the causes of everyday experience, as being either external or internal. Models to explain this process are called Attribution...
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Attitude (Organizational Behavior)
What is Attitude? How is it related to Organizational Behavior? Attitude is a way of thinking or feeling about something and is usually reflected in behavior. Attitude in the workplace refers to the feelings and beliefs concerning the...
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Ambiguity Theory
What is the Ambiguity Theory? Ambiguity theory assumes that turbulence and unpredictability are dominant features of organizations. That is, the organization is marked by uncertainty and unpredictability.
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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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Affluenza
What is Affluenza? Affluenza is a pseudoscientific psychological malaise supposedly affecting wealthy people. It is a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, and is used most commonly by critics of consumerism. It is not a medically...
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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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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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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 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".