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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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Groupthink
What is Groupthink? Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.
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Group vs Team
What is a Group? What is a Team? What is the difference between a group and a team? A group is a collection of individuals who coordinate their efforts, while a team is a group of people who share a common goal. While similar, the two...
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Group Structure
What is Group Structure? The arrangement of individuals and their relationships, both implicit and formalized, in a group, including positions, roles, and patterns of authority, attraction, and communication.
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Group Cohesion
What is Group Cohesion? the unity or solidarity of a group, including the integration of the group for both social and task-related purposes.
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Global Management
What is Global Management? Global management is a distinct set of administration, communication and management strategies tailored to the needs of an interconnected, worldwide community. This includes how organizations manage hiring,...
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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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Four Stages of Group Development
What ar the 4 Stages of Group Development? Psychologist Bruce Tuckman described how teams move through stages known as forming, storming, norming, and performing, and adjourning (or mourning). You can use Tuckman's model to help your...
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Flat Organizational Structure
Dr. Kyle Huff explains what is a Flat Organizational Structure
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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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Creation and Maintenance of Organizational Culture
How do you create organizational culture? How do you maintain organizational culture?
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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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Belbin Team Roles
What are Belbin Team Roles? The Belbin Team Inventory, also called Belbin Self-Perception Inventory or Belbin Team Role Inventory, is a behavioural test. It was devised by Raymond Meredith Belbin to measure preference for nine Team...
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Behavioral Science Theory
Dr. Kyle Huff explains what is Behavioral Science Theory
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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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Bass Diffusion Model
What is the Bass Diffusion Model? The Bass model or Bass diffusion model was developed by Frank Bass. It consists of a simple differential equation that describes the process of how new products get adopted in a population. The model...
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Bases of Social Power
French and Raven identified those five bases of power as coercive, reward, legitimate, referent, and expert.
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Base Rate Fallacy
What is Base Rate Fallacy? The base rate fallacy, also called base rate neglect or base rate bias, is a type of fallacy in which people tend to ignore the base rate in favor of the individuating information. Base rate neglect is a...
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Bandwagon Effect
The bandwagon effect is the tendency for people to adopt certain behaviors, styles, or attitudes simply because others are doing so. More specifically, it is a cognitive bias by which public opinion or behaviours can alter due to...
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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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Availability Bias
What is Availability Bias? The availability heuristic, also known as availability bias, is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or...