What are Leadership Traits? Trait leadership is defined as integrated patterns of personal characteristics that reflect a range of individual differences and foster consistent leader effectiveness across a variety of group and...

In this video, the teacher explains the concept of investor center performance and introduces three key metrics used to assess it: return on investment, residual income, and economic value added. These metrics help measure the...

What is Perception? How does perception relate to organizational behavior? Perception in Organisational Behavior is defined as the process by which an individual selects, organizes and interprets stimuli into a meaningful and coherent...

Opportunistic behavior is an act or behavior of partnership motivated by the maximization of economic self-interest and occasioned loss of the other partners.

What is Vroom and Yetton's Normative Decision Model? The Vroom-Yetton model is designed to help you to identify the best decision-making approach and leadership style to take, based on your current situation.

What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)? How is it relevant to organizational behavior?

What is a Mental Frame? Mental framing is how you see any given situation and occurs when you position your thoughts in such a way as to convince yourself of the value of difficult situations. This positioning begins by asking a few...

Also known as the Milgrim Shock Experiments, the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures were a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram.

What is Pondy's Model of Organizational Conflict? Pondy's model of organizational conflict was formulated in 1967, defining the conflict process as a dynamic among individuals, and is made up of five stages of conflict: latent stage,...

What is Personality? How does it related to organizational behavior? Personality refers to the combination of a person's characteristics that make them unique and of a distinctive character, and it forms the basis for individual...

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...

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...

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.

What is Stakeholder Analysis? Stakeholder analysis in conflict resolution, business administration, environmental health sciences decision making,[1] industrial ecology, public administration, and project management is the process of...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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".

Retrenchment is a strategy that some organizations use to prevent further profit losses.

What is Uncertainty Avoidance? In cross-cultural psychology, uncertainty avoidance is how cultures differ on the amount of tolerance they have of unpredictability.

French and Raven, researchers at the University of Michigan, identified five bases — or sources — of social power in 1959: legitimate, reward, referent, expert, coercive

What is Theory E? What is Theory O? Theory E is change based on economic value. Theory O is change based on organizational capability. Both are valid models; each theory of change achieves some of management's goals, either explicitly or...

What is a Change Agent? In business, a change agent is an individual who promotes and supports a new way of doing something within the company. This can be the use of a new process, the adoption of a new management structure or the...