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Paradigm - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ a model; an example
Theory X - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ assumes that workers are
basically lazy, error-prone, and extrinsically motivated by money and,
thus, should be directed from above.
Organizational Behavior Approach - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
Employees are complex, and theoretical understanding supported by
research is needed before applications are made to manage employees
One-eighth Situation - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Only 1/8 of
organizations buy into importance and value of human resources,
incorporate high performance work practices, and stick with these
practices
knowing-doing gap - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ the gap between
what people know and what they actually do
evidence-based management - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Using hard
facts and empirical evidence to make decisions
, Hawthorne studies - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ A series of studies
during the 1920s and 1930s that provided new insights into individual
and group behavior
Hawthorne effect - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ productivity increases
when workers are given special attention and were enjoying a novel,
interesting experienced
meta-analysis - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ A research technique that
combines the statistical results of many studies of the same question,
yielding an estimate of the size and consistency of a variable's effects.
Theory - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ simplification of reality; why
something occurs
Research design - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Primary aim is to
establish a cause-and-effect relationship; survey studies, case studies,
and experimental design
Experimental Design - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Involves the
manipulation of independent variables to measure their effect on, or the
change in, dependent variables, while everything else is held constant or
controlled