Organizational Behaviour Midterm 1 Chapter 1,2,3,4 Already Passed

Organizational Behaviour Midterm 1 Chapter 1,2,3,4 Already Passed What is self-efficacy? confidence to make an effort __________ is an effective approach for organizations to improve employee health and well being by developing their psycap positive organizational behaviour "the relatively stable set of psychological characteristics that influence the way an individual interacts with their environment and how they feel, think, and behave" definition of personality what is personality determined by? genetic predisposition (strong) and learning history (weak) People use their personality as a _________ for dealing with the world program what is the "person vs situation debate"? trying to answer the question, what drives performance, personality of the professional or their environment/situation what drives behaviour performance in organizations? personality? or the situation? leads to these approaches dispositional approach, situation approach, and interactionist approach the personality approach to organizational behaviour is called the dispositional approach what is the dispositional approach? military origins. believes that individuals are predisposed to behave in certain ways. and therefor, personality will be a predictor of performance at a job research showed mixed results that failed to support the usefulness of personality testing on job performance. issues with the dispositional approach characteristics of the organizational setting influence people's attitudes and behaviour definition of the situational approach rewards and punishments, job satisfaction and other work related attitudes due to work tasks being interesting or boring examples of characteristics of an organization supported by some research but results are inconsistent. As performance not fully explained by situation. issues with the situational approach individuals attitudes and behaviour are a function of both dispositional and situational theories. definition of the interactionist Approach what is the most widely accepted theory to predicting and understanding organizational behaviour interactionist approach - it is an unstructured situation where there are few rules, roles are loosely defined and there is weak reward and punishment - unclear to the individual how to behave example of interactionist approach where personality has more of an impact - structured situation, roles rules and reward/ punishment well defined example of interactionist approach where personality has less of an impact and the course of action is clear when the interactionist approach in broken down into situations where personality traits appear or disappear trait activation theory personality influences behaviour only when the situation call for a particular personality characteristic definition of the Trait activation theory there is no one best personality for one situation, managers need to appreciate the advantages of employee diversity and understanding personality types are important again. conclusion of the trait activation theory key