MADM 701 - Org Behavior Chapter 7
POB Exam Questions and Answers
POB - Positive organizational behavior - Answers -The study and application of positive
oriented human resource strengths and psychological capacities that can be measured,
developed, and effectively managed for performance improvement
Besides being positive and a psychological resource capacity, to be included as a POB
construct the following criteria must be met: 4 Things - Answers -Based on Research
Valid Measures
State Like and open to development
Managed for Performance
POB Criteria - Based on Research 1 - Answers -building theoretical grounding and
continuing basic and applied research findings
POB Criteria - Valid Measures 2 - Answers -must have reliable and valid measures
POB Criteria - State Like 3 - Answers -State like and thus upon to development -
especially critical bc it differentiates the approach from much of positive psycology.
State like - Answers -situationally based, open to learning, change and development
Trait like - Answers -dispositional, relatively fixed across situations and time
POB Criteria - Managed for performance 4 - Answers -Separates POB from positive
psychology - concerned with the workplace and how the positive psychological resource
capacity can be applied to improve human performance.
The positive psychological capacities that have been determined to best meet these
four criteria are:
The 4 major POB Constructs - Answers -Efficacy
Optimism
Hope
Resiliency
In addition to these 4 capacities there are other positive constructs that meet the criteria
- Answers -Happiness/Subjective Well Being
Emotional Intellegience
, The aim of positive psychology is to - Answers -use scientific methodology to discover
and promote the factors that allow individuals,
groups, organizations, and communities to thrive.
It is concerned with optimal human functioning instead of pathological human
functioning.
H-R-W Welling Being - Answers -significant correlation between health, relationships,
and work.
Health
Relationships
Work
HRW Well Being Model indicates - Answers -an interactive, reciprocal determination
between one's health, relationships affect their health, their health affects their work and
their work affects their health, and so on
One's happiness or level of HRW Well Being is determined by: - Answers -Genetics
50%
Life's circumstances 10%
Intentional Activity 40% - intentional strategies that you can implement to remake
yourself as a happier person.
Intentional Activity
POB is state like and open to development can - Answers -intentionally be used to
directly impact work performance, and int turn, relationships and health.
POB Constructs 1 - Self Efficacy - Answers -Self Confidence
Ton of psychological research on this
Efficacy beliefs contribute significantly to the level of motivation and performance
Self Efficacy Definition - Answers -how well one can execute courses of action required
to deal with prospective situations
or
individual's conviction about their abilities to mobilize the motivation, cognitive
resources, and courses of action needed to successfully execute a task
Two types of Self Efficacy - Answers -Specific (State like)
General (Trait like)
POB Exam Questions and Answers
POB - Positive organizational behavior - Answers -The study and application of positive
oriented human resource strengths and psychological capacities that can be measured,
developed, and effectively managed for performance improvement
Besides being positive and a psychological resource capacity, to be included as a POB
construct the following criteria must be met: 4 Things - Answers -Based on Research
Valid Measures
State Like and open to development
Managed for Performance
POB Criteria - Based on Research 1 - Answers -building theoretical grounding and
continuing basic and applied research findings
POB Criteria - Valid Measures 2 - Answers -must have reliable and valid measures
POB Criteria - State Like 3 - Answers -State like and thus upon to development -
especially critical bc it differentiates the approach from much of positive psycology.
State like - Answers -situationally based, open to learning, change and development
Trait like - Answers -dispositional, relatively fixed across situations and time
POB Criteria - Managed for performance 4 - Answers -Separates POB from positive
psychology - concerned with the workplace and how the positive psychological resource
capacity can be applied to improve human performance.
The positive psychological capacities that have been determined to best meet these
four criteria are:
The 4 major POB Constructs - Answers -Efficacy
Optimism
Hope
Resiliency
In addition to these 4 capacities there are other positive constructs that meet the criteria
- Answers -Happiness/Subjective Well Being
Emotional Intellegience
, The aim of positive psychology is to - Answers -use scientific methodology to discover
and promote the factors that allow individuals,
groups, organizations, and communities to thrive.
It is concerned with optimal human functioning instead of pathological human
functioning.
H-R-W Welling Being - Answers -significant correlation between health, relationships,
and work.
Health
Relationships
Work
HRW Well Being Model indicates - Answers -an interactive, reciprocal determination
between one's health, relationships affect their health, their health affects their work and
their work affects their health, and so on
One's happiness or level of HRW Well Being is determined by: - Answers -Genetics
50%
Life's circumstances 10%
Intentional Activity 40% - intentional strategies that you can implement to remake
yourself as a happier person.
Intentional Activity
POB is state like and open to development can - Answers -intentionally be used to
directly impact work performance, and int turn, relationships and health.
POB Constructs 1 - Self Efficacy - Answers -Self Confidence
Ton of psychological research on this
Efficacy beliefs contribute significantly to the level of motivation and performance
Self Efficacy Definition - Answers -how well one can execute courses of action required
to deal with prospective situations
or
individual's conviction about their abilities to mobilize the motivation, cognitive
resources, and courses of action needed to successfully execute a task
Two types of Self Efficacy - Answers -Specific (State like)
General (Trait like)
