MGMT Test 1

37 cards   |   Total Attempts: 182
  

Cards In This Set

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Organizational Behavior
The study of factors that affect how individuals and groups act in organizations and how organizations respond to their environments
Team
A group in which members work together intensively and develop team0specific routines to achieve a common group goal
Management
The process of planning, organizing, leading and controllling an organization's human, financial, material and other resources to increase its effectiveness
Global Learning
The process of acquiring and learning the skills, knowledge, and organizational behaviors and procedures that have helped companies aboad become major global competitors
Expatriate Managers
The people who work overseas and are responsible for developing relationships with organizations in countries around the world
Personality
The pattern of relatively enduring ways that a person feels, thinks and behaves
Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA) Framework
The idea that an organization attracts and selects individuals with similar personalities and loses individuals with other types of personalities
Extraversion
The tendency to experience positive emotional states and feel good about onself and the world around one; also called positive affectivity
Neuroticism
The tendancy to experience negative emotional states and view onself and the world around one negatively; also called negative affectivity
Agreeableness
The tendancy to get along well with others
Conscientiousness
The extent to which a person is careful, scrupulous and perserving
Openness to Experience
The extent to which a person is original, has broad interests, and is willing to take risks
External Locus of Control
Describes people who believe that fate, luck, or outside forces are responsible for what happens to them
Internal Locus of Control
Describes people who believe that ability, effort, or their own actions determines what happens to them
Self monitoring
The extent to which people try to control the way they present themselves to others