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Chapter 1

What Is Organizational
Behavior?

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Class Agenda
What is organizational behavior?
Does it matter?
How do we “know” things about OB?

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What Is Organizational Behavior?

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Think of the single worst coworker you’ve ever had.
• What did he or she do that was so bad?

Think of the single best coworker you’ve ever had.
• What did he or she do that was so good?

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What Is Organizational Behavior?

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A field of study devoted to understanding, explaining,
and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of
individuals and groups in organizations

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An Integrative Roadmap

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Does OB Matter?
Do firms who do a good job managing OB concepts
become more profitable as a result?

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Does OB Matter?
Figure 1-2 What Makes a Resource Valuable?
The resource-based view
of the firm

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Table 1-2 Survey Questions Designed to
Assess High-Performance Work Practices
Survey Questions about OB Practice

Covered in Chapter

What is the proportion of the workforce whose jobs have been
subjected to a formal job analysis?

What is the proportion of the workforce who are administered
attitude surveys on a regular basis?

What is the proportion of the workforce who have access to
company incentive plans, profit-sharing plans, and/or gain-sharing
plans?

What is the average number of hours of training received by a
typical employee over the last 12 months?

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What is the proportion of the workforce who have access to a
formal grievance procedure and/or complaint resolution system?

What proportion of the workforce are administered an
employment test prior to hiring?
What is the proportion of the workforce whose performance
appraisals are used to determine compensation?

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6

Source: From M.A. Huselid. “The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices on Turnover,
Productivity, and Corporate Financial Performance.” Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 38, pp. 635-72.
Copyright © 1995. Reproduced with permission of Academy of Management via Copyright Clearance Center.

Table 1-3 The “100 Best Companies
to Work For” in 2015
1. Google

50. Goldman Sachs

81. Publix

2. Boston Consulting

51. American Express

82. Bright Horizons

3. Acuity

53. Marriott

83. TDIndustries

4. SAS

54. QuickTrip

85. Mars

5. Robert W. Baird

55. Whole Foods

86. Zappos

7. Wegman’s

63. KPMG

9. Genentech

70. Cisco

88. Cheesecake
Factory

24. Twitter

73. Mayo Clinic

90. Adobe

27. Container Store

74. PWC

91. Capital One

32. St. Jude

78. Hyatt

93. Nordstrom

47. Four Seasons

79. Ernst & Young

95. Nationwide

49. Aflac

80. General Mills

97. Deloitte
98. Accenture

Source: From M. Moskowitz and R. Levering. “The 100 Best Companies to Work For.” Fortune, Mary 15, 2015.

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So What’s So Hard?
The Rule of 1/8th
“One must bear in mind that 1/2 of organizations won’t
believe the connection between how they manage their
people and the profits they earn. 1/2 of those who do see
the connection will do what many organizations have
done—try to make a single change to solve their problems,
not realizing that the effective management of people
requires a more comprehensive and systematic approach.
Of the firms that make comprehensive changes, probably
only about 1/2 will persist with their practices long enough to
actually derive economic benefits.”

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How Do We Know Things about OB?
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Where does the knowledge in this textbook come from?
Understanding that requires an understanding of how we
know things in general

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How Do We Know Things about OB?
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How do we know about what causes:
• People to stay healthy?

• Children to grow up happy?
• Employees to be satisfied with their jobs?

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How Do We Know Things about OB?
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Methods of Knowing
• Experience

• Intuition
• Authority
• Science

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Figure 1-3 The Scientific Method

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Scientific Interests

1. I think being a scientist would be an interesting career path.

2. Working as a scientist is something I could see myself enjoying.
3. A scientific career path could be engaging, even if the work took a long time
to finish.
4. Working with other scientists to make important discoveries would offer
meaning.
5. Studying scientific knowledge to solve problems would be intrinsically
satisfying.

Average Score: 15
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How Do We Know Things about OB?
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Theory
A collection of assertions (both verbal and symbolic) that
specify how and why variables are related, as well as the
conditions in which they should (and should not) be related

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How Do We Know Things about OB?
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In groups, build a theory similar to the one below, for each
outcome.
• Job satisfaction
• Strain

• Motivation
• Trust in supervisor

Is OB Common Sense?

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How Do We Know Things about OB?
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To test our theory, we gather data on the variables included
in our hypotheses.

We then use variants of the correlation coefficient to test
hypotheses, to see if they verify our theory.
The correlation is as follows:
Perfect positive relationship: 1
Perfect negative relationship: -1
• Strength of the correlation inferred from judging the
compactness of a scatterplot of the X-Y values
• More compact = stronger correlation
• Less compact = weaker correlation

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Figure 1-4 Three Different Correlation Sizes
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Figure 1-4 Three Different Correlation Sizes
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Figure 1-4 Three Different Correlation Sizes
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The Correlation
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How big is “big”?
• What’s the correlation between height and weight?

• Will the correlation between job satisfaction and job
performance be higher or lower?

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The Correlation
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Important disclaimer
• Correlation does not prove causation.

Proving causation requires:
• Correlation
• Temporal precedence
• Elimination of alternative explanations

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How Do We Know Things about OB?
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The correlations from multiple studies get averaged
together using meta-analysis.

Meta-analyses can then form the foundation for
evidence-based management—the use of scientific
findings to inform management practice.
Well-supported theories become helpful tools for
answering why questions, like:
• Why your best and worst coworkers act so differently

• Why you sometimes think, feel, and act a certain way

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OB on Screen

Moneyball
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Introspection

Average Score: 26
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From A. Fenigstein, M.F. Scheir, and A.h. Buss, “Public and Private SelfConsciousness: Assessment and Theory,” Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology. Vol. 43. August 1975, pp. 522-27. Copyright 1975 by the American
Psychological Association. Adapted with permission. No further reproduction or
distribution is permitted without written permission from the American
Psychological Association.

Next Time
Chapter 2: Job Performance

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Chapter 2
Job Performance

Class Agenda
Job performance
• Task performance

• Citizenship behavior
• Counterproductive behavior

Application
• Tools for managing job performance

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An Integrative Roadmap

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Job Performance
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The value of the set of behaviors that contribute, either
positively or negatively, to organizational goal
accomplishment
• Not the consequences or results of behavior—the
behavior itself
• What’s good about this distinction?

• What’s bad about this distinction?

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Task Performance
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The behaviors directly involved in transforming
organizational resources into the goods or services an
organization produces (i.e., the behaviors included in
one’s job description)

Typically a mix of:
• Routine task performance
• Adaptive task performance
• Creative task performance

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Task Performance
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How do we identify relevant behaviors?
Job analysis
• Divide a job into major dimensions
• List 2 key tasks within each of those major dimensions
• Rate the tasks on frequency and importance

• Use most frequent and important tasks to define task
performance

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Task Performance
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Exercise: Performance of a server
Do a job analysis
• Four major dimensions
• Two tasks per dimension

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Figure 2-1 O*NET Results for Flight Attendants

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Job Performance
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Although task performance behaviors vary across jobs,
all jobs contain two other performance dimensions:
• Citizenship behavior
• Counterproductive behavior

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Citizenship Behavior
Academic origin
A future professor’s account of an experience in a paper
mill:
“…while the man’s assistance was not part of his job and gained
him no formal credits, he undeniably contributed in a small way
to the functioning of the group and, by extension, to the plant
and the organization as a whole. By itself, of course, his aid to
me might not have been perceptible in any conventional calculus
of efficiency, production, or profits. But repeated many times
over, by himself and others, over time, the aggregate of such
actions must certainly have made that paper mill a more
smoothly functioning organization than would have been the
case had such actions been rare.”

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Figure 2-2 Types of Citizenship Behaviors
Voluntary activities that may
or may not be rewarded but
that contribute to the
organization by improving the
quality of the setting where
work occurs

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Helping

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Sportsmanship

1. I never complain about “the small stuff.”
2. I voice support for what’s going on in the organization.
3. I focus on maintaining a positive attitude at work.

4. I tend to dwell on what’s going well, not what’s going poorly.
5. I focus on “being a good sport” even when negative things happen.

Average score: 18
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Figure 2-3
Types of Counterproductive Behavior

Employee behaviors
that intentionally hinder
organizational goal
accomplishment

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Political Deviance

1. I have, at times, undermined a coworker.
2. I have, at times, blamed a coworker for something that I did.
3. I sometimes gossip about colleagues at work.
4. I sometimes distract my coworkers when they’re trying to get things done.

5. I enjoy playing “pranks” on others at work.
6. I have, at times, kept colleagues “in the dark” about things they needed to
know.

Average Score: 12
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OB on Screen

Sully

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Counterproductive Behavior
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Key questions:
• Are these all examples of the same general behavior
pattern? If you do one, are you likely to do most of the
others as well?

• How does counterproductive behavior relate to task
performance and citizenship behavior?

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Counterproductive Behavior
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Answers:
• Research using both anonymous self-reports and
supervisor ratings tends to find strong correlations
between the categories.

• Counterproductive behavior has a strong negative
correlation with citizenship behavior, but is only weakly
related to task performance.

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Application
What tools do organizations use to manage job
performance among employees?
• Management by Objectives (MBO)
• 360-degree feedback
• Social networking systems

• Behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS)
• Forced rankings

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Table 2-2 BARS Example for “Planning,
Organizing, and Scheduling” 1 of 2
Rating

Rating

Behavioral Anchors

[7]

Excellent

• Develops a comprehensive project plan, documents it well, obtains required
approval, and distributes the plan to all concerned.

[6]

Very Good

• Plans, communicates, and observes milestones; states week by week where
the project stands relative to plans. Maintains up-to-date charts of project
accomplishment and backlogs and uses these to optimize any schedule
modifications.
• Experiences occasional minor operational problems but communicates
effectively.

[5]

Good

• Lays out all the parts of a job and schedules each part to beat schedule; will
allow for slack.
• Satisfies customer’s time constraints; time and cost overruns occur
infrequently.

[4]

Average

• Makes a list of due dates and revises them as the project progresses, usually
adding unforeseen events; investigates frequent customer complaints.
• May have a sound plan but does not keep track of milestones; does not
report slippages in schedule or other problems as they occur.

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Table 2-2 BARS Example for “Planning,
Organizing, and Scheduling” 2 of 2
Rating

Rating

Behavioral Anchors

[3]

Below
Average

• Plans are poorly defined; unrealistic time schedules are common.
• Cannot plan more than a day or two ahead; has no concept of a realistic
project due date.

[2]

Very Poor

• Has no plan or schedule of work segments to be performed.
• Does little or no planning for project assignments.

[1]

Unacceptable • Seldom, if ever, completes project because of lack of planning and does not
seem to care.
• Fails consistently due to lack of planning and does not inquire about how to
improve.

Source: D.G. Shaw, C.E. Schneier, and R.W. Beatty. “Managing Performance with a Behaviorally Based Appraisal
System,” in Applying Psychology in Business: The Handbook for Managers and Human Resource Professionals, ed.
J.W. Jones, B.D. Steffy, and D.W. Bray (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 2001), pp. 314-25

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Figure 2-5 Jack Welch’s Vitality Curve
Forced ranking under Jack Welch at GE

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Chapter 3: Organizational Commitment

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Chapter 3
Organizational Commitment

Class Agenda
Organizational commitment
• Types of commitment

Reactions to negative events
• Types of employees
• Withdrawal behaviors

Application
• Organizational support

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An Integrative Roadmap

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Organizational Commitment 1 of 2
Consider this scenario:
• You’ve worked at your current employer for 5 years and
have recently been approached by a competing
organization.

What would cause you to stay?
• Do those reasons fit into different kinds of categories?

Organizational commitment is a desire on the part of an
employee to remain a member of an organization.
• It comes in three forms.

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Affective Commitment
A desire on the part of an employee to remain a member
of an organization because of an emotional attachment
to, and involvement with, that organization
• You stay because you want to.
• What would you feel if you left anyway?

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Assessment on Affective Commitment

Average Score: 20
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From N.J. Allen and J.P. Meyer, “The Measurement and Antecedents
of Affective, Continuance, and Normative Commitment to the
Organization,” Journal of Occupational Psychology 63 (1990), pp. 1-18

Figure 3-3 A Social Network Diagram

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Continuance Commitment 1 of 2
A desire on the part of an employee to remain a member
of an organization because of an awareness of the costs
associated with leaving it
• You stay because you need to.
• What would you feel if you left anyway?

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Continuance Commitment
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1. Quitting my job would bring with it major personal sacrifice.
2. I don’t have enough employment options to consider leaving right now.
3. It’s difficult to leave the organization because I don’t have anywhere else to go.
4. Staying in my current job is more a product of circumstances than preference.
5. Leaving my job now would bring significant personal disruption.

6. Frankly, I couldn’t quit my job now, even if it’s what I wanted to do.

Average Score: 19
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Table 3-2 Embedded and Continuance
Commitment
“Embedded” People Feel:
FACET

FOR THE ORGANIZATION:

FOR THE COMMUNITY:

Links

• I’ve worked here for such a
long time.
• I’m serving on so many teams
and committees.

• Several close friends and family
live nearby.
• My family’s roots are in this
community.

Fit

• My job utilizes my skills and
talents well.
• I like the authority and
responsibility I have at this
company.

• The weather where I live is
suitable for me.
• I think of the community
where I live as home.

Sacrifice

• The retirement benefits
provided by the organization
are excellent.
• I would sacrifice a lot if I left
this job.

• People respect me a lot in my
community.
• Leaving this community would
be very hard.

Source: Adapted from T.R. Mitchell, B.C. Holtom, T.W. Lee, C.J. Sablynski, and M. Erez, “Why People Stay: Using Job
Embeddedness to Predict Voluntary Turnover,” Academy of Management Journal 44 (2001), pp. 1102-21.
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Normative Commitment
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A desire on the part of an employee to remain a member
of an organization because of a feeling of obligation
• You stay because you ought to.
• What would you feel if you left anyway?

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Normative Commitment
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1. I have an obligation to stay with my company.
2. I wouldn’t quit my job right now because I owe the company too much.
3. I owe this company for the things it’s given me.
4. Leaving my job now would fill me with significant guilt.
5. It just wouldn’t be right to think about quitting my job.

6. Staying with my organization is just something that I ought to do.

Average Score: 16
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Figure 3-2 Drivers of Overall
Organizational Commitment

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Organizational Commitment 2 of 2
Exercise: Reacting to Negative Events
• Consider the three scenarios depicted on the following
slide.
• Come to consensus on two specific behaviors that
capture your likely response (that is, what you would
probably do, as opposed to what you wish you would do).

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Organizational Commitment Scenarios
Scenario

Description

Likely behaviors

Annoying Boss

You’ve been working at your current company for about a year. Over
time, your boss has become more and more annoying to you. It’s not
that your boss is a bad person, or even necessarily a bad boss. It’s
more a personality conflict–the way your boss talks, the way your
boss manages every little thing, even the facial expressions your boss
uses. The more time passes, the more you just can’t stand to be
around your boss.

Two likely behaviors:

Boring Job

You’ve been working at your current company for about a year.
You’ve come to realize that your job is pretty boring. It’s the first real
job you’ve ever had, and at first it was nice to have some money and
something to do every day. But the “new job” excitement has worn
off, and things are actually quite monotonous. Same thing every day.
It’s to the point that you check your watch every hour, and
Wednesdays feel like they should be Fridays.

Two likely behaviors:

Pay and Seniority

You’ve been working at your current company for about a year. The
consensus is that you’re doing a great job-you’ve gotten excellent
performance evaluations and have emerged as a leader on many
projects. As you’ve achieved this high status, however, you’ve come
to feel that you’re underpaid. Your company’s pay procedures
emphasize seniority much more than job performance. As a result,
you look at other members of your project teams and see poor
performers making much more than you, just because they’ve been
with the company longer.

Two likely behaviors:

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Exit-Voice-Loyalty-Neglect
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A framework that includes potential responses to
negative events
Exit
• Ending or restricting organizational membership

Voice
• A constructive response where individuals attempt to improve
the situation

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Exit-Voice-Loyalty-Neglect
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A framework that includes potential responses to
negative events
Loyalty
• A passive response where the employee remains supportive
while hoping for improvement

Neglect
• Reduced interest and effort in the job

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Chef

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Table 3-3 Four Types of Employees
Organizational
commitment
High
organizational
commitment
Low
organizational
commitment

High task
performance
Stars

Low task
performance
Citizens

Lone wolves

Apathetics

Source: Adapted from R.W. Griffeth, S. Gaertner, and J.K. Sager,
“Taxonomic Model of Withdrawal Behaviors: the Adaptive Response
Model,” Human Resource Management Review 9 (1999), pp. 577-90

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Withdrawal
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A set of actions that employees perform to avoid the
work situation
• One study found that 51% of employees’ time was spent
working.
• The other 49% was allocated to coffee breaks, late starts,
early departures, personal, and other forms of withdrawal.

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Figure 3-1 Organizational Commitment and
Employee Withdrawal

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Figure 3-4
Psychological and Physical Withdrawal

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Withdrawal
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Key question:
How exactly are the different forms of withdrawal related
to one another?
• Independent forms
• Compensatory forms

• Progression

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Withdrawal
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Answer:
• The various forms of withdrawal are almost always
moderately to strongly correlated.
• Those correlations suggest a progression, as lateness is
strongly related to absenteeism, and absenteeism is
strongly correlated to quitting.

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Application
Employees are more committed when employers are
committed to them.

Perceived organization support is fostered when
organizations:
• Protect job security

• Provide rewards
• Improve work conditions
• Minimize politics

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Chapter 4: Job Satisfaction

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Chapter 4

Job Satisfaction

Agenda
Job satisfaction defined
Value-percept theory
Job characteristics theory

Mood and emotions
How important is job satisfaction?
Application
• Tracking satisfaction levels

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An Integrative Roadmap

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Job Satisfaction
1 of 2

A pleasurable emotional state resulting from the
appraisal of one’s job or job experiences
Based on how you think about your job and how you feel
about your job

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Job Satisfaction
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What kinds of things do you value in a job? What is it
that makes you satisfied?

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Value-Percept Theory
Does your job supply what you value?

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Table 4-1
Commonly
Assessed
Work Values

Key Question:
Which of these things are
most important to you?

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Categories

Specific Values

Pay

• High Salary
• Secure Salary

Promotions

• Frequent Promotions
• Promotions based on ability

Supervision

• Good supervisory relations
• Praise for good work

Coworkers

• Enjoyable coworkers
• Responsible coworkers

Work Itself

•
•
•
•
•

Altruism

• Helping others
• Moral causes

Status

• Prestige
• Power over others
• Fame

Environment

• Comfort
• Safety

Utilization of ability
Freedom and independence
Intellectual stimulation
Creative expression
Sense of achievement

Sources: Adapted from R.V. Dawis, “Vocational Interests Values, and Preferences,” in Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Vol. 2, Ed. M.D. Dunnette and L.M.
Hough (Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press, 1991), pp. 834-71; and D.M. Cable and J.R. Edwards, “Complementary and Supplementary Fit: A Theoretical and Empirical
Investigation,” Journal of Applied Psychology 89 (2004), p. 822-34.

Figure 4-1
The Value-Percept Theory of Job Satisfaction

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Figure 4-2 Correlations between Satisfaction
Facets and Overall Job Satisfaction

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The Work Itself
Job Characteristics Theory
• Jobs are more intrinsically enjoyable when work tasks are
challenging and fulfilling.
• Five “core job characteristics” combine to make some jobs
more rewarding than others.

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Figure 4-3 Job Characteristics Theory

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Growth Need Strength
Assessing Growth Need Strength

1. A feeling of doing something meaningful with my job
2. A chance to “spread my wings” and grow as an employee
3. An opportunity to be inventive and creative with what I do

4. A change to gain new know and skill
5. An opportunity to structure my work my own way
6. A feeling of challenge and self-expression
18, in this case is the average score.
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Figure 4-4 Growth Need Strength as a
Moderator of Job Characteristic Effects

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A Meta-Analysis of the Relation of Job Characteristics to Job Satisfaction,” Journal of Applied Psychology 70 (1985), pp. 280-89

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Core Job Characteristics

V1.

The job requires me to use a number of complex or high-level skills.

Response:

V2.

The job is quite simple and repetitive.

Response:

I1.

The job is arranged so that I can do an entire piece of work from beginning to
end.

Response:

I2.

The job provides me the chance to completely finish the pieces of work I begin.

Response:

S1.

This job is one where a lot of other people can be affected by how well the work
gets done.

Response:

S2.

The job itself is very significant and important in the broader scheme of things.

Response:

A1.

The job gives me a chance to use my personal initiative and judgement is
carrying out the work.

Response:

A2.

The job gives me considerable opportunity for independence and freedom I how
I do the work.

Response:

F1.

Just doing the work required by the job provides many changes for me to figure
out how well I am doing.

Response:

F2.

After I finish a job, I know whether I performed well.

Response:

150 is the
average
score.

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Job Characteristics Theory
Exercise: Job Satisfaction across Jobs
Come to consensus on an SPS for:
• A third-grade public school teacher
• A stand-up comedian

• A computer programmer (who replaces “98” with “1998” in computer
code)
• A president of the United States

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Mood and Emotions
1 of 2

Even the most satisfied employees aren’t satisfied every
minute of every day.

Satisfaction levels wax and wane as a function of mood
and emotions.

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Figure 4-6 Different Kinds of Moods

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Figure 4-5 Hour-by-Hour Fluctuations in Job
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Table 4-2 Different Kinds of Emotions
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Positive Emotions
Joy
Pride
Relief
Hope
Love
Compassion

Description
A feeling of great pleasure
Enhancement of identity by taking credit
for achievement
A distressing condition has changed for
the better
Fearing the worst but wanting better
Desiring or participating in affection
Being moved by another’s situation

Source: Adapted from R.S. Lazarus, Emotion and Adaptation (New York: Oxford University, 1991).

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Table 4-2 Different Kinds of Emotions
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Negative Emotions
Anger
Anxiety
Fear
Guilt
Shame
Sadness
Envy
Disgust

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Description
A demeaning offense against me and mine
Facing an uncertain or vague threat
Facing an immediate and concrete danger
Having broken a moral code
Failing to live up to your ideal self
Having experienced an irreversible loss
Wanting what someone else has
Revulsion aroused by something offensive

Mood and Emotions
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Feeling vs. showing
• Emotional labor

• Emotional contagion

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Emotional Labor
Bonus Assessment: Emotional Labor

My job requires me to:

1. Make myself feel the things I need to express at work.
2. Attempt to actually experience the feeling that I need to display.
3. Try to feel the things that I need to show to others.

4. Conceal the emotions that I actually experience.
5. Pretend that I’m feeling things that I’m not.
6. Avoid showing the true emotions that I’m experiencing.
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Figure 4-8 Effects of Job Satisfaction on
Performance and Commitment

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Application

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Next Time
Chapter 5: Stress

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Appendix

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Chapter 5
Stress

Class Agenda
Stress defined
Types of stressors
What can you do?

What can organizations do?
How important is stress?
Application

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An Integrative Roadmap

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Stress
Definition: A psychological response to demands where
there is something at stake and where coping with the
demands taxes or exceeds a person’s capacity or
resources

Do you want a stress-free job?
Which jobs are more and less stressful?

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Table 5-1
Jobs Rated from Least Stressful to Most Stressful
LEAST STRESSFUL JOBS

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STRESS LEVEL

MOST STRESSFUL JOBS

STRESS LEVEL

1. Tenured University Professor

5.03

143. Elementary School Teacher

27.37

2. Audiologist

6.33

148. Management Consultant

28.24

3. Medical Records Technician

7.48

150. Air Traffic Controller

28.58

4. Jeweler

8.10

154. Surgeon

28.90

8. Librarian

10.61

163. Construction Foreman

30.92

14. Software Engineer

12.13

166. Lumberjack

32.00

18. Computer Service Technician

12.64

172. Attorney

36.40

24. Occupational Therapist

13.14

175. Sales Representative

36.95

29. Chiropractor

13.55

179. Real Estate Agent

38.57

30. Actuary

14.09

180. Social Media

38.60

35. Multimedia Artist

14.40

183. Stockbroker

39.97

39. Hair Stylist

14.59

185. Advertising Account
Executive

43.24

40. Meteorologist

14.65

189. Taxi Driver

46.18

42. Loan Officer

14.73

191. Senior Corporate Executive

47.55

47. Biologist

15.10

194. Event Coordinator

49.73

50. Optician

15.57

195. Police Officer

50.81

53. Veterinarian

15.83

196. Airline Pilot

59.12

63. Chemist

17.00

198. Newspaper Reporter

69.67

74. Sustainability

18.50

199. Firefighter

71.64

84. Accountant

19.85

200. Enlisted Military Personnel

74.83

Source: Adapted from L. Krantz and
T. Lee. “The Jobs Rated Almanac”
(Lake Geneva, WI: iFocus Books,
2015). The stress level score is
calculated by summing points in 10
categories: deadlines, working in the
public eye, competitiveness, physical
demands, environmental conditions,
hazards, own life at risk, another’s
life at risk, public encounters, and
employment change.

Figure 5-1 Transactional Theory of Stress

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Challenge Stressors

How much stress do you feel because of the following aspects of your coursework?
1. The pressures I have to finish assignments on time
2. The sheer amount of stuff I have to do

3. The complexity of the material on exams and assignments
4. The time I have to devote to getting everything done
5. The number of “balls in the air” as I balance all my responsibilities

Average score: 16
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Hindrance Stressors

How much stress do you feel because of the following aspects of your coursework?

1. The sense that I’m not making progress in mastering the material
2. The hassles I have to go through when doing class assignments
3. A sense of uncertainty about what’s expected of me by professors

4. A belief that my professors play favorites when grading exams and assignments
5. The amount of “busy work” I have that winds up wasting my time

Average Score: 12
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Work Stressors
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Challenge stressors
• Time pressure
• Work complexity

• Work responsibility

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Work Stressors
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Hindrance stressors
• Role conflict

• Role ambiguity
• Role overload
• Daily hassles

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Family Stressors
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Challenge stressors
• Family time demands

• Personal development
• Positive life events

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Family Stressors
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Hindrance stressors
• Work-family conflict

• Financial uncertainty
• Negative life events

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Table 5-2 Stressful Life Events

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LIFE EVENT

STRESS SCORE

LIFE EVENT

STRESS SCORE

Death of a spouse

100

Trouble with in-laws

Divorce

Outstanding
achievement

Marital separation

Begin or end school

Jail term

Change in living
conditions

Death of close family
member

Trouble with boss

Personal illness

Change in work hours

Marriage

Change in residence

Fired at work

Change in schools

Marital reconciliation

Change in social
activities

Retirement

Change in sleeping
habits

Pregnancy

Change in family gettogethers

Gain of new family
member

Change in eating habits

Death of a close friend

Vacations

Change in occupation

The holiday season

Child leaving home

Minor violations of the
law

Source: Adapted from T.H. Holmes and R.H. Rahe, “The Social Re-Adjustment Rating Scale,” Journal of Psychosomatic Research 11 (1967), pp. 213–18.

Table 5-3 Examples of Coping with Stressors
Methods

Problem-Focused

Emotion-Focused

Behavioral Methods

•
•
•

Working harder
Seeking assistance
Acquiring additional
resources

•

•
•
•

Strategizing
Self-motivating
Changing priorities

•

Cognitive Methods

•
•

•

Engaging in alternative
activities
Seeking support
Venting anger

Avoiding, distancing,
and ignoring
Looking for the
positive in the
negative
Reappraising

Source: Adapted from J.C. Latack and S.J. Havlovic, “Coping with Job Stress: A Conceptual Evaluation Framework for Coping Measures,”
Journal of Organizational Behavior 13 (1992), pp. 479–508.

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Accounting for Individuals
People differ in their ability to cope with stressors, as a
function of:
• Social support
• Instrumental support
• Emotional support

• Type A Behavior Pattern

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Type A Behavior Pattern

The average score is 60.
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Source: Adapted from R.H. Friedman & R. H. Rosenman, “Association of Specific Overt
Behavior Pattern with Blood and Cardiovascular Findings,” Journal of the American Medical
Association 169 (1959), pp. 1286–69.

Figure 5-2 Examples of Strain

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Figure 5-4 Effects of Hindrance Stressors on
Performance and Commitment

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Figure 5-5 Effects of Challenge Stressors on
Performance and Commitment

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Application
Stress Management
• Managing hindrance stressors

• Improving work-life balance
• Improving hardiness

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Exercise: Managing Stress

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Waking Hours

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Improving Hardiness

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Chapter 6: Motivation

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Chapter 6
Motivation

Class Agenda
Motivation defined
Theories of motivation
• Expectancy theory
• Goal setting theory
• Equity theory
• Psychological empowerment

How important is motivation?
Application

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An Integrative Roadmap

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Motivation Defined
A set of energetic forces that originate within and outside
an employee that initiates work-related effort and
determines its direction, intensity, and persistence
• What do you do?
• How hard do you do it?

• How long do you do it?

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Engagement

Consider your approach to your classes this semester:
1. I give my assignments my utmost attention.
2. I really concentrate on the things my classes demand.

3. I find myself absorbed in the content of my classes.
4. I really focus my attention on the things I’m learning.

5. I rarely get distracted when I’m working on my class stuff.
6. In general, I approach my class work with focus.

Average Score: 24
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Theories of Motivation
Several theories attempt to summarize the key factors
that foster high motivation:
• Expectancy theory
• Goal setting theory
• Equity theory

• Psychological empowerment

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Expectancy Theory
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Motivation is fostered when the employee believes three
things:
• That effort will result in performance
• That performance will result in outcomes
• That those outcomes will be valuable

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Figure 6-2 Expectancy Theory

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Expectancy Theory
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Effort → Performance
Can be hindered by:
• Lack of necessary resources
• Lack of supportive leadership
• Low self-efficacy

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Self-Efficacy

1. I can succeed, even when the going gets tough.
2. I do most things well, relative to my peers.
3. I have a sense of confidence on a lot of different tasks.
4. I know that I can overcome challenges when I encounter them.

5. If I set my mind to certain goals, I’m confident I can achieve them.
6. I am able to succeed at the things I want to be good at.

7. I’m confident in my ability, even when I face difficult tasks.
8. When I set a goal for myself, I believe I can meet it.

Average Score: 31
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Figure 6-3 Sources of Self-Efficacy

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Instrumentality
Performance → Outcomes
Can be hindered by:
• Poor methods for measuring performance, as
Instrumentality could actually be rewritten to be
Performance → Evaluation → Outcomes
• Inadequate budget to provide outcomes, even when
performance is high
• Use of policies that reward things besides performance,
such as attendance or seniority
• Time delays in doling out rewards

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Valence
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Anticipated value of outcomes
• Extrinsic

• Intrinsic

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Table 6-2 Extrinsic and Intrinsic Outcomes
EXTRINSIC OUTCOMES
Pay
Bonuses
Promotions
Benefits and perks
Spot awards
Praise
Job security
Support
Free time
(Lack of) Disciplinary actions
(Lack of) Demotions
(Lack of) Terminations

INTRINSIC OUTCOMES
Enjoyment
Interestingness
Accomplishment
Knowledge gain
Skill development
Personal expression
(Lack of) Boredom
(Lack of) Anxiety
(Lack of) Frustration

Sources: Adapted from E.E. Lawler III and J.L. Suttle, “Expectancy Theory and Job Behavior,” Organizational Behavior and Human Performance 9 (1973), pp. 482–503; J. Galbraith and
L.L. Cummings, “An Empirical Investigation of the Motivational Determinants of Task Performance: Interactive Effects between Instrumentality–Valence and Motivation–Ability,”
Organizational Behavior and Human Performance 2 (1967), pp. 237–57; E. McAuley, S. Wraith, and T.E. Duncan, “Self-Efficacy, Perceptions of Success, and Intrinsic Motivation for
Exercise,” Journal of Applied Social Psychology 21 (1991), pp. 139–55; and A.S. Waterman, S.J. Schwartz, E. Goldbacher, H. Green, C. Miller, and S. Philip, “Predicting the Subjective
Experience of Intrinsic Motivation: The Roles of Self-Determination, the Balance of Challenges and Skills, and Self-Realization Values,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 29
(2003), pp. 1447–58.

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Valence
2 of 2

Why does pay have such a high valence?
The meaning of money
• Achievement
• Respect
• Freedom

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Meaning of Money

Average
Score: 13

Average
Score: 15

Average
Score: 20

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Expectancy Theory
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Motivation = (E → P) × ෍[(P → O) × V]
Key aspect: multiplicative effects

• Motivation is zero if either expectancy, instrumentality,
or valence is zero

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Goal Setting Theory
Motivation is fostered when employees are given specific
and difficult goals rather than no goals, easy goals, or “do
your best” goals.

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Figure 6-4
Goal Difficulty and Task Performance

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Figure 6-5 Goal Setting Theory

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Equity Theory
Motivation is maximized when an employee’s ratio of
“outcomes” to “inputs” matches those of some
“comparison other.”
Thus motivation also depends on the outcomes received
by other employees.

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Figure 6-6 Equity Theory Comparisons
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Are these really equal?

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Source: Adapted from J.S. Adams, “Inequity in Social Exchange,”
in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 2, ed. L.
Berkowitz (New York: Academic Press, 1965), pp. 267–99

Figure 6-6 Equity Theory Comparisons
2 of 3

What emotion do you feel in this case?
What methods can be used to restore equity?

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Figure 6-6 Equity Theory Comparisons
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What emotion do you feel in this case?
What methods can be used to restore equity?

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Psychological Empowerment
An intrinsic form of motivation derived from the belief
that one’s work tasks are contributing to some larger
purpose
Fostered by four beliefs:
• Meaningfulness

• Self-Determination
• Competence
• Impact

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Figure 6-8 Effects of Motivation on
Performance and Commitment

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Table 6-7 Compensation Plan Elements
Individual-Focused

Description

Piece-rate

A specified rate is paid for each unit produced, each unit sold, or each service provided.

Merit pay

An increase to base salary is made in accordance with performance evaluation ratings.

Lump-sum bonuses

A bonus is received for meeting individual goals but no change is made to base salary. The
potential bonus represents “at risk” pay that must be re-earned each year. Base salary
may be lower in cases in which potential bonuses may be large.

Recognition awards

Tangible awards (gift cards, merchandise, trips, special events, time off, plaques) or
intangible awards (praise) are given on an impromptu basis to recognize achievement.

Unit-Focused

Description

Gainsharing

A bonus is received for meeting unit goals (department goals, plant goals, business unit
goals) for criteria controllable by employees (labor costs, use of materials, quality). No
change is made to base salary. The potential bonus represents “at risk” pay that must be
re-earned each year. Base salary may be lower in cases in which potential bonuses may be
large.

Organization-Focused

Description

Profit Sharing

A bonus is received when the publically reported earnings of a company exceed some
minimum level, with the magnitude of the bonus contingent on the magnitude of the
profits. No change is made to base salary. The potential bonus represents “at risk” pay
that must be re-earned each year. Base salary may be lower in cases in which potential
bonuses may be large.

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Next Time
Chapter 7: Trust, Justice and Ethics

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Chapter 7

Trust, Justice, and Ethics

Class Agenda
Trust defined
Types of trust
Using justice to gauge trust

Using ethics to gauge trust
How important is trust?
Application

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An Integrative Roadmap

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Trust Defined
The willingness to be vulnerable to an authority based
on positive expectations about the authority’s actions
and intentions
• Trust = willing to be vulnerable
• Risk = actually becoming vulnerable

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Figure 7-1 Factors That Influence Trust Levels

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Disposition-Based Trust
Trust Propensity
• A general expectation that the words, promises, and
statements of individuals and groups can be relied upon
• Which is more damaging in organizational life: being too
trusting or being too suspicious?

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Trust Propensity

Average
Score: 21
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Sources: R.C. Mayer and J.H. Davis, “The Effect of the
Performance Appraisal System on Trust for Management: A Field
Quasi-Experiment,” Journal of Applied Psychology 84 (1999), pp.
123–36.

Cognition-Based Trust
Trustworthiness
The characteristics of a trustee that inspire trust are:
• Ability
• Benevolence
• Integrity

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Figure 7-3 Types of Trust Over Time

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Justice
Trustworthiness can sometimes be difficult to judge,
especially early in work relationships.

Justice-relevant acts can serve as behavioral evidence
of trustworthiness.
• Distributive justice

• Procedural justice
• Interpersonal justice
• Informational justice

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Table 7-2 Distributive and Procedural Justice
Distributive Justice Rules

Description

Equity vs. equality vs. need

Are rewards allocated according to the proper norm?

Procedural Justice Rules

Description

Voice

Do employees get to provide input into procedures?

Correctability

Do procedures build in mechanisms for appeals?

Consistency

Are procedures consistent across people and time?

Bias Suppression

Are procedures neutral and unbiased?

Representativeness

Do procedures consider the needs of all groups?

Accuracy

Are procedures based on accurate information?

Sources: J.S. Adams, “Inequity in Social Exchange,” in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 2, ed. L. Berkowitz (New York: Academic Press, 1965), pp. 267-99; R.J. Bies and J.F. Moag, “Interactional Justice:
Communication Criteria of Fairness,” in Research on Negotiations in Organizations, Vol. 1, ed. R.J. Lewicki, B.H. Sheppard, and M.H. Bazerman (Greenwich CT: JAI Press, 1986), pp. 43-55; G.S. Leventhal, “The Distribution
of Rewards and Resources in Groups and Organizations,” in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol.9, ed. L. Berkowitz and W. Walster (New York: Academic Press, 1976), pp. 91-131; G.S. Leventhal, “What
Should Be Done with Equity Theory? New Approaches to the Study of Fairness in Social Relationships,” in Social Exchange: Advances in Theory and Research, ed. K. Gergen, M. Greenberg, and R. Willis (New York: Plenum
Press, 1980), pp. 27-55; and J. Thibaut and L. Walker, Procedural Justice: A Psychological Analysis (Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1975).

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Procedural Justice

The items below reference the procedures instructors use for grading at your school.

1. Those procedures are moral and ethical.
2. I can appeal the grades that result from those procedures, if I need to.
3. Those procedures are based on accurate information.
4. Those procedures are unbiased and balanced.
5. Those procedures are consistent across students.

6. I can influence the grades that result from those procedures, if I try to.
7. I can express my voice regarding those procedures, if I want to.

Average Score: 27

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Figure 7-4 Combined Effects of Distributive and
Procedural Justice

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Table 7-2
Interpersonal and Informational Justice
Interpersonal Justice Rules

Description

Respect
Propriety

Do authorities treat employees with sincerity?
Do authorities refrain from improper remarks?

Informational Justice Rules

Description

Justification
Truthfulness

Do authorities explain procedures thoroughly?
Are those explanations honest?

Sources: J.S. Adams, “Inequity in Social Exchange,” in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 2, ed. L. Berkowitz (New York: Academic Press, 1965), pp. 267-99; R.J. Bies and J.F. Moag, “Interactional Justice:
Communication Criteria of Fairness,” in Research on Negotiations in Organizations, Vol. 1, ed. R.J. Lewicki, B.H. Sheppard, and M.H. Bazerman (Greenwich CT: JAI Press, 1986), pp. 43-55; G.S. Leventhal, “The Distribution of
Rewards and Resources in Groups and Organizations,” in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol.9, ed. L. Berkowitz and W. Walster (New York: Academic Press, 1976), pp. 91-131; G.S. Leventhal, “What Should Be
Done with Equity Theory? New Approaches to the Study of Fairness in Social Relationships,” in Social Exchange: Advances in Theory and Research, ed. K. Gergen, M. Greenberg, and R. Willis (New York: Plenum Press,
1980), pp. 27-55; and J. Thibaut and L. Walker, Procedural Justice: A Psychological Analysis (Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1975).

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Figure 7-5 The Effects of Justice on Theft
During a Pay Cut

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Ethics
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The degree to which the behaviors of an authority are in
accordance with generally accepted moral norms.
•

Unethical behavior

•

“Merely ethical” behavior

•

“Especially ethical” behavior

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Ethics
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Exercise
Read the scenario on the next four slides.
Come up with three ideas for reducing theft in this
grocery store.

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Ethics
3 of 7

Alex Grant recently graduated from college and is excited to be
starting his first job as a store manager for The Grocery Cart, a
large supermarket chain. The company has a very good
management training program, and it is one of the fastest growing
chains in the nation.

If Alex does well managing his first store, there are a number of
promising advancement opportunities in the company. After
completing the store management training program, Alex met with
Regina Hill, his area supervisor. She informed Alex that he would be
taking charge of a medium-volume store ($250,000 in sales/week)
in an upper-class neighborhood. This store had been operating
without a store manager for the past six months. The store had also
not made a profit in any of the monthly financial reports for the last
year.

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Ethics
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Hill also shared the following information with Alex: Because the store
has been without a store manager for the last six months, the assistant
manager (Drew Smith) has been in charge. Drew is known for being
highly competent and a solid performer. However, there have been
complaints that he is frequently rude to employees and insults and
ridicules them whenever they make mistakes. Turnover among sales
clerks and cashiers at this store has been somewhat higher than in
other stores in the area. The average pay of clerks and cashiers is
$7.25/hour. The last two semiannual inventories at this store showed
significant losses. There has been a large amount of theft from the
store stockroom (an area where only employees are allowed).
Given that the store has generally done well in sales (compared with
others in the area) and that most expenses seem well under control,
Hill believes that the profitability problem for this store is primarily due
to theft. Therefore, she suggested that Alex’s plans for the store should
focus on this priority over any others.
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Ethics
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When Alex arrived for his first day of work in his new store, he saw that
Drew was in the process of terminating an employee (Rudy Johnson)
who had been caught stealing. Alex immediately went to the break
room of the store where the termination interview was being
conducted to learn more about the situation.
Drew informed Alex that Rudy had been a grocery clerk for the past six
weeks and that he had apparently figured out how to tell if the alarms
to the stockroom doors were off. Rudy would then open the back
stockroom doors and stack cases of beer outside the store to pick up
after his shift. After Drew caught Rudy doing this, Drew had a
conversation with one of his friends who works as a restaurant
manager down the street. Drew’s friend noted that he had hired Rudy
a few months ago and that he’d been caught stealing there too.

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Turning to Rudy, Drew asked, “So, Rudy, what do you have to say
for yourself?” Rudy quickly replied: “Look here, [expletive], you don’t
pay me enough to work here and put up with this garbage. In fact,
you’re always riding everyone like they’re your personal servant or
something. So I was trying to get some beer. I’ve seen you let
stockers take home damaged merchandise a dozen times. So just
because they cut open a box of cookies, which we all know they do
on purpose, they get to take stuff home for free. For that matter,
we’ve all seen you do the same thing! I’ve never seen you make a
big deal about this stuff before. Why can’t I get a few cases of beer?
What’s the big deal?”

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Figure 7-6 The Four-Component Model of
Ethical Decision Making

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Moral Attentiveness

1. I enjoy pondering ethical matters.
2. I often think about the ethical implications of my actions.
3. I reflect on moral issues rather frequently.
4. I encounter morally charged situations rather often.
5. Moral dilemmas are a frequent part of my week.
6. I think about how ethical I’m being almost every day.
7. I carefully consider the morality of my decision making.
8. Many of the actions I take have some moral quality to them.
9. I have experienced several ethical predicaments in my life.
10. I often face situations that have some moral implication.

Average
Score: 19

11. I feel like I have to choose between moral and immoral fairly frequently.
12. Day in and day out, ethical dilemmas are something I have to consider.

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Table 7-3 The Dimensions of Moral Intensity
General Dimension: Potential for Harm
Specific Effect

Description

Magnitude of
consequences

How much harm would be done to other people?

Probability effect

How likely is it that the act will actually occur and that the assumed
consequences will match predictions?

Temporal
immediacy

How much time will pass between the act and the onset of its consequences?

Concentration of
effect

Will the consequences be concentrated on a limited set of people, or will they
be more far-reaching?

General Dimension: Social Pressure
Specific Effect

Description

Social consensus

How much agreement is there that the proposed act would be unethical?

Proximity

How near (in a psychological or physical sense) is the authority to those who will
be affected?

Sources: Adapted from T.M. Jones, “Ethical Decision Making by Individuals in Organizations: An Issue-Contingent Model,” Academy of Management Review 16 (1991), pp 366-95; and A. Singhapakdi, S.J. Vitell, and K.L.
Kraft, “Moral Intensity and Ethical Decision-Making of Marketing Professionals,” Journal of Business Research 36 (1996), pp. 245-55

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Ethics
7 of 7

Can companies benefit from having better moral
awareness and moral judgment, even if their costs rise
as a result? How?

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Figure 7-8 Effects of Trust on
Performance and Commitment

Sources: K.T. Dirks and D.L. Ferrin, “Trust in Leadership: Meta-Analytic Findings and Implications for Research and Practice,” Journal of Applied
Psychology 87 (2002), pp. 611–28; and J.A. Colquitt, B.A. Scott, and J.A. LePine, “Trust, Trustworthiness, and Trust Propensity: A Meta-Analytic Test
of Their Unique Relationships with Risk Taking and Job Performance,” Journal of Applied Psychology 92 (2007), pp. 909–27.

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Application
Corporate social responsibility
• Legal component

• Ethical component
• Social component

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Chapter 8: Learning and Decision Making

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Chapter 8
Learning and Decision Making

Class Agenda
Learning defined
Methods of learning
Decision making defined

Decision-making problems
How important is learning?
Application

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An Integrative Roadmap

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Learning Defined
Permanent changes in an employee’s knowledge or skill
that result from experience

Employees learn two types of knowledge:
• Explicit – easy to communicate and teach
• Tacit – more difficult to communicate; gained with
experience

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Workplace Learning Potential

1. At work, I get enough time to find my own solutions to task-related issues.
2. At work, I have the freedom to explore new ways to be more effective.
3. At work, I can experiment with different methods even if it might slow me down.
4. At work, I get the opportunity to learn how to cope with difficulties my way.
5. At work, I get the chance to reflect on how to do my job better.

6. At work, I have the freedom to compare different approaches to my work.

Average Score: 19
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Methods of Learning
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How do employees learn?
• Reinforcement

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Figure 8-2 Contingencies of Reinforcement

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Table 8-2 Schedules of Reinforcement

Reinforcement
Schedule

Reward Given
Following

Potential Level of
Performance

Example

Continuous

Every desired
behavior

High, but difficult to
maintain

Praise

Fixed interval

Fixed time periods

Average

Paycheck

Variable interval

Variable time periods

Moderately high

Supervisor walk-by

Fixed ratio

Fixed number of
desired behaviors

High

Piece-rate pay

Variable ratio

Variable number of
desired behaviors

Very high

Commission pay

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Methods of Learning
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How do employees learn?
• Reinforcement

• Observation

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Figure 8-1 Operant Conditioning Components

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Methods of Learning
3 of 3

Some people learn differently, as a function of the goals
and activities that they prioritize.

Goal orientation
• Learning
• Performance-prove
• Performance-avoid

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Goal Orientation

Average
Score: 16

Average
Score: 11

Source: Adapted from J.F. Brett and D. VandeWalle, “Goal Orientation and Goal Content Performance in a
Training Program,” Journal of Applied Psychology 84 (1999), pp. 863–73. Copyright (c) 1999 by the American
Psychological Associated.

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Decision Making
The process of generating and choosing from a set of
alternatives to solve a problem

Learning has a significant impact on decision making.

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Figure 8-4
Programmed and Nonprogrammed Decisions

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Rational Decision Making

1. I act based on my heart, not my head.

2. I think feelings should be the guide in most decisions.
3. I listen to logic when acting, not my emotions.
4. Most of my life decisions are governed by how I feel.
5. I do what inspires me. Now that’s logical.
6. When it comes to decisions, I do what is logical.

7. My feelings are my compass when there are choices to be made.
8. I believe key decisions should be reasoned carefully and rationally.

9. Important decisions should be based on the facts, not on emotions.

Average Score: 27
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Decision-Making Problems
Common reasons for making bad decisions:
• Limited information

• Faulty perceptions
• Faulty attributions
• Escalation of commitment

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Table 8-3 Rational Decision Making vs.
Bounded Rationality
To be rational decision makers, we
should…

Bounded rationality says we are
likely to…

Identify the problem by thoroughly examining the
situation and considering all interested parties.

Boil down the problem to something that is easily
understood.

Develop an exhaustive list of alternatives to consider
as solutions.

Come up with a few solutions that tend to be
straightforward, familiar, and similar to what is
currently being done.

Evaluate all the alternatives simultaneously.

Evaluate each alternative as soon as we think of it.

Use accurate information to evaluate alternatives.

Use distorted and inaccurate information during the
evaluation process.

Pick the alternative that maximizes value.

Pick the first acceptable alternative (sacrifice).

Sources: Adapted from H.A. Simon, “Rational Decision Making in Organizations,” American Economic Review 69 (1979), pp. 493-513; D. Kahneman, “Maps of Bounded Rationality:
Psychology for Behavioral Economics,” The American Economic Review 93 (2003), pp. 1449-75; and S.W. Williams, Making Better Business Decisions (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002

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Faulty Perceptions
Heuristics and biases
• Availability

• Anchoring
• Framing
• Representativeness
• Contract

• Recency
• Ratio bias

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Figure 8-5 Consensus,
Distinctiveness, and Consistency

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Escalation of Commitment
The decision to continue to follow a failing course of
action

Throwing good money after bad

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Figure 8-7 Effects of Learning on Performance
and Commitment

Sources: G.M. Alliger, S.I. Tannenbaum, W. Bennett Jr., H. Traver, and A. Shotland, “A Meta-Analysis of the Relations among Training Criteria,” Personnel
Psychology 50 (1997), pp. 341–58; J.A. Colquitt, J.A. LePine, and R.A. Noe, “Toward an Integrative Theory of Training Motivation: A Meta-Analytic
Path Analysis of 20 Years of Research,” Journal of Applied Psychology 85 (2000), pp. 678–707; and J.P. Meyer, D.J. Stanley, L. Herscovitch, and L.
Topolnytsky, “Affective, Continuance, and Normative Commitment to the Organization: A Meta-Analysis of Antecedents, Correlates, and Consequences,”
Journal of Vocational Behavior 61 (2002), pp. 20–52.

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Application
Training
• Behavior modeling

• Communities of practice

Transfer of training
• Climate for transfer

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Chapter 9: Personality and Cultural Values

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Chapter 9

Personality and Cultural Values

Class Agenda
Personality defined
The dimensions of personality
Personality effects

Integrity tests
Cultural values

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An Integrative Roadmap

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Personality
1 of 4

The structures and propensities inside a person that
explain his or her characteristic patterns of thought,
emotion, and behavior
• Where does your personality come from?

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Personality
2 of 4

Nature versus Nurture
• Are you extraverted or introverted? How does that
compare to your parents?
• Do such similarities represent nature or nurture?

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Personality
3 of 4

Nature versus Nurture
Twin Studies
• Scientists study identical twins reared apart in order to
separate nature and nurture effects.
• This research suggests that between 35% and 49% of
the variation in personality is due to genetics.

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Personality
4 of 4

While we could come up with thousands of adjectives,
most of them would cluster around five general
dimensions.
We call these dimensions the “Big Five.”

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Figure 9-1 Trait Adjectives
Associated with the Big Five

G. Saucier, “Mini-Markers: A Brief Version of Goldberg’s Unipolar Big-Five Markers,” Journal of Personality Assessment 63 (1994), pp. 506-16; L.R. Goldberg, “The Development of Markers for the Big-Five Factor Structure,”
Psychological Assessment 4 (1992), pp. 26-42; R.R. McCrae and P.T. Costa Jr., “Validation of the Five-Factor Model of Personality across Instruments and Observers,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 52 (1987), pp. 81-90;
and C.M. Bill and B.P. Hodgkinson, “Development and Validation of the Five-Factor Model Questionnaire (FFMQ): An Adjectival-Based Personality Inventory for Use in Occupational Settings,” Personnel Psychology 60 (2007), pp.
731-66.

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The Big Five

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Personality Norms

Source: M.B. Donnellan, F.L. Oswald, B.M. Baird, and R.E. Lucas, “The Mini-IPIP Scales: Tiny-Yet-Effective Measures of
the Big Five Factors of Personality,” Psychological Assessment 18 (2006), pp. 192–203. American Psychological
Association.

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Conscientiousness
Relevant adjectives:
• Dependable, organized, reliable, ambitious, hardworking,
persevering
• What’s your score?

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Agreeableness
Relevant adjectives:
• Kind, cooperative, sympathetic, helpful, courteous, warm

• What’s your score?

Neuroticism
Relevant adjectives:
• Nervous, moody, emotional, insecure, jealous, unstable

• What’s your score?

Figure 9-3 Extraversion, Neuroticism, and
Typical Moods

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Extraversion
Relevant adjectives:
• Talkative, sociable, passionate, assertive, bold, dominant

• What’s your score?

Openness to Experience
Relevant adjectives:
• Curious, imaginative, creative, complex, refined,
sophisticated
• What’s your score?

Other Personality Variables
1 of 3

Locus of control
• Strongly correlated with neuroticism

• Reflects the distinction between believing that events are
driven by luck, chance, or fate, versus people’s own
behaviors

Other Personality Variables
2 of 3

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
• Extraversion versus Introversion

• Sensing versus Intuition
• Thinking versus Feeling
• Judging versus Perceiving

Figure 9-6 Holland’s RIASEC Model

Adapted from J.L. Holland, Making Vocational Choices: A Theory of Careers (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1973).
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Other Personality Variables
3 of 3

An increasing number of organizations are attempting to
measure “honesty” or “integrity” for use in hiring. Why?

Such measures tap three of the Big Five:
• High conscientiousness
• Low neuroticism
• High agreeableness

Table 9.5 Sample Integrity Test Items
Sample Items in a Clear Purpose Test

Sample Items in a Veiled Purpose
Test

•

•
•
•
•

•

Did you ever think about taking
money from where you worked, but
didn’t go through with it?
Have you ever borrowed something
from work without telling anyone?
Is it OK to get around the law if you
don’t break it
If you were sent an extra item with
an order, would you send it back?
Do most employees take small items
from work?
What dollar value would a worker
have to steal before you would fire
them?

•
•
•
•

I like to plan things carefully ahead
of time.
I often act quickly without stopping
to think things through.
I’ve never hurt anyone’s feelings.
I have a feeling someone is out to
get me.
I don’t feel I’ve had control over my
life.

Source: From J.E. Wanek, P.R. Sackett, and D.S. Ones, “Towards an Understanding of Integrity Test Similarities and Differences: AN Item-Level Analysis of Seven Tests,” Personnel Psychology
56 (2003), pp. 873-94. Reprinted with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Integrity Tests
The fact that integrity tests work may be surprising
because we would expect that people would lie about (or
at least exaggerate) their integrity.
Such concerns over “faking” also apply to measures of
the Big Five.

Cultural Values
1 of 2

Shared beliefs about desirable end states or modes of
conduct in a given culture

Cultural values provide societies with their own
distinctive personalities.

Table 9-3 Hofstede’s Dimensions of Cultural Values
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Table 9-3 Hofstede’s Dimensions of Cultural Values
2 of 2

Sources: G. Hofstede, Culture’s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions, and Organizations across Nations (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001): G. Hofstede, “Cultural Constraints in Management Theories,”
Academy of Management Executive 7 (1993), pp. 81-94; and G. Hofstede and M.H. Bond, “The Confucius Connection: From Cultural Roots to Economic Growth,” Organizational Dynamics 16 (1988), pp. 5-21.

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Power Distance

1. A company’s norms should be followed, even if an employee disagrees with them.

2. Letting employees have a say in decisions eats away at managerial authority.
3. A good manager should be able to make decisions without consulting employees.

4. If employees disagree with the company’s actions, they should keep it to themselves.
5. Employees should not question the decisions that top management makes.
6. Managers lose effectiveness when employees second-guess their actions.
7. Managers have a right to expect employees to listen to them.
8. Efficient managerial decision making requires little employee input.
Average Score: 20
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Project GLOBE
• Power distance

• Uncertainty avoidance
• Institutional collectivism
• In-group collectivism

• Gender egalitarianism
• Assertiveness
• Future orientation

• Performance orientation
• Humane orientation

Figure 9-8 Effects of Personality on
Performance and Commitment

Sources: M.R. Barrick, M.K. Mount, and T.A. Judge, “Personality and Performance at the Beginning of the New Millennium: What Do We Know and
Where Do We Go Next?” International Journal of Selection and Assessment 9 (2001), pp. 9–30; C.M. Berry, D.S. Ones, and P.R. Sackett, “Interpersonal
Deviance, Organizational Deviance, and Their Common Correlates: A Review and Meta-Analysis,” Journal of Applied Psychology 92 (2007), pp. 410–24;
A. Cooper-Hakim and C. Viswesvaran, “The Construct of Work Commitment: Testing an Integrative Framework,” Psychological Bulletin 131 (2005),
B. pp. 241–59; L.M. Hough and A. Furnham, “Use of Personality Variables in Work Settings,” in Handbook of Psychology, Vol. 12, ed. W.C. Borman,
C. D.R. Ilgen, and R.J. Klimoski (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2003), pp. 131–69; J.E. Mathieu and D.M. Zajac, “A Review and Meta-Analysis of the Antecedents,
D. Correlates, and Consequences of Organizational Commitment,” Psychological Bulletin 108 (1990), pp. 171–94; and J.F. Salgado, “The Big Five
E. Personality Dimensions and Counterproductive Behaviors,” International Journal of Selection and Assessment 10 (2002), pp. 117–25.

Figure 9-9 The Effects of Faking on
Correlations with Integrity Tests

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Next Time
Chapter 10: Ability

Chapter 10
Ability

Class Agenda
Ability defined
Cognitive ability
Emotional intelligence

Physical abilities

An Integrative Roadmap

Ability
The relatively stable capabilities people have to perform
a particular range of different, but related, activities
• In contrast to skills, which are more trainable and
improvable
• As with personality, about half of the variation in ability
levels is due to genetics.

Cognitive Ability
1 of 4

Capabilities related to the acquisition and application of
knowledge in problem solving
• Verbal
• Quantitative
• Reasoning

• Spatial
• Perceptual

Cognitive Ability
2 of 4

One of the most widely used measures of cognitive
ability is the Wonderlic Personnel Test
• 50 questions in 12 minutes
• A score of 20 is equivalent to an IQ of 100, which is
average

• A score of 10 indicates literacy

Figure 10-4 Sample Wonderlic Questions
1 of 2

Source: Wonderlic WPT—Sample Questions. Reprinted with permission of Wonderlic, Inc.
Copyright 2007 Wonderlic, Inc with permission.

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Figure 10-4 Sample Wonderlic Questions
2 of 2

Source: Wonderlic WPT—Sample Questions. Reprinted with permission of Wonderlic, Inc.
Copyright 2007 Wonderlic, Inc with permission.

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Cognitive Ability
3 of 4

Average NFL Wonderlic scores:
Offensive tackles: 26

Safeties: 19

Centers: 25

Linebackers: 19

Quarterbacks: 24

Cornerbacks: 18

Guards: 23

Wide receivers: 17

Tight ends: 22

Running backs: 16

Table 10-3 Suggested Minimum Wonderlic
Scores for Various Jobs
Job

Minimum Scores

Mechanical Engineer

Attorney

Executive

Teacher

Nurse

Office Manager

Advertising Sales

Manager/Supervisor

Police Officer

Firefighter

Cashier

Hospital Orderly

Machine Operator

Unskilled Laborer

Maid-Matron

Source: Wonderlic Cognitive Ability Test and Scholastic Level Exam: User’s Manual (Vernon
Hills, IL: Wonderlic Cognitive Ability Test, Inc., 1992), pp. 28–29. Reprinted with permission.
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Cognitive Ability
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Think of the people you know who are exceptionally
smart. Are all of them successful?

Those who are not successful—why aren’t they? What
holds them back?

Emotional Intelligence
1 of 5

Capabilities related to the management and use of
emotions when interacting with others
• Sometimes labeled EQ or EI
• Especially vital in jobs that require a lot of “emotional labor”
• Comes in four varieties

Emotional Intelligence Assessment

Average
Score: 19

Average
Score: 19
Average
Score: 19

Average
Score: 19
Sources: K.S. Law, C.S. Wong, and L.J. Song, “The Construct and Criterion Validity of Emotional Intelligence and Its Potentia l Utility for Management
Studies,” Journal of Applied Psychology 89 (2004), pp. 483–96; and C.S. Wong and K.S. Law, “The Effects of Leader and Follower Emotional Intelligence on
Performance and Attitude,” The Leadership Quarterly 13 (2002), pp. 243–74.
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Emotional Intelligence
2 of 5

Self awareness
• The ability of an individual to understand the types of
emotions he/she is experiencing, the willingness to
acknowledge them, and the capability to express them
accurately
• What’s your score?

Emotional Intelligence
3 of 5

Other awareness
• The ability of an individual to recognize and understand
the emotions that other individuals are feeling
• What’s your score?

Emotional Intelligence
4 of 5

Emotion regulation
• The ability to quickly recover from emotional experiences
and control one’s feelings
• What’s your score?

Emotional Intelligence
5 of 5

Use of emotions
• The ability of an individual to harness emotions and use
them to improve their chances of being successful in a
given area

• What’s your score?

Physical Ability
Importance varies according to the nature of the job
• Strength

• Stamina
• Flexibility and coordination
• Psychomotor
• Sensory

Figure 10-3 Effects of General Cognitive Ability
on Performance and Commitment

Sources: J.W. Boudreau, W.R. Boswell, T.A. Judge, and R.D Bretz, “Personality and Cognitive Ability as Predictors of Job Searc among Employed
Managers,” Personnel Psychology 54(2001), pp. 25–50; S.M. Colarelli, R.A. Dean, and C. Konstans, “Comparative Effects of Personal and
Situational Influences on Job Outcomes of New Professionals,” Journal of Applied Psychology 72 (1987), pp. 558–66; D.N. Dickter, M.
Roznowski, and D.A. Harrison, “Temporal Tempering: An Event History Analysis of the Process of Voluntary Turnover,” Journal o f Applied Psychology
81 (1996), pp. 705–16; and F.L. Schmidt and J. Hunter, “General Mental Ability in the World of Work: Occupational Attainment an d Job Performance,
” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 86 (2004), pp. 162–73.

Next Time
Chapter 11: Team Characteristics and Diversity

Chapter 11

Team Characteristics and
Diversity

Class Agenda
Teams defined
Team types
Variations within team types

Team interdependence
Team composition

An Integrative Roadmap

Team Characteristics
A team consists of two or more people who work
interdependently over some time period to accomplish
common goals related to some task-oriented purpose.
• A special type of “group”
• The interactions among members within teams revolve
around a deeper dependence on one another than the
interactions within groups.

• The interactions within teams occur with a specific taskrelated purpose in mind.

Table 11-1 Types of Teams
Type of Team

Purpose and Activities

Life Span

Member
Involvement

Specific Examples

Work team

Produce goods or provide
services

Long

High

Self-managed work team
Production team
Maintenance team
Sales team

Management
team

Integrate activities of
subunits across business
functions

Long

Moderate

Top management team

Parallel team

Provide recommendations
and resolve issues

Varies

Low

Quality circle
Advisory council
Committee

Project team

Produce a one-time output
(product, service, plan,
design, etc.)

Varies

Product design team
Research group
Planning team

Action team

Perform complex tasks that
vary in duration and take
place in highly visible or
challenging circumstances

Varies

Surgical team
Musical group
Expedition team
Sports team

Varies

Sources: S.G. Cohen and D.E. Bailey, “What Makes Teams Work: Group Effectiveness Research from the Shop Floor to the Executive Suite,” Journal of Management 27 (1997), pp. 239-90; and E. Sundstrom, K.P.
De Meuse, and D. Futrell, “Work Teams: Applications and Effectiveness,” American Psychologist 45 (1990), pp. 120-33.

Figure 11-1 Types of Teams

Variations within Team Types
Virtual teams are teams in which the members are
geographically dispersed, and interdependent activity
occurs through electronic communications—primarily email, instant messaging, and Web conferencing.

Teams also vary in how experienced they are.

Figure 11-2 Two Models of Team Development

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Team Interdependence
1 of 3

Task interdependence refers to the degree to which
team members interact with and rely on other team
members for the information, materials, and resources
needed to accomplish work for the team.

Figure 11-3 Task Interdependence and
Coordination Requirements

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Team Interdependence
2 of 3

Goal interdependence exists when team members have
a shared vision of the team’s goal and align their
individual goals with that vision as a result.

The Mission Statement Development Process

For a similar take on how to develop mission statements, see P.S. MacMillan The Performance Factor: Unlocking the Secrets of Teamwork, Nashville,
Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2001, pp. 51–53.
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Team Interdependence
3 of 3

Outcome interdependence exists when team members
share in the rewards that the team earns.

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Interdependence

Average
score: 14

Source: From M.A. Campion, E.M. Papper, and G.J. Medsker, “Relations between Work Team Characteristics and Effectiveness: A R eplication and Extension,”
Personnel Psychology 49 (1996), pp. 429–52. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Figure 11-4 Five Aspects of Team Composition

Table 11-3 Team and Individualistic Roles
Team Task Roles

Description

Initiator-contributor

Proposes new ideas

Coordinator

Tries to coordinate activities among team members

Orienter

Determines the direction of the team’s discussion

Devil’s advocate

Offers challenges to the team’s status quo

Energizer

Motivates the team to strive to do better

Procedural-technician

Performs routine tasks needed to keep progress moving

Team-Building Roles

Description

Encourager

Praises the contributions of other team members

Harmonizer

Mediates differences between group members

Compromiser

Attempts to find the halfway point to end conflict

Gatekeeper-expediter

Encourages participation from teammates

Standard setter

Expresses goals for the team to achieve

Follower

Accepts the ideas of teammates

Individualistic Roles

Description

Aggressor

Deflates teammates, expresses disapproval with hostility

Blocker

Acts stubbornly resistant and disagrees beyond reason

Recognition seeker

Brags and calls attention to himself or herself

Self-confessor

Discloses personal opinions inappropriately

Slacker

Acts cynically, or nonchalantly, or goofs off

Dominator

Manipulates team members for personal control

Source: Adapted from K. Benne and P. Sheats, “Functional Roles of Group Members,” Journal of Social Issues 4 (1948), pp. 41-49
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Member Ability
Cognitive and physical abilities needed in a team
depend on the nature of the team’s task.
• Disjunctive tasks
• Conjunctive tasks
• Additive tasks

Member Personality
Three traits are especially critical in teams:
• Agreeable people tend to be more cooperative and
trusting, tendencies that promote positive attitudes about
the team and smooth interpersonal interactions.

• Conscientious people tend to be dependable and work
hard to achieve goals.
• Extraverted people tend to perform more effectively in
interpersonal contexts and are more positive and optimistic
in general.

Team Diversity
Degree to which members are different from one another
in terms of any attribute that might be used by someone
as a basis of categorizing people
• Value in diversity problem-solving approach
• Similarity-attraction approach

• Surface-level diversity
• Deep-level diversity

Team Size
Having a greater number of members is beneficial for
management and project teams but not for teams
engaged in production tasks.
Team members tend to be most satisfied with their team
when the number of members is 4 or 5.

Team Viability

1. What the team has accomplished is more than I could have accomplished.
2. My team has done an excellent job.

3. I am happy about this team’s overall effectiveness.
4. I’ve enjoyed working with the people on this team.

5. If the situation arose, I would choose to work on this team again.
6. Working with this team has been something I’ve enjoyed.

Figure 11-6 Effects of Task Interdependence on
Performance and Commitment

Sources: M.A. Campion, G.J. Medsker, and A.C. Higgs, “Relations between Work Group Characteristics and Effectiveness: Implications for
Designing Effective Work Groups,” Personnel Psychology 46 (1993), pp. 823–49; M.A. Campion, E.M. Papper, and G.J. Medsker,
“Relations between Work Team Characteristics and Effectiveness: A Replication and Extension,” Personnel Psychology 49 (1996), pp. 429–52; S.H.
Courtright, G.R. Thurgood, G.L. Stewart, and A.J. Pierotti, “Structural Interdependence in Teams: An Integrative Framework and Meta-Analysis,
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Chapter 12: Team Processes and Communication

Chapter 12

Teams: Processes and
Communication

Class Agenda
Team process defined
Taskwork processes
Teamwork processes

Communication
Team states

An Integrative Roadmap

Team Processes
1 of 3

Reflects the different types of activities and interactions
that occur within teams and contribute to their ultimate
end goals
• Team characteristics, like member diversity, task
interdependence, team size, and so forth, affect team
processes.
• Team processes, in turn, have a strong impact on team
effectiveness.

Team Processes
2 of 3

Process gain is getting more from the team than you
would expect according to the capabilities of its
individual members.
Process loss is getting less from the team than you
would expect based on the capabilities of its individual
members.

Team Processes
3 of 3

Causes of process loss
Coordination loss
• Production blocking

Motivational loss
•

Social loafing

Figure 12-1 Taskwork Processes

Table 12-1 IDEO’s Secrets for Brainstorming
What To Do

Description

Have a sharp focus

Begin the brainstorming with a clearly stated problem.

Playful rules

Encourage playfulness, but don’t debate or critique ideas.

Number the ideas

Make it easier to jump back and forth between ideas.

Build and jump

Build on and explore variants of ideas.

The space remembers

Use space to keep track of the flow of ideas in a visible way.

Stretch your brain

Warm up for the session by doing word games.

Get physical

Use drawings and props to make the ideas three-dimensional.

What Not To Do

Description

The boss speaks first.

Boss’s ideas limit what people will say afterwards.

Give everybody a turn.

Forcing equal participation reduces spontaneity.

Only include experts.

Creative ideas come from unexpected places.

Do it off-site.

You want creativity at the office too.

Limit the silly stuff.

Silly stuff might trigger useful ideas.

Write down everything.

The writing process can reduce spontaneity.

Source: T. Kelley and J. Littman, The Art of Innovation (New York: Doubleday, 2001).

Decision Making
Decision informity reflects whether members possess
adequate information about their own task
responsibilities.
Staff validity refers to the degree to which members
make good recommendations to the leader.

Hierarchical sensitivity reflects the degree to which the
leader effectively weighs the recommendations of the
members.

Boundary Spanning
Ambassador activities refer to communications that
are intended to protect the team, persuade others to
support the team, or obtain important resources for the
team.

Task coordinator activities involve communications
that are intended to coordinate task-related issues with
people or groups in other functional areas.
Scout activities refer to things team members do to
obtain information about technology, competitors, or the
broader marketplace.

OB on Screen

Figure 12-2 Teamwork Processes

Transition Processes
Mission analysis involves an analysis of the team’s task,
the challenges that face the team, and the resources
available for completing the team’s work.
Strategy formulation refers to the development of
courses of action and contingency plans, and then
adapting those plans in light of changes that occur in the
team’s environment.

Goal specification involves the development and
prioritization of goals related to the team’s mission and
strategy.

Action Processes
Monitoring progress toward goals
Systems monitoring involves keeping track of things that
the team needs to accomplish its work.

Helping behavior involves members going out of their
way to help or back up other team members.
Coordination refers to synchronizing team members’
activities in a way that makes them mesh effectively and
seamlessly.

Interpersonal Processes
Motivating and confidence building refers to things team
members do or say that affect the degree to which
members are motivated to work hard on the task.
Conflict management involves activities that the team
uses to manage conflicts that arise in the course of its
work.
• Relationship conflict

• Task conflict

Relationship Conflict

1. How much conflict do your members have from an emotional perspective?
2. How much tension do you see within your team between members?

3. How many “personality clashes” do you observe between folks on your team?
4. How much friction do you see between members on your team?

Figure 12-3 The Communication Process

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Communication
Communicator issues
Information richness
Network structure

Figure 12-4 Communication Network
Structures

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Figure 12-5 Team States

Cohesion
Exists when members of teams develop strong
emotional bonds to other members of their team and to
the team itself.
Groupthink happens in highly cohesive teams when
members may try to maintain harmony by striving toward
consensus on issues without ever offering, seeking, or
seriously considering alternative viewpoints and
perspectives.

Cohesion Assessment

Source: Items adapted from E. R. Crawford. “Team Network Multiplexity, Synergy and Performance.” Doctoral dissertation. University of Florida, 2011.

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Potency
Refers to the degree to which members believe that the
team can be effective across a variety of situations and
tasks

Mental Model
Refers to the level of common understanding among
team members with regard to important aspects of the
team and its task

Transactive Memory
1 of 2

Refers to how specialized knowledge is distributed
among members in a manner that results in an effective
system of memory for the team

Transactive Memory
2 of 2

1. I know who knows what on my team.

2. We can’t complete our work without each member’s specialized knowledge base.
3. On this team, different members cover different knowledge areas.
4. There are things I know about on my team’s task that no one else does.
5. Each of our team’s members has some specialty, from a knowledge perspective.

Figure 12-7 Effects of Teamwork Processes on
Performance and Commitment

Source: J.A. LePine, R.F. Piccolo, C.L. Jackson, J.E. Mathieu, and J.R. Saul, “A Meta-Analysis of Team Process: Towards a Better Understanding of the
Dimensional Structure and Relationships with Team Effectiveness Criteria,” Personnel Psychology 61 (2008), pp. 356–76.

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Chapter 13: Leadership: Power and Negotiation

Chapter 13

Leadership: Power and
Negotiation

Class Agenda
Leadership defined
Types of power
Influence tactics

Organizational politics
Conflict resolution
Negotiation

An Integrative Roadmap

Leadership
The use of power and influence to direct the activities of
followers toward goal achievement
• When you think of “effective leaders,” who do you think
of?

Power
The ability to influence the behavior of others and resist
unwanted influence in return
• What made the leaders you named powerful, exactly?

Figure 13-1 Types of Power

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Expert Power

1. I can provide others with the technical details that they need in their work.

2. I can give others advice that flows from my unique expertise.
3. I have skills and training that I can share with others to improve their work.
4. I am able to provide sound technical suggestions to my colleagues.

Referent Power

1. I can make others feel a sense of pride.

2. I can give others a sense of importance.
3. I can make others feel a sense of value.
4. I can serve as a positive role model to others.

Contingency Factors
Leaders are better able to use their power to influence
others when they have:
• Low substitutability
• High discretion
• High centrality

• High visibility

Influence
The use of an actual behavior that causes behavioral or
attitudinal changes in others
• Most frequently occurs downward (managers influencing
employees) but can also be lateral (peers influencing
peers) or upward (employees influencing managers)

Figure 13-2 Influence Tactics and
Their Effectiveness

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Figure 13-3 Responses to Influence Attempts

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