BME2102 HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN ORGANIZATIONS physiological, and inherent psychological

Enumeration makeup.
Investigative
Trait Activation Theory (TAT) - a theory
The Big Five Factors of Personality Model that predicts that some situations,
 Conscientiousness events, or interventions “activate” a trait
 Emotional Stability more than others
 Extraversion Personality-job fit theory - a theory that
 Openness to experience identifies six personality types and
 Agreeableness proposes that the fit between personality
Six universal emotions type and occupational environment
 anger determines satisfaction and turnover .
 fear Confirmation Bias - the tendency to seek
 sadness out information that reaffirms past
 happiness choices and to discount information that
 disgust contradicts past judgments
 surprise Contrast Effect - evaluation of a person’s
Two types of Emotion characteristics that is affected by
 Felt Emotion comparisons with other people recently
 Displayed Emotion encountered who rank higher or lower on
Three other Social Undesirable Traits the same characteristics
Selective Perception - the tendency to
 Machiavellianism
selectively interpret what one sees on the
 Narcissism
basis of one’s interests, background,
 Psychopathy
experience, and attitudes
Organizational Constraints
(Extravert)
 Performance Evaluation System
Extraverted individuals - outgoing,
 Reward systems
sociable, and assertive
 Formal regulation
Investigative contras-effect
 System-Imposed Time Constraints
Emotional Intelligence – the ability to
 Historical Precedents
detect and to manage emotional cues
and information.
Cognitive reappraisal – is a way to
Extraverted individuals - outgoing,
effectively regulate emotion. It is most
sociable, and assertive
helpful to individuals in situations where
Consistency - an observer looks for
they cannot control the sources of stress.
consistency in a person’s actions. Does
Nelson Mandela
the person respond the same way over
Sheryl Sandberg
time?
Personality - the sum total of ways in
Constraints - the extend to which
which an individual reacts to and
individuals’ freedom to decide or act is
interacts with others - measurable traits a
limited by forces outside their control
person exhibits
Enterpresing investigative active events
Personality Determinance
Emotional suppression - It appears to be
Affective events theory (AET) – a model
helpful only when a strongly negative
that suggests that workplace events
event would illicit a distressed emotional
cause emotional reactions on the part of
reaction in a crisis situation.
employees, which then influence
Masculinity - is the degree to which the
workplace attitudes and behaviors.
culture favors traditional masculine roles
Heredity - factors determined at
such as achievement, power, and control,
conception; one’s biological,
as opposed to viewing mean and women
as equals.
Uncertainty avoidance - degree to which
people in a country prefer structured
over unstructured situations defines their
uncertainty avoidance.
Terminal Values - refers to desirable end-
states of existence; the goals a person
would like to achieve during his or her
lifetime
Instrumental values - refers to preferable
mode of behavior or means of achieving
one’s terminal value
Repectiveness Contras-effect
Anchoring Bias - a tendency to fixate on
initial information, from which one then
fails to adequately adjust for subsequent
information
Risk Aversion - the tendency to prefer a
sure gain of a moderate amount over a
riskier outcome, even if the riskier
outcome might have a higher expected
payoff
Schizotypal - are eccentric and
disorganized