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OB concepts, however law-like they can be, must take into account situational factors. Under different conditions different individuals act differently. That is why there only a few absolutes in OB. Because people are different and complex, one needs to consider OB in a contingency framework. Ic Coping with anticapitalism backlash — values and norms, even the economical ones, are not the same everywhere.
Id Placing more and more jobs, productions in low-cost labour countries e. Ie Managing people during War on Terror — e. IIa Embracing diversity — employees from diverse countries do not give up their cultural values and norms to adapt to the rest of society. X Creating a positive work surrounding — in this point the notion of positive organizational scholarship needs to be mentioned — it is research area that focuses on fostering strengths rather than eliminating weaknesses.
It is all about what is good, the best in employees and the organization itself. Intellectual abilities — capacity to perform mental tasks.
There are a few dimensions of Intellectual ability: number aptitude, verbal comprehension, perceptual speed, inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, spatial visualization, memory. Moreover, the notion of general mental ability GMA appears — it is an overall aspect of intelligence. Intelligence and job satisfaction do not relate to each other. Physical abilities — needed to perform physical tasks. There are nine basic physical abilities grouped in 3 categories: strength factors dynamic strength, trunk strength, static strength, explosive strength , flexibility factors extent flexibility, dynamic flexibility and other factors body coordination, balance, stamina.
Generally, satisfaction increases with age in professional job types and decreases with age in nonprofessional. Women prefer more flexible working times and are more often absent at work than men. Theory based on the concept that unconditioned stimulus causes unconditioned response and that conditioned stimuli cause conditioned response.
It is based on building connection between conditioned and unconditioned stimulus. Reward after the desired and deliberate behavior occurs is the reinforcement. The elimination of punishment in case of lack of desired and deliberate behavior is also reinforcement.
Those two methods reinforce achievement of desired response, effect, equal behavior. The theory of operant conditioning is a part of behaviorism concept which argues that people react to stimuli not associating them consciously with response. We act in response to stimuli, but all process takes place on unconscious level. There are 4 models of social learning:. Managers shape behavior of employees, meaning that the change of behavior happens in steps, and each step is reinforced.
There are 4 main shaping behavior methods :. Positive reinforcement refers to rewarding desired behavior, negative refers to elimination of something unpleasant, not wanted when a behavior occurs. Extinction means not applying any reinforcement and waiting until particular behavior extincts, disappears. Those reinforcements can happen on continuous or intermittent basis. Desired behavior is reinforced each time continuous reinforcement is performed.
Intermittent reinforcement occurs when reinforcement is not regular, but it happens enough often to make one behave in a desired way repeatedly.
When it comes to reinforcement schedules , the concept goes further beyond continuous or intermittent models. One distinguishes 4 time schedules:. We are talking about fixed-interval schedule when reinforcement is applied after a particular period of time e. When reinforcement happens on irregular time basis we are referring to fixed-interval schedule e. Fixed-ration schedule tells us that reinforcement happens always after a certain and constant amount of desired behaviors is performed e.
Variable-ratio schedule is the opposite. One is rewarded on unpredictable basis; each time after different amount of desired behaviors occurs. In general, variable schedules are more effective than fixed.
OB Mod means the application of reinforcement methods described above to people in their working environment. This happens in 5 steps:. There are 3 main components of attitudes:. Cognitive refers to just describing things how we see them, e. Affective is related to emotions and feelings, e. Behavioral refers to intentions, actions, e. All components are related, cognitive and affective aspects of attitudes are inseparable. At this point, the notion of cognitive dissonance appears — it is the reverse effect — when attitude follows behavior.
It is explained as inconsistency between attitudes or between behavior and attitude e. Single global rating method survey participants answer one question: How satisfied are you with your job? Summary of job facets makes an employee evaluate each element of a job , possible facets can be salary, communication with co- workers and with supervisor, amount of days off, etc. The second one summary of job facets is more accurate, allows the identification of the core problems and makes it easier to create possible solutions.
In general, most of the time is the nature of job that makes one satisfied with work. However, also personality is an important factor influencing job satisfaction. Once a person achieves a level of payment that allows for him comfortable living, the relationship between pay and job satisfaction does not exist any longer. In organisations, HRM departments use personality tests to measure and forecast the behavior of prospective employee.
The common method of measuring personality is self-report survey — one evaluates himself on different variables. The other means of personality measurement is the observer-rating survey , which is a more independent assessment — a person observes and rates personality of another person employee, prospective employee, etc.
Claimed to be more successful in the context of organisations. Personality results from heredity and interactions with an environment. Moreover, the notion of personality traits appears at this point — these traits are enduring, rather unchanging attributes that characterise behavior.
After doing the test, a person can be classified to the following groups:. Sensing or intuitive — sensing types like routine, are practical-oriented, pay attention to details. Disadvantages of the model: a person must be classified either to one type or another —cannot be in-between the types, and do not reflect job performance. Studies have demonstrated the relationship between personality dimensions and job performance. Critique: the Big Five model does not represent all relevant traits that a personality can have.
The other traits, which are not shown in the existing 2 models, but are highly relevant to OB are:. People with positive core-self evaluation usually perform at work better. People with high level of Machiavellianism tend to manipulate others, appear as very persuasive, and are good in negotiations. People with high level of self-monitoring are more responsive to external signs, but also their behavior differs from situation to situation — they tend to behave differently when being in a public and differently in private.
High self-monitoring means better job performance than low self-monitoring. Managers with high risk-taking level make decisions faster.
In US type A is associated positively, with ambition, success. Type B personality is the opposite — people with type B never hurry with anything, can be relaxed without guilt. Type A personalities do better during work interviews, are faster workers, work long hours, usually work under stress and their actions are more predictable.
Proactive people are seen as leaders, make changes within the organization, but they are more likely to leave the organization to start business on their-own. A personal and cultural value is a relative ethic value, an assumption upon which implementation seems reasonable.
Moreover, values that we organise according to their importance and intensity create a value system. In OB, studying values is important because they influence behavior, perception, attitudes. The most basic categorisation of values recognises terminal and instrumental values and is used in Rokech Value Survey RVS. People in the similar occupations have similar RVS values.
Moreover, it is necessary to mention generational values. Researches have made the following division:. Disadvantages of the division above: does not apply in all cultures, little research — relying on intuition, inexact categories. A successful match guarantees high job satisfaction and lower probability to resign from the job. The possible personality types in person-job fit theory are: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, conventional, enterprising.
Social people match best with social occupations, artistic people with artistic jobs, etc…. If it is not the case, a person will leave the organization. Values and value systems differ from culture to culture. Low level of it emphasizes equality in society. Critique: out-of-date concept developed 30 years ago, based on IBM company , many changes, world events have happened since the development of the theory and they also shape the dimensions , some results are surprising.
It is an on-going study in leadership and national culture across different countries representing different cultures. Perception is defined as a process of organising and interpreting impressions, thus giving meaning to the external environment, it is organizing our world with impressions we have.
Factors which influence perception can be grouped: there are factors in the perceiver attitudes, motives, interests, etc. It is important to remember the attribution theory.
It is based on the concept that when judging people we try to explain their behavior in two possible ways. When observing, judging a person we try to determine whether his behavior is caused internally or externally. Internally caused behaviors are the ones we see as under the control of an individual. Externally caused are the ones we see as the situation forcing a person to do something. Moreover, when we judge behaviors of others, we often make fundamental attribution error.
It is a tendency to underestimate the external environment situational circumstances and overestimate internal factors e. Apart from fundamental attribution error, we are usually under the high influence of self-serving bias. Not blaming self, blaming others. A single trait can influence the overall impression. Perceptions largely influence the quality of decision-making. The decision-maker will evaluate the data received according to his perception, bias may be involved. Gives a ready scheme that follows a logical order.
Only find the first acceptable solution, but not the optimal one. It would be effective to complement this with evidence and good judgements in decision making. Confirmation bias — in a decision-making it means seeking out information that reaffirm our previous choices and discount information that contradicts it. Availability bias — basing decision on information that is already gathered and available.
Escalation of commitment — not changing the previous decision despite the negative information. Hindsight bias — inclination to see events that have occurred as more predictable than they in fact were before they took place.
Personality: achievement striving people are more likely to escalate commitments than dutiful people. Gender — women have tendency to rumination over-thinking problems, decisions, analyzing them for very long, before and after some decisions are made. Performance evaluation — managers are influenced in their decision-making by criteria of their later evaluation.
Formal regulations — choices, decisions which are made have to fit to regulations, rules, directives of a firm. Pros and cons: promotes efficiency, productivity but ignores individuals can be minorities.
Rights — making decisional choices consistent with rights, laws, liberties. This criterion protects whistle-blowers who are workers that reveal unethical practices of their organization because they have a right to free speech.
Pros and cons: gives individual freedom, rights, protection, but at the same time creates too much of a law-based environment, which lowers productivity and efficiency.
Justice — criterion which characterises people who make decision to achieve equity and aim at fair distribution of benefits. Pros and cons: protects rights of underprivileged, but creates a sense of entitlement, this reduces risks taking, innovation, productivity. Utilitarianism tends to be the safe choice for decision-makers, but should not be the single criterion to judge good decisions.
Creativity can be described as ability to generate new, innovative, useful and resourceful ideas. It is becoming more important in decision-making process.
Allows to see more perspectives and angles of a problem. Most of us need to learn to unleash our creative potential. Three-component model of creativity. Attributions — attributions which people make differ across countries. One needs to be aware of this fact when making decision or judging decisions of others.
One defines motivation as a reason for engaging in a particular behavior towards attaining a goal. It relates to 3 key concepts: direction, intensity and persistence of human behavior. Lower order needs psychological, safety must be first satisfied so high-order needs the rest can be attained. One cannot move from satisfying psychological needs directly to social, because safety needs were not satisfied.
This theory proposes only 3 core needs — existence, relatedness and growth. Theory Y is based on assumptions such as: employees may be ambitious, motivated, can handle work autonomy, can be given authority and be empowered. In terms of Maslow hierarchy, higher-order needs dominate individuals in theory Y, lower-needs dominate in theory X. Theory developed by F. His studies proved that certain factors cause job satisfaction and a separate set of factors cause job dissatisfaction.
If they are absent, workers will be dissatisfied. There are as well motivation factors: challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and empowerment. These factors give positive satisfaction. Despite many criticisms, this theory is widely known by managers.
I t focuses on 3 needs: need for achievement nAch , need for power nPow and need for affiliation nAff. These needs are subconscious.
Researches focus mainly on nAch and the relationship between nAch and job performance. Critique: the theory has less practical approach than others and applying and measuring concept in practice is expensive and time-consuming.
Theory which addresses the effects of social contexts on intrinsic motivation. It states that if we think we will be able to complete the task, we will be intrinsically motivated to complete the task, requiring no further external motivation. And if we are extrinsically awarded for behavior which was previously intrinsically rewarding, then the general motivation level drops.
Examples of extrinsic rewards: bonus, salary, verbal praise. Why does it happen? Critique: criticizing methodology and outcomes analysis. The effect of verbal and intangible award is different on intrinsic behavior of an individual. If one is working to achieve intrinsic goal, it is more probably he will succeed and if he does not succeed he is still happy.
On the other hand, if a person works to achieve extrinsic goals e. Studies suggest that people whose work goals are connected with intrinsic motives achieve higher job satisfaction, perform better and there is a person-organisation fit.
This theory claims that providing specific, challenging and interesting goals, while giving constant feedback, results in better outcome. Acceptance of a goal, however hard it can be to achieve, results in higher effort to achieve it. A difficult goal makes us more energetic and more hard- working because indeed we need to work better, harder to accomplish it. Difficult goal equals invention, finding new working methods to be more effective and efficient. In this whole process, feedback serves as guidance, check list of things that are done and need to be done.
Self-generated feedback is more effective than externally- generated feedback. There are also other factors that influence goal-setting effect: a Goal commitment b Task characteristic c National culture. Elements of MBO: goal specificity, participation in decision making process, time period and feedback. MBO is similar to the goal-setting theory, only differ in participative goal-setting vs. Developed by Albert Bandura. Training programs use enactive mastery.
The Galatea effect means communicating expectations directly to employees and self-fulfilling of this expectation. It is opposite to goal setting theory, indicating that behaviors are environmentally caused.
Not a motivation theory, but widely considered when discussing about motivation. This theory argues that employees compare their efforts and their outcomes with those of other employees, in case of inequities they act.
There are four ways one can compare his inputs and outputs with those of co- worker: self-inside, self-outside, other-inside, other-outside. Same gender prefers references from the same gender. If one spots inequity, he can make the following decisions:. Developed by Victor Vroom. Vroom's theory assumes that behavior results from conscious choices among alternatives whose purpose it is to maximize pleasure and to minimize pain.
Expectancy is the belief that increased effort will lead to increased performance i. Focuses on 3 relationships:. Challenge: To combine these theories and understand the relations between them Figure 6. Also, cultural differences must be considered.
It is calculated as:. However, it is better to add the above characteristics to improve motivation, rather than using this complex model. Job rotation employee is performing different tasks at different times, tasks shift, employee moves from one job to another which requires the same skills level. Reduce boredom, increase motivation, increase flexibility as employees have more skills.
But it increases training costs, creates disruptions, reduce productivity. Job enlargement employee is performing more different and various tasks, his work is becoming more diverse and it horizontally widened The application of job enlargement is not always successful, as employees may dislike the job even more. Opportunity to perform means absence of barriers that may limit the performance of an employee. Participative management — joint decision making between employees are their supervisors.
Representative participation — representation of employees who participate in organizational decision making instead of all workers participating in decision making, in form of works councils and board representatives.
Quality circles — volunteer group composed of workers who meet to talk about workplace improvement, and make presentations to management with their ideas, especially relating to quality of output in order to improve the performance of the organization, and motivate and enrich the work of employees. What to pay? Pay more: better qualified, motivated and longer loyalty, but leads to very high cost.
How to pay? More and more organizations use variable-pay programs — refers to compensation that is received in addition to the base pay.
Piece-rate pay — employees is paid stable price for each unit of completed production. Limitation: not feasible and realistic for many jobs. Merit-based pay — pay plan that is performance-related. It provides bonuses for workers who perform their jobs better, according to measurable criteria. Limitation: only valid upon the performance evaluation on which it is based; dependant on the pay raise pool, resisted by trade unions.
Skill-based pay - employees are paid on the basis of the number of job skills they have or have acquired or number of jobs they can perform. Limitation: the organization may pay the employees for acquiring skills which are not immediately needed.
Profit-sharing plan - various incentive plans introduced by businesses that provide direct cash or indirect stock payments to employees that depend on company's profitability in addition to employees' regular salary and bonuses. Gainsharing - program that returns cost savings to the employees, usually as a lump-sum bonus. It is a productivity measure, as opposed to profit-sharing which is a profitability measure. What benefits to offer? Flexible benefits enable employers to select the benefits that suit them.
There are also 3 main types of benefits plan: modular plans, core-plus plans and flexible spending plans. Financial motivators pay plans, wage are effective in short-term, while intrinsic rewards are crucial motivator in long-term. Intrinsic rewards can be just informal thank you as well as the whole formally developed program.
Intrinsic rewards plans are inexpensive but are vulnerable to politics of management. Also referred to as the experience of different feelings, can be divided into emotions and moods. Emotions: most of researches have agreed that there are 6 basic emotions: happiness-surprise-fear-sadness-anger-disgust.
Emotions are critical to rational thinking because they provide us with information regarding our comprehension of surrounding world. There are few functions of emotions. First set of functions is based on the concept if evolutionary psychology — it is concept which states that people need to experience emotions since they have a purpose. There are researches who question evolutionary psychology because it may not be valid in case of all emotions e.
Are less intense and lack situational stimulus. Are usually not felt towards people and last longer than emotions. Moods are more cognitive while emotions are more behavioral can lead us to action. Moods and emotions can influence each other.
Emotion, if it is deep and lasting, and turn into mood. Moods can be of negative or positive affect. Positive affect is a set of moods consisting of positive emotions, we distinguish high positive emotions: excitement, self-assurance, cheerfulness and low positive emotions: boredom, sluggishness and tiredness. Negative affect is a set of moods consisting of negative emotions, we distinguish high negative emotions: nervousness, stress and anxiety and low negative emotions: relaxation, tranquility and poise.
Moreover, exists something like positivity offset what means that most of people experience slightly positive mood when nothing special is happening.
This last concept is called affect intensity. Time — worst moods early in the week, best moods late in the week. Most positive emotions at mid-point between waking and sleeping, negative emotions highest in the morning and later average.
Weather — weather has little influence on mood. Social life — social activities make people experience positive emotions and also people experiencing positive emotions seek social activities. Age — negative emotions occur less and less with age. With age, we are more emotionally wise. Gender — women are more emotional l y expressive than men due to differences in socialization. Emotional labour is form of emotional regulation in which workers are expected to display certain emotions as part of their job, and to promote organizational goals.
The intended effects of these emotional displays are on other, targeted people, who can be clients, customers, subordinates or co-workers. Surface acting - "painting on" affective displays, or faking; Surface acting involves an employee's presenting emotions on his or her "surface" without actually feeling them. Is more stressful than deep acting. Model developed to identify how emotions and moods influence job performance and job satisfaction.
The model increases understanding of links between employees and their emotional reaction to things that happen to them at work.
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