MGMT 310 Exam 1
Organization - correct answer ✔✔a collection of people who work together and coordinate their actions
to achieve individual and organizational goals
organizational behavior - correct answer ✔✔provides a set of tools that allow people to: understand,
analyze and describe behavior; managers to improve, enhance or change work behaviors so that
individuals, groups and the whole org can achieve their goals
three levels of organizational behavior - correct answer ✔✔individual
group
organization
group - correct answer ✔✔2 or more people who interact to achieve their goals
team - correct answer ✔✔a group in which members work together intensively and develop team
specific routines to achieve a common group goal
virtual team - correct answer ✔✔a group whose members work together intensively via electronic
means and who may never actually meet
managers - correct answer ✔✔people who supervise the activities of 1+ employees
top-management teams - correct answer ✔✔high-ranking exec's who plan a companies strategy so that
the company can achieve its goals
organizational effectiveness - correct answer ✔✔ability of an org to achieve its goals
management - correct answer ✔✔process of planning, organizing, leading and controlling an org's
human, financial, material and other resources to increase its effectiveness
, planning - correct answer ✔✔deciding how to best allocate/use resources to achieve org's goals
how does this course affect your career - correct answer ✔✔how much money i make
how to network
how to interview
communication skills
how to effectively work in groups
individual differences - correct answer ✔✔the ways in which people differ from each other; important
for managers to understand because they impact the feelings, thoughts, and behavior of each member
of an org
personality - correct answer ✔✔the pattern of relatively enduring ways that a person thinks and
behaves; shown to influence career choice, job satisfaction, stress, leadership, and aspects of job
performance
nature - correct answer ✔✔biological heritage, genetic make up
attraction-selevtion-attrition framework - correct answer ✔✔the idea that an org attracts and selects
individuals which similar personalities and loses individuals with other types of personalities
trait - correct answer ✔✔specific component of personality that describes the particular tendencies a
person has to feel, think, and act in certain ways
Big 5 personality traits - correct answer ✔✔extroversion
neuroticism
agreeableness
conscientiousness
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