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1
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The MARS Model of Individual Behaviour is based on

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Motivation
Ability
Role Perceptions
Situational factors

2
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The Internal forces that affect a person’s voluntary choice of behaviour:

  • Direction
  • Intensity
  • Persistence
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Motivation

3
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_____ refers to Natural _____ and learned capabilities required to _____ complete a task

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Ability, aptitudes, successfully

4
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______ ______ are the beliefs about what behaviour is required to achieve the desired results:

  • Understanding what tasks to perform
  • Understanding relative importance of tasks
  • Understanding preferredbehaviours to accomplish tasks
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Role Perceptions

5
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\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_ are the environmental conditions beyond the individual’s short-term control that constrain or facilitate behaviour
Time
People
Budget
Work facilities
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Situational factors

6
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What are the 5 types of Individual behaviour in the workplace?

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1 Task performance
2 Organisational citizenship
3 Counter-productive behaviour
4 Joining/staying with the organisation
5 Maintaining attendance
7
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Task Performance

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Goal-directed behaviours under the individual’s control that support organisational objectives

8
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Task performance _____ transform _____ materials into goods and services, or support and maintain these _____ activities

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behaviours, raw, technical

9
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What behaviours refer to various forms of cooperation and helpfulness to others that support the organisation’s social and psychological context

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Organisational Citizenship Behaviours

10
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Counterproductive Work Behaviours are

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Voluntary behaviours that have the potential to directly or indirectly harm the organisation

11
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Employee retention is essential for all the other performance-related behaviours to occur
and is the behaviour called

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Joining and Staying with the Organisation

12
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Maintaining Work Attendance

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Managing presenteeism and absenteeism and ensuring that work attendance is related to job satisfaction and motivation.

13
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attending scheduled work when one’s capacity to perform is significantly diminished by illness and other factors

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Presenteeism

14
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_____ is related to dissatisfaction, organisational policy, norms and the person’s values and personality

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Absenteeism

15
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What is relatively enduring pattern of thoughts, emotions and behaviours that characterise a person, along with the psychological processes behind those characteristics

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Personality

16
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External traits: observable behaviours
Internal states: thoughts, values, etc. inferred from behaviours
Some variability, adjust to suit the situation
are defined as

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Personality in Organisations

17
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What shapes our individual personalities

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Nature versus Nurture of Personality

18
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Nature refers to our

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genetic or hereditary origins

19
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Nurture refers to the

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person’s socialisation, life experiences and other forms of interaction with the environment

20
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What are the 5 factors of the CANOE personality model

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Conscientiousness
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
Openness to Experience 
Extroversion
21
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People who are careful, dependable and self disciplined possess traits in line with

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Conscientiousness

22
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Agreeableness are people

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Who are courteous, good natured, empathic and caring possess traits in line with Agreeableness

23
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People who are anxious, hostile ad depressed possess traits in line with

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Neuroticism

24
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Openness to Experience

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People who are Imaginative, creative, curious and sensitive possess traits in line with Openness to experience.

25
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People who are outgoing, talkative, sociable and assertive possess traits in line with

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Extroversion

26
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Five-Factor Personality and Organisational Behaviour represent

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Most personality traits

27
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Studies report fairly strong associations between personality and several workplace behaviours and outcomes:

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Performance
Motivation
Organisational citizenship

28
Q

MBTI stands for

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

29
Q

MBTI covers

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  • Extroversion versus introversion
  • Sensing versus intuition
  • Thinking versus feeling
  • Judging versus perceiving
30
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Collecting information through senses versus through intuition, inspiration or subjective sources explains what facet of MBTI

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Sensing versus intuition

31
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Thinking versus feeling explains what facet of MBTI

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Processing and evaluating information

Using rational logic versus personal values

32
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Orienting self to the outer world

Order and structure or flexibility and spontaneity explains what facet of MBTI

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Judging versus perceiving

33
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Competencies are

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skills, knowledge, aptitudes and other personal characteristics that lead to superior performance

34
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Personality Constellations

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Resilience
Self-efficacy
Dark Triad

35
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The ability to overcome and learn from adverse experiences in the workplace is known as

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Resilience

36
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Self-efficacy is

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a person’s belief that he or she can successfully complete a task

37
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What is known as a constellation of personality traits that increases the use of influence tactics and leads to counterproductive work behaviours

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Dark Triad

38
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  • Self-reports are not a valid measure
  • Personality is a relatively weak predictor of a person’s performance
  • Personality instruments may unfairly discriminate against specific groups of people
  • Personality testing might not convey a favourable image of the company
    are all
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Caveats About Personality Testing in Organisations

39
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Values in the Workplace enforce _____ , evaluative beliefs that guide our preferences, and define _____ or _____, good or bad and create a ____ system
that is a hierarchy of values

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, Stable, right, wrong, Value

40
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Schwartz’s Values Model’s 10 categories

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Universalism
Benevolence
Conformity
Tradition
Security
Power
Achievement
Hedonism
Stimulation
Self-direction
41
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Schwartz’s Values Model’s reduced further to 2 bipolar dimensions 1

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1 Openness to change: motivation to pursue innovative ways, and its opposite
Conservation: motivation to preserve the status quo

42
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Schwartz’s Values Model’s reduced further to 2 bipolar dimensions 2

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2 Self-enhancement : motivated by self-interest, and its opposite.
Self-transcendence : motivation to promote welfare of others and nature

43
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Values and Behaviour includes _____ behaviour that is usually consistent with _____, but conscious behaviour is less so because values are ______ constructs

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Habitual , values, abstract

44
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Decisions and behaviour are linked to values when we are mindful of our _____ and we have _____ reasons to apply values in that situation

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values, logical

45
Q

What is the cross-cultural value describing the degree to which people in a culture emphasise independence and personal uniqueness?

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Individualism

46
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What refers to a cross-cultural value describing the degree to which people in a culture emphasis duty to the groups to which they belong and to group harmony

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Collectivism

47
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Power distance refers to

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The degree to which people in a culture accept unequal distributions of power in a society.

48
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The degree to which people tolerate ambiguity

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uncertainty avoidance.

49
Q

achievement-nurturing orientations reflects

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a competitive versus cooperative view of relations with other people

50
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Ethics refers to the

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study of moral principles or values that determine whether actions are right or wrong and outcomes are good or bad

51
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Honesty/ethics is the most important characteristic

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that employees look for in a leader

52
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What are the 5 cross-cultural values

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Individualism
Collectivism
Power distance
Uncertainty avoidance
Achievement orientation.
53
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What are the 3 ethical principles

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Utilitarianism
Individual rights
Distributive justice

54
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Utilitarianism

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Greatest good for the greatest number of people

55
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Individual rights

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Fundamental entitlementsin society

56
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Distributive justice

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People who are similar should receive similar benefits

57
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Name the 3 Influences on Ethical Conduct

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Moral intensity
Ethical sensitivity
Situational influences

58
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Moral intensity

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Degree that an issue demands the application of ethical principles

59
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A personal characteristic that enables people to recognise the presence of an ethical issue and determine the relative importance.

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Ethical sensitivity

60
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Situational influences

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Competitive pressures and other situational conditions that affect ethical behaviour

61
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Ethical code of conduct
Ethics training
Ethics hotlines
Ethical leadership and culture
all
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Supporting Ethical Behaviour

62
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What are the 5 main types of workplace behaviour

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1/ task performance;
2/ organisational citizenship;
3/ counterproductive work behaviours;
4/ joining and staying with the organisation; and
5/ maintaining work attendance are the 5 main types of