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Chapter
Foundations
of Individual
Behavior
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Learning Outcomes
• Identify the focus and goals of organizational
behavior (OB).
• Explain the role that attitudes play in job
performance.
• Describe different personality theories.
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Learning Outcomes (cont.)
• Describe perception and the factors that
influence it.
• Discuss learning theories and their relevance in
shaping behavior.
• Discuss contemporary issues in OB.
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9.1 Identify the focus
and goals of
organizational
behavior (OB).
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Organizational Behavior
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Goals of Organizational Behavior
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Employee productivity
Absenteeism
Turnover
Organizational citizenship behavior
Job satisfaction
Workplace misbehavior
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9.2 Explain the role that
attitudes play in job
performance.
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Attitudes and Job Performance
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Job satisfaction
Job involvement
Organizational commitment
Employee engagement
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Attitudes and Consistency
Cognitive dissonance:
Any incompatibility or inconsistency between
attitudes or between behavior and attitudes.
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Understanding Attitudes
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9.3 Describe different
personality
theories.
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Personality Theories
Personality:
A unique combination of emotional, thought, and
behavioral patterns that affect how a person
reacts to situations and interacts with others.
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Big Five Model of Personality
The Big Five factors are:
1. Extraversion
2. Agreeableness
3. Conscientious
4. Emotional stability
5. Openness to experience
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Emotional Intelligence
Five dimensions:
• Self-awareness
• Self-management
• Self-motivation
• Empathy
• Social skills
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Personality Traits
Can personality traits predict practical workrelated behaviors?
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Matching Personalities and Jobs
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Personality Traits Across Cultures
National cultures differ in terms of the degree
to which people believe they control their
environment.
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Understanding Personality
1. Job-person compatibility
2. Understanding different approaches to
work
3. Being a better manager
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9.4
Describe perception
and the factors that
influence it.
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Perception
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Judging Employees
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Distorted Attributions
Fundamental attribution error:
The tendency to underestimate the influence of
external factors and overestimate the influence of
internal factors when making judgments about the
behavior of others.
Self-serving bias:
The tendency for individuals to attribute their
successes to internal factors while putting the blame
for failures on external factors.
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Perceptual Shortcuts
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Understanding Perception
1. Employees react to perception, not reality.
2. The potential for perceptual distortion exists.
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9.5 Discuss learning
theories and their
relevance in
shaping behavior.
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Operant Conditioning
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Social Learning Theory
Learning both through observation and
direct experience
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Shaping Behavior
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Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Punishment
Extinction
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Managing Employees’ Learning
1. Watch what you reward.
2. Watch what you do.
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9.6 Discuss
contemporary
issues in OB.
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Contemporary Issues
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Managerial Challenges
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Negative Behavior in the
Workplace
Survey of U.S. Employees:
10% witnessed rudeness daily
20% were targets of incivility at least once/week
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