Organizational Behavior exam 1

What is Creative Task Performance?

• Involves employee responses to task demands that are novel and unpredictable

• Individuals develop ideas or outcomes that are novel and useful

• Well-know responses to demands that occur in a normal, predictable way

What is Routine Task Performance?

• Involves employee responses to task demands that are novel or unpredictable

• Individuals develop ideas or outcomes that are novel and useful

• Well-known responses to demands that occur in normal predictable ways

What is Motivation?

• Behaviors directly involved in transforming organizational resources into the goods an organization produces

• Set of energetic forces that originates both within and outside an employee

• Set of employee behaviors that contribute either positively or negatively to organization goals

• Anticipated value of outcomes

What is task performance?

• Behaviors involved in transforming organizational resources into goods or services an organization produces

• value of set of employee behaviors that contribute either positively or negatively

• Voluntary acts that may or may not be required but that contribute to the organization by improving quality

What is Expectancy?

• Taking into account their observations with others who have performed such tasks

• Belief that a person has the capabilities needed to execute the behaviors required for success

• Belief that exerting a high level of effort will result in success

• The persuasion employees receive to get the job done

Motivation has what kind of effect on organizational commitment?

• Strong correlation

• Moderation correlation

• Weak correlation

What is an Adaptive Task Performance?

• Well-known responses to demands that occur in normal, predictable ways

• Involves employee responses to task demands that are novel and unpredictable

• Individuals develop ideas or physical outcomes that are novel and useful

What is Valence?

• Anticipated value of the outcomes associated with performance

• Belief that successful performance will result in some outcome

• Feelings can create doubts about task accomplishment

What is Extrinsic Motivation?

• Motivation that’s controlled by some contingency that depends on task performance

• Motivation that’s felt when task performance serves as its own reward

What is the Expectancy Theory?

• Cognitive process that employees go through to make choices among responses

• Anticipated value of outcomes

• Set of energetic forces that originate both within and out an employee

• Behaviors people use to manage stressful demands