Exam 2: Personality and Learning

A manager has just provided an employee with information on past performance for the purpose of changing or maintaining performance in specific ways.What is this called?

If a manager wants to use performance feedback to change employee behaviour,he/she should convey it after the employee has had some time to think about the performance in question.

Intrapersonal skills include skills such as communicating,teamwork,and conflict resolution.

Personality is the unstable set psychological characteristics that influences the way an individual interacts with the environment.

There are two strategies that can be used to reduce the probability of learned behaviour.They are

In order to provide effective performance feedback,a manager should provide employees with informal acknowledgement,attention,praise,approval,and genuine appreciation for work well done.

A company converted its machine operators from piece rate pay to hourly pay and found that accidents involving the machines were reduced to almost zero from a previously high level.What can we conclude?

When there exists a discrepancy between one's goals and performance,individuals are motivated to modify their behaviour in the pursuit of goal attainment,a process known as ________.

Janet has shown her boss how effective she is on the job because she is naturally curious about what is happening with her company,has broad interests,and has a vibrant imagination.She is demonstrating great

Learning the social norms of an organization and understanding company goals,business operations,and company expectations and priorities is known as

________ decreases the probability of a behaviour by the application of a negative stimulus after that behaviour occurs.

Under self-regulation,employees in effect reinforce themselves.

High levels of extraversion and low emotional stability are associated with more unsafe behaviours.

Extraverts tend to be absent more often than introverts.

High levels of conscientiousness and extraversion are associated with fewer unsafe behaviours.

Interpersonal skills include skills such as communicating,teamwork,and conflict resolution.

What is the meaning of triadic reciprocal causation of social cognitive theory and what are the main components of social cognitive theory?

Performance feedback is most effective when it is

Learning job-specific skills,knowledge and technical competence is known as

High ________ and low emotional stability are associated with more unsafe behaviours.