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| Organizational Behavior | Organizational Behavior (OB) is defined as the systematic study and application of knowledge about how individuals and groups act within the organizations where they work. |
| Levels of analysis | Levels of analysis in OB include examining the individual, the group, and the organization. |
| Journaling | Journaling is the process of writing out thoughts and emotions on a regular basis. |
| Visual learners | Visual learners process information most effectively by looking at words and diagrams. |
| Auditory learners | Auditory learners process information most effectively by listening or talking. |
| Kinesthetic learners | Kinesthetic learners process information most effectively by actively engaging with the material. |
| Hypotheses | Hypotheses are tentative guesses or hunches for an expected observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested. |
| variable | A variable is any entity that can take on different values. |
| Surveys | Surveys are research tools used to elicit respondents' reactions to specific questions. |
| Field studies | Field studies are research conducted in actual organizations. They may include observation, interviews, surveys, or experiments. |
| Experimental design | Experimental design refers to a study which has a group which receives a treatment and a comparison group that receives no treatment. |
| Control groups | Control groups do not receive any experimental manipulation so they can be compared to treatment groups. |
| Treatment groups | Treatment groups receive experimental manipulation. |
| Lab studies | Lab studies are research conducted under controlled conditions and may include observation, interviews, surveys, or experiments. |
| Case studies | Case studies are in-depth descriptions of a single industry or company. |
| Generalizability | Generalizability refers to the likelihood that findings in a given study would be found in another setting or study. |
| Meta-analysis | Meta-analysis is the process of summarizing research findings from studies on related topics. |
| Reliability | Reliability refers to the consistency of measurement. |
| Validity | Validity refers to the truth of the measurement. |
| Correlations | Correlations measure the strength of the relationship between two variables. |
| Datum | Datum is the term that refers to a single observation. |
| Data | Data is the term used to describe multiple observations and is always plural (as if you were using the word "numbers"). |
| engaged employee | An engaged employee is a person who is fully involved in, and enthusiastic about their work. |
| Triple bottom line | Triple bottom line refers to evaluating organizations against three performance criteria including economic, social, and environmental viability. |
| Sustainable business practices | Sustainable business practices meet the current needs of businesses without compromising the needs of future generations. |
| Outsourcing | Outsourcing refers to an organization asking an outside organization to perform functions that could have been performed by itself. |
| Offshoring | Offshoring refers to some or all of a business process being moved from one country to another country. |
