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Organizational Behavior
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The study of factors that affect how individuals and groups act in organizations and how organizations respond to their environments
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Team
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A group in which members work together intensively and develop team0specific routines to achieve a common group goal
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Management
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The process of planning, organizing, leading and controllling an organization's human, financial, material and other resources to increase its effectiveness
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Global Learning
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The process of acquiring and learning the skills, knowledge, and organizational behaviors and procedures that have helped companies aboad become major global competitors
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Expatriate Managers
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The people who work overseas and are responsible for developing relationships with organizations in countries around the world
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Personality
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The pattern of relatively enduring ways that a person feels, thinks and behaves
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Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA) Framework
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The idea that an organization attracts and selects individuals with similar personalities and loses individuals with other types of personalities
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Extraversion
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The tendency to experience positive emotional states and feel good about onself and the world around one; also called positive affectivity
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Neuroticism
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The tendancy to experience negative emotional states and view onself and the world around one negatively; also called negative affectivity
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Agreeableness
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The tendancy to get along well with others
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Conscientiousness
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The extent to which a person is careful, scrupulous and perserving
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Openness to Experience
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The extent to which a person is original, has broad interests, and is willing to take risks
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External Locus of Control
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Describes people who believe that fate, luck, or outside forces are responsible for what happens to them
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Internal Locus of Control
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Describes people who believe that ability, effort, or their own actions determines what happens to them
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Self monitoring
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The extent to which people try to control the way they present themselves to others
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