by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What Are Emotions?An emotion is an intense feeling. The feeling is generally temporary in nature and brought on by an internal or external stimulus. Emotions affect an individuals ability to receive and cognitively process the information, as well as how s/he reacts...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What Is Stress?Stress concerns any outside force affecting an individual. The forces have physical, mentall, emotional, and behavioral manifestations. Hans Selye proposed the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) model demonstrating how stress affects an individual in...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What are Attitudes?An attitude can best be understood as a state of mind. The state of mind can be brought on by any number of factors. Generally, an attitude affects a persons disposition and behavior – whether positive or negative. An attitude may be directed...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Individual Perception?Individuals react to the environment based upon how the environment or environmental stimuli register with us. This is the essence of perception. It is an intellectual process. More specifically it is a cognitive and psychological...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Personality?Personality encompasses the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that describe or define a person. Often personality is a generalization that provides insights into how someone will perceive, feel about, and react to a given situation or stimulus....
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
Understanding Behavior and How it EvolvesBehavior can be defined as the actions of a person based on specific stimuli. This begs the question, from where does behavior come? There are three primary theories concerning where or how individuals learn a particular...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What are Individual Values?Values refer to what is important to an individual. Values are stable feelings of importance that arise pursuant to ones influences, such as life experiences, interactions, and relationships. They are shaped early in life and become...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Organizational Fit?Behavior is a function of the individual (their personality and attitude) and the situation or context. Organizations seek to establish a degree of congruence or fit between the individuals that make up the organization. Types of...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation
What is a Cooperative Strategy?A cooperative strategy (or cooperation strategy) concerns an attempt by an organization to cooperate with other firms in the achievement of its objectives. The cooperation may serve to reduce costs, sure up supply chains, reduce...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation
What is an Internationalization Strategy?An Internationalization strategy is when an organization seeks to expand to foreign markets. Types of Internationalization StrategyAn internationalization strategy can be broken down into the following three...
