Across
- 2. The statistical relationship between two variables.
- 5. Written predictions that specify relationships between variables.
- 6. Field of study devoted to understanding, explaining, and ultimately improving the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations.
- 10. Resources created by people such as culture, such as culture, teamwork, trust and reputation.
- 13. A method that combines the results of multiple scientific studies by essentially calculating a weighted average correlation across studies (with larger studies receiving more weight)
- 17. Theory that people hold firmly to some belief because it is consistent with their own experience and observations.
- 18. Incapable of being imitated or copied.
Down
- 1. A model that argues that rare and inimitable resources help firms maintain competitive advantage.
- 3. Theory that people hold firmly to some belief because it "just stands to reason" - it seems obvious or self evident.
- 4. A perspective that argues that scientific findings should form the foundation for management education.
- 5. Field of study that focuses on the applications of OB theories and principles in organizations.
- 7. People making many small decisions every day that are invisible to competitors.
- 8. A collective pool of experience, wisdom, and knowledge created by people that benefits the organization.
- 9. Theory that people accept some belief because scientific studies have tended to replicate that result using a series of samples, settings, and methods.
- 11. The belief that at best one-eighth or 12 percent of organizations will actually do what is required to build profits by putting people first.
- 12. Field of study devoted to exploring the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organization's profitability.
- 14. The establishment that one variable does cause another, based on covariation, temporal precedence, and the elimination of alternative explanations.
- 15. A collection of verbal and symbolic assertions that specify how and why variables are related as well as the conditions in which they should (and should not) be related.
- 16. Theory that people hold firmly to some belief because it is consistent with their own experience and observations.