What Is the Fight-Or-Flight Response

question 20

Multiple Choice

What is the fight-or-flight response

• A) a coping reaction to threat involving the parasympathetic nervous system 
• B) a physiological reaction to threat involving the autonomic nervous system 
• C) an emotional reaction to threat involving the central nervous system 
• D) a behavioural reaction to threat involving the somatic nervous system

Understand how legal regulations form part of the environmental components organizations face.

Describe how managerial perception influences the strategy formulation process.

Analyze the significance of the perceived environment in strategy formulation and implementation.

Understand the role and function of the endocrine system in regulating bodily processes.

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Definitions:

Job Characteristics Model

A framework that proposes that certain job characteristics affect job outcomes through their relationship with individual psychological states.

Task Identity

The degree to which a job requires completion of a whole and identifiable piece of work, contributing to a sense of accomplishment.

Hygiene Factor

A concept from Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory that refers to environmental conditions—such as salary, company policies, and work conditions—that can prevent job dissatisfaction but do not necessarily increase job satisfaction.

Herzberg's Motivator-Hygiene Model

A theory that distinguishes between motivational factors that can increase job satisfaction and hygiene factors that can prevent dissatisfaction but not necessarily increase satisfaction.