General dependence postulate, 210

General mental ability (GMA), 28, 92

Generational values, 76

Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) research program, 79

Goal(s), 165

• commitment, 106

• difficulty and feedback dimensions, 105

• national characteristics, impact on goal-performance relationship, 107

• task(s) characteristics, impact on goal-performance relationship 106

• setting implementation, 107, 107e, 303

• setting theory, 105–108, 107e

Grapevine, 174–175

Group(s), behavior

• about, 137

• cohesiveness, 15, 146–147, 147e

• decision making, 149–153, 152e

• diversity and, 146–149

• functioning, 15

• interaction and status, 145

• outcomes

  • negative norms and, 143–144, 144e

  • positive norms and, 142–143

• outgroup, 138–139

• polarization, 151

• size and, 146

• social identity and, 137

• stages of development, 138–149, 139e, 141e, 143e, 147e

• status, 144–146

• structure and processes, 3

• summary of, 152–153

Groupshift, 151

Groupthink, 150–151