Organizational Behavior 16th edition Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge - Solutions

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What is the key to career survival?
What is the new career, and how does it differ from older notions about careers?
What are the sources of potential conflict during organizational entry? How can they be avoided?
What are the realities of the new career? How can developing your emotional intelligence help you turn these realities into opportunities to improve your career?
What do you think will be the most stressful career stage? What type of stressors led you to make this choice?
Does the career stage model have exceptions? In other words, can it be applied to all careers? If not, what are the exceptions?
Given the downsizing and restructuring in many organizations, how can organizations help employees with career management if there are fewer opportunities for promotion?
How has each of the four challenges (globalization, diversity, technology, and ethics) affected career management in recent years?
Contact the human resources manager of a local business. Ask if he or she would take a few minutes to discuss some issues about résumés with you. Structure your discussion around the following questions:a. How often do you encounter “padded” résumés? What is the most common padding, and how
At what stage of the career stage model are Maia Josebachvili and Bram Levy? Explain.
Describe how Maia Josebachvili chose her occupation as a business owner and trip planner, and determine if her choice fits her personality type.
What challenges is Maia Josebachvili likely to face as she manages her career through her thirties?
1. Explain the basic nature of Deloitte’s Mass Career Customization (MCC) program.2. Explain how Deloitte’s MCC program can help employees in managing their careers and in dealing with work/life issues.3. What are the benefits of MCC for Deloitte? For Deloitte’s employees?4. Do you think
What are the major external and internal forces for change in organizations?
What is a change agent? Who plays this role?
What are the major reasons individuals resist change? How can organizations deal with resistance?
Name the four behavioral reactions to change. Describe the behavioral signs of each reaction, and identify an organizational strategy for dealing with each reaction.
Describe force field analysis and its relationship to Lewin's change model.
What are the major organization-focused, group-focused, and individual-focused OD intervention methods?
What are the advantages of using an external change agent? An internal change agent?
What can you learn from this challenge about how individuals’ tolerance for ambiguity can lead to resistance?
Can organizations prevent resistance to change? If so, how?
What organization development techniques are the easiest to implement? The most difficult to implement? Why?
Describe the type of change that Holden’s leaders are managing.
What resistance is Holden encountering, especially as the company seeks to design and manufacture highly innovative outerwear garments?
Using Kurt Lewin’s change model, give a force field analysis for Holden’s challenges in delivering innovative products. Suggest how the company might overcome resistance and foster permanent change.
1. How is continuous improvement linked to organizational change?2. What external forces for change are likely to influence CarMax’s commitment to continuous improvement?3. What internal forces for change are likely to influence CarMax’s commitment to continuous improvement?4. Explain
1. DonorsChoose.org is structured like many contemporary business organizations. Do you think this structural similarity is useful for a charity, or should charities not try to emulate the organizational structures of for-profit organizations? Explain your answer.2. Based upon what might be
What is the importance of interpersonal skills?
What do managers do in terms of functions, roles, and skills?
These scenarios are based on studies of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices that show consumers generally charge a kind of rent to companies that do not practice CSR. In other words, they generally expect a substantial discount in order to buy a product from Hyde rather than from
What are the pros and cons for local and overseas labor forces of Apple’s going global? What are the potential political implications for country relationships?
Do you think Apple is justified in drawing the observations and conclusions expressed in the case? Why or why not? Do you think it is good or harmful to the company that its executives have voiced these opinions?
How could managers use increased worker flexibility and diligence to increase the competitiveness of their manufacturing sites? What would you recommend?
To what extent can individual business decisions (as opposed to economic forces) explain deterioration in working conditions for many workers?
Do business organizations have a responsibility to ensure that employees have secure jobs with good working conditions, or are their primary responsibility to shareholders?
What is organizational behavior (OB)?
Why is it important to complement intuition with systematic study?
What are the major behavioral science disciplines that contribute to OB?
Why are there few absolutes in OB?
What are the challenges and opportunities for managers in using OB concepts?
What are the three levels of analysis in this book’s OB model?
What are the two major forms of workforce diversity?
Given that women participate in the labor force in roughly the same proportion as men, why do you think women occupy so few seats on boards of directors?
Do you agree with the quotas established in many EU countries? Why or why not?
Beyond legal remedies, what do you think can be done to increase women’s representation on boards of directors?
How do you reconcile Flynn’s recent description of the modern mind with the General Social Survey’s findings that U.S. adults perform poorly on scientific questions and aren’t knowledgeable about scientific method?
If the Flynn Effect is true, does this undermine the theory that IQ is inherited? Why or why not?
What are stereotypes and how do they function in organizational settings?
How can organizations cope with differences related to age discrimination in the workplace? How can older employees help?
What types of policies might lead to charges of age discrimination, and how can they be changed to eliminate these problems?
What are the key biological characteristics and how they are relevant to OB?
What is intellectual ability and how is it relevant to OB?
How can you contrast intellectual and physical ability?
How do organizations manage diversity effectively?
What are the main components of attitudes? Are these components related or unrelated?
How do you see FWAs affecting a company’s bottom line?
Why do you think many people are in jobs that are not satisfying? Do organizations help people craft satisfying and motivating jobs, and if not, why not?
Does behavior always follow from attitudes? Why or why not? Discuss the factors that affect whether behavior follows from attitudes.
Are there any potential drawbacks to the job crafting approach? How can these concerns be minimized?
What are the major job attitudes? In what ways are these attitudes alike? What is unique about each?
How do we measure job satisfaction?
What causes job satisfaction? For most people, is pay or the work itself more important?
What outcomes does job satisfaction influence? What implications does this have for management?
What is the difference between emotions and moods? What are the basic motions and moods?
Under what circumstances—if any—is it ethically appropriate for a supervisor to suggest a happiness coach for a subordinate?
What factors do you think make some organizations ineffective at managing emotions?
Do you think the strategic use and display of emotions serve to protect employees, or does covering your true emotions at work lead to more problems than it solves?
Are emotions rational? What functions do they serve?
Research shows that acts of co-workers (37 percent) and management (22 percent) cause more negative emotions for employees than do acts of customers (7 percent). What can Laura’s company do to change its emotional climate?
Do you think the information in this case could help you tell whether someone’s smile is genuine?
What are the sources of emotions and moods?
What impact does emotional labor have on employees?
What is affective events theory? What are its applications?
What is the evidence for and against the existence of emotional intelligence?
What are some strategies for emotion regulation and their likely effects?
How do you apply concepts about emotions and moods to specific OB issues?
What is personality? How do we typically measure it? What factors determine personality?
In your experience, do younger individuals differ from older individuals in terms of how long they plan to remain with a given firm?
If you had an interview with Foster or someone with his views of Millennials, how might you combat his preconceptions?
Do you think employers must choose between agreeable employees and top performers? Why or why not?
Often, the effects of personality depend on the situation. Can you think of some job situations in which agreeableness are an important virtue? And in which it is harmful?
In some research we’ve conducted, we’ve found that the negative effects of agreeableness on earnings are stronger for men than for women (that is, being agreeable hurt men’s earnings more than women’s). Why do you think this might be the case?
How do the Big Five traits predict behavior at work?
How does the situation or environment affect the degree to which personality predicts behavior?
What is the difference between terminal and instrumental values?
Do values differ across generations? How so?
What are Hofstede’s five value dimensions of national culture?
What is perception, and what factors influence our perception?
Fortune magazine ranked the following 10 corporations as being among the 500 largest United States–based firms according to sales volume for 2013: a. Group A: McDonald’s, Visa, Amazon, Target, Coca-Cola b. Group B: Berkshire Hathaway, General Electric, Valero, McKesson, Hewlett-Packard Which
The authors of one study noted that people feel they don’t need to be objective in evaluating potential cheaters when there are disclosures of unethical behavior. Do you agree? Why or why not?
What are the specific advantages of using computerized decisionmaking? How can computers be better decision makers than humans?
What is attribution theory? What are the three determinants of attribution? What are the implications of attribution theory for explaining organizational behavior?
How much of Blakely’s success is due to her personality and effort and how much to serendipity (i.e., being in the right place at the right time)? Does attribution theory help you answer this question? Why or why not?
Does hindsight bias affect the factors to which you might attribute Blakely’s success? Why or why not?
Use the three-stage model of creativity to analyze Blakely’s decision making. What can you learn from her story that might help you be more creative in the future?
What shortcuts do people frequently use in making judgments about others?
What is the link between perception and decisionmaking? How does one affect the other?
What is the rational model of decision making? How is it different from bounded rationality and intuition?
What are some of the common decision biases or errors that people make?

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