Questions and Answers of Essentials Organizational Behavior

1. Identify each candidate’s personality characteristics using the Big Five and the Myers–Briggs typology2. Based on personality, is there a candidate that you think would fit the position
1. Do you think that things such as hope and optimism can be increased through training?2. Which of the four PsyCap variables do you think accounted for the results the most (hope, optimism,
1. In your opinion, is leadership born (hereditary) or learned (through training, for example)?2. If leadership is both born and made as some researchers believe, what do you think is the best way to
Evaluate the personality-fit theory by explaining why you think the personalities adjacent to one another in the hexagon are most similar. Which personality type is most like you? Does this provide
Explain why you think high Mach and high self-monitoring behaviors good or bad for organizations? List some other positive and negative consequences of these traits.
How might knowledge of whether you have the Type A personality affect your decision about taking a job in a high-stress environment? If you were to accept such a position, how would you plan to cope
What are the fairness issues involved in using personality tests for selection of new employees?
Given the limited research support for the MBTI, what are the concerns regarding organizations continuing to use it?
1. How could research help EBM organization? What would you hope to gain as the leader?2. What dependent variables should you, as the leader, be looking at? Why?3. Review the sources of EBM discussed
1. How should experts used in a Delphi decision-making process be selected? Would paying experts influence their participation in the process and/or the outcome?2. To harness collective brilliance
1. Why did Google use an evidence-based approach? Describe the type(s) of evidence Google used in their research.2. Are you convinced that managers matter? Why or why not? What additional evidence
List the strengths and weaknesses of group decisionmaking .
Why does social loafing occur?
Describe the three sources of status.
Describe potential sources of, and ways of managing, work stress .
Describe the characteristics of a learning organization.
Define Innovation and identify the sources of innovation.
Explain the relationship between Lewin's change model and Kotter’s plan for implementing change.
Summarize Lewin's three-step change model.
Describe the sources of resistance to change.
Describe forces that act as stimulants to change.
What is the relationship between national culture and a global organization’s organizational culture?
Explain workplace spirituality and identify the characteristics of a spiritual organization.
What is a positive organizational culture and what key variables are used in creating it?
Explain how an ethical culture can be established.
How can culture be transmitted to employees? Provide examples for each.
Identify and describe the phases of organizational socialization.
List the factors that maintain an organization's culture.
Identify the functional and dysfunctional effects of organizational culture on employees.
Contrast organizational culture and job satisfaction.
Describe the seven key characteristics that capture the essence of the organization's culture.
Explain the behavioral implications of different organizational designs.
List the factors that favor different organizational structures.
Contrast mechanistic and organic structural models.
Summarize why managers want to use team structures .
Describe the characteristics of a virtual organization.
Describe a matrix organization.
Describe the characteristics of a bureaucracy.
Identify the six key elements that define an organization’s structure.
Identify the three basic third-party roles in negotiation.
Discuss whether there are individual differences in negotiator effectiveness. Discuss in detail.
Discuss whether there are individual differences in negotiator effectiveness. Discuss.
Discuss whether there are individual differences in negotiator effectiveness.
Identify the five steps in the negotiation process.
Contrast distributive and integrative bargaining.
Outline the conflict process.
Contrast task, relationship, and process conflict.
Explain contemporary perspectives of conflict.
Define conflict.
List the three questions that can help determine if a political action is ethical.
Identify and describe the seven techniques for managing the impression one makes on others.
List the individual and organizational factors that stimulate political behavior.
Describe the effective use of influence tactics.
List and define nine influence tactics.
Define the formal and personal bases of power.
Contrast leadership and power.
Does charismatic/transformational leadership generalize across cultures?
Identify when leadership may not be necessary.
Discuss trust and leadership. What makes a leader appear to be trustworthy?
Contrast transformational with transactional leaders.
Define the characteristics of a charismatic leader.
Describe Fiedler's contingency model.
Compare and contrast trait and behavioral theories.
Define and give examples of the Ohio State leadership dimensions.
List and describe the traits of effective leaders.
Describe the causes of potential problems in cross-cultural communication.
Identify and describe common barriers to effective communication.
C ompare and contrast automatic and controlled processing and discuss how we might determine which type of processing an audience will use.
Identify which organizational outcomes (dependent variables) are most effectively achieved by each type of formal small group communication network.
Compare and contrast oral, written, and nonverbal communication.
Describe the possible directions that formal communication can take in an organization and provide examples of each.
Describe the communication process.
When should individuals be used rather than teams?
How can managers help individuals become team players?
Describe the three main components of effective teams.
Describe the four types of teams.
What is the difference between a team and a group?
Why is the use of teams in organizations becoming more popular?
Compare and contrast brainstorming and nominal group technique. Ensure you describe both techniques fully in your answer.
How can group cohesiveness be increased? Give specific recommendations.x2
Describe the stages in the punctuated-equilibrium model and explain which types of groups it applies to.
What is the difference between formal and informal groups? Give an example of each.
Can motivational theories be applied across cultures? Discuss.
Can motivational theories be applied across cultures?
Choose a variable-pay program and describe its motivational impact.
Define employee involvement and participation and identify the two major forms of employee involvement.
Why would managers want to use employee involvement programs?
Compare and contrast the means in which jobs can be redesigned.
In what ways can employees be motivated through changing the work environment?
How are motivational theories culturally bound?
Describe the key relationships in expectancy theory.
Explain why organizational justice can be considered a refinement of equity theory.
Describe the relationship between goal-setting theory and self-efficacy theory.
Describe one of the three early theories of motivation and evaluate its applicability today.
Describe the three key elements of motivation.
Using the three-component model for creativity, which area do you believe would be easiest for managers to affect? Why?
Which ethical viewpoint do you think is the best? Describe the viewpoint and explain your choice.
Ask the class members to think of places they have worked or organizations they have been associated with. They should identify decisions that they observed being made by people within the
Choose one of the common decision-making biases that you have either personally experienced or which you are guilty of and describe the following: (1) what error was involved, (2) what were the
How does decisionmaking under bounded rationality differ from that done under rational decisionmaking ?

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