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Organizational Behavior Bridging Science And Practice Version 4 0 4th Edition Talya Bauer, Berrin Erdogan - Solutions
What role do you think power and inuence play among employees at Southwest?
How does employee happiness relate to organizational success? Do you think Southwest’s prioritization of its employees sets it apart in the industry?
What is unique about Southwest Airlines, either operationally or from an organizational behavior standpoint?Do you think culture inuences operations, and vice versa?
Develop interview questions to be used in hiring this manager. Your questions should be aimed at predicting the leadership capabilities of the person in question.
Design an approach to selecting this person. Which methods of employee selection would you use? Why?
Identify the leadership traits and behaviors that are desirable for this position.
What personal characteristics do you think makes Cook an effective leader?
Do you think there is a relationship between Cook’s leadership approach and Apple’s success? Explain.
Given what you’ve learned about Cook’s leadership style, would you want to work for Apple? Why or why not?
Which leadership approaches discussed in this chapter do the best job in explaining his leadership style?
What did you know about Tim Cook prior to reading this case? Are you surprised to learn some of these things about his leadership style?
Which of the leadership theories seem to be most applicable to other cultures? Which ones are culturally dependent?
Which leadership traits and behaviors do you believe would be most important when managing employees remotely?
Do you believe that ethical leaders are more successful in organizations?
What is the connection between leadership and ethical behaviors?
Consider the role of national culture on leadership.
Consider the relationship between leadership and technology.
Consider the role of leadership for ethical behavior.
What does it mean to be an authentic leader? How would such a style be developed?
What does it mean to be a servant leader? Do you know any leaders whose style resembles servant leaders? What are the advantages of adopting such a leadership style?
What are the differences (if any) between a leader having a high-quality exchange with employees and being friends with employees?
What is charisma? What are the advantages and disadvantages of charismatic leadership? Should organizations look for charismatic leaders when selecting managers?
What are the characteristics of transformational leaders? Are transformational leaders more effective than transactional leaders?
Dene authentic leadership and evaluate its potential for leadership effectiveness.
Dene servant leadership and evaluate its potential for leadership effectiveness.
Describe how high-quality leader-subordinate relationships develop.
Learn how to be charismatic.
Find out about the relationship between charismatic leadership and how it relates to leader performance.
Learn about the difference between transformational and transactional leaders.
Which of the leadership theories covered in this section do you think are most useful and least useful to practicing managers? Why?
What do you see as the limitations of the Vroom-Yetton leadership decision-making approach?
Do you believe that leaders can vary their style to demonstrate directive, supportive, participative, and achievement-oriented styles with respect to different employees? Or does each leader tend to have a personal style that he or she regularly uses toward all employees?
Do you believe that the least preferred coworker technique is a valid method of measuring someone’s leadership style?Why or why not?
Describe a method by which leaders can decide how democratic or autocratic their decision making should be.
Describe the Path-Goal theory of leadership.
Identify the conditions under which highly task-oriented and highly people-oriented leaders can be successful based on Fiedler’s contingency theory.
Learn about the major situational conditions that determine the effectiveness of different leadership styles.
Examine your own leadership style. Which behaviors are you more likely to demonstrate? Which decision-making style are you more likely to use?
What are the limitations of laissez-faire decision making?Under which conditions do you think laissez-faire style would be more effective?
What are the limitations of democratic decision making?Under which conditions do you think democratic style would be more effective?
What are the limitations of autocratic decision making?Under which conditions do you think autocratic style would be more effective?
Give an example of a leader you admire whose behavior is primarily task oriented, and one whose behavior is primarily people oriented.
Discuss the limitations of behavioral approaches to leadership.
Identify the three alternative decision-making styles leaders use and the conditions under which they are more effective.
Explain the behaviors that are associated with leadership.
What other traits can you think of that would be relevant to effective leadership?
How can organizations identify future leaders with a given set of traits? Which methods would be useful for this purpose?
Can the ndings of trait approaches be used to train potential leaders? Which traits seem easier to teach? Which are more stable?
What traits are evident in leaders you admire? What traits does this person have? Are they consistent with the traits discussed in this chapter? If not, why is this person effective despite the presence of different traits?
Discuss the limitations of trait approaches to leadership.
Explain the traits that are associated with leadership.
Learn the position of trait approaches in the history of leadership studies.
If you were an entrepreneur with a bold vision such as Katrina Lake’s, what employment leadership values might you instill early on in the founding and scaling of your company? Why would these be important to you?
If you were a manager, would you appreciate participating in a 360-review process? How about as an individual contributor? What are some of the benets and drawbacks of giving and receiving feedback across different levels of the organization?
If you were an employee, would you want to work in an environment that focused on continual learning and development? Please explain.
Why do you think Stitch Fix invests so heavily in leadership development, even for entry-level employees? What impact do you think this might have on employee engagement, morale, and retention?
In your opinion, how does the Stitch Fix culture of open dialogue, creative tension, and approachable leadership impact organizational innovation?
Understand connections between leading at work and ethics, technology, and cross-cultural management.
Explain the concepts of transformational, transactional, charismatic, servant, and authentic leadership.
Specify the contexts in which various leadership styles are effective.
Describe behaviors that effective leaders demonstrate.
Dene what leadership is and identify traits of effective leaders.
How much value do you personally bring to each category of tasks? What can you do that no one else will be able to do as well as you? Where should you try to condition yourself to choose the best options and where should you settle for satiscing? Go through your list one last time and try to cross
Consider which categories these surviving items belong to from the rst step.
For the remaining items on your list, imagine the challenge you face in doing this item. Imagine the potential outcome of doing it. Weigh whether or not this task is worth doing.Now cross out items that are more frustrating than rewarding. Do this until you have no more than 10 to 15 items
Which can you easily cut? Which things are redundant or unimportant?Cross out at least 50% of your list (or 75% if you are feeling ambitious).
Review the list you generated in step
Now record all your responsibilities, tasks, and choices for a given week for 10 minutes. The more detail you can capture the better.
Record all the different categories of tasks you face in a given week. Spend 10 minutes on this.
What advice surrounding decision making would you give to someone who will be managing a new division of a company in another culture?
Have you seen examples of national culture affecting decision making?
How can an organization use technology to determine whether new employees are satised with the onboarding process?
Have you seen examples of ethical or unethical decisions being made? Describe what you observed.
How can you assess if you are making ethical decisions or not?
Consider the role of national culture in decision making.
Consider the role of technology for decision making.
Consider the role of ethical behavior in decision making.
Which of the decision-making tools discussed in this chapter (NGT, Delphi, and so on) have you used? How effective were they?
Have you been in a group that experienced groupthink? If so, how did you deal with it?
Have you been in a group that used the brainstorming technique? Was it an effective tool for coming up with creative ideas? Please share examples.
Do you prefer to make decisions in a group or alone? What are the main reasons for your preference?
Recognize different tools and techniques for making better decisions.
Learn to recognize the signs of groupthink.
Understand the pros and cons of individual and group decision making.
Which of the traps seems the most dangerous for decision makers and why?
Share an example of anchoring.
How can you avoid escalation of commitment?
Describe a time when you fell into one of the decisionmaking traps. How did you come to realize that you had made a poor decision?
Understand escalation of commitment and how to avoid it.
Understand framing bias and how to avoid it.
Understand anchoring bias and how to avoid it.
Understand hindsight bias and how to avoid it.
Understand overcondence bias and how to avoid it.
Do you think intuition is respected as a decision-making style? Do you think it should be? Why or why not?
Share an example of a decision in which you used satiscing. Were you happy with the outcome? Why or why not? When would you be most likely to engage in satiscing?
Have you used the rational decision-making model to make a decision? What was the context? How well did the model work?
Research has shown that over half of the decisions made within organizations fail. Does this surprise you? Why or why not?
What do you see as the main difference between a successful and an unsuccessful decision? How much does luck versus skill have to do with it? How much time needs to pass to know if a decision is successful or not?
Please give two examples of how Shinola decided to invest in its employees.
In what way(s) are the decisions made by Shinola similar to Detroit Bikes? In what way(s) are they different?
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