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Organizational Behavior Bridging Science And Practice Version 4 0 4th Edition Talya Bauer, Berrin Erdogan - Solutions
Describe the biases of self-perception.
Describe how we perceive visual objects and how these tendencies may affect our behavior.
Understand the inuence of self in the process of perception.
Can you think of any limitations of developing an “ideal employee” prole and looking for employees who t that profile while hiring?
Have you ever held a job where your personality did not match the demands of the job? How did you react to this situation? How were your attitudes and behaviors affected?
What are some methods that companies can use to assess employee personality?
What are the unique challenges of managing employees who have low self-efcacy and low self-esteem? How would you deal with this situation?
Think about the personality traits covered in this section.Can you think of jobs or occupations that seem particularly suited to each trait? Which traits would be universally desirable across all jobs?
Explain the potential pitfalls of personality testing.
Explain the link between personality, work behavior, and work attitudes.
Identify the major personality traits that are relevant to organizational behavior.
Describe the link between values and individual behavior.
Understand what values are.
How do you think organizations react to overqualied workers? Are these candidates viewed as highly desirable job candidates? Why or why not?
What can organizations do to increase person–job and person–organization t after they hire employees?
How can a company determine person–organization t before hiring employees? Which methods do you think would be helpful?
How can a company assess person–job t before hiring employees? What are the methods you think would be helpful?
Understand the relationship between person–organization fit and work behaviors.
Understand the relationship between person–job t and work behaviors.
Differentiate between person–organization and person–job fit.
How does Fully’s mission inuence how the organization is run? What are some important factors that determine how a company’s mission is carried out on a daily basis?
Would you want to work for a company like Fully that encourages you to be your authentic self at work? Why or why not?
When individuals are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work, what do you think might be the impact on productivity?How about on employee turnover?
What are some unique, individual attributes that make you who you are? Do you feel like you can bring these sides of yourself to work or school? Explain.
How did David Kahl’s unique life experiences lead to his endeavor to start Fully?
Understand connections between individual differences and perception at work and ethics, technology, and cross-cultural management.
Explain the process of perception and how it affects work behaviors.
Understand the role of values in determining work behaviors.
Dene personality and describe how it affects work behaviors.
What is the value of employee resource groups? Under which conditions do you believe such programs will be effective tools in helping to develop an inclusive culture?
The company had to rectify a gender pay gap twice. What would be your advice for companies aiming to achieve pay fairness? What are ways in which companies may structure their pay systems so that gender pay gap does not emerge in the rst place?
Salesforce clearly puts a lot of resources into ensuring inclusiveness. Which of the methods described in the case are applicable to a smaller business with more limited resources? Do you believe that effective management of diversity necessitates a resource-rich environment?
What are your thoughts regarding the distinction between diversity and inclusion (or equality, as it is called in the case)? Do you believe diversity without inclusion can be effective? Or inclusion without diversity?
Why do you think Salesforce is committed to equality as a core value?
How can organizations manage a workforce with diverse personal ethical values?
In your opinion, what is the connection between the technology industry’s lack of diversity and the potential negative implications of technology for workplace diversity?
What are the barriers to global organizations having uniform policies around diversity and inclusion in their ofces around the world?
Do you believe that multinational companies should have an ethics code that they enforce around the world? Why or why not?
Consider the role of national culture in diversity
Consider the relationship between diversity and technology.
Consider the relationship between diversity and ethics.
Imagine that you will be sent to live in a foreign country different from your own in a month. What are the types of preparations you would benet from doing?
How does culture inuence the proper leadership style and reward system that would be suitable for organizations?
Reect on a time when you experienced a different culture or interacted with someone from a different culture. How did the cultural differences inuence your interaction?
How would you describe your own home country’s values on the four dimensions of culture?
What is culture? Do countries have uniform national cultures?
Describe some ways in which national culture affects organizational behavior.
Dene the four dimensions of culture that are part of Hofstede’s framework.
Explain what culture is.
Do you think that laws and regulations are successful in eliminating discrimination in the workplace? Why or why not?
What is the earnings gap? Who does it affect? What are the reasons behind the earnings gap?
How can organizations deal with the “similarity-attraction”phenomenon? Left unchecked, what are the problems this tendency can cause?
How can an organization create an inclusive workplace?
What does it mean for a company to manage diversity effectively? How would you know if a company is doing a good job of managing diversity?
Describe the unique environment facing employees with specic traits such as sex, race, religion, disabilities, age, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
Explain the challenges of diversity management.
Explain the benets of diversity and inclusion.
Gap Inc. has set a high bar for proactively cultivating a culture of diversity and inclusion and yet there are instances where these goals were not universally met, particularly in their global operations. How do you reconcile the company’s domestic efforts with the labor relations problems it
In your opinion, to what extent does Gap’s inuence extend beyond the boundaries of the organization to impact change in the world?
How important do you think Gap’s diversity and inclusion practices are in regard to hiring and retaining its workforce?
The case described Open to All, Color Proud, mentoring, employee resource networks, and This Way Ahead as some of the specic ways in which Gap manages diversity. What are your thoughts about these practices? How resource intense are they? How useful do you believe they would be in businesses in
What do you think are the stated and unstated reason’s for Gap’s commitment to diversity and inclusion?
Understand connections between diversity and inclusion at work and ethics, technology, and cross-cultural management.
Describe the challenges and opportunities related to managing a multicultural workforce.
Describe potential barriers to achieving diversity and inclusion.
Explain the benets of diversity and inclusion.
Understand the difference between diversity and inclusion.
Listen to what others are saying and see if any themes emerge. For example, what are the most common features of the best jobs? What are the most common features of the worst jobs?
Next, get into a small group of students and share your experience with them.
Think about the best and worst jobs you have ever had. If you have never had a job, think of a school project instead.What made the job or project great or horrible?
Now, write down ve action steps that you plan to take as you work through this book. Refer to these steps throughout the term and modify them as needed.
What themes do you see? How do you think these topics affect your interactions with others? How might the information on learning and retention affect how you’ll approach this course? Studying in general?
In addition, please be sure you have reviewed the table of contents for this organizational behavior textbook.
Hopefully you have already completed reading this chapter.If not, wait until you’ve done so to complete this individual exercise.
How do you think the pursuit of B Corp certication might impact an organization’s bottom line? Please explain.
Imagine that you are a manager at a young and rapidly growing company like Brew Dr., and you are interested in acquiring a B Corp certication for your rm. How would you go about implementing any necessary change?What steps would you follow before, during, and after the change?
Can you think of some ways the pursuit of B Corp certication might lead to organizational change, even for a company that already embodies sustainability and social good?
What are some pros and cons of including employees in organizational change management?
If you were a Brew Dr. employee, would you have volunteered to assist with the B Corp assessment? Why or why not?
Do you see the aging (and retiring) workforce as an opportunity or a threat for businesses? How do you think this will affect your career based on your own generation?
Do you think the sustainability movement in business is a trend that’s here to stay or a business fad? Explain.
How has technology and the “attening world” personally affected you in the last 10 years? Please share examples of this.
Share an ethical dilemma you have observed at work or school to someone in your class. What do you think should have been done differently and why?
Your boss asks you to see if job satisfaction is related to turnover and sends you data from the latest annual opinion survey, which was 10 months ago, and the turnover reports for the last six months. Which type of analytics will you use to answer this question?
How can you know if a relationship is causal or correlational?
Give an example of a valid measure.
Give an example of a reliable measure.
Have you used any of the OB research methods before? If not, what can you do to become more familiar with them?
Create a hypothesis about people at work. Now that you have one in mind, which research method do you think would be most effective in helping you test your hypothesis?
What are some opportunities for learning remotely/online?
What are some challenges for learning remotely/online?
Reect on a time when you learned in a non-preferred learning style.
What new ideas did you get from this section? How might you try them out?
What strategies do you normally use to help you learn new information? In what ways are they effective or ineffective?
How do you plan on using the OB Toolboxes in this book?Creating a plan now can help to make you more effective throughout the term.
What is the problem with the idea that OB is common sense?
What are the three key levels of analysis for OB?
Which skills do you think are the most important ones for being an effective employee?
Which type of organizations have you had the most experience with? How did that affect your understanding of the issues in this chapter?
Teams with one smart person outperform teams in which everyone is average in intelligence. ______
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