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Organizational Behavior A Practical Problem Solving Approach 1st Edition Angelo Kinicki, Mel Fugate - Solutions
Use the Integrative Framework of OB (see Figure 14.7)to help identify the outcomes that are important in this case.
What are the four developmental networks and how can I use them to advance my career?
How can the practical lessons of socialization research be integrated within the three phases of socialization?
What are the mechanisms I can use to implement culture change?
To what extent are the different types of organizational culture related to important outcomes?
What is culture and why is it important to understand its layers and functions?
How would you evaluate the success of these ideas?
After identifying your three lowest scoring items in the survey, propose things you can do to improve your level of mentoring?
What is your level of mentoring?
Based on your results and what you have learned about socialization, what advice would you provide to your organization to improve its socialization process?
What are the drawbacks of Apple’s approach of hiring employees into dummy positions (for reasons of secrecy)?What are the trade-offs?
How would you assess whether or not the changes you identified in question 3 are working? Be specific.
Now use the 12 embedding mechanisms just discussed and suggest at least two things you can do and two things your manager might do to improve your level of fit.
Make a plan to improve your person–organization fit. Focusing on your two largest culture type gaps, determine what is causing the gaps. You will find it helpful to look at the survey items that measure these types to determine the cause of the gaps.
First, compute the gap between your preferred and actual culture types for clan, adhocracy, market, and hierarchy. Do this by subtracting the actual culture type score (Self-Assessment 14.1) from the preferred type score (Self-Assessment 14.2).Where are your largest gaps?
What is the rank order of your preferred culture types?
Identify one of the unique things that Zappos does in its recruitment, and explain how that one thing adds to culture.
As a potential employee, what would your concerns be attending a happy hour as part of your employer’s selection process?
Why would Zappos’s approach to recruiting result in greater person–organization fit?
Which industries are the best fit for Salo’s cultural approach, and why?
How comfortable would you be working at a company like Salo that so overtly organizes culture around rites, rituals, and even the need to avoid jinxes?
How are clan and market cultures being reinforced by Salo?
Do you think that this type of culture is best suited to help the company achieve its strategic goals? Explain.
How does your employer’s culture compare to that of Southwest?
Identify three key beliefs you have about your employer: You may want to ask a colleague the same question. Are these beliefs consistent with the meaning of the artifacts you described in question 1?
What are the company’s espoused values? Do you think management’s enacted behaviors are consistent with the espoused values?
What artifacts can you see at work? What do these artifacts tell you about your employer?
Whether you agree with Polman or not, was he wise to tell investors not to put money in the Unilever if they did not also buy into the Sustainable Living plan?
Do you agree with Polman about the tangible business benefits of Unilever’s cultural values?
What do you think was the driving force behind Polman’s desire to create a culture of sustainability?
What types of problems that occur during meetings are most difficult to handle? Explain.
Outline your plan for solving the problem in this case.
Use any past OB knowledge or experience to generate recommendations.
Review the material in the chapter that most pertains to your proposed solution and look for practical recommendations.
What concepts or theories discussed in this chapter are most relevant for solving the key problem in this case?
Do you need to consider any processes? Which ones?
What environmental characteristics are most important to consider?
What person factors are most relevant?
Based on considering the above two questions, what is the most important problem in this case?
Which of these outcomes are not being achieved in the case?
Use the Integrative Framework for Understanding and Applying OB to help identify the outcomes that are important in this case.
How can I improve the relationship with my boss?
How can I use the takeaways from trait theories to improve my ability to lead?
How does an integrated model of leadership help me become an effective leader?
Based on your results, what do you think are the key causes of the LMX with your boss? Be specific.
Are you surprised by the results? Explain.
Use the survey questions to identify three behaviors you can exhibit to increase your application of transformational leadership.
How would you evaluate whether or not these leader behaviors are effective?
Think about the group projects you currently are working on. Now describe how you might attempt to use both empowering leadership and servant-leadership in team meetings.
To what extent do you think you engage in servant-leader behaviors?
If you were able to give your boss feedback based on these results, what would you recommend?
Based on identifying your two lowest scores for each type of leader behavior, suggest ways to improve your leader behavior.
What aspects would you rather see modified or abandoned in a business organization?
What aspects of Saban’s approach do you see as most applicable in a business organization?
Do you think Saban’s “process” goes too far in terms of its demands on college football players?
What steps could you take on your own, in this country, to develop such a mind-set?
What have you observed in the last week that underscores the value of a global mind-set?
Which of the positive traits and interpersonal attributes are likely to be enhanced by developing a global mind-set?
How might these results help you become a more effective leader?
Do you agree with your results?
How would you respond to a person who made this statement? “I never engage in impression management.”
How do you know when someone has taken impression management too far?
In what situations can impression management attempts backfire?
Is the whole practice of impression management a dishonest waste of time, or does it have a proper place in society? Why?
Outline your plan for solving the problem in this case.
Use any past OB knowledge or experience to generate recommendations.
Review the material in the chapter that most pertains to your proposed solution and look for practical recommendations.
What concepts or theories discussed in this chapter are most relevant for solving the key problem in this case?
Do you need to consider any processes? Which ones?
What environmental characteristics are most important to consider?
What person factors are most relevant?
Based on considering the above two questions, what is the most important problem in this case?
Which of these outcomes are not being achieved in the case?
Use the Integrative Framework to help identify the outcomes that are important in this case.
How do my influence tactics affect my personal effectiveness?
Look at all of the items in the Assessment, select the two that could be most useful to you, and describe specifically how you could use them.
What are the drawbacks?
What ethical standards would you apply to impression management?
Think of the job you have now, or one you’ve had in the past. With whom and how could they use impression management to improve or grow their business?
What are your thoughts about aggressively managing the impressions of investors and customers, like Andreessen& Horowitz and other VC firms have done?
Now, assume that the day of the networking event arrives and you’re in a bad mood. Explain two things you could do to break out of this mood and prepare yourself for the event.
Describe how you can appear interested. What questions might you ask?
Describe your intention or goal for the introduction.
Think of somebody you’d like to positively impress, and assume you’ll be able to meet this person next week at a networking event.
Which of the five rules for making a first impression do you most often overlook?Which one do you think you could gain the most from?
If you’re happy with the outcome, then hopefully this showed you the positive power of politics. If you were less than pleased with the results, revise your plan and be sure to follow it.
Execute your plan. Regardless of the level of success, compare what you actually did with what you planned to do (how many of the eight recommendations did you actually use?).
Work through and apply as many of the eight recommendations in the list above as are relevant. (Don’t be too quick to skip any particular recommendation; give each some real thought.)
Make politics work for you and select an idea—something you would like to change, a new program, a new policy or practice—for an organization to which you belong.
Does your score accurately capture your tendencies toward organizational politics?Why or why not?
Describe how you would use each one to achieve your desired outcome.
Which of the nine influence tactics are most appropriate to influence Jennifer?
Describe, specifically, how you would apply the base or bases of power identified in question 1.
Using the scenario above, which bases of power are most appropriate to gain Jennifer’s compliance?
Identify a second tactic that can help you achieve this goal, then describe specifically how you can apply it. Be sure the tactic you choose matches your desired outcome (compliance or commitment).
Then, using whichever tactic in Self-Assessment 12.2 is your highest, describe specifically how you can use this tactic to achieve your chosen goal. Does this tactic match the desired outcome (compliance or commitment)?
Determine if you need this person’s compliance or commitment.
Think of a goal at school, work, or socially. Be sure this goal also requires somebody else’s help for you to achieve.
Is your rational persuasion score the highest? Regardless, give some specific examples of how you use this tactic.
Consider, for example, if you suddenly were responsible for grading classmates. Explain how you would apply the four recommendations given above.
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