Organizational Behavior Human Behavior At Work 12th Edition John Newstrom - Solutions

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What are the similarities and differences between on-the-job and off-the-job training?AppendixLO1
What are the methods of performance evaluation?AppendixLO1
How can managers improve performance evaluations?AppendixLO1
What are the various roles of HR in organizations?AppendixLO1
Contrast planned and unplanned change.AppendixLO1
Describe the sources of resistance to change.AppendixLO1
Compare the four main approaches to managing organizational change.AppendixLO1
Demonstrate two ways of creating a culture for change.AppendixLO1
identify potential sources of stress.AppendixLO1
identify the consequences of stress.AppendixLO1
Contrast the individual and organizational approaches to managing stress.AppendixLO1
What is the difference between planned and unplanned change?AppendixLO1
What forces act as sources of resistance to change?AppendixLO1
What are the four main approaches to managing organizational change?AppendixLO1
How can managers create a culture for change?AppendixLO1
What are the possible sources of stress?AppendixLO1
What are the consequences of stress?AppendixLO1
What are the individual and organizational approaches to managing stress?AppendixLO1
Demonstrate the importance of interpersonal skills in the workplace.AppendixLO1
Describe the manager’s functions, roles and skills.AppendixLO1
Define organizational behaviour ( OB ).AppendixLO1
Show the value to OB of systematic study.AppendixLO1
Identify the major behavioural science disciplines that contribute to OB.AppendixLO1
Demonstrate why few absolutes apply to OB.AppendixLO1
Identify the challenges and opportunities managers have in applying OB concepts.AppendixLO1
Compare the three levels of analysis in this book’s OB model.AppendixLO1
What is the importance of interpersonal skills?AppendixLO1
What do managers do in terms of functions, roles and skills?AppendixLO1
What is organizational behaviour (OB)?AppendixLO1
Why is it important to complement intuition with systematic study?AppendixLO1
What are the major behavioural science disciplines that contribute to OB?AppendixLO1
Why are there few absolutes in OB?AppendixLO1
What are the challenges and opportunities for managers in using OB concepts?AppendixLO1
What are the three levels of analysis in this book’s OB model?AppendixLO1
Describe the two major forms of workforce diversity.AppendixLO1
recognize stereotypes and understand how they function in organizational settings.AppendixLO1
Identify the key biographical characteristics and describe how they are relevant to oB.AppendixLO1
Define intellectual ability and demonstrate its relevance to oB.AppendixLO1
contrast intellectual and physical ability.AppendixLO1
Describe how organizations manage diversity effectively.AppendixLO1
What are the two major forms of workforce diversity?AppendixLO1
What are stereotypes and how do they function in organizational settings?AppendixLO1
What are the key biographical characteristics and how are they relevant to OB?AppendixLO1
What is intellectual ability and how is it relevant to OB?AppendixLO1
How can you contrast intellectual and physical ability?AppendixLO1
How do organizations manage diversity effectively?AppendixLO1
Contrast the three components of an attitude.AppendixLO1
Summarize the relationship between attitudes and behaviour.AppendixLO1
Compare and contrast the major job attitudes.AppendixLO1
define job satisfaction and show how it can be measured.AppendixLO1
Summarize the main causes of job satisfaction.AppendixLO1
Identify four employee responses to dissatisfaction.AppendixLO1
Show whether job satisfaction is an important concept globally.AppendixLO1
What are the main components of attitudes? Are these components related or unrelated?AppendixLO1
Does behaviour always follow from attitudes? Why or why not? Discuss the factors that affect whether behaviour follows from attitudes.AppendixLO1
What are the major job attitudes? In what ways are these attitudes alike? What is unique about each?AppendixLO1
How do we measure job satisfaction?AppendixLO1
What causes job satisfaction? For most people, is pay or the work itself more important?AppendixLO1
What outcomes does job satisfaction influence? What implications does this have for management?AppendixLO1
Does job satisfaction appear to vary by country?AppendixLO1
Define personality , describe how it is measured and explain the factors that determine an individual’s personality.AppendixLO1
Describe the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality framework and assess its strengths and weaknesses.AppendixLO1
Identify the key traits in the Big Five personality model.AppendixLO1
Demonstrate how the Big Five traits predict behaviour at work.AppendixLO1
Identify other personality traits relevant to oB.AppendixLO1
Describe how the situation affects whether personality predicts behaviour.AppendixLO1
Define values , demonstrate the importance of values and contrast terminal and instrumental values.AppendixLO1
Identify the dominant values in today’s workforce.AppendixLO1
Identify Hofstede’s five value dimensions of national culture.AppendixLO1
What is personality? How do we typically measure it?What factors determine personality?AppendixLO1
What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and what does it measure?AppendixLO1
What are the Big Five personality traits?AppendixLO1
How do the Big Five traits predict work behaviour?AppendixLO1
Besides the Big Five, what other personality traits are relevant to OB?AppendixLO1
How does the situation or environment affect the degree to which personality predicts behaviour?AppendixLO1
What are values, why are they important, and what is the difference between terminal and instrumental values?AppendixLO1
Do values differ across cultures? How so?AppendixLO1
How could you change the shape of your learning curve?101-1
How do you feel about being given food, t-shirts and praise for working harder?101-1
Do you regard this approach as practical, or as demeaning – and why?101-1
Does society have a moral right to interfere with individual behaviour in this way?101-1
Are you aware of having your own behaviour conditioned in this way?101-1
Can you use this method on your friends?101-1
What ethical issues are raised by such attempts to manipulate the behaviour of others?101-1
Ask the volunteers how they each felt during this exercise. What were their emotional responses to the different kinds of reinforcement they received?101-1
Create and distribute the agenda and background materials for a meeting in advance. Clarify the objective (intended outcome or product) to all participants. lop5
Compose the group appropriately according to both size and representativeness criteria; allow persons to come and go as they are needed in the meeting. lop5
Encourage the expression and consideration of minority viewpoints; search for the underlying assumptions held and make these explicit. lop5
Separate the idea-generation stage of a meeting from the idea-evaluation stage; control time spent on chitchat, tangents, and other topics. lop5
Carefully test for the degree of support for a tentative decision about to be made. lop5
End the meeting on a positive note regarding its success; commend individual contributors; and assign specific responsibilities for follow-up. lop5
Engage group members in an evaluation of their own success during the meeting (what went well and what needs improvement in their own process);use these suggestions for improvement in the next meeting you conduct. lop5
Develop and apply group facilitation skills to make meetings more productive and satisfying. lop5
Watch carefully for signs of groupthink, risky shifts, and escalating commitment to prevent groups from falling prey to these traps. lop5
Search for evidence of an informal organization and build bridges to it so that it complements the formal structure. lop5
Think of a part-time or full-time job that you now hold or formerly held. Identify the informal organization that is (was) affecting your job or work group, and its effects.Discuss how the informal leaders probably rose to their positions and how they operate. lop5
Have you ever been in a situation where informal group norms put you in role conflict with formal organization standards? Discuss. lop5
Discuss some of the benefits and problems that informal organizations may bring to both a work group and an employer. lop5
Think of a small work group that you belonged to recently. Assess the level of its cohesiveness. What factors contributed to, or prevented, its cohesiveness? lop5
Thinking of that small group, explain in what ways the members’ actions, interactions, and sentiments were different in practice from what they were supposed to be when the group was formed. lop5

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