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What do you think about the training that Google has developed to overcome unconscious gender bias? If you were developing a training program to overcome unconscious bias, what elements would you include in it? Describe both the content of the training and the training methods that you would use.
How do you think the culture of the organization or the industry could affect a training program focused on diversity issues? Provide an example for two different industries or job types.
If you were in charge of evaluating Google’s training program, how would you measure its success? Consider Kirkpatrick’s framework of reactions, learning, behavior, and results.
What do you think about the likely transfer of this training? What would you do to ensure effective transfer?
A recent report found that while the rate of hiring for women at Google has remained about the same, the degree of attrition among women seems to be declining at Google (Umoh, 2020). How do you think the training program may play a role in these figures? Could other factors than the training be
How much are you personally motivated by intrinsic versus extrinsic factors? Is this stable across all situations? If not, what does it depend upon? Have you seen a difference in your own or others’ performance depending upon which type of motivation seems the most salient?
Consider the job of lifeguard. If you were designing a program to help motivate lifeguards, what would you do? Describe how you would approach this task.
Imagine you have been asked to redesign the job of teacher in K-12 schools to make it more attractive to new college graduates as a profession and to help them be more effective. What would you do? Which theories would you draw upon? Which of the job characteristics model factors might matter the
Think of a time when you have been highly motivated or highly unmotivated. With this example in mind, do you have any new insights into why this was after reading about motivation theory and research in this chapter? Please describe and share any insights or questions you related to the example you
What lessons can other companies in the grocery industry, or other “lean margin” industries, learn from the Wegmans experience in terms of motivating its workers?
Is innovation an important part of continued employee and customer satisfaction?
As an organization, what values and qualities do you think Wegmans looks for in an employee? How might this relate to employee motivation?
Was it surprising to learn that despite the fact that many of the jobs at Wegmans are tedious and low-paying, Wegmans still enjoys a low turnover rate? Explain why using at least two theories of motivation.
At a university, college professors are sometimes asked to teach night classes. There is often great demand for those courses, given that many students work. Full-time faculty interest in teaching these courses vary – some may prefer teaching evenings and do other things during the day, and
Think about a leader you are familiar with, preferably a leader you worked with. Which leadership theory would describe his/her style? Do you feel that this style fits the conditions under which you worked? Which style would have been more appropriate?
If you were tasked with writing a blog post titled “Seven rules for leadership” what would be the rules that you would discuss?
If you were interviewing someone applying for a leadership position, what questions would you ask, or which method would you use as part of the hiring process to assess the person’s leadership potential?
Do effective leaders do anything other than what was discussed in this chapter? In your opinion, what are the behaviors, traits, or attributes effective leaders have that were not discussed?
Using each of the leadership theories discussed in this chapter, describe Jeff Bezos’ leadership style. Which behaviors does he demonstrate? Which leadership theory explains his actions and influence the best?
Which aspects of Bezos’ leadership do you feel are responsible for the success of Amazon.com? Which aspects are potentially detrimental to the success of the company?
Which aspects of Bezos’ leadership style would you want to emulate?
Would you have wanted to work with a leader such as Bezos? Would you have been effective when working with such a leader?
Do you think this leadership style is important and useful in all kinds of businesses across industries? Which industries and companies would find Bezos’ style ineffective or at least less effective?
The HR manager of a company recently found out that the employees of the company are leaving comments on a popular careers website, badmouthing the company. The manager feels that this information is inaccurate, and he wants to correct the information on the board or contact the managers of the
The HR manager of a company says that job satisfaction surveys are useless and instead companies should measure employee engagement. What would be your response to this statement?
What are some things organizations can do during a recession to ensure that job attitudes do not suffer?
Based on what you learned in this chapter, if you were tasked to design an employee attitude survey to be implemented in your organization annually, what would it look like? What would you measure? What would be some things that you would do to ensure that the response rate is high and the
As today’s world of work relies more on technology and the number of employees engaged in virtual work is increasing, how do you think factors shaping job attitudes, and the role of job attitudes in relation to job performance, citizenship, and turnover, is changing?
How important do you believe it is for today’s employees to work for an organization engaged in corporate social responsibility?
How important do you believe a sense of purpose and meaning are for employees? How successful is Salesforce.com in providing a sense of purpose and meaning?
Would this be the type of organization you would be interested in working? Why or why not?
Marc Benioff is also known as an “Activist CEO,” taking public positions in environmental, social justice, and political issues that may not directly be related to their core business. What are the advantages and disadvantages of CEO activism? How could it help or hinder employee motivation
How much do you think that feeling stressed at work is an employee’s choice? Please explain your answer.
Consider the job of firefighter. How do you think these individuals combat their own fight or flight response? What things did we cover in this chapter that might be helpful for a new firefighter to manage his or her stress better? What can an employer do to help manage firefighter stress?
Imagine you have been asked to design a customer service job that is effective and engaging but relatively low in terms of stressors. Is this possible? Where would you begin to try to figure this out? What factors would you focus on?
Think of a time when you have been highly stressed. What did you do to manage your stress? After reading this chapter, do you think you would manage your own stress differently or in the same way? Why or why not?
Many supervisors are under pressure to keep production up, while at the same time to maintain a safe work environment. What are some ways that they can manage this balance between meeting goals and taking care of employees?
What is the role of top management?
What lessons can supervisors and organizations learn from this line of applied research?
Do you think that stress management and prevention is more of the employee’s responsibility or the organization’s responsibility? Why?
In addition to helping manage work and family responsibilities, can you think of other ways that supervisors and coworkers can be supportive toward employees?
How effective do you think this type of training is long term? Please explain your answer.
Think about what groups or teams you are part of now. How effective is your group or team? What could you do to boost your team’s performance?
Using the information in this chapter, how would you form an effective team at your school or organization to provide input to faculty members on course content and course offerings? For example, what size would it be? What personality traits would you want in your members? What types of diversity
If the punctuated equilibrium model of group development is true, how might you use it to help your team on a class project to be most effective? Explain your rationale.
Do you think organizations (both work and schools) use teams too much, too little, or just about the right amount? Please explain your answer. What are the advantages and disadvantages?
What are the key issues related to team decision-making? If you were designing an “ideal” decision-making team to run your university, what steps would you take to ensure they did a good job? Please provide specific details on issues such as team size and makeup.
Why do you think Novak was so successful?
Would you like the kind of environment described in this case? Explain why or why not.
What do you think about Novak’s assumption that to build a strong team, you need to start with understanding yourself?
What other things are important for teamwork that were not discussed in this case?
Do you have any experience with a failed change effort? In an organizational or college setting, can you recall an instance where the organization changed something, which resulted in user resistance? What was the reason for the resistance? Did people resist the change for good reasons or not? What
Under what conditions do you think newcomers can change an organization’s culture or the way things are done?
Of the cultures discussed in this chapter, which ones do you feel are a good match for you? Why?
When you go on a job interview, what are the things you might observe or investigate that would reveal to you the type of organizational culture they would have?
Consider the following clothing items: Pajamas, flip flops, shorts, t-shirts, tight clothes, track suits and baseball caps. Are these suitable for the workplace? In which kinds of organizations would they be suitable or unsuitable? What is the role of organizational culture in determining the dress
What are the lessons in Marvel’s transformation that you believe would apply to companies in other industries?
What are your thoughts on having an outsider CEO who has no experience in movie industry to lead the change at Marvel?
What lessons can you draw from the case about transforming a creative organization?
What challenges and threats do you see to Marvel’s long-term success?
How do you think Peter Cuneo’s background helped him as the CEO at Marvel?
Which decision you see as the most important to the company’s overall success?
Is it possible to focus attention on just one thing, even when there are lots of other things going on at the same time? (83)
Under what conditions can we pay attention to more than one thing at a time? (91)
What does attention research tell us about the effect of talking on cell phones while driving a car? (94)
Is it true that we are not paying attention to a large fraction of the things that are happening in our environment? (96)
How was the dichotic listening procedure used to determine how well people can focus on the attended message and how much information can be taken in from the unattended message? What is the cocktail party effect, and what does it demonstrate? LO1
Describe Broadbent’s model of selective attention. Why is it called an early selection model? LO1
What were the results of experiments by Moray (words in the unattended ear)and Gray and Wedderburn (“Dear Aunt Jane”)? Why are the results of these experiments diffi cult to explain based on Broadbent’s fi lter model of attention? LO1
Describe Treisman’s attenuation theory. First indicate why she proposed the theory, then how she modifi ed Broadbent’s model to explain some results that Broadbent’s model couldn’t explain. LO1
Describe MacKay’s “bank” experiment. Why does his result provide evidence for late selection? LO1
What is the fl anker compatibility task? How have experiments using this task shown how attention is affected by load and by the nature of task-irrelevant stimuli? Be sure you understand the explanation for the relation between load, cognitive capacity, and whether task-irrelevant stimuli are
What is the Stroop effect? What does this demonstrate about how the nature of a task-irrelevant stimulus can affect attention? LO1
Describe the Schneider and Shiffrin divided attention experiments. Compare the stimulus conditions for consistent and varied mapping conditions, and how these different conditions result in automatic or controlled processing. LO1
What conclusions can be reached from the results of experiments testing the ability to drive while talking on a cell phone? What are some of the differences between a driver talking to a passenger and a driver talking on a cell phone? LO1
Describe the following evidence that attention is necessary for perception:inattentional blindness experiment; “basketball” experiment; change detection experiments. Be sure you understand what is preventing attention from being directed to parts of a display or scene in each of these
What is overt attention? What is the relation between overt attention and eye movements? LO1
How are eye movements determined by bottom-up processes, such as physical characteristics of the stimuli? How are eye movements determined by top-down processes, such as people’s knowledge about characteristics of the environment, their interests, and the type of task? LO1
What is covert attention? Location-based attention? Describe the precueing procedure used by Posner. What does the result of Posner’s experiment indicate about the effect of attention on information processing? LO1
Describe the Egly precueing experiment. What is the same-object advantage, and how was it demonstrated by Egly’s experiment? LO1
Describe Treisman’s feature integration theory. What does the theory seek to explain about perceiving objects? What are the stages of the theory, and at what point does attention become involved? LO1
What are illusory conjunctions, and what do they demonstrate about feature analysis? How have illusory conjunction experiments supported the role of attention in feature analysis? How do experiments with Balint’s syndrome patients support feature integration theory? LO1
Describe physiological research on how covert attention infl uences neural responding in monkeys and in humans. What is the evidence that attentional processing is distributed throughout the brain? LO1
How do eye movements of autistic and normally developing people compare? LO1
Pick two items from the following list, and decide how difficult it would be to do both at the same time. Some things are difficult to do simultaneously because of physical limitations. For example, it would be extremely difficult to dance while rock climbing! Others things are difficult to do
Find someone who is willing to participate in a brief“observation exercise.” Cover a picture (preferably one that contains a number of objects or details) with a piece of paper. Tell the person that you are going to uncover the picture and that the task is to report everything that he or she
Art composition books often state that it is possible to arrange elements in a painting in a way that controls both what a person looks at in a picture and the order in which a person looks at things. What would the results of research on visual attention have to say about this idea? LO1
How does the attention involved in carrying out actions in the environment differ from the attention involved in scanning a picture for details, as in the previous “observation exercise”? LO1
As you sit in a stadium watching a football game, there is a lot going on in the game, in the stands, and on the sidelines. Which things that you might look at would involve object-based attention, and which would involve location-based attention? LO1
As the quarterback steps back to pass, the offensive line blocks out the defense, so the quarterback has plenty of time to check out what is happening downfield and hits an open receiver. Later in the game, two 300-pound linemen get through to the quarterback. While he scrambles for safety, he
Given the mounting evidence that talking on cell phones(even hands-free) while driving increases the chances of having an accident, it could be argued that laws should be passed making all cell phone use illegal while driving.What would be your reaction if this occurred? Why? LO1
Why can we remember a telephone number long enough to place a call, but then we forget it almost immediately? (123)
How is memory involved in processes such as doing math problems? (131)
Do we use the same memory system to remember things we have seen and things we have heard? (132)
Is there a relationship between memory capacity and intelligence?(141)
Why am I unable to remember some things, like where my keys are and what happened during my 10th birthday party? LO1
Why is it that when I describe to my wife what I remember about something we both experienced, her memory of the event is different from mine? LO1
What is the best way to get things into memory, especially remembering people’s names? LO1
Why is it that sometimes I know that I know something, but I just can’t remember it, then later it pops into my head? LO1
What is happening in my brain that causes all of the above things to happen? LO1

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