1. Explain how organizations can create team players.

2. What is social loafing? How can the management undermine the tendency of social loafing?

3. Distinguish between high-context and low-context cultures.

4. Describe and discuss specific problems related to cross-cultural communication. Include cultural barriers and cultural context.

5. Explain how managers can reduce misinterpretations when communicating with people from a different culture.

6. How do substitutes and neutralizers challenge the effectiveness of leadership?

7. How would you relate substitutes, trust, and online leadership?

8. Describe the full range of leadership model.

9. What are defensive behaviors? Provide three examples of defensive behaviors and explain why an employee would engage in the behavior.

10. What are the various individual factors that make a person more likely to engage in political behavior?

11. Discuss the effects of moods and emotions on effectiveness of negotiations.

12. Explain how gender affects negotiating and describe what this means to the outcomes of the negotiation process.

13. What are the three dimensions that characterize the environment of an organization?

14. Compare and contrast the three primary organizational strategies: innovation, cost-minimization, and imitation.

15. Explain the difference between a typical U.S. manager's point of view of ethical behavior and that of a manager in a developing economy and the implications of the difference.

16. Compare and contrast an ethical organizational culture and a positive organizational culture. How are they similar and different?

17. Discuss the problems underlying the work-life conflict and explain some of the techniques that an organization can use to help employees achieve work-life balance.

18. Provide some suggestions for improving performance evaluations.

19. What are the various organizational approaches toward managing stress?

20. Discuss the various individual approaches toward managing stress.