Question: SECTION B: ANSWER ANY TWO QUESTIONS FROM THIS SECTION 2. Changes in society impact how organizations operate leading to changes in organizational behaviour. Discuss any

SECTION B: ANSWER ANY TWO QUESTIONS FROM THIS

SECTION B: ANSWER ANY TWO QUESTIONS FROM THIS

SECTION B: ANSWER ANY TWO QUESTIONS FROM THIS SECTION 2. Changes in society impact how organizations operate leading to changes in organizational behaviour. Discuss any two contemporary issues that have impacted organizations in Ghana. Using relevant examples, explain two (2) benefits and two (2) challenges respectively of the contemporary issues to organizations (15 marks) 3. Akeley is a student working toward a bachelor's degree in finance. In order to gain some work experience and increase her marketability, she has accepted a summer internship in the finance department at a pharmaceutical company. She is quite pleased with the pay: GH15 an hour is more than other students in her cohort receive for their summer internships. At work she meets Joshua, a recent graduate working as a middle manager in the same finance department. Joshua makes GH30 an hour and is dissatisfied. Specifically, he tells Akeley that compared to managers at other pharmaceutical companies, he makes much less. "It isn't fair," he complains. "I work just as hard as they do, yet I don't make as much. Maybe I should go work for the competition." i. Explain with the appropriate theory in organizational justice, how someone making GH30 an hour could be less satisfied with his pay than someone making GH15 an hour and be less motivated as a result? (5 marks) ii. What is organizational justice. Using the analogy above, explain which type of organizational justice is exhibited. (5 marks) ii. Based on your knowledge of organizational theory, discuss four main options you think are available to Joshua who perceives inequity? (5 marks) 4. Analyze the following case and answer the questions given at the end of the case: Agya Kofi has been a clerk in a business firm for over a decade. He feels that he has been doing his job efficiently. However, the promotion to a supervisory position, which he has been expecting, has never materialized. He feels sad about it, and a little angry with his manager, Roselyn, who is responsible for promotions Agya Kofi feels that a deserving promotion has been denied to him and he attributes it to the fact that Roselyn belongs to a community different from his. This feeling has gone to such an extent that Agya Kofi has become somewhat negligent in his work. He keeps a book of poems which he quietly reads in the office in moments of dullness. He has even begun to write poems, a practice of his university days, and now he does so even in his office occasionally and delights in it. He even thinks of giving up his clerical job and imagines himself sitting in a chair of the sub-editor of a magazine which has published two of his poems using his nickname. i. Analyze the feelings and behaviour of Agya Kofi in light of your knowledge of personality, perception and attitudes (10 marks) What do you feel about the attitude of Agya Kofi

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