Chapter 1 Learning About Organizational Behavior What is Organizational Behavior? Seven Foundation Competencies Managing Self Managing Communication Managing Diversity Managing Ethics Managing Across Cultures Managing Teams Managing Change Organizations as Open Systems [Not in Text] Case Discussion: Robert Princeton at Falls Video 1 Robert Princeton Case Procedure Brief lecture review of chapter slides 10 minutes in teams
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Organizational Behavior Assignment Learning’s from Organizational Behavior Submitted by: Table of Contents 1. Identify your strengths and weakness as a student/employee/human being……………….…………………………………………………...........3 2. What are your goals in life ?……………………………………………..4 3. Where can you see yourself 5 years down the line?..................................5 4. What do you need to do to attain those goals?…………………………
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Successful: spends nearly 50% of the time networking. Organizational Behavior (OB): A field of study that investigates the impact that individuals‚ groups‚ and structure have on behavior within organizations‚ for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization’s effectiveness. Disciplines Of Organizational Behavior: • Psychology: The science that seeks to measure‚ explain‚ and sometimes change the behavior of humans and other animals. • Social psychology:
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means of using individual strengths within a group to achieve more than can be accomplished by the aggregate efforts of group members working individually. Over time there have been several models and theories with respect to organizational function and essential characteristics. One model suggests that organizations at their core are information processing systems‚ where information includes knowledge about markets‚ products‚ production methods‚ management techniques‚ finance‚ laws‚ etc... and many
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Influences and characteristics of entrepreneurial behavior Management skill and strong team building abilities are often perceived as essential leadership attributes[3] for successful entrepreneurs. Robert B. Reich considers leadership‚ management ability‚ and team-building as essential qualities of an entrepreneur. This concept has its origins in the work of Richard Cantillon in his Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en (1755) and Jean-Baptiste Say[4] in his Treatise on Political Economy. Psychological
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of its staff and thus leads to the success of a company. Motivation takes an important role in our work. According to Jeanne Ellis Ormrod (2008)‚ motivation causes people to work‚ directs people’s behavior‚ and keep people engaged in certain tasks. In order to have a richer understanding in the behaviors of organizations‚ I have interviewed two subjects‚ Mrs. Wong and Mrs. Cheng‚ on their career paths. Case 1 Background Mrs. Cheng is a 47 years-old married woman with two daughters. Her daughters
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Relationship Between Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Counterproductive Work Behavior Reeshad S. Dalal Purdue University Job performance is increasingly being seen to encompass constructs such as organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and counterproductive work behavior (CWB). To clarify the OCB–CWB relationship‚ a meta-analysis was conducted. Results indicate a modest negative relationship ( 0.32). The relationship strength did not increase appreciably when the target of the behavior (the organization
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BUSI 2101 – Organizational Behavior INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION PAPER The main objective of this semester was to learn various organizational behaviors that are conducted in a business environment outside the classroom; these would help us as students and as future business entrepreneurs. Throughout the semester‚ every week different professors came and gave us lectures. Each lecture was about different topic with professors of different departments. Along with the weekly lectures we also had an interactive
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Motivation Motivation is the processes that account for an individual’s intensity‚ direction‚ and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal – specifically‚ an organizational goal. Three key elements ◦ Intensity – how hard a person tries. ◦ Direction – effort that is channeled toward‚ and consistent with‚ organizational goals. ◦ Persistence – how long a person can maintain effort. Early Theories of Motivation These early theories may not be valid‚ but they do form the basis for
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Joshua Harris Althea Johns Organizational Behavior October 21‚ 2012 Understanding Organizational Citizenship Behaviors Citizenship‚ most don’t normally associate this term with an organization like a business. Many would think of the word citizenship in terms of the country that you may live in. Some may even think of it more broadly then that. As in we are all citizens of this planet. But what is the opposite? Are there smaller citizenship classifications‚ and are they as important? Particularly
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