Organizational Behaviour (2) Personality Personality A manager can perform his tasks satisfactorily only by developing a fair degree of understanding of the people around him Any attempt to learn why people behave as they do in organizations require some understanding of individual differences Environment has a much greater effect than it is believed. The implications for organizations are important Prof. Neetha Gilganchi It means that large areas of
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------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1 ------------------------------------------------- What is organisational behaviour? ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Multiple choice questions 1. Organisational behaviour is: a. a commitment to continuous improvement. b. a relatively permanent change in behaviour that occurs as a result of work experiences. *c. the study of individuals and groups in organisations
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Partner • I – Investor • C- Customer • E – Employees External Forces which shape this Globalization Era 3.0 • P – Political • E – Economic • S- Social • T – Technology • L – Legal • E – Ethical & Economic Law of reciprocity – Google Manager • Technical • Human • Conceptual Day 2 Personality • Internal - Nature • External – Nurture 5 Factor Forces of Personalit development • Conscientiousness • Agreeableness • Neuroticism (anxious‚ hostile etc.) • Openness to experience (curious
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among co-workers and supervisors are strongly related to overall job satisfaction and associated with lower stress and lower intentions to quit * Organizational Behavior (OB) – 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 organizations effectiveness * Core topics include motivation‚ leader behavior and power‚ interpersonal communication‚ group structure
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Essay 1 Compare and contrast TWO theories of motivation. Suggest how managers might use these theories to motivate their staff. According to Fincham and Rhodes (2005)‚ Maslow believed that motivation was mostly an unconscious process. Human beings tend not to be aware of what motivate them and would find it hard to describe motivation by answering questions‚ for instance. As Kelly (1982) said‚ Herzberg was more interested in motivation than satisfaction. He argued that what determined motivation
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of the effects of diversity training programs. “Diversity programs are truly effective in improving representation in management. They include strategies to measure the representation of women and minorities in managerial positions‚ and they hold managers accountable for achieving more demographically diverse management teams.” 2. Why might one-shot diversity training programs be ineffective? Ans. There is no strong representation of management in one-shot diversity training programs which make
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across individuals. It is how the people see the world by the model created by the way they perceive and attribute. The case gives an overview of the bus accident which had occurred on 16 April while on its route on Ambattur to Madras. The general manager had three reports‚ the first report which was policeman’s report. In his perception he gives the details of the damage caused to the bus and also about the driver who escaped after the accident took place without informing the passengers. The second
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he reflects upon the time when Nestle BD’s Chittagong unit saw a decline from 100% to 69% in the sales of Nestle Nutrition (nutritious food for children). The current head of Regulatory and Scientific Affairs of Nestle BD was the field operation manager back in 1997 when the CTG unit faced this crisis situation and he was assigned the task of resurrecting the sales figure to its old ratio at least within the next 6 months. During this period‚ he was completely in charge of the CTG unit. Upon his
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development tool to improve the well being of employees and organisational outcomes such as the quality of organisationing service. We invite you to have your say about your feelings regarding your role‚ job satisfaction‚ relationship with your manager‚ and commitment to the organisation. Your participation in this study is voluntary. Your name‚ the name of your unit and the name of the organisation will remain strictly confidential and will not appear in any published reports or journal articles
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loss in profit‚ one of the reasons may be due to the lack of demand in their product. To keep the business surviving the company will need to learn how to change and adapt to the growing needs in the marketplace (Robbins & Judge‚ 2013‚ p.20). Managers will need to stimulate their employees’ creativity and tolerance for change. Business organizations does have a responsibility to ensure both employees have a secure job with good working conditions and to the shareholders because with better working
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