UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE NUS Business School Department of Management and Organisation MNO3303 Organizational Effectiveness Course Instructor : A/P Chung Chi-Nien Session : Semester 1‚ 2012/2013 Aims and Objectives This course aims to introduce students to the field of organization theory -- which incorporates concepts from various disciplines such as management studies‚ sociology‚ psychology‚ political sciences and economics to study organizations. The course is designed to encourage
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CHAPTER 1—ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND OPPORTUNITY MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The description of an organization as more like a snake pit‚ with daily conflict‚ distress‚ and struggle‚ would come from which level within the organization? a. group level b. organizational level c. individual level d. department level ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate REF: p. 3 OBJ: 1 NAT: AACSB Analytic | Group Dynamics TOP: Human Behavior in Organizations MSC: S&E 2. The snake pit metaphor of organization
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qualification. The work described here is my own‚ carried out personally. All sources of information‚ including quotations‚ are acknowledged by means of reference‚ both in the final reference section‚ and at the point where they occur in the text. Topic of Dissertation Scenario planning in airline industry. An Abstract The Airline industry is one of the forces of globalization processes in the world economy and it is hard to imagine todays life without business and tourist trips
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Management (3rd edition) Essex: Pearson Prentice Hall. Breckler‚ S. J‚ Olson‚ J. M& Wiggins‚ E. C (2006) Social Psychology Alive‚ USA: Cengage Learning. Brooks L Brooks L. (2009) Organizational Behavior Individual‚ Groups and Organization (4th edition) Essex: Pearson Education Limited. Eric‚ F (2002) [online] Purpose of structure Avaliable at http://smallbusiness.chron.com/purpose-organizational-structure-3812.html [Accessed on 20th December 2012] Greer C Grint K. (2005) The Sociology of Work (3rd edition)
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1. What specifically is studied in the following areas of psychology: developmental psychology‚ personality‚ neuroscience‚ abnormal psychology (deviance)‚ clinical psychology‚ social psychology‚ organizational psychology and cognitive psychology? 2. Describe the different fields of sociology in terms of their focus and purpose: demography‚ criminology‚ gender studies. 3. What are the four distinguishable fields of anthropological research? Describe each field of research and what cultural phenomena
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INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP * Preet Vachhani (08BT01004) * Bikram Kumar(08BT01005) * Vikas Kumar (08BT01009) * Deepanshu Gupta (08BT01019) * Sanket Koradia (08BT01081) * The concept of organizational leadership‚ as described here‚ is not entirely new. For almost a century‚ various observers have observed the self-organizing characteristics of groups‚ and their natural tendency‚ more or less of their own harmony and rhythm‚ to design and direct
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An experiment to investigate the effect of leading questions on memory. UFP: Business Administration Psychology Coursework Abstract This study was a replication of Loftus and Palmer (1974). The aim was to find out whether or not participants who had watched a video clip of a train crush would make different estimates of the speed the trains where travelling according to the question they were asked . This experiment was a laboratory experiment and independent measure
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1st chapter ( industrial sociology ) Introduction Industrial socio is a comparatively new term which gained popularly about the middle of the 20st Century. An independent branch of the Science of Sociology‚ the history of the industrial sociology has been traced to trade studies introduced by Elton Mayo and his associate between 1924 -32: Thus Elton Mayo; a known sociologist has been identified as the father of Industrial socio. Meaning The ’term’ industrial sociology includes two terms
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Acknowledgement I would kindly like to thank our “Organizational Behavior” lecturer Ms. Kalpana Ambepitiya for bequeathing us such a great opportunity to identify and evaluate our knowledge and showing our capability to successfully complete the assignments. Not only did we prove ourselves‚ but also did we get a prospect of studying how to get used to a time planner in order to complete our work within the time given. I feel & believe that this assignment helped me (Personally) to brush up my
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Work in Pre-industrial‚ Industrial and Post-industrial era For this paper‚ we are going to look at 3 very different periods from the history. We concentrate on the work conditions‚ look at who has to work in the family and how inventions influence the production and selling processes. Also‚ name some jobs that were popular during these periods. First era is Pre-industrial era. Eventhough this period goes far back to the time when plough was invented (Concern Infotech Pvt. Ltd. 2010)‚ we are going
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