April 4th‚ 2013 NAME: __________________________ MNGT5590 Organizational Behavior (OB) Midterm Exam‚ Chapters 1-8 1. What is “Palmer’s principle” and why is it important? 2. How is the adult learning model used in this course? 3. Why are self-assessments used in this course? 4. Why are the Hawthorne studies important to OB? What knowledge about human behavior in the workplace was discovered during the Hawthorne studies? 5. What abilities (skills) will managers need to be
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How is a course in OB going to make you a better manager? Behavior can be stated as bunch of activities a person often does. And hence Organizational behavior means study of human behavior in an organization. This is related to understanding human psychology. No two individual will behave in the same way in a given circumstance. Organizational behavior is a system which is involved in monitoring‚ understanding‚ forecasting and controlling behavior at work which ensures effective performance of
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Ch1 cont. The importance of interpersonal skills: • Practicing managers have long understood the importance of interpersonal skills to managerial effectiveness. • Until the late 1980’s business school emphasized the technical aspects of management‚ specifically focusing on economics‚ accounting and quantitative techniques. • Over the past two decades‚ however business faculty have come to realize the importance that understanding of human behavior plays in determining manager’s
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Organizational structure paper Chrystal Starlings XMGT/230 9-16-2012 Barri Brown In 1962‚ Sam Walton from Roger‚ Arkansas came up with the idea of opening a store that was different from the others. He decided to open up a store by the name of Wal-Mart. In the same year of 1962‚ the first Target store was also opened. The Target store was opened in the Minneapolis suburb of Roseville‚ Minn. by Dayton Hudson. The focus of Target was to have convenient shopping along with competitive discounted
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Organizational culture influences many aspects of work life. Workplace cultures that are grounded in strong and formally articulated values and modes of behavior define an organization. Well-communicated values influence employee behavior and drive how employees relate with all stakeholders within the organizationfrom co-workers‚ management and members of the board to clients‚ shareholders and the community at large. When organizations seek to change their culture‚ HRas change agent and educator
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------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZATIONAL BRANDING Using brand power to shape and evolve your organization * Who are we? * What do we believe? * What brings us together? * What are we seeking to achieve? * When people look at us‚ what do they see and what do they experience? * When we are successful‚ what will people say about our accomplishments and the contributions we made? Deciding issues like these is what organizational brands are about. When people work together
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Organizational structures developed from the ancient times of hunters and collectors in tribal organizations through highly royal and clerical power structures to industrial structures and today’s post-industrial structures. [edit] Organizational structure types [edit] Pre-bureaucratic structures Pre-bureaucratic (entrepreneurial) structures lack standardization of tasks. This structure is most common in smaller organizations and is best used to solve simple tasks. The structure is totally centralized
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Factors Affecting Organizational Climate and Retention Organizational Change Change refers to new reporting relationships‚ responsibilities‚ procedures‚ policies‚ equipment‚ tools‚ and/or software used on the job. Think about how an organization or work unit responds to change as a whole‚ rather than how individuals respond. Communication Communication addresses how information flows in an organization. Service Service is defined as meeting the needs and expectations of the persons
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MGMT 2383 Sample Case Study Analysis Your name & A# Date What are the main issues in the case? The Pfizer-Pharmacia Merger case demonstrates how a company must understand its corporate social responsibility. In this case‚ the company was unable to serve its stakeholders and put them first before shareholders or customers. By not using this view of CSR‚ the company’s employees became dissatisfied with their jobs which led to continuance commitment. Why did the problems/ issues occur? Corporate
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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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