QUESTIONS FOR PRACTICE AND REVIEW TOPIC 2 – THEORY OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR 1) The price of DVDs (D) is Rs 200 and the price of CDs (C ) is Rs 100. Ajay has a budget of Rs 1000 to spend on the two goods. Suppose that he has already bought one DVD and one CD. In addition‚ there are 3 more DVDs and 5 more CDs that he would really like to buy. a. Given the above prices and income‚ draw his budget line on a graph with CDs on the horizontal axis. b. Considering what he has already purchased and what he
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OB Revision Sheet 1) How can a manager become a supportive communicator? 2) Discuss four ways to reduce misinterpretations when communicating with people from a different culture. 3) Describe the communication process. Explain the parts of this process. Case 1 Your company’s HR director is a believer in trait theories of leadership. He believes that he can differentiate leaders from non-leaders by focusing on personal qualities and characteristics. He asks for your expertise in helping
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Case study: Kimberly-Clark’s Andean ascent The story In 2004 Kimberly-Clark‚ the US company whose brands include Huggies nappies and Kleenex tissues‚ renewed its attempts to set up a pan-Andean regional management structure. An Argentine‚ Sergio Nacach‚ became general manager for a market that encompassed Peru‚ Ecuador‚ Bolivia‚ Colombia and Venezuela. He was charged with boosting growth in sales and profits. Kimberly-Clark’s development in Latin America had come largely through
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1. What factors do you think make some organizations ineffective at managing emotion? According to the case‚ organizations are always hard to manage emotion effective. From my prospective‚ there might be three main reasons‚ emotional individual differences‚ lack of contact between organizations and their employees‚ and organization culture‚ all bringing about this situation. First of all‚ different people have different personalities. It is hard for an organization to publish a policy or to
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explains the importance of organizational behavior and how these principles add value to t he business. Many hard-driving leaders believe the technical competencies of individuals are far mor e important than the soft skills in making them the most value added to the organization. This paper builds the argument for organizational behavior as a vital ingredient in the development of the wor k force. The paper describes how the study and practice of organizational behavior can make a differ ence in
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Denny ’s Restaurant Organizational Behavior: An Introduction Denny ’s Restaurant Corporation is one of the largest full-service family restaurant chains in the United States. And it operates over 2‚500 restaurants around the world. Denny ’s is known for its 24 hours a day‚ 7 days a week‚ and 365 days a year operations‚ serving breakfast‚ lunch‚ dinner‚ and dessert around the clock. During the early 1990s‚ Denny ’s was involved in a series of discrimination lawsuits involving several cases of
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AB105 Organizational Behavior Critical Thinking The Management of Organizational Justice By Russell Cropanzano‚ David E.Bowen‚ and Stephen W.Gilliland Summary of the key issues This paper has addressed the organizational justice from various aspects and provided recommendations to enhance the fairness in the managerial activities. Firstly‚ it has discussed the importance of justice in workgroup from its long-range benefits‚ social and ethical considerations. Secondly‚ the authors analyzed
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Ancona. Kochan • Scully • Van Maanen • Westney ‚t." " " . ". .".~ A~gJ)i~‚CUSTOlrb’.‚_ORDER FORM MANAGING fOR THE fUTURE Organizational Behavior & Processes We recognize that there are some areas of discussion in the organizational behavior course that are considered with more importance to individual instructors. South-Western has created a program to allow you to select specific content modules for those areas to give your students more practice and exposure to these topics. For just $7
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Introduction: - Organizational Behavior (OB) is the study and application of knowledge about how people‚ individuals‚ and groups act in organizations. It does this by taking a system approach. That is‚ it interprets people-organization relationships in terms of the whole person‚ whole group‚ whole organization‚ and whole social system. Its purpose is to build better relationships by achieving human objectives‚ organizational objectives‚ and social objectives Elements of Organizational Behavior:- The organization’s
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PRESTON UNIVERSITY EMBA PROGRAM DISTANCE LEARNING ASSIGNMENT ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR-1 Semester: Fall 2012 Deadline for Submission of Assignment: November 5‚ 2012 Attempt all questions. Your answers should not be copied‚ word-for-word‚ from the textbook. You may use the terms‚ concepts‚ examples from the textbook‚ but these must be written as your own‚ independent expression. 1. What are the three levels of analysis in this book’s OB model? And draw the diagram of OB
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