Business 260 Organizational Behaviour Winter 2012 University of Regina Faculty of Business Distance Learning Division—Centre for Continuing Education Instructor and Course Package Developer: Leah Knibbs Additional Support in Course Package Development: Gregory Bawden © Centre for Continuing Education‚ University of Regina‚ Regina‚ SK‚ Canada‚ 2011 2 Table of Contents GENERAL INFORMATION.........................................................................................
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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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Maslow’s Need Hierarchy Theory‚ Herzberg’s Motivators- Hygiene theory and Alderfer’s ERG theory. The main similarity among them is they focus on identifying various needs which motivate an individual. It explains motivated performance as individual efforts to meet the needs. These theories provides the way how organization should motivate their employee to achieve optimum performance. It helps in developing dynamic and productive environment which ensure high organizational performance.
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Organizational Diagnosis 2 Organizational change‚ in theory should be fairly straightforward – upper management mandates a change‚ and lower management and their staff agrees to implement the change‚ no questions asked. However‚ any organization that has attempted to go through any kind of change understands it’s not that simple. The most effective change implementation starts with a diagnosis that is shared by many employees at multiple organizational levels (Spector‚ 2010). Diagnosis
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What are the factors which determine an organizational culture? Culture represents the beliefs‚ ideologies‚ policies‚ practices of an organization. It gives the employees a sense of direction and also controls the way they behave with each other. The work culture brings all the employees on a common platform and unites them at the workplace. There are several factors which affect the organization culture: ▪ The first and the foremost factor affecting culture is the individual working
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#2: Chapter 1 Case Study Study Chapter 1 Organizational Behavior Case‚ "How Is This Stuff Going to Help Me?‚" found on page 29 of Organizational Behavior (11th Edition) and answer the following questions: 1. How would you relieve Jane’s anxiety? How is a course in organizational behavior going to make her a better manager? 2. Why did the professor start off with a brief overview of emerging challenges? 3. How does a course in organizational behavior differ from courses in fields such as
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Symbolic interactionalism helps me understand the social world. Even though symbolic interactionalism is viewed on a micro level‚ I believe the product of the small interactions makes up the whole picture. Everything in life revolves around symbols. Symbolic interactionalism explains that through symbols‚ the way we interpret those symbols‚ will predict our actions amongst others and our views within our self. I view Symbolic interactionalism as the dissection of society. Human actions make up society
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Organizational culture is the collective behavior of humans who are part of an organization and the meanings that the people attach to their actions. Culture includes the organization values‚ visions‚ norms‚ working language‚ systems‚ beliefs & habits. It is also the pattern of such collective behaviors and assumptions that are thought to new organizational members as a way of perceiving‚ & even thinking and feeling. Organizational culture affects the way people & groups interact with each other
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P6 Solution of leadership P7 Motivation Two factors theory Equity Theory Expectancy theory Introduction Parker’s team had eight days to finish their job with four people a group. But finally they cannot get the job done on time and had conflict with the group mate. In this essay‚ I will estimate the case and identify
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Organizational Metaphors A metaphor for an organization is a phrase that determines how and what we think about organizations. Organizational metaphors shape the way we think about organizations and affect how we work and make decisions (McCrimmon‚ 2012). Organizational metaphors help people to see‚ manage‚ and understand everything we need to know about an organization. Gareth Morgan proposed eight metaphors of organizations that explain the elements of an organization in a metaphorical way and
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