Respone the following:
Chapter 3
1. How can a company determine person/organization fit before hiring employees? Which methods do you think would be helpful?
2. What are some methods that companies can use to assess employee personality?
3. If ethical decision making depends partially on personality, what can organizations do to increase the frequency of ethical behaviors?
Chapter 4
1. What is the difference between performance and organizational citizenship behaviors? How would you increase someone's performance? How would you increase citizenship behaviors?
2. Turnover is costly for both the individual employee, and the organization. What are the primary causes of turnover, and how can companies in industries with notoriously high rates of turnover, such as retail and grocery stores minimize turnover as a problem?
3. Which factors related to work attitudes in Western cultures should also be related to work attitudes in other cultures? Are there any that you think would not be important in a different culture you are familiar with?
Chapter 5
1. What are the employee needs outlined in Maslow's hierarchy, and how can an organization satisfy these needs?
2. What is the distinction between procedural, interactional, and distributive justice? List ways in which you could increase each of these justice perceptions.
3. What is the connection between a company's reward system and the level of ethical behaviors?
PROJECT
The focus for this project is on designing jobs so that they more fully elicitintrinsic motivation.
The reading introduces a Job Characteristics Model that includes five importantjob characteristics that are linked to intrinsic motivation and job satisfaction. Watch video titled "Characteristic of Job Design" in which I describe my job as a manager. (This video can be found under Resources as a separate item.) Asyou watch the video listen for examples of the five job characteristics (you may have to watch thevideo a couple of times to catch them all).
Complete the following Job Characteristics Matrix with examples ofeach of the job characteristics from the video. Even though this is a matrix, make sure that yourexamples are detailed.
For each of the five Job Dimensions, complete the below matrix:
1. Provide a brief description of each Job Dimension
2. Describe specific examples of each Job Dimension from the video
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Job Dimensions
Descriptions
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Specific Examples
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Skill Variety
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Task Identity
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Task Significance
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Autonomy
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Feedback
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