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In what ways can the manager of a function deliberately set out to gain power inside an organization?
Form groups of three or four people, and appoint one member as the spokesperson who will communicate your conclusions to the rest of the class.
How should you pay the servers to ensure they are motivated to do a good job and provide high-quality service to your customers?
Should managers try to eliminate all or most role conflict and ambiguity? Why or why not?
Is a certain level of stress necessary to motivate employees to perform at a high level? Why or why not?
Analyzing a “Real” Group Choose a work group featured in a television series e.g., Gray’s Anatomy, Boston Legal, CSI Miami, CSI New York, Numbers.
Objective Your objective is to gain experience in redesigning a job to increase employee autonomy.
Why might a person with a very high level of motivation perform poorly?
Why might a very capable employee have low expectancy for performing at a high level? How does the choice of a referent influence perceptions of equity and ineq
Why might fair procedures be perceived as being unfair by some employees? Is inequity always dysfunctional for an organization? Why or why not?
How would you characterize your expectancy for this activity? Why was your expectancy at this level?
How might a manager redesign the job of a person who delivers newspapers to raise levels of the core job dimensions identified by the job characteristics model?
Can principles of scientific management and the job characteristics model both be used to design a job? Explain why or why not.
Why should organizations clearly communicate organizational objectives to their employees?
Write a memo to the organization's hiring manager that includes an analysis of no more than 800 words.
Create a chart with leadership qualities, skills and styles identifying your strengths and weaknesses or a SWOT analysis for a transformational leader.
Google is the most popular search engine on the Internet today and earns revenues for one-third of all online advertising in the United States.
Would you have been punished if you had not finally succeeded? If you had been punished, how would you have felt about it?
On what kinds of jobs might the moods that employees experience be particularly important for understanding why they behave as they do?
In what kinds of organizations might organizational citizenship behaviors be especially important?
Toward what kind of organization are you most likely to have affective commitment? Toward what kind of organization.
Organizations work most effectively when their members voluntarily engage in organizational citizenship behaviors.
Why might a supervisor be motivated to perceive a subordinate’s performance as being poor when it really is not?
Given perceptual problems and biases, such as stereotyping and the similar-to-me effect, proponents of affirmative action argue that organizations.
Dealing with Salience Form groups of three or four people and appoint one member as the spokesperson who will communicate your conclusions to the rest.