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The effects of multitasking have been found to be more negative when the tasks are complex. Why do you think this is the case?
Can you think of a time in your own life when being evaluated and rewarded on a specific goal lead you to engage in negative or unproductive behavior?
What are employee involvement programs? How might they increase employee motivation?
What are the three major ways that jobs can be redesigned? In your view, in what situations would one of the methods be favored over the others?
Are there any positive motivational consequences of tying compensation pay closely to firm performance?
What factors do you believe contribute to workplace bullying? Are bullies a product of the situation, or do they have flawed personalities?
Try to select goals that seem most critical to the effective performance of your instructor’s job.
Spend a few minutes discussing your class instructor’s job. What does he or she do? What defines good performance?
What are the three alternative work arrangements of flextime, job sharing, and telecommuting? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
What are the variable-pay programs that are used to motivate employees? What are their advantages and disadvantages?
Discuss whether you think these scores accurately reflect your perceptions of the motivating potential of these professions.
The authors of one study noted that “disclosures can exacerbate [unethical behavior] by causing people to feel absolved of their duty to be objective.”
What are the specific advantages of using computerized decision making? How can computers be better decision makers than humans?
How do the predictions of self-determination theory apply to intrinsic and extrinsic rewards?
Assuming you could become better at detecting the real emotions in facial expressions, do you think it would help your career? Why or why not?
Research has also studied whether people can tell someone is lying based on signs of guilt or nervousness in their facial expressions.
Randomly choose someone to be the team organizer. Have this person write down on a piece of paper “T” for truth and “L” for lie.
Each team member who holds a T slip needs to come up with a true statement, and each team member who holds an L slip needs to come up with a false statement.
The organizer will have each member make his or her statement. Group members should then examine the person making the statement closely.
Some argue that happiness coaches are a way for organizations to avoid solving real work problems—a diversion, if you will.
What factors do you think make some organizations ineffective at managing emotions?
What are values, why are they important, and what is the difference between terminal and instrumental values?
Do you think there is a contradiction between what employers want in employees (agreeable employees) and what employees actually do best.
What types of developmental experiences do you think would be especially valuable for introverted leaders?
What is attribution theory? What are the three determinants of attribution? What are its implications for explaining organizational behavior?