1. Activity - Perception and Individual Decision Making
Choose a film that you have seen recently, and which you particularly enjoyed. Now find a friend or colleague who has seen the same film, and who hated it.
Discuss your views of that particular film. What factors (age, sex, background, education, interest, values and beliefs, political views, past experience) can you identify that explain the differences in perception between you and your friend or colleague?
2. Activity - Motivation
Visit Great Place to Work UK website and take a look at the UK's 50 best places to work, as well as the 100 best workplaces in Europe.
Find out what these companies do to motivate their staff.
3. Activity - Group Behaviour and Team at Work
Please read the following case study from your prescribed textbook and answer the 3 questions at the end:
Case Study: "Why don't teams work like they're supposed to?"
4. Activity - Organisational Change
Answers the following questions:
1. Identify three to five sustaining innovations that have affected you over the past year.
2. Identify three to five disruptive innovations that have affected you. Did you welcome these innovations because they were Beneficial's, or did you have cause to complain?
5. Activity - Cultures
Based on your studies of Organisational Behaviour in the past Activities, explain whether interpersonal skills, motivation, group behaviour, leadership style, conflict management, structure, predominant leadership style, training and HRM practices are all culturally relative.