Read the following questions and cases thoroughly and answer appropriately.
1. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator and the Big Five personality model. Discuss the times or situations when each framework is appropriate and not appropriate.
2. Discuss in detail the outcomes of job satisfaction and how an organization ensure that these outcomes can occur. Is it possible in all industries?
CASE STUDY 1: THE DEMOTIVATION OF CEO PAY
QUESTIONS -
1-1. What do you think is the ideal ratio? What is your rationale in determining that ratio? Why might the ideal vary from country to country?
1-2. How does the executive compensation issue relate to equity theory? How should we determine what is a "fair" level of pay for top executives?
1-3. The study found that participants thought ¬performance should be essential or very -important in deciding pay. What might be the positive motivational consequences for average employees if CEO pay is tied to performance?
CASE STUDY 2: THE SLEEPINESS EPIDEMIC
QUESTIONS
2-1. Should organizations be concerned about the sleepiness of their employees? What factors influencing sleep might be more or less under the control of an organization?
2-2. How might sleep deprivation demonstrate aspects of expectancy theory? How might the incorporation of "nap rooms" for sleep-deprived employees demonstrate aspects of equity theory?
2-3. If you were a manager who noticed your employees were sleep-deprived, what steps might you take to help them? What theories of motivation could you use to help them?
CASE 3: HOW BARBIE LOST THE WAR AGAINST THE BRATZ DOLL
QUESTIONS
3-1. Why were Mattel's managers so slow to change their decision making about the design of the Barbie doll over time? What kinds of cognitive errors or biases may have contributed to this?
3-2. What kinds of factors affected the way managers at both Mattel and MGA made their decisions over time during their battle over control for the Bratz dolls?
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