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I have attached the discussions for each week which is weeks 1-8. For each week I ask that you answer each question in full with at least 150 words in length for each week. The required ebook for this class is An Overview of Organizational Behavior but can only be accessed through Mindtap-Centage Learning.
Week 1
Question A
Introduce yourself to the class by sharing your educational and employment
background. Why will learning about Organizational Behavior help you to get a
better job and a better career and be a better manager?
Question B
What roles do changing technologies play in your daily activities?
Read and respond to at least two other learners’ initial posts in a supportive and
appreciative manner, using this week’s assigned readings to support your
insights.
Week 2
Attitudes
Important: You must watch the W2 Now What? video in the ‘Required Excersises’ folder
in order to answer this discussion question.
Imagine meeting with an employee who has been working at Happy Time Toys
for a month and cannot yet meet the company’s goals. The employee tried hard
to perform well during the training session to look good compared to the other
new hires, but the others are doing a lot better on the job. The employee
communicates frustration about being unable to learn the new job.
Watch the Now What? video and discuss the following questions:
• What attitudes did the employee develop about his performance on the
job? How were they formed?
• What role do attributions play in how the employee responded to
challenges of learning to do his job? What role do attributions play in how
a manager might respond to a subordinate’s performance?
• In what ways does fairness influence how the subordinate responded to
the situations you viewed?
• What other solutions might you have suggested to address the situation?
Explain your answers using concepts from this week’s readings, and provide 1-2
examples to support your viewpoints that other learners will be able to assess
and debate within our weekly discussion forum.
Week 3
Does Money Increase Your Motivation?
Important: You must watch the W3 Now What? video in the ‘Required Excersises’ folder
in order to answer this discussion question.
Imagine that a coworker is complaining to you about being upset after learning that
another coworker is being paid more despite the complaining coworker being at the
company a year longer.
Watch the “Now What?†video and discuss the following questions:
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What role do rewards play in this situation? How do the surface and
symbolic values of the rewards influence what happens?
In chapter 5 we discussed equity theory. How do the concepts from equity
theory apply to this situation?
As a manager, what could you have done to better handle the situation?
Why would this be a better solution? Please provide 1-2 examples to
support your viewpoints that other learners will be able to assess and
debate within our weekly discussion forum.
Week 4
Time to Decide
Important: You must watch the W4 Now What? video in the ‘Required Excersises’ folder
in order to answer this discussion question.
Imagine being part of a group with three other coworkers trying to make a
decision about whether to discontinue funding an underperforming product. The
group has been working together on the product line for three years , but the
product is clearly a failure. When you start to question where the decision is
headed you are called disloyal and told to go with the team and give the product
more time . One of the team members calls for a final vote on the group’s
decision, which appears to be to continue funding a clearly awful and doomed-tofail product. Watch the “Now What?†video and discuss the following questions:
• Is this decision a programmed or non-programmed decision and what is
the basis for your answer?
• How is groupthink and stereotyping illustrated in these videos?
• Would a rational decision-making approach work? Why or why not
• As a manager, how else might you handle this situation? Please provide 1-2
examples to support your viewpoints that other learners will be able to
assess and debate within our weekly discussion forum.
Week 5
Conflict Resolution
Important: You must watch the W5 Now What? video in the ‘Required Excersises’ folder
in order to answer this discussion question.
Imagine being part of a team of two other coworkers experiencing negative task
conflict as they try to finalize the design of a new toy before an imminent
deadline. One team member is focused on making the toy of maximum quality
and the other is focused on the conflicting goal of making the toy at the lowest
cost. One of the team members is getting frustrated and feels that the team
should be making better progress. The coworker asks you if there is anything the
team can do to be more effective. Watch the “Now What?†video and answer the
following questions:
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What types of conflict is the team experiencing in the challenge video?
What aspects of the negotiation process would best resolve the conflict
and why would this work?
What conflict resolution behaviors would you use as a manager to address
this situation? Explain your answers and support your viewpoints based
upon your perception of the activity that other learners will be able to
assess and debate within our weekly discussion forum.
Week 6
Leadership
Do you believe that men and women differ in how they lead? If so, what are some
of the factors that might account for the differences? Please provide 1-2
examples to support your viewpoints that other learners will be able to assess
and debate within our weekly discussion forum.
Week 7
What is Your Type of Organizational Structure?
Please answer ALL of the following questions:
• How do you think your career path might differ in a hierarchical versus a
flat organization?
• If you started your own company selling iPhone applications, what
organizational structure would you create? Why?
• What would you do during a corporate restructuring to ensure that your
best employees did not leave? Please provide 1-2 examples to support
your viewpoints that other learners will be able to assess and debate
within our weekly discussion forum.
Week 8
The Need for Change
Please answer ALL of the following questions:
• When was the last time you decided to change a specific behavior (e.g.,
started to exercise, started a diet, or changed jobs)? How successful were
you in accomplishing the change?
• As a manager, what ethical difficulty might you face when asked to layoff
half of your employees in order to increase the organization’s long-term
chance of survival?
• Why do organizations use neuroscience to help them with the change
process? Please provide 1-2 examples to support your viewpoints that
other learners will be able to assess and debate within our weekly
discussion forum.
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