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Questions and Answers of Organizational Behavior

How do individual differences and organizational constraints influence decision making?
What are the three ethical decision criteria, and how do they differ?
What are the three key elements of motivation?
State funding of many schools has decreased dramatically over the years, increasing pressure on administrators to generate revenue through tuition increases and other means. How might this pressure
How does the executive compensation issue relate to equity theory? Who do you think should be the referent others in these equity judgments? What are the relevant inputs for top executives?
Can you think of procedural justice implications related to the ways pay policies for top executives have been instituted? Do these pay-making decisions follow the procedural justice principles
Are there any positive motivational consequences of tying compensation pay closely to firm performance?
Should organizations be concerned about their employees being sleep-deprived? What factors influencing sleep might be more or less under the control of an organization?
How might reinforcement theory play a role in the extent to which employees are sleep-deprived?
What are the early theories of motivation? How applicable are they today?
How might sleep deprivation influence aspects of expectancy theory? How might the incorporation of “nap rooms” for sleep-deprived employees influence aspects of equity theory?
How do the predications of self-determination theory apply to intrinsic and extrinsic rewards?
What are the implications of employee job engagement for management?
What are the key principles of goal-setting theory, self-efficacy theory, and reinforcement theory?
How is organizational justice a refinement of expectancy theory?
What are the key tenets of expectancy theory?
What are some contemporary theories of motivation, and how do they compare to one another?
What is the job characteristics model? How does it motivate employees?
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?
What are the three alternative work arrangements of flextime, job sharing, and telecommuting? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
What are employee involvement programs? How might they increase employee motivation?
What is variable pay? What are the variable-pay programs that are used to motivate employees? What are their advantages and disadvantages?
How can flexible benefits motivate employees?
Define group. What are the different types of groups?
What are the five stages of group development?
Do group members have an ethical responsibility to report shirkers to leadership? If you were working on a group project for a class and a group member was social loafing, would you communicate this
Do you think social loafing is always shirking (failing to live up to your responsibilities)? Are there times when shirking is ethical or even justified?
Social loafing has been found to be higher in Western, more individualist nations than in other countries. Do you think this means we should tolerate shirking on the part of U.S. students and workers
Do role requirements change in different situations? If so, how?
Some research suggests herd behavior increases as the size of the group increases. Why do you think this might be the case?
How do group norms and status influence an individual’s behavior?
How does group size affect performance?
What are the advantages and limitations of cohesive groups?
What are the implications of diversity for group effectiveness?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of group (versus individual) decision making?
How effective are interacting, brainstorming, nominal, and electronic meeting groups?
How do you explain the growing popularity of teams in organizations?
Imagine you are leading a team meeting and you notice that a couple of team members are not contributing. What specific steps might you take to try to increase their contributions?
If you calculate the person-hours devoted to IBM’s team projects, they amount to more than 180,000 hours of management time each year. Do you think this is a wise investment of IBM’s human
Multicultural project teams often face problems with communication, expectations, and values. How do you think some of these challenges can be overcome?
What is the difference between a group and a team?
What are the five types of teams?
What conditions or context factors determine whether teams are effective?
How can organizations create team players?
When is work performed by individuals preferred over work performed by teams?
What are the primary functions of the communication process in organizations?
Do you think organizations need to have a social media presence today? Are the drawbacks sufficient to make you think it’s better for them to avoid certain media?
What features would you look for in a social media outlet? What types of information would you avoid making part of your social media strategy?
What are the key parts of the communication process, and how do you distinguish formal and informal communication?
What are the differences among downward, upward, and lateral communication?
What are the differences between formal small group networks and the grapevine?
What are the methods of oral, written, and nonverbal communication?
How does channel richness underlie the choice of communication channel?
What is the difference between automatic and controlled processing of persuasive messages?
What are some common barriers to effective communication?
What unique problems underlie cross-cultural communication?
Are leadership and management different from one another? If so, how?
Do you think it is ethical for a leader to go undercover in his or her organization? Why or why not?
Do you think leaders who work undercover are really changed as a result of their experiences?
Would you support a government program that gave companies incentives to send leaders undercover?
Do you think leaders in military contexts exhibit the same qualities as organizational leaders? Why or why not?
In what ways not mentioned in the case would military leadership lessons not apply in the private sector? What might military leaders have to relearn to work in business?
What are some potential negatives of using Buckingham’s approach to leadership development?
What is the difference between trait and behavioral theories? Are those theories valid?
What are the main limitations of behavioral theories of leadership?
What is Fiedler’s contingency model? Has it been supported in research?
How do charismatic and transformational leadership compare and contrast? Are they valid?
What is authentic leadership? Why do ethics and trust matter to leadership?
How is mentoring valuable to leadership? What are the keys to effective mentoring?
How can organizations select and develop effective leaders?
Each group is to identify its defining characteristics, not simply by brainstorming, but by deciding upon descriptors that most of the group agrees are defining characteristics.
What is power? How is leadership different from power?
If you were Samantha Parks, how would you prioritize which projects or parts of projects to delegate?
In explaining what makes her decisions hard, Parks said, “I hire good people, creative people, to run these projects, and I worry that they will see my oversight and authority as interfering with
Should Barry complain about his treatment? To whom? If he did complain, what power tactics should Barry use?
What are the similarities and differences among the five bases of power?
What is the role of dependence in power relationships?
What are the nine most often identified power or influence tactics and their contingencies?
What is the connection between sexual harassment about the abuse of power?
What are the causes and consequences of political behavior?
What are some examples of impression management techniques?
What standards can you use to determine whether a political action is ethical?
What are the differences between the traditional and interactionist views of conflict?
How could you ensure sufficient discussion of contentious issues in a work group? How can managers bring unspoken conflicts into the open without making them worse?
If unions have negotiated unreasonable agreements, what responsibility does management or the administration bear for agreeing to these terms? Why do you think they do agree?
What are the three types of conflict and the three loci of conflict?
What are the steps of the conflict process?
What are the differences between distributive and integrative bargaining?
How do individual differences influence negotiations?
What are the roles and functions of third-party negotiations?
If the human resource manager coached the applicant to request a higher salary, did the coaching work against the interests of the organization? What was the responsibility of the human resource
What are the six key elements that define an organization’s structure?
Do you think the roles of CEO and chairperson of the board of directors should always be separate? Why or why not?
Why do you think a company like Apple is able to be creative with a strongly hierarchical structure, whereas other companies find hierarchy limiting?
What organizational structure would you suggest to effectively tie in Boeing’s managers and suppliers abroad? Sketch your ideas. (Goals for managers might include facilitating teams, coordinating
What do you think McNerney should do as an overall scheme?
What is a bureaucracy, and how does it differ from a simple structure?
What is a matrix organization?
What are the characteristics of a virtual organization?
How can managers create a boundaryless organization?

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