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Organizational Behavior And Management
How many of you were able to guess everything that was changed? What are some examples of changes that students made?LO.1
How many were not able to figure out what was changed? Why do you think you were not able to figure this out?LO.1
How does this exercise relate to change in organizations?LO.1
Has this situation occurred with any of the members in your group? What happened? What was the result?LO.1
Would you or wouldn’t you allow a prospective employer access to your social media account? Your private email account? Your personal photos? Where would you draw the line as to what you would
What factors would influence your decision?LO.1
Is this information useful to an employer? Why and why not? What impact might occur if you refused access to your potential employer?LO.1
What accounts do I need to review to see if they would pass the scrutiny of a future employer?LO.1
What is my ‘digital footprint’? What do I need to change? Should I be concerned?LO.1
How concerned are you that employers might make an important decision about you based on your ‘digital footprint’?LO.1
How accurate are these records? Do the private pictures you have posted represent who you might be as an employee?LO.1
Brainstorm a list of behaviors, attitudes, and skills that represent ‘professionalism’(e.g., professionalism is the skill of being a good listener or the attitude of having an open mind).LO.1
Next, rank order your list of behaviors, attitudes, and skills, and select your three most important.LO.1
For the three most important categories that you identified, provide an example of when you demonstrated these.LO.1
Are there any conditions at work where you would not need to demonstrate professionalism? (e.g., a conflict with a peer, a boss yells at you, a subordinate is chronically late?)? Why do you think
Generate a class list compiled from the three most important behaviors, attitudes, and skills.LO.1
What patterns do you notice in the class list?LO.1
How can the concept of professionalism lead to a better organizational climate?LO.1
What actions can organizations take to promote professionalism in employees?LO.1
When if at all does professionalism hold employees back from their best work?LO.1
What causes communication to breakdown?LO.1
As a class, brainstorm a list of rules that show good listening skills. (e.g., be patient and do not interrupt the speaker)LO.1
Differentiate between active listening and passive hearing.LO.1
Brainstorm a list of what constitutes effective feedback.LO.1
You are to divide up three roles and each take a role: 1) Observer to give feedback, 2) Active Listener, and 3) Communicator.LO.1
Take five minutes for the Communicator to provide to the Active Listener (follow the rules of active listening!) what they think on one of the topics listed below:• Whether political views should
After five minutes, the Active Listener will communicate back what she heard.the Observer, (following the rules of effective feedback!) will comment on the process.LO.1
Switch roles until everyone has had a turn playing all three roles.LO.1
Discuss:a. What did we learn about communication?b. What was it like to give feedback in this situation?c. How can this be applied in an organization?LO.1
Find others with the same musical preference. Have each person gather into one group by musical preference.LO.1
Do the members of my group surprise me? Was anyone by himself or herself?Could I have guessed who I would be grouped with in advance? Why? Why not?LO.1
Observe one of the other groups. What do you think their favorite music choice is? What perception do you have of people with different taste in music than you?Why do you think this?LO.1
How does this exercise relate to surface and deep level diversity?LO.1
Brainstorm a list of specific instances that people in the workplace should and should not tell the truth.LO.1
Compare your lists. What do you agree or disagree with?LO.1
Provide an example from your experience where someone told the truth and what the consequence was. Also, provide an example where someone did not tell the truth, and what the consequence was.LO.1
What are some potential consequences for truth and untruth?LO.1
What personal and situational factors should be considered when an employee decides whether or not to tell the truth?LO.1
What did each group conclude on telling the truth in the workplace?LO.1
(Optional). Draw a class decision tree that includes situational factors for truth telling choice and potential consequences.LO.1
Read the passage below.You are leading a mountain climbing expedition with a team of climbers who are relatively inexperienced in summiting high-altitude situations. You are paid to make sure they
Would you remain with your teammate on the mountain or descend the mountain and let him die?LO.1
Prepare a justification including the elements listed below in the example:a. What are the problems and benefits with each of the two choices?b. What are the underlying values associated with each of
Compare your individual reactions and resolution to the scenario.LO.1
What was similar and different in your ethical reasoning?LO.1
In your group, your instructor will select an organizational behavior topic for you to create a mindmap.LO.1
Start with the central topic that your instructor assigned by placing it in the middle of a circle. Draw a picture to represent this topic.LO.1
As a group, work together to create sub-topics as primary branches that flow from the central idea. Use symbols and pictures to represent these ideas.LO.1
Continue this process by creating secondary branches that attach to the primary branches. These secondary branches can contain examples or other subtopics that the group identifies as important.LO.1
When complete, post your mindmaps on the board.LO.1
Observe the different mindmaps created by classroom groups.LO.1
How did this process of mindmapping help students to think more deeply about an idea?LO.1
How do you see this process utilized in the workplace? In what types of situations do you think a mindmap could be applied?LO.1
Under what circumstances would I become a ‘whistleblower’? How important is it to me to point out wrongdoing in the workplace? Am I willing to suffer any personal consequences as a result?LO.1
Would I describe myself as a risk taker? Why or why not? In what areas of my life do I take risks and in what areas am I more cautious? Personal? Professional?How does risk-taking orientation connect
Under what circumstances would I encourage someone else to become a ‘whistleblower’?What argument would I make to encourage or discourage a colleague who might suffer personal consequences?LO.1
Compare your reflections to the questions you completed as individuals.LO.1
Would your answers differ if you had a group of colleagues who were willing to point out wrongdoing? Would it be easier or less risk as a group to engage in whistleblowing? or easier and less risk as
What organizational consequences exist if employees are afraid to voice concerns over wrongdoing? How could these consequences be minimized? What are some suggestions that organizations could
Devise a list of 10 ideas for how an organization can practice sustainability in the area of environmental sustainability.LO.1
Devise a list of 10 ideas for how an organization can practice sustainability in the area of social sustainability.LO.1
Sort your lists by ‘resource intensive’, ‘moderate resource needs’, ‘low resource needs.’ These categories are based on your initial guess as to how many resources it would take to
Present to the class your ideas. Was it difficult to find solutions that were low cost? Were there similar solutions across class groups?LO.1
What was the basis of your decision?LO.1
How did prior knowledge or experience influence your decision?LO.1
What specific criteria, if any, did you use to evaluate the candidates?LO.1
Can you ever be sure your decision was the correct one? How will you know if you made the correct decision?LO.1
Review both lists above. Select your top five values from each list and rank order them in terms of priority.LO.1
What experiences have you had that you think impacts the order of your values?Do you hold similar values to your family? To your friends? Colleagues? How do you know what other people value?LO.1
How will you connect your job with your values? How important is this?LO.1
How will you select your workplace based on a match between your values and the organization’s values? How can you know what an organization values before you work there?LO.1
Compare your value ranking with each member of this group. What similarities or differences do you note?LO.1
Discuss how your values have changed or remained the same over time. What degree of change have you seen in your values? Was this based on a specific experience? Why?LO.1
Compare your priorities around matching values with job and workplace. What similarities or differences do you note?LO.1
Why are values so important to understand in the workplace?LO.1
How can you know what an organization values? How is this different as an outsider to the organization, such as a job applicant as opposed to an employee inside the organization?LO.1
To award points; look at the ranking numbers that your instructor provides. The lowest score wins.LO.1
Compare your individual score with the team score.LO.1
Did you have a lower score as a group or as an individual member? Why do you think this happened?LO.1
What are the benefits of more people when deciding on information?LO.1
What are some of the problems associated with more people deciding on information?LO.1
Recognize the importance of internal, social, and organizational factors associated with motivation in organizations.LO.1
Compare motivation theories based on internal factors.LO.1
Identify theories based on social factors.LO.1
Describe how organizational factors, job characteristics, and managerial beliefs can impact motivation.LO.1
Apply the concepts of motivation to organizations.LO.1
How might you explain some of the demographic differences relative to motivation?(e.g. gender, age, etc.) Why do you think this?LO.1
How would you apply this research to your workplace? What should managers consider about motivation differences?LO.1
What experiences shaped you as a leader?LO.1
Where did you learn the most about leadership?LO.1
How do leaders use negotiation skills? What other skills do you think are important?LO.1
What experiences, specialized training, or education would you still like to participate in? Why?LO.1
What other information do you wish I had asked you about?LO.1
Take turns discussing the out of class conversations that you had.LO.1
What similarities do you notice? What differences do you notice? What surprised you in your discussions or in your classmates’ choice of leader?LO.1
What interesting insights came out of your group discussions?LO.1
What conclusions did you make about development of leadership?LO.1
What types of experiences or training and education seem to be useful?LO.1
Recognize the use of persuasion and discuss the different types ofpersuasion tactics.LO.1
Describe sources of social power and their origin.LO.1
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