1.What is a social contract? What are the social obligations between organizations and employees and what are the implications of changing social responsibilities to employers as well as employees?

2.If you were asked to advise a private company about its EEO responsibilities, what two points would you emphasize as most important?

3.Which selection criteria (personal interview, employment test, assessment center) do you think would be most valuable for predicting effective job performance for a college professor? For an assemblyline worker in a manufacturing plant? Discuss

4.Describe how leadership is changing in todays organizations, including Level 5 leadership, servant leadership, and authentic leadership. Draw from your experiences and encounters you have with leaders in the past and evaluate their leadership.

5. Discuss how womens style of leading is typically different from mens. Research some women leaders. Name them and identify their brand of leadership. Why is it so hard to find women executives?

6.What leadership style do you most admire and what are the strengths and weaknesses in this leadership style.

7.In response to security threats in todays world, the U.S. government federalized airport security workers. Many argued that simply making screeners federal workers would not solve the root problem; bored, low-paid, and poorly trained security workers have little motivation to be vigilant. How might these employees be motivated to provide the security that travel threats now demand?

8.Would you rather work for a supervisor high in need for achievement, affiliation, or power? Why? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

9.If an experienced executive assistant discovered that she made the same amount of money as a newly hired janitor, how do you think she would react? What inputs and outcomes might she evaluate to make

Mike Boyle talks about establishing a work environment that motivates employees to do great work. List two or three specific ways Boyle has created this type of environment in his gyms, and explain how these actions empower the employees.

Co-founder Bob Hanson says that education is an important part of their approach to management. How does education relate to employee motivation and job enrichment?

The two trainers featured in the video seem very satisfied with their jobs. Use Maslows hierarchy of needs to explain why you think they feel the way they do.

Intermountain Healthcare is a very large organization with thousands of employees. List at least four methods it uses to communicate with employees. Why do you think this organization feels the need to use so many different methods to communicate?

In the video, Fritz Grohn says that communicating with patients as they are being released from the hospital is not always successful at first. Use this situation (a nurse discharging a patient from the hospital after a surgery or illness) to describe the communication model, and explain where the communication breaks down and why. How do Intermountains employees overcome this problem to successfully complete the communication process with patients?

3. How is Intermountain using technology to improve internal communication? Include at least two examples described in the video in your answer