This document outlines an individual assignment for an organizational behavior graduate program course that accounts for 40% of the grade. The assignment requires students to write summaries and discussions on 12 topics related to organizational behavior, including the importance and historical development of the field, contributions from related disciplines, attitudes, group formation, values, reinforcement versus punishment, work teams versus groups, learning theories, motivation, and organizational commitment. Students must discuss each topic in detail and identify relevant concepts, with the goal of demonstrating their understanding of key organizational behavior principles and their implications for management.
This document outlines an individual assignment for an organizational behavior graduate program course that accounts for 40% of the grade. The assignment requires students to write summaries and discussions on 12 topics related to organizational behavior, including the importance and historical development of the field, contributions from related disciplines, attitudes, group formation, values, reinforcement versus punishment, work teams versus groups, learning theories, motivation, and organizational commitment. Students must discuss each topic in detail and identify relevant concepts, with the goal of demonstrating their understanding of key organizational behavior principles and their implications for management.
This document outlines an individual assignment for an organizational behavior graduate program course that accounts for 40% of the grade. The assignment requires students to write summaries and discussions on 12 topics related to organizational behavior, including the importance and historical development of the field, contributions from related disciplines, attitudes, group formation, values, reinforcement versus punishment, work teams versus groups, learning theories, motivation, and organizational commitment. Students must discuss each topic in detail and identify relevant concepts, with the goal of demonstrating their understanding of key organizational behavior principles and their implications for management.
This document outlines an individual assignment for an organizational behavior graduate program course that accounts for 40% of the grade. The assignment requires students to write summaries and discussions on 12 topics related to organizational behavior, including the importance and historical development of the field, contributions from related disciplines, attitudes, group formation, values, reinforcement versus punishment, work teams versus groups, learning theories, motivation, and organizational commitment. Students must discuss each topic in detail and identify relevant concepts, with the goal of demonstrating their understanding of key organizational behavior principles and their implications for management.
1. Write relevance and importance of organizational behavior for managers.
2. Discuss in detail about historical development of organizational behavior. 3. Organizational behavior is an interdisciplinary field of study originated from the other behavioral sciences such as psychology, social psychology, sociology, social anthropology and political science. Based on this premise, discuss in detail the contributions from these fields of studies for development of OB. 4. Summary nature, relevance and implications of a) perception and attribution, b) personality, c) work attitude 5. Borufen frequently talks about the talent and persistence of Ali Birra, a famous Ethiopian Artist. Borufen likes and admires the artist, as well as he dresses shirts having the artist’s picture or name. identify A. Cognitive component of attitude B. Affective/evaluative component of attitude C. Behavioral of attitude. 6. Discuss stages of group formation and properties of group. 7. Write importance of values and differentiate between instrumental and terminal values. 8. Compare and contrast reinforcement and punishment in terms of a. Purpose b. Their type 9. Differentiate between work team and work group. Which one is getting more attention nowadays? Why? 10. Discuss how learning differs from the other behavioral changes, about theories of learning and their managerial implications. 11. Define motivation in your own words; identify keys elements of motivation and discuss managerial implications of motivation. 12. What do you organizational commitment and elaborate components/dimensions of organizational behavior.