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Over the past century, the average age of the workforce has continually increased as medical science continues to enhance longevity and vitality.
The great global recession has claimed many victims. In many countries, unemployment is at near-historic highs.
Executive offices in major corporations are often far removed from the day-to-day work that most employees perform.
Assume you’ve received another offer, this one from Hyde Associates. Like the Jekyll job, this position is on your chosen career path.
What starting salary will you give Gabriel? What salary represents the minimum offer you would accept? If these two numbers are different, why?
In the movie Wall Street, Michael Douglas’s character says, “Greed is good.” Is this true? How does this apply to Kozlowski?
Try to determine the various emotions projected and explain how you arrived at your conclusion.
Evaluate the emotional side of running the business. How do Ryan and McCulloch each deal with the stress of running the business?
Spend a day specifically looking for emotional cues in the people with whom you interact. Did this improve communication?
Let’s assume you have been offered a job by Jekyll Corporation, a company in the consumer products industry.
Talk to several managers you know and ask them what skills they think are most important in today’s workplace.
Why did they find these skills most important? What advice would they give a wouldbe manager about skills worth developing?
How might the differences in experience of students and instructors affect each of their perceptions of classroom behaviour.
Explain the attribution process that this person’s manager will use to form judgments about this employee’s job performance.
The next day he is calm and relaxed. Does this behaviour suggest that personality traits are not consistent from day to day?
Give some examples of situations where expressing emotions openly might improve job performance.
Describe a situation in which your perception turned out to be wrong. What perceptual errors did you make that might have caused this to happen?
Determine whether your “ideal” managers would have trouble managing in some dimensions of organizational demands.
What are the implications from this case for managing in future years when there may be a severe labour shortage?
In 32 countries around the world, General Motors (GM) produces approximately 20 000 cars and trucks each day.
Why do you think the subject of OB might be criticized as being “only common sense,” when we would rarely hear such a comment.
Consider a group situation in which you have worked. To what extent did the group rely on the technical skills of the group members vs. their interpersonal.
Identify some examples of “worst jobs.” What conditions of these jobs made them unpleasant?
Develop a list of “organizational puzzles,” that is, behaviour you have observed in organizations that seemed to make little sense.
“Behaviour is generally predictable, so there is no need to formally study OB.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why?