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Organizational Behavior Assignment Questions - PSHA/PS 375 - Prof. Lawrence Erwin, Study notes of Organization Behaviour

Assignment questions for an organizational behavior course (psha/ps 375) divided into five parts. The questions cover various topics from different chapters of the textbook, including perception, organizational design, organizational culture, power, and change. Each question requires a thorough understanding of the related chapter to provide accurate answers.

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Term Assignment
Assignment One PSHA/PS 375, Organizational Behavior Assistant Professor Dave Erwin Distance learning
assignment number one of five. Please answer the following questions, and submit your answers in accordance with
the directions given in the Blackboard course site. The questions in this assignment, number one of five, address
issues found in chapter 5 of our text, and all can be answered based on a reading of the appropriate section of the
text.
1) Define perception
2) What are the three general factors that influence the perception process?
3) What is figure - ground separation?
4) What is a schema?
5) What are the six common kinds of perceptual distortions?
6) Define impression management
7) During which stage(s) of the perception process should managers engage in distortion management?
8) Concerning attribution theory, define the fundamental attribution error, and self - serving bias ?
9) In the United States, which cause, internal or external, is more likely to be overemphasized, and which is
more likely to be underemphasized?
10) What are the general organizational outcomes of an overemphasis on internal causes?
Assignment Two PSHA/PS 375, Organizational Behavior Assistant Professor Dave Erwin Distance learning
assignment number two of five. Please answer the following questions, and submit your answers in accordance with
the directions given in our Blackboard course site. The questions in this assignment, number two of five, address
issues found in chapter 12 of our text, and all can be answered based on a reading of the appropriate section of the
text.
1. Chapter 12 mentions the 'dualistic notion of strategy' noted in chapter 11. What are those two notions
of strategy?
2. What are the two aspects of the process of co-evolution?
3. Define organizational design, and list the factors upon which the choice of an organizational design
is contingent.
4. In James Thompson's view of technology, an automobile assembly line represents which of his three
classifications of technology?
5. From her studies, Joan Woodward came to what conclusion concerning the combination of structure and
technology?
6. Adhocracy, as a design, is particularly useful when a firm is faced with what two "sticky" problems?
7. What three changes took place in information technology with the adoption of WINTEL?
8. Why is understanding the environment important to organizations, as open systems?
9. What are the three main factors in the environment that define the nature of environmental complexity?
10. Define organizational learning.
11. Why is mimicry important to a new firm?
12. What are: experience, vicarious learning, and individual social learning?
13. Describe the characteristics that identify a firm in a deficit cycle, and a firm in a benefit cycle.
14. What is organizational inertia?
Assignment Three PSHA/PS 375, Organizational Behavior Assistant Professor Dave Erwin Distance learning
assignment number three of five. Please answer the following questions, and submit your answers in accordance
with the directions given in the Blackboard course site. The questions in this assignment, number three of five,
address issues found in chapter 13 of our text, and all can be answered based on a reading of the appropriate
section of the text.
1. Define organizational (or corporate) culture.
2. Briefly describe (one or two sentences) external adaptation and internal integration.
3. Define dominant culture, subculture, and counterculture.
4. According to Taylor Cox, what are the five steps for developing a multicultural organization?
5. Define the three levels of cultural analysis, and give organizational examples of each.
6. What is management philosophy?
7. In what three ways does a well-developed management philosophy link strategy to a more basic understanding
of how the firm is to operate?
8. After carefully reading pages 226 - 232, beginning with "continuous cultural development", answer the following:
What is organizational development(OD)?
OD is guided by principles operating in which levels of the organization?
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 Term Assignment

Assignment One PSHA/PS 375, Organizational Behavior Assistant Professor Dave Erwin Distance learning assignment number one of five. Please answer the following questions, and submit your answers in accordance with the directions given in the Blackboard course site. The questions in this assignment, number one of five, address issues found in chapter 5 of our text, and all can be answered based on a reading of the appropriate section of the text.

  1. Define perception
  2. What are the three general factors that influence the perception process?
  3. What is figure - ground separation?
  4. What is a schema?
  5. What are the six common kinds of perceptual distortions?
  6. Define impression management
  7. During which stage(s) of the perception process should managers engage in distortion management?
  8. Concerning attribution theory, define the fundamental attribution error, and self - serving bias?
  9. In the United States, which cause, internal or external, is more likely to be overemphasized, and which is more likely to be underemphasized?
  10. What are the general organizational outcomes of an overemphasis on internal causes? Assignment Two PSHA/PS 375, Organizational Behavior Assistant Professor Dave Erwin Distance learning assignment number two of five. Please answer the following questions, and submit your answers in accordance with the directions given in our Blackboard course site. The questions in this assignment, number two of five, address issues found in chapter 12 of our text, and all can be answered based on a reading of the appropriate section of the text.
  1. Chapter 12 mentions the 'dualistic notion of strategy' noted in chapter 11. What are those two notions of strategy?
  2. What are the two aspects of the process of co-evolution?
  3. Define organizational design, and list the factors upon which the choice of an organizational design is contingent.
  4. In James Thompson's view of technology, an automobile assembly line represents which of his three classifications of technology?
  5. From her studies, Joan Woodward came to what conclusion concerning the combination of structure and technology?
  6. Adhocracy, as a design, is particularly useful when a firm is faced with what two "sticky" problems?
  7. What three changes took place in information technology with the adoption of WINTEL?
  8. Why is understanding the environment important to organizations, as open systems?
  9. What are the three main factors in the environment that define the nature of environmental complexity?
  10. Define organizational learning.
  11. Why is mimicry important to a new firm?
  12. What are: experience, vicarious learning, and individual social learning?
  13. Describe the characteristics that identify a firm in a deficit cycle, and a firm in a benefit cycle.
  14. What is organizational inertia? Assignment Three PSHA/PS 375, Organizational Behavior Assistant Professor Dave Erwin Distance learning assignment number three of five. Please answer the following questions, and submit your answers in accordance with the directions given in the Blackboard course site. The questions in this assignment, number three of five, address issues found in chapter 13 of our text, and all can be answered based on a reading of the appropriate section of the text.
  15. Define organizational (or corporate) culture.
  16. Briefly describe (one or two sentences) external adaptation and internal integration.
  17. Define dominant culture, subculture, and counterculture.
  18. According to Taylor Cox, what are the five steps for developing a multicultural organization?
  19. Define the three levels of cultural analysis, and give organizational examples of each.
  20. What is management philosophy?
  21. In what three ways does a well-developed management philosophy link strategy to a more basic understanding of how the firm is to operate?
  22. After carefully reading pages 226 - 232, beginning with "continuous cultural development", answer the following: What is organizational development(OD)? OD is guided by principles operating in which levels of the organization?

What are organizational development interventions?

  1. What is involved in team building, and what are the key elements of team building? Assignment Four PSHA/PS 375, Organizational Behavior Assistant Professor Dave Erwin Distance learning assignment number four of five. Please answer the following questions, and submit your answers in accordance with the directions given in Blackboard course site. The questions in this assignment, number four of five, address issues found in chapter 15 of our text, and all can be answered based on a reading of the appropriate section of the text.
  2. Define Power, in organizational behavior (OB) terms
  3. Briefly describe each of the six popular bases of position power
  4. " " " " " three bases of personal power
  5. What are the ways managers attempt to increase the visibility of their job performance
  6. What are the most common strategies for exercising relational influence?
  7. The results of the Stanley Milgram experiments indicate what, concerning the willingness of individuals to comply and be obedient?
  8. Chester Barnard argued that subordinates accept or follow a directive from the boss only under what special circumstances?
  9. What is a "zone of indifference"
  10. Define empowerment; how does empowerment differ from the traditional "power"?
  11. Describe each of the two traditions of organizational politics.
  12. What are the techniques that managers and employess use to redirect responsibility
  13. Define resource dependency, and describe the circumstances under which the resource dependency of an organization increases.
  14. What are the criteria that must be satisfied to support the Cavanaugh, Moberg, and Velasquez argument that organizational governance should have an ethical base?
  15. What are the common rationalizations used by employees and CEOs to justify unethical behavior Assignment Five PSHA/PS 375, Organizational Behavior Assistant Professor Dave Erwin Distance learning assignment number five of five. Please answer the following questions, and submit your answers in accordance with the directions given in the Blackboard course site. The questions in this assignment, number five of five, address issues found in chapter 19 of our text, and all can be answered based on a reading of the appropriate section of the text.
  16. Distinguish between radical change and incremental change.
  17. Where are the forces for change found in organizations?
  18. Kurt Lewin recommends that change be viewed as occurring in three phases. Describe those phases.
  19. Describe the three planned change strategies.
  20. What are the characteristics of resistance to change itself, change strategy, and the change agent?
  21. Concerning how to deal with resistance to change, contrast education and communication with explicit or implicit coercion.
  22. Define innovation in organizations, and describe the difference in process and product innovation
  23. Concerning work related stressors, contrast role ambiguity and role conflict.
  24. What are the common health problems associated with stress?
  25. Concerning positive work environments, according to Jeffrey Pfeffer, what "separates you from your competitors"?