Organizational Behaviour

27 Jun

Answer the following question.

Q1. Discuss three different criteria for ethical decision making.

Q2. Explain the three job redesign options.

Q3. Identify the five primary conflict-handling intentions, giving the title of each and the cooperative and assertiveness dimensions of each.

Q4. What are the different leadership styles?

Q5. Are workgroups and teams a help or a hindrance to the achievement of organizational goals?

Q6. Explain with Example Authority, Power and Influence.

Q7. Explain with Example Corporate Governance.

Q8. Define Conflict. What are the sources of organizational conflict? How do we solve interpersonal conflict?

Organizational Behavior

27 Jun

1. Discuss about the contemporary organizational challenges in Indian industrial scenario

2. What are the “Big Five” personality traits? Which one seems to have the biggest impact on performance? How would the knowledge of the Big Five help you in your job as manger?

3. Describe and critique ways in which organization’s typically evaluate an ‘intervention’; what would you suggest they do to improve their evaluation design and methods?

4. What type of barriers prevent people from changing their attitudes? How can attitudes be changed?

5. Can temporary workers develop relational contracts with the host organizaton? Provide an informed and constructively critical social psychological justification for your answer.

6. Is the term ‘psychological contract’ more useful as an explanatory construct or as a framework for understanding and managing the employment relationship? Defend your answer on theoretical, empirical and practical grounds.

7. Using theories from the organizational psychology literature, explore how a leader can best ensure their team achieves its goals.

8. Describe and explain the difference between culture and climate in both theoretical and practical terms? Use ‘safety management’ as your context for this discussion.

Organisational Behaviour

14 Jun

1. Why do we do what we do? Motivation is the word which explains why one individual is absorbed about a particular objective or action plan while the other one would be totally disoriented about it? Alia and Aarti are colleagues working in a software firm. Alia comes from a very affluent family and is she is very much involved in the workplace politics whereas Aarti comes from a very humble background and works really hard to achieve her aspirations. Aarti is always involved in her work and shrugs off any kind of political agenda. Discuss the given scenario of Alia and Aarti with the help of McClelland Needs Theory? Explain why both the colleagues so differently oriented

2. Karan and Sanjay are Team leaders of team A and B respectively. Karan is very open to feedback and does not let his perception rule his decision. He takes action based on facts and figures whereas Sanjay get carried away with his perception. Team A is very happy and motivated team which is clearly visible by their performance and just the reverse goes for team B. Sanjay takes aid from a self-help book where he reads about the managerial implications of perception. When he does a self-analysis he understood that all this while he was working totally under the influence of his perception. Sanjay decides to take a plunge and modify his behaviour. Discuss any three managerial implications of perception and what could have made Sanjay change his way of behaving? Discuss.

3. Deepak, Mohsin, Kiara and Kashyap have recently joined Infinity Infotech. In the first few days of Induction they are all made to form a group which will work on a project given by the management. Initially it went good for some time but after fifteen days rift could be seen between the group members. The management gave them a timeline for the completion of the project. They appointed Kiara as their leader and followed the norms set by the group. Within the given time frame by the management they completed the project and got appreciated for the same. After the completion of this project these four group members were again assigned a new group.

a. Explain the process for formation of a group in Infinity Infotech.

b. List down all the theories of group formation (all the theories need not to be discussed). Discuss the theory which you will the most apt in case of Infinity Infotech.