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Assignment: Management Business- Organizational Behaviour
Learning Outcomes:
1. Recognize the fundamental concepts, theories and principles, examine challenges of organizational behavior.
2. Describe management issues such as diversity, attitudes and job satisfaction, personality, and values in organizational behavior.
Textbook: Colquitt, J. A., LePine, J. A., & Wesson, M. J. (2021). Organizational behaviour: Improving performance and commitment in the workplace (7th ed). Burr Ridge, IL: McGraw-Hill Irwin.
Task
Part 1: Case Study
Read the case "PWC" from Chapter 3 "Organizational Commitment"Page: - 83given in your textbook - Organizational behaviour: Improving performance and commitment in the workplace (7th ed). by Colquitt, J. A., LePine, J. A., & Wesson, M. J. (2021) and Answer the following Questions:
Question(s):
Question A. Compare the findings described above for Millennials to your own views on Millennial characteristics. What surprises you about the findings? What doesn't surprise you? (Minimum 250 words)
Question B. If you think about the three types of commitment-affective, continuance, and normative- which do you think is most changed among Millennials (or twenty-somethings)? In what way? (Minimum 250 words)
Question C. Consider all the initiatives and programs PwC uses to inspire employee loyalty. Do most of those seek to "move the needle" on affective commitment, continuance commitment, or normative commitment? (Minimum 250 words)
Part 2: Critical Thinking
Reading required: - Read Chapter 1, 2 and 4 carefully and then answer the following questions based on your understanding.
Question A. Create a list of the most successful companies that you can think of. What do these companies have that others don't? Are the things that those companies possess rare and inimitable (see Figure 1-2)? What makes those things difficult to copy? Chapter-1. (Minimum 300 words)
Question B. Describe a job in which citizenship behaviors would be especially critical to an organization's functioning, and one in which citizenship behaviors would be less critical. What is it about a job that makes citizenship more important? Chapter-2 (Minimum 300 words)
Question C. What steps can organizations take to improve promotion satisfaction, supervision satisfaction, and coworker satisfaction? Chapter-4 (Minimum 300 words)