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Question

1. Money is a common method of motivating employees to perform certain behaviours. Unfortunately, you are a manager in an organization that cannot afford to pay employees more. If you had employees that were underperforming, how else could you extrinsically motivate your employees (i.e., you cannot pay employees more)?
2. Quokka Electronics has research and development operations in three locations across Canada. The company is planning to develop a new microprocessor, which involves exploring previously untested ideas and applying methods that have a high degree of complexity. This project would require a dozen researchers and technicians with diverse skills and knowledge and whose individual work would be highly interdependent with each other. Under these conditions, would you recommend a remote team or a conventional face-to-face team? Justify your choice.
3. Emotional contagion receives relatively little attention in organizational behaviour literature (it is mostly studied by psychologists), yet it is an important part of social interaction in the workplace. Define emotional contagion and identify two benefits of this phenomenon.
4. Experts have studied power in organizations for a long time. They mostly agree on five core sources of power as well as various contingencies that support or inhibit those power bases. Briefly describe the five power sources and the four contingencies of power discussed in this book.