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Research Work

Personality, Perception, and Attribution

1. What contributions can high self-monitors make in organizations? Low self-monitors?
2. How can managers improve their perceptual skills?
3. Which has the stronger impact on personality: heredity or environment? Please provide your reasoning.
4. How can managers make more accurate attributions?
5. How can managers encourage self-efficacy in employees?
6. How can self-serving bias and the fundamental attribution error be avoided?

Attitudes, Emotions, and Ethics

1. What jobs do you consider to be most satisfying? Why?

2. How can managers increase their employees' job satisfaction?

3. Suppose you have an employee whose lack of commitment is affecting others in the work group. How would you go about persuading the person to change this attitude?

4. What are the most important influences on an individual's perceptions of ethical behavior? Can organizations change these perceptions? If so, how?

5. How can managers encourage organizational citizenship?

Motivation at Work

1. What do you think are the most important motivational needs for the majority of people? Do you think your needs differ from those of most people?

2. If you were being inequitably paid in your job, which strategy do you think would be the most helpful to you in resolving the inequity? What tactics would you consider using?

3. What are the five categories of motivational needs as described by Maslow? Give an example of how each need can be satisfied.

4. What are the Theory X and Theory Y assumptions about people at work? How do they relate to the hierarchy of needs?

5. How do hygiene and motivation factors differ? What are the implications of the two-factor theory for managers?

6. How is inequity determined by a person in an organization? How can inequity be resolved if it exists?