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Assignment: Worker Well Being Increasing Levis Costs- Organizational Behavior
Learning Outcomes:
A. Recognize the fundamental concepts, theories and principles, examine challenges of organizational behavior.
B. 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.
Case: LEVI'S
Read the case "LEVI'S " from Chapter 1"What is organizational Behaviour"Page: - 23given in your textbook - Organizational behavior: 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:
Task
I. Initiatives like Improving Worker Well-Being could increase Levi's costs in a number of different respects. Shouldn't that harm the profitability of the company? (Min words 150 to 200)
II. What are the potential strengths of a bottom-up approach to supplier improvement for a large company like Levi's? Would be the advantages to a more top-down approach? (Min words 150 to 200)
III. How exactly should Harvard's School of Public Health go about studying the effects of the Improving Worker Wellbeing initiative? What would an ideal study look like? (Min words 200)
Read Chapter 2 and 3 "Job Performance ---Organizational Commitment" carefully and then give your answers based on your understanding.
IV. 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? (Min words 200 to 300)
V. Can you think of reasons the increased diversity of the workforce might actually increase organizational commitment? Why? Which of the three types of commitment might explain that sort of result? (Min words 150 to 200)