Organizational Behavior 13th Edition

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Organizational Behavior 13th edition:

Robbins, S., Judge, T.

1. What is organizational behavior (OB) and how does OB differ from previous approaches to organizations (for example, Fayol’s management functions or Luthans’ effective versus successful manager studies)? How can we leverage what we learn about OB in order to make others, ourselves, and our organizations more successful?

2. What are the four disciplines that contribute to the field of OB? How does each of these fields contribute to what we study and what we know about OB and at what level of analysis (i.e., individual, group, or organization) does each field operate on?

3. What are the main challenges and opportunities to OB?

4. What are the main dependent variables that OB examines and how do these relate to individual and organizational success?

5. What does it mean to have ability, what are the main types of abilities, and how do these abilities relate to performance at a given task?

6. What is learning and what are the three main learning theories discussed in the text? Provide some detail about each theory.

7. What are the four main methods of shaping behavior and how do these differ from each other? Please pay special attention to the true definition of negative reinforcement and how it differs from punishment.

8. What are attitudes and what are the main components of attitudes? What are the major job-related attitudes and how do we differ from others relative to what factors influence these attitudes? For example, in the exercise on job satisfaction, why did our responses differ from the survey conducted by the SHRM group (see writing assignment 2)?

9. What is personality and what factors influence one’s personality? What is the “Big Five” personality model, what five factors are present in the “Big Five”, and how have these factors been associated with positive outcomes in the workplace?

10. What are values and how do values...