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OB Ch Questions with complete solution OB Ch. 1 - Organizational Behavior and Opportunity Opportunities - Favorable times or changes for progress and advancement Change - One of

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OB Ch. 1 - Organizational Behavior and
Opportunity
Opportunities - Favorable times or changes for progress and advancement


Change - One of the biggest challenges - transformation or modification of an
organization and/or its stakeholders


Challenge - Call to competition, contest, or battle


Organizational Behavior - Study of individual behavior and group dynamics in
organizations.


Interdisciplinary influences on OB - -Psychology - science of human behavior
-Sociology - science of study
-Engineering - applied science of energy and matter
-Anthropology - Science of human learned behavior
-Management - overseeing activities and supervising people
-Medicine - Applied science of healing or treating diseases


Dynamics in Organizations - -Psychosocial
-Behavioral - Personal reactions
-Interpersonal - Dealing with other people


Organizational Variables that Affect Human Behavior - -Jobs
-Work Design - how the job's set up

, -Communication - verbal, nonverbal, written
-Performance Appraisal - reviews, grades, GPAs
-Organizational Design
-Organizational Structure - involves systems of how business is setup


Internal Perspective - -The SW in SWOT
-Looks at Workers' minds to understand behavior
-Focuses on thoughts, feelings, past experience, individual needs


External Perspective - -The OT in SWOT
-Focuses on factors outside the person to understand behavior
-Includes external events, consequences, and environmental forces
-PESTLE


PESTLE - -Example of external perspective factors
-P: Political (ex. how Hillary and Donald affect organizations)
-E: Economical (interest rates, unemployment, imports/exports)
-S: Social (social media, pop culture)
-T: Technological (phones, virtual reality, fitbits)
-L: Legal (Lochte, Clinton's emails, supreme court appt)
-E: Environmental (hurricane's effects, floods, bee extinction)


Reactions to Change - -Rigid and Reactive (works well in the face of gradual,
incremental change, but not with sudden significant change like Outsourcing)
-Open and Responsive (some people are more open and encouraging of
change - can't put off advancements)

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