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Chapter 1 - IntroductionWhat will be your future?
- Manager
o Planning consult your employees
o Controlling monitor and supervise and evaluate
o Organizing need of overall view of every task to be able to
coordinate and the expertise of the employees
o Leading leading skills
- Consultant
o Research research skills
o Interim management planning, controlling, organizing,
leading
o Project management insight in group functioning
o Supervising organization change insight in the
organizational system, groups and teams, individual behaviour
o Benchmarking communication skills
- Financial advisor
o Knowledge in stocks/stock development how do stock
prices increase/decrease
o Statistical knowledge
o Budget knowledge bargaining – group behaviour/individual
behaviour
o Benchmarking examine reward systems translate it to your
particular organization
o You might have a leading position leading skills
- Researcher
o Choose a research topic what will be your expertise?
o Statistical knowledge
o Knowledge of the research field
o Intrinsic motivation is an absolute must
o The actual research qualitative, quantitative, experiment
o Contact in the research field (conferences) communication
skills
o Teamwork knowledge of groups and teams
Changing environment
- Globalization
o More foreign assignments
o Working with people from different cultures
o Movement of jobs to low-cost labour countries
o Workforce diversity
- Innovation
- Increased use of employee rotation
- Networks
- Ethical behaviour
OB field
,Individual
- Discipline psychology
- Examples learning, motivation, job satisfaction, work stress,
training
Group
- Disciplines social psychology, sociology
- Examples group processes, conflict
Organization
- Disciplines sociology, anthropology
- Examples organizational culture, cross-cultural analysis
Chapter 4 – Personality factors
Personality & Work values
Variables, relationships & models
- Independent variable Dependent variable
- Explanatory variable Response variable
- Exogenous variable Endogenous variable
OB issues at 3 levels
1. Individual
- Personality
- Perception, emotions
- Decision making
- Job attitudes, motivation
2. Group
- Leadership
- Group dynamics
- Groups vs. teams
3. Organization
- Change
- Culture
- Structure
- Power & conflict
Organizational (= human!). Behaviour in the workplace
Personality = sum total of ways in which an individual reacts to and
interacts with others, heredity (genes) = factors determine at
conception; one’s biological, physiological, and inherent psychological
makeup > environment.
Personality traits = enduring characteristics that describe an
individual’s behaviour. Does personality matter?
- Motivation
- Values
- Decision making
- Organizations culture
- Way of doing business
Can personality be ‘’easily measured’’?
- ‘’God gave all the easy (measurement) problems to the physicist’’
- Measurement instruments often problematic
, - Self-reports: mood, impression, management …………
Personality measurement: MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)
- Attitude; introvert (I), extrovert (E)
- Information gathering; intuition (N), sensing (S)
- Decision-making; thinking (T), feeling (F)
- Structure orientation; judging (J), perceiving (P)
The big 5 personality model = a personality assessment model that
taps five basic dimensions
1. Conscientiousness = a personality dimension that describes
someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized
2. Emotional stability = a personality dimension someone that
describes someone as calm, self-confident, and secure (positive)
versus nervous, depressed, and insecure (negative)
3. Extraversion = a personality dimension describing someone who is
sociable, gregarious, and assertive
4. Openness to experience = a personality dimension that
characterizes someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and
curiosity
5. Agreeableness = a personality dimension that describes someone
who is good natured, cooperative, and trusting
Other personality traits relevant for OB
- Machiavellianism = ends justify all means
- Narcissism = it’s all about me
- Psychopathy = lack of concern for others, lack of guilt or remorse
- Positive/negative core self-evaluations
- Self-monitoring = degree of adjustment to external, situational
factors
- Proactive personality
Values = basic convictions that specific mode of conduct or end-state of
existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse
mode of conduct or end-state of existence
- What is right, good, desirable,
preferable
- Relatively stable and enduring
- Vary among groups
- Influence our perception
- Linked to personality
Instrumental values What would you like to accomplish?
Terminal values How will you accomplish your goals?
Situation strength theory = a theory indicating that the way
personality translates into behaviour depends on the strength of the
situation
Trait Activation Theory (TAT) = a theory that predicts that some
situations, events, or interventions ‘’activate’’ a trait more than others
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