Organizational Behavior

Instructions: Answer any THREE of the questions below using complete sentences and paying particular attention to spelling, grammar, and general clarity. Upload all questions as a document with your name, ID, and today's date.

QUESTION ONE

a.      There are multiple sources of stress in the workplace and these can be categorized as environmental, organizational and personal.

Explain how these three categories of potential stressors can all create stress in the workplace, though in different ways.       (15 pts.) 

b.     Consequences of stress can come in the form of three categories of  symptoms : physiological, psychological and behavioural.

Discuss how specific circumstances or conditions in the workplace can affect an employee in these three ways, and how this can negatively affect the organization as a whole. (20 pts.)

 

QUESTION TWO

Describe the organizational culture that seems to exist at the University of the Bahamas. Be specific and thorough. Include (but do not limit your discussion to) some of the implicit and explicit norms, values and assumptions of faculty, staff, administration and students.

(35 pts.)

QUESTION THREE

a.      How do job satisfaction, job involvement, deviant workplace behaviour and organizational commitment differ from each other?  (20 pts.)

b.     Select any three of the items in ‘a’ above and explain how each can, for good or bad, affect performance/productivity? (15 pts.)

 

QUESTION FOUR

What is/are the purpose(s) of the socialization process in organizations?

Create a realistic, specific and detailed account of the entire  socialization process  in an organization.       (35 pts.)

 

 

QUESTION FIVE

a.      Describe any THREE  functions  of communication and explain the importance of each one in the workplace.  (15 pts.)

 

b.     Identify any TWO  power tactics  and explain how each can influence the behaviour of others in the workplace.  (20 pts.)