Q NO. 1 (A) == TRACE THE GENESIS OF THE CONCEPT OF ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR.. ANSWER== 1.1 INTRODUCTION In a simple term organisational behaviour refers to the behaviour of persons in an organisation. Everybody wants to understand others behaviour. Understanding others behaviour help the persons to influence them. As you must be aware that human behaviour is guided by the internal and external forces. The analysis of these forces provides an insight for understanding the behaviour. Moreover
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CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR Consumer Behaviour is a diverse field that combines psychology‚ marketing and sociology to study the behaviour of consumers. ADVERTISING AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR-: In markets where consumers have many choices‚ advertising can influence the consumer’s choice. Advertising plays a major role to influence consumer’s mind-set and purchasing decision. MEMORY-: Memory is an active‚ constructive process where information is acquired‚ stored and then retrieved for use in decision-making
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When a private action has side effects that affect other people in important ways‚ we have the problem of externalities. In the absence of any distortions‚ competitive equilibrium is efficient. Distortions prevent the ‘invisible hand’ from allocating resources efficiently. Externalities are one of these distortions that lead to market failure. The problem arises because there is no market for things like noise. Hence markets and prices cannot ensure that the marginal benefit you get from making a
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How might we best explain crowd behaviour? (2013 Exam Question) People are likely to act in bizarre ways in a crowd compared to as an individual. A crowd can be defined as a set of individuals who share a common social identification of themselves in terms of that crowd. Crowd members should also share common goals and act in a coherent member (Reicher‚ 2008). There have been extensive amounts of research into crowd psychology‚ investigating the apparent causes and reasons for such behaviour to
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Assignment 1 Arlene Miller Professor Fitzpatrick Compensation Management – BUS 409 October 30‚ 2011 Describe the three main goals of compensation departments. The compensation department’s main goals are: internal consistency‚ market competitiveness‚ and recognition of individual contribution. Internal consistency compensation defines the value of each job among all jobs in a company. This represents the hierarchy of the set of jobs. Companies use a simple but fundamental principle for building
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CASE I A DIAMOND PERSONALITY 1. What factors do you think attributed to Suraj bhai’s success? Was he merely ``in the right place at the right time’’‚ or are there characteristics about him that contribute to his success? Answer In the beginning of the story‚ it seems that he was not at the right place at the right time. However‚ when he had got into the diamond market‚ which was a new thing for him‚ he might have not looked back instead he went onto make his time a right time and place
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The development of our identity is strongly influenced by socialisation. The environment and people around us form our lifestyles and create who we are and the values that we grow up to learn and accept. Family‚ peers and location are the some of the socialisation factors that influence an individual’s identity. There have been two particular theories which show the impact that socialisation has on identity. Jean Piaget based a theory around the cognitive development of a child up to adulthood. Abraham
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SUBJECT OUTLINE 21875 Organisational Behaviour in Practice Course area Delivery Result type UTS: Business Autumn 2013; City Grade and marks Credit points 8cp Subject coordinator Dr Anthony Fee‚ Management Discipline Group Teaching staff Dr Anthony Fee‚ Management Discipline Group Office: City Campus Building 5‚ Level 4‚ Room D4.11. Email: anthony.fee@uts.edu.au Phone: (02) 9514 3395 (emergency only: 0466 847 707) Fax: (02) 9514 3602 Subject description As organisations are primarily
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ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR MSC 42102 Individual Processes Attitude and Values Organizational Behavior Submitted To : Submitted By : Dr. Pramod Pathak Ajit Vinod Kujur Manwendra Prakash Anshul Rawat Prateek Purty Prateeksha Maurya Individual Processes Individual behavior is how we as individuals behave ourselves. This behavior is subject to many personal traits as well as habits‚ values‚ perceptions‚ and other qualities and features. People make assumptions about those
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Training and Developing Employees Multiple Choice: 1. Once employees have been recruited and selected‚ the next step would be: a. discipline and counseling. b. orientation and training. c. hiring and firing. d. socialization. 3. The ongoing process of instilling in all employees the prevailing attitudes‚ standards‚ values‚ and patterns of behavior that are expected by the organization and its departments is: a. values projection. b. orientation. c. socialization.
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