CH2 – Foundations of Individual Behavior Ability * Everyone has strengths and weaknesses that make them superior or inferior to others * Ability refers to an individuals capacity to perform various tasks * Intellectual * Mental activities * Assessed by GMA (General Mental Ability)‚ takes into account aptitude‚ verbal comp‚ perceptual speed‚ inductive/deductive reasoning‚ spatial visualization‚ memory * High score in one cat usually means high score
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Impacts of Unethical Behavior In 2005 former Tyco CEO Denise Kozlowski and ex-CFO Mark Swartz where convicted of taking more than $120 million in unauthorized bonuses‚ abusing an employee loan program‚ misrepresenting the company’s financial condition to investors to boost the stock price while selling $575 million in stock (Crawford‚ 2005). Kozlowski and Swartz’s defense was they did not steal from the company. The defendants maintained the board of directors approved all bonus money. Unfortunately
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Individual Process and Behavior Attribution Process An attempt to explain why people do what they do is the core of attribution theory. The theory observes that events are attributed to external or internal sources. The process of attribution is affected by two problems: the tendency to make attributions when focusing on another’s behavior‚ fundamental attribution error; or focusing on one’s own behavior‚ a self-serving bias. The banking industry exemplifies a unique environment where personal
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and Unethical Tactics For Influencing Behavior Multiple career moves landed Jeanne Lewis in positions to influence the behavior of the employees that worked for her at Staples‚ Inc. In the context of this writing the ethical tactics used by Lewis for influencing behavior will be explored. Lewis ’ decision to work with her employees until she was confident in the team will be examined in the context of her ethical behavior as well. An early example of Lewis ’ ability to influence behavior is
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I capable of evil myself? These are some questions that we all might have asked to our selves at one point in life. The Lucifer Effect intends to make the audience‚ anyone that might be interested‚ understand how good people turn evil. The articles purpose is to give us‚ the audience‚ the psychological explanation of why people go wrong. I read myself The Lucifer Effect and what I understood is that evil is the exercise of power. What I mean by this is that people with power usually go badly‚ they
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Unethical Research Arnuang Bullie RES/351 Jeff Duncan November 9‚ 2012 In this paper I will try and discuss the unethical business research conduct that has resulted in individuals or a firm being convicted‚ or at least tried for‚ this conduct. Some questions will be what were the inappropriate questions‚ what were the research results‚ and who was involved in the maintaining of the participants’ confidential information‚ and were there any acts involving the use of participant information
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Individual Behavior VALUES and Personality Learning Objectives After reading this chapter‚ students should be able to: the four drivers of individual behavior and results. Describe three types of ways to match individual competencies to job requirements. Identify five types of individual behavior in organizations. Define values and explain why values congruence is important. Define five values commonly studied across cultures. List three ethical principles. Explain how moral intensity‚ ethical
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The Role of Leaders in Influencing Unethical Behavior in the Workplace Linda Klebe Treviño Michael E. Brown A fter years of focusing on explaining and predicting positive employee attitudes (e.g.‚ job satisfaction‚ employee commitment) and behaviors (e.g.‚ employee citizenship‚ work performance)‚ organizational behavior researchers have increasingly turned their attention to understanding what drives costly misconduct in organizations (Bennett & Robinson‚ 2000; Giacalone & Greenberg‚ 1997;
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UNIVERSITY OF WALES LINGNAN INSTITUTE OF FURTHER EDUCATION STUDENT NAME Tse Ting Ting‚ Connie STUDENT ID 8467034 PROGRAMME BA (Hons) in Psychology and Counselling SEMESTER 1 LEVEL 4 MODULE&CODE PCC 101 Individual Behavior ASSIGNMENT NUMBER LECTURER Dr Lufanna Lai HANDOUT DATE 9 Nov.‚ 2011 SUBMISSION DATE 7 Dec.‚ 2011 CONTRIBUTION TO OVERALL MODULE/UNIT ASSESSMENT % 50% PENALTIES FOR LATE SUBMISSION If you are late and no extension has been granted: Up to one week late: Pass (40%) maximum
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Checkpoint 1 Impacts of Unethical Behavior The company that I researched for unethical practices is Tyco International; the nature of the controversy was the fraud and scandals that Tyco international has gone through. In 1999 the SEC began to analyze Tyco’s accounting practices do to the company was standing in 28 million dollars in debt. They were able to pinpoint many areas that were not adding up with the amounts money was being taken and there was really no good explanation. They found out
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