QUESTIONS FOR PRACTICE AND REVIEW TOPIC 2 – THEORY OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR 1) The price of DVDs (D) is Rs 200 and the price of CDs (C ) is Rs 100. Ajay has a budget of Rs 1000 to spend on the two goods. Suppose that he has already bought one DVD and one CD. In addition‚ there are 3 more DVDs and 5 more CDs that he would really like to buy. a. Given the above prices and income‚ draw his budget line on a graph with CDs on the horizontal axis. b. Considering what he has already purchased and what he
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OB Revision Sheet 1) How can a manager become a supportive communicator? 2) Discuss four ways to reduce misinterpretations when communicating with people from a different culture. 3) Describe the communication process. Explain the parts of this process. Case 1 Your company’s HR director is a believer in trait theories of leadership. He believes that he can differentiate leaders from non-leaders by focusing on personal qualities and characteristics. He asks for your expertise in helping
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1. What factors do you think make some organizations ineffective at managing emotion? According to the case‚ organizations are always hard to manage emotion effective. From my prospective‚ there might be three main reasons‚ emotional individual differences‚ lack of contact between organizations and their employees‚ and organization culture‚ all bringing about this situation. First of all‚ different people have different personalities. It is hard for an organization to publish a policy or to
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of the United States Air Force was accused of conduct that was unbecoming of an officer. By examining the roots of classical organizational theory as well as the systems theory approach to management‚ we will be able to see what aspects and principles should be better utilized and enforced in order to prevent such incidences from reoccurring. Organizational Behavior Case Study Using Classical Organization Theory and Systems Theory In order to see where Brigadier General James Botchie’s management
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PRESTON UNIVERSITY EMBA PROGRAM DISTANCE LEARNING ASSIGNMENT ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR-1 Semester: Fall 2012 Deadline for Submission of Assignment: November 5‚ 2012 Attempt all questions. Your answers should not be copied‚ word-for-word‚ from the textbook. You may use the terms‚ concepts‚ examples from the textbook‚ but these must be written as your own‚ independent expression. 1. What are the three levels of analysis in this book’s OB model? And draw the diagram of OB
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Organizational Behavior Mind Map In our Organization Behavior class we were asked to create a mind map incorporating all the important and relevant topics we have covered during the course‚ and how they relate with the other topics and fit in the bigger picture of organizational behavior as a subject. Whilst drawing my mind map‚ I realized that most of the relevant topics of OB really fall under 4 main branches – Organizational psychology‚ development‚ theory and human resources. I believe that
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Ethnocentrism: Major Effects on Organizational Behavior Abstract This research paper defines the term ethnocentrism as a means to make assumptions or judgments about other cultures from one’s own point of view. This paper details the various problems that an ethnocentric view presents when dealing with different cultures. The effects of cultural diversity on organizational behavior are complex and powerful. This paper will also explain that a diverse workforce‚ which represents a changing world
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done” i. Individuals/Groups are presumed to have power based on the following factors: * Ability to cope with Uncertainty * Substitutability – the lower the substitutability the greater the power. * Organizational Centrality – the more central a person/group is to an organization; the greater the power. * Role and Task Interdependence – if the activities of a person/group depend on the activities of another person/group -> the latter is
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everyone’s behavior in organization. Organizational Behavior is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human behavior in organizations. Behavioral Science or Organizational Behavior is not an elemental subject‚ rather than it is like a compound subject‚ with integrated weaving of various disciplines. The scope of organizational behavior is in all three dimensions i.e. individual‚ group and organization. Also there are various different directions and dimensions to study of organizational behavior
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Management and organizational behavior The Dell Company has made choices using the systems and contingency approaches to management of the company. Firstly‚ the company’s strategy of having the customer of the product design it himself is a systematic in that the company builds a machine that is precise to the consumer’s needs thus reducing the overall time and cost of the process. The specified designs also means very little resources in primary research as the consumers can choose exactly what
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