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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Prada Case Analysis “FINANCE” Course “PRADA: TO IPO OR NOT TO IPO: THAT IS THE QUESTION‚ AGAIN” case analysis Brief summary of the case with the emphasis on managerial problems that Prada faces. Prada currently requires a significant amount of capital both to re-finance debt that is maturing in the next six to twelve months and to finance its intended growth into the Asian (especially Chinese) markets. Since financial markets are aware of Prada’s pressing need to raise capital‚ it is important
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sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment. • People’s behavior is based on their perception of what reality is‚ not on reality itself. • The world as it is perceived is the world that is behaviorally important. Attribution Theory: Judging Others Our perception and judgment of others are significantly influenced by our assumptions of the other people’s internal states. When individuals observe behavior‚ they attempt to determine whether it is internally or externally caused
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Designer Research: Miuccia Prada Jacqueline Falcon University of North Texas Unconventional‚ visionary‚ “ugly chic”; these are all words used to describe the undoubtedly influential Miuccia Prada. Miuccia Prada’s footprint on the fashion industry is both significant and enduring in an industry where trends and designers fade out as quickly as the come in. Although Prada is often noted as the anti-thesis of a typical designer‚ or the anti-fashionista‚ her work as a
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I am a student of MGT 3218 of Organizational Behavior‚ I would like to suggest Mr. Zulkifli to use the 3 levels of analysis in Organizational Behavior to investigate the feedback from employees. This method that we can use to analyse organizational behaviour at three levels of analysis: individual‚ group and organization. The field of OB recognizes that all three levels of analysis must be used to comprehend fully the complex dynamics of behaviour in organizations. First is the individual level
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To Send Senior Citizens To Old Folks Home Nowadays‚ the percentage of sending senior to Old Folks Home is increasing all over the world. People thinks and cares about themselves rather than senior citizens. Many people believe that they will be considered cruel‚ irresponsible by sending a senior to Old Folks Home. Filial piety is an important in our culture and if the senior citizens lives in Old Folks Home‚ his or her children are considered to abandon them‚ don’t take responsibility to look
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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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Module 5: Study Case Apple Inc: The iPod‚ the iMac‚ and the Business Lessons of Closed Systems Apple Inc 4 years back I considered another company more but this 2 years I realized that is a great company and an example of success‚ maybe the success or the growth between 2001 and 2009 was before a realized that and that is because Apple Inc is a foreign company and in those years was not very known yet México ‚ I remembered Imacs but not very popular I have read this widly growth of
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