Question 1 What is attribution theory? What are three determinants of attribution? What are its implications for explaining organizational behaviour? Attribution theory A theory that explains how individuals pinpoint the causes of their own behaviour and that of others. People will believe others actions to be caused by internal or external factors based on three types of information: Distinctiveness‚ Consensus and Consistency. The attributions may not always accurate. For example‚ an executive
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Three Musketters intrinsic analysis 1. Defining the play 1.1 Setting 17th century Paris.. 1.2 Theme The primary friendship featured in The Three Musketeers is between four young gentlemen devoted to the King. Their friendship allows them to combine forces and defeat evil powers that might... 1.5 Genre Fiction 2. Structure 2.1 Exposition D’Artagnan arrives in Paris with almost no money‚ hoping to become a Musketeer. A penniless youth arrives in the city who has a lot of pride
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NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA COURSE CODE :MBA 731 COURSE TITLE: ORGANISATION BEHAVIOUR AND THEORY 1 MBA 731 ORGANISATION BEHAVIOUR AND THEORY Designed by: Written by: Josef Bel-Molokwu‚ PhD Josef Bel-Molokwu‚ PhD 2 COURSE GUIDE MBA 731 - ORGANISATION BEHAVIOUR AND THEORY TABLE OF CONTENT 1.0. 2.0. 3.0. 4.0. 5.0. 6.0. 7.0. 8.0. 9.0. 10.0. Introduction 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 Course Content Course Aims Objectives - Course Materials Study Units - The Modules
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INDUSTRIAL‚ INSTITUTIONAL‚ AND CONSUMER BUYING BEHAVIOUR BUSINESS BUYING BEHAVIOR AND BUYING PROCESS Buying behavior can be defined as the activities and decision process that involves in choosing between alternatives‚ procuring and using products and services The behavior of buyers is broadly categories into two types 1) Endogenous factor (These influence are need and motives‚ learning‚ attitude‚ personality and self-concept). 2) Exogenous factors (These factors are culture‚ reference
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Examination Paper Semester 1: Organizational Behaviour SECTION A Part one: Multiple Choices: 1.It is the degree to which a person identifies with a particular organization and its goals‚ & wishes to maintain membership in the organization Ans. a. Job involvement 2. -----------means moving information from the hidden area to the open area Ans. d. self disclosure 3. An approach in which the goals of one party are in direct conflict with the goals of the other party Ans. Negotiations 4.The
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De’Ja commons Pgs. 176-179 Etiology: Sociocultural level of analysis Lee et al. suggest that a social fat phobia may underlie anorexia‚ and this phobia is starting to thrive in other parts of the world Places where anorexia has increased a lot it is due to media influence and large amounts of info about dieting and eating disorders Girls who become anorexic are more likely to accept the messages about beauty and thinness in the media. It isn’t clear whether this acceptance lead to the anorexia
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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‚ managers have been grappling
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style and sometimes the way the consumer “feel” about a product. Consumer evaluation of brands involved both cognitive and psychological processes in selecting a course of action from multiple alternatives. The consumer decision-making process model (fig 1) will provide useful insights as to how consumer form evaluations of brands and how marketers seek to influence this process. Fig 1: The customer decision-making process and its five stages Source: guuui.com‚ 2007 NEED OR PROBLEM
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PROGRAMME : BBS HUMAN RESOURCES COURSE : ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR COURSE CODE : BS 432 YEAR : PART 4 ASSIGNMENT TITLE: CONFLICT IS AN INEVITABLE ASPECT OF INDUSTRIAL OR ORGANISATIONAL LIFE DISCUSS? {25marks} The proceeding text tries to discuss how inevitable conflict is to organizational life. The factors of concern includes limited resources‚ unmet expectations‚ unreasonable or unclear policies‚ interdependent tasks‚ organizational complexity‚ Incompatible personalities and decision-making
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competencies play a major role in determining performance level and development of ratees. Boerlijst; 1994 observed that shortcomings on part of intermediary raters seriously jeopardize the assessment process in an organization‚ especially damaging the prospects of really competent and deserving ratees. Mutual relationship among raters and ratees lies at the heart of assessment processes. Lowin (1968) observed that‚ a rater’s attitude and behaviour enhananced ratee’s performance. Rater may support and
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