+1 862 207 3288 Required Textbooks & Materials Robbins, S. P. & Judge, T. A. (2015). Organizational behavior (16th Ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
1. Please present, in graph (Exhibit) form, Douglas McGregor’s model of motivation and human nature. Also, please identify the leadership style that is most closely related to each of the theories, with a brief supporting discussion. Finally,
please identify which of the theories of motivation/human nature most closely matches the leadership theories of the Behavioral period of management-leadership thought.
2. Please present John Kotter’s Manager – Leader model and identify the different contributions of a manager and a leader to their respective organization. Also, please present a graph that exhibits the roles of each as a polarity and as an
interdependency (complimentary relationship) and provide a brief discussion of the distinction, in terms of thought processes, between a polarity and an interdependency.
3. Please identify the components of one’s mental model and the relationship of those components on one’s human behavior, both positively and negatively. Too, please discuss whether or not the components of one’s mental model are
changeable, and the impact of that as it relates to human diversity.
4. Please identify and describe the major job attitudes and discuss how those attitudes relate to the Business Case (their importance in the global marketplace).
5. Please describe the psychological (social) contract and discuss its relationship to employees’ attitudes in the workplace. Also, please identify and describe the major negative behaviors that can result from negative employee attitudes in
the workplace.
6. Please describe the instrument discussed in class for measuring employees’ job-related attitudes, as related to job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Also, please discuss the rationale for including the outcomes resulting from
administering this instrument in a leader’s performance appraisal.
7. Please identify and discuss, briefly, six reasons that support the more open exhibiting of emotions in the workplace. Also, please discuss how ‘Ubuntu’ relates to exhibiting of emotions in the workplace.
8. Please identify the ‘fundamental capabilities’ and the related ‘sets of competencies’ that are identified in Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence model. Also, please graph emotional intelligence and cognitive intelligence as
interdependencies and plot and describe where a top-performing leader would be placed on the graph. Finally, please discuss, briefly, the importance of ‘caring,’ as viewed by Robert Cooper.
9. Please discuss how a more open expression of emotions in the workplace relates to the Business Case.
10. Please define personality. Also, please identify/describe each of the premises that are foundational to the Myers-Briggs Type Instrument.
11. Please identify and describe each of the characteristics related to the Myers-Briggs Type Instrument (MBTI). Also, please identify and describe each of the dimensions that relate to the appropriate characteristic in the MBTI.
12. Please identify and describe each of the organizational/management styles that relate to the Myers-Briggs Type Instrument, including a brief discussion of the major contributions that persons with each style make to the effectiveness
of the organization.
13. Please identify and describe each of the cultural values presented by Geert Hofstede. Also, please describe how each of these values relate to an effective organization in the 21st Century.
14. Please graph the relationship of one’s mental model (mindset) to the negative behaviors of discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Also, please discuss what has to occur for one to decide to change the negative behaviors related to
human differences.
15. Please graph the Business Case and discuss how the components are related to an effective diversity initiative in an organization. Also, please graph and discuss the relationship between diversity, ethics and organizational performance,
as reflected in the research.
16. Please identify and discuss the arguments (cases) that support diversity initiatives in organizations. Also, please discuss the difference(s) between the utilitarian approach to ethics and the ethical principles of John Rawls and
Patricia Werhane.
17. Please discuss the difference between our culture’s espoused (stated) values and the state of diversity in our culture’s organizations. Also, please discuss the difference between inclusiveness and exclusiveness, as they apply to
organizations.
18. Please identify the primary forms of diversity and an equal number of secondary forms of human differences. Also, please identify what it is that distinguishes the primary forms of diversity from the secondary forms.
19. Please discuss what causes some of the forms of human differences to be identified as ‘protected classes.’ Also, please identify the ‘protected class(es)’ that differ between state (CA) legislation and federal legislation.
20. Please discuss the major difference between empathic (active) listening and the other levels of listening presented by Stephen Covey. Also, please discuss, using graphs, the process of dialogue and its potential in changing people’s
mental models and, thus, the behaviors linked to the acceptance and valuing of human differences. Finally, please discuss the difference between prejudice and stereotyping.
21. Please provide the definition of sexual harassment. Also, please discuss how the term “In the Eye of the Beholder” relates to sexual harassment. Finally, please describe how the term ‘‘quid pro quo” relates to sexual harassment.
22. Please identify the forms of power that are related to sexual harassment, including discussing the nature of each of the relationships.
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