Reading Assignment
As you read through the resources and watch the videos, consider the following:
How can you change someone’s mood when they are having a bad day?
Is there one set way every employee in every organization worldwide should behave?
Do people behave ethically for the first few years of a career and change as they get comfortable?
What makes a leader effective in an organization?
Read
Read the following from your textbook, Organizational Behavior
Chapter 3
Chapter 3.1: Advice for Hiring Successful Employees: The Case of Guy Kawasaki
Chapter 3.2: The Interactionist Perspective: The Role of Fit
Chapter 3.3: Individual Differences: Values and Personality
Chapter 3.4: Perception
Chapter 3.5: The Role of Ethics and National Culture
Chapter 3.6: Using Science to Match Candidates to Jobs: The Case of Kronos
Chapter 3.7: Conclusion
Chapter 3.8: Exercise
Chapter 12
Chapter 12.1: Taking on the Pepsi Challenge: The Case of Indra Nooyi
Chapter 12.2: Who Is a Leader? Trait Approaches to Leadership
Chapter 12.3: What Do Leaders Do? Behavioral Approaches to Leadership
Chapter 12.4: What Is the Role of the Context? Contingency Approaches to Leadership
Chapter 12.5: What’s New? Contemporary Approaches to Leadership
Chapter 12.6: The Role of Ethics and National Culture
Chapter 12.7: Leadership Development: The Case of Starbucks
Chapter 12.8: Conclusion
Chapter 12.9: Exercises
Watch
An engineer’s journey to managing – and leading – innovation Kel Jackson (
Kel Jackson – Pathways to Business (hbs.edu)
References
Harvard Business School. (n.d.). An engineer’s journey to managing – and leading – innovation Kel Jackson [Video]. HBS. Retrieved November 16, 2022, from https://pathways.hbs.edu/lesson/kel-jackson/
Organizational behavior. (2017). University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/organizational-behavior. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.
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Discussion Assignment
In the discussion forum, you are expected to participate often and engage in deep levels of discourse. You are required to post an initial response to the question/issue presented in the Forum by Sunday evening and then respond to at least 3 of your classmates’ initial posts. You should also respond to anyone who has responded to you.
For this discussion, provide a response to the below prompt:
Values refer to stable life goals that people have, reflecting what is most important to them. Personality encompasses a person’s relatively stable feelings, thoughts, and behavioral patterns.
I’d like you to reflect on the Big Five Personality Traits introduced in this unit’s reading resources.
Which traits best describe your personality?
Do these traits correspond with your values? Explain.
Your Discussion should be a minimum of 200 words in length and not more than 500 words. Please include a word count. Following the APA standard, use references and in-text citations for the textbook and any other sources.
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PART 2
Discussion Responses
It is your responsibility to respond to three classmates by providing comments, asking questions, or having a conversation about their main post. Feedback should be appropriate, meaningful, and helpful. For instance refer to how your own experience supports/contradicts the opinions developed by your peers. If you think they are too general or not rooted enough in personal experience, you may also ask for more detailed examples supporting these opinions. In particular make sure that the examples provided are properly referenced and that you are able to access them. Overall, your comments should contribute positively to the conversation by broadening or clarifying it. Feedback should be at least 3-4 complete sentences.
-Once part 1 is done & I post onto my school’s
discussion board, I will upload the 3 student’s discussion (Inbox me if you
need clarification on this)
-Please be mindful that both Part 1 and 2 are due on same day so give some time to do Part 1 ahead of the deadline. Thanks!
