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Many employers now utilize personality tests that are part of the job application process. Do you think personality tests accurately assess whether an individual will be good at a particular job? Based on what you've learned about the value of personality assessment in the textbook, why or why not? If you have had to take a personality assessment as part of a job, feel free to share that experience here as part of your post.

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Objectives:

ÃÂ· Learn how individuals contribute to teamwork

ÃÂ· Experience some of the features of group work and teamwork

ÃÂ· Understand what managers and organizational developers do to transform

ÃÂ· groups into teams

ÃÂ· Articulate the tangible benefits (both quantitative and qualitative) of

ÃÂ· high-performing teams

ÃÂ· Finish with an interest in learning more about these concepts and

ÃÂ· techniques to apply what you learn

Background: For this assignment, you will plan and play a game with your family or friends, or at work based on the idea of the classic prisoner's dilemma. If you have had a class on game theory, you will be well aware of this concept. It forms the basis of many TV game shows. The prisoner's dilemma was illustrated in Truman Capote's book, "In Cold Blood" concerning the 1959 robbery of a Kansas farmhouse by Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, who murdered their victims in order to eliminate the witnesses. After the men were captured, the police interrogated them separately. To get a confession, the police offered the men a reduced sentence for cooperating. Failure to cooperate would result in a death penalty charge for both.

In the prisoner's dilemma, if both parties cooperate they are mildly punished; if one betrays another, one is severely punished while the other goes free; and if both betray one-another, both are moderately punished. Can you think of settings where you work in which the organizational structure has created a prisoner's dilemma? Competition can (but does not necessarily) bring out conflict.

In game theory, there are non-cooperative and cooperative games. A non-cooperative zero-sum game has a definite winner and loser. For one to win, one must lose. We often think of politicking as an element of that. A cooperative game is where everyone who plays is better off for having played than not having played the game. That is not to say that everyone is equally well off, but simply better off than they were before playing. Hence, even in a cooperative game, some people will likely benefit more than others.

Instructions

Review in your textbook, the Big Five personality dimensions, pp. 82Ã¢ï¿½ï¿½84, and then consider the 3.1 Personality Insights inventory, pp. 89Ã¢ï¿½ï¿½91
Select four or five friends, coworkers, or family members and have them take the personality inventory
Plan and play a game with the participants
Write a 5-10 page paper that addresses the assignment questions below

As you plan and play your game, you will negotiate the type of game you want to play and your role in it. Strive to determine some personal characteristics of the game participants a head of time, or by observing them. Consider how the personal characteristics of the individuals in the game manifest themselves in the informal roles they assume during the planning and execution of the game.

For the purpose of this assignment, you will want both a cooperative and a competitive element. To do that, you can form several groups to compete and cooperate with each other, or you can have individuals in one group compete and cooperate. You can use rewards and/or punishments to create the competitive/cooperative motivations.

Evaluation: When groups are formed, we want to consider how organizational structures, processes, and situations impact on group motivation, politics, and goals achievement. Alignment of all of these structural, personal, and interpersonal components will help to ensure that the group will meld into a team. A defining feature of teamwork (versus group work) is cooperation!

One of the factors that affect cooperation is conflict. Conflict is defined as when someone perceives that his/her interests are opposed or negatively impacted by another. Conflict can at times produce positive results depending on the basis for the conflict and how the conflict is handled (functional conflict). The worst kind of dysfunctional conflict produces betrayal.

Note that team performance can be observed in how well the team coordinates their interdependencies, works efficiently, communicates, and accomplishes their mission. Consequently, as you implement your game, assess your players based on these factors and the informal roles they play.

After you have played the game, reflect on the personality assessments your participants took, and then consider how they planned and played the game.

Write a (5- 10) page analysis to address the following questions:

1. How well did the personality assessments reflect in the behaviors participants displayed during the game?

2. What do these assessments tell us about how we perceive ourselves versus how others perceive us?

3. What informal roles did participants assume during the game, and were they different from the planning portion from the playing portion of the exercise?

4. What did I learn about myself? For example, did the exercise show that you have characteristic ways of relating to others that are distinctive, or similar, to those the others? Did the exercise show that in a particular type of situation you acted in a particular way, or that when others acted in a particular way, you felt happy or anxious or angry, etc.?

5. What did I learn about someone else in the exercise? Did you see something new about them, such as "they seemed more capable than I imagined," or "inattentive when things were stressful?"

6. In playing your game, what could you have done to increase cooperative behaviors?

7. Based on your game experience, what are some of the key factors involved in gaining cooperation from people in a business setting?

8. How would you go about getting cooperation from a "difficult" co-worker? Give an example or scenario.

Please provide a unique type of game theory preferably instead of Mafia Game.

Text:

Organizational Behavior and Management 10th Edition

John Ivancevich, Robert Konopaske, Michael Matteson

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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came to fruition in 1994. For your discussion essay, thoroughly answer at least two of the below questions.

1. How is it doing now?

2. Compare and contrast some of NAFTAs good and bad points.

3. Was it a good agreement for the American worker?

4. Was it a good agreement for the American consumer?

5. How did implementation of NAFTA impact the United States balance of trade and trade deficit.

6. If you were the sole decision maker for the implementation of NAFTA, what would you have done and why?

Essays and responses are not to include definitions, historical perspectives, talking points, or personal attacks. References to individual must include a title where applicable, i.e., President Clinton, not Bill Clinton or Vice President Gore, not Al Gore.

Use of the textbook, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Econopedia, or similar â¦pediaâs as a reference in any cited work results in an automatic two-grade level deduction before I read what you submitted. Any critique containing the phrase âI agree,â âgreat post,â âmy thoughtsâ, â we think the same,â or phrases of similar meaning that do not enhance the discussion process will not be graded and receive a zero.

Read the case and answer:

Do you think either party behaved unethically in this case?(300 Words)

WPACâa television station based in Yuma, Arizonaâhad been experiencing a ratings decline for several years. In 2009, the station switched from a CBS to NBC affiliate. That has explained some of the ratings decline. However, in recent months, the ratings have continued to slide. Eventually, the station manager, Lucien Stone, decided he had to make a change to the local newscast.

After meeting with the programming manager, Stone called a meeting of WPAC employees and announced his intention to âspice things upâ during the 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. local news. The 30-minute broadcasts would still include the traditional âtop stories,â âsports,â and âweatherâ segments. However, on slow news days, more attention getting material would be used. Stone also indicated some programming decisions would probably be revisited. âThe days of Little House on the Prairie are over,â he said.

Madison Devereaux, 29, had been the chief meteorologist for WPAC since 2010. After receiving her degree in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma in 2007, she joined WPAC and quickly worked her way up the ranks, impressing viewers and WPAC management alike with her extension knowledge and articulate, professional, mistake-free delivery

Though she was Christian, Devereaux never was one to go around âthumping Bibles in the newsroom,â as she put it. Most of those at WPAC werenât even aware of Madisonâs religious views.

Devereaux was troubled by the announced changes to WPACâs programming but didnât speak up at the time. One Monday during a pre-production meeting, she learned that on Thursday of that week, WPAC reporter Sam Berkshow would present a segment called âDancing Around the Economy,â which would focus on how local strip clubs were doing well despite the sluggish economy.

Devereaux didnât think it was appropriate to air the segment during the 5 p.m. newcast and asked both her producer and Stone to reconsider the piece, or at least air it in the 10 p.m. time slot. When they refused, she asked whether she could take the day off when the segment aired. Stone again refused. This was âsweeps weekâ (when ratings are calculated), Stone wanted to air the story now, and Devereauxâs contract prohibited her from taking time off during sweeps week.

When Devereaux didnât show up for work that Thursday, WPAC fired her, arguing she had breached her contract. For her part, Devereaux said, âIâm not angry with the station, but I am sorry about the changes that have taken place.â