HROB 2100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Matthew Effect, Job Satisfaction, Job Analysis

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21 Oct 2012

School

University of Guelph

Department

Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour

Course

HROB 2100

Professor

Sara Mann

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The feeling you get when you walk into an organization. How a company plans to achieve its goals. Narrow division of labour: jobs narrowly defined. High centralization of work procedures (rules and regulations, standardization) Span of control: much hierarchy, many levels of administration. Low formalization of work procedures (rules and regulations, standardization) Span of control: little hierarchy, few levels of administration. Primacy: more likely to remember the first thing a person did; relying on early, first impressions. Recency: more likely to remember the last/ most recent thing a person did; most recent information dominates perception. Implicit personality theories: a group of personality characteristics or traits that you believe to go together; personal theories that people have about which personality characteristics go together. Halo effect: one trait that forms a general impression of a person (a person does one good thing, and they are perceived as being good or having good behaviour)

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Examine the major influences that organizational culture can have on organizational ethical decision making. From your personal experience in your current or past organization, provide one (1) example of how organizational culture influenced the outcome of an ethical decision. Note: Please do not identify workplaces or leaders by name.
ï¿½Use the Internet to research a business leader that you believe to be an ethical leader. Next, examine the key traits and actions that the selected leader demonstrates in order to influence a positive ethical culture in the organization. Suggest two (2) actions that a company could take in order to achieve a positive ethical culture.

Movie - Ice Age Collision Course

1. After watch the movie of Ice Age Collision Course,summary outthe whole story of the movie.

2. Based on the movie of Ice Age Collision Course, what are thescenes and examples that show the organizational cultureâscomponents of observable artifacts, espoused values, and basicunderlying assumptions? (Each component gives one scene from themovie)

3. In your opinion, what is the definition of organizationalstructure, work specialization, chain of command, span of control,centralization, formalization, organizational culture, observableartifacts, espoused values, and basic underlying assumptions?

4. Based on the movie of Ice Age Collision Course, what are thescenes and examples that show the organizational structureâselements of work specialization, chain of command, span of control,centralization, and formalization ? (Each element gives one scenefrom the movie)

5. Which type of teams shown in Ice Age Collision Course? Proveit with the scenes and example in the movie. (Work team, managementteam, parallel team project team and action team)

6. Does the stages of team development happen when thecharacters form the team. What are the scenes and examples thatshow the stage of team development? Each element gives one scenesfrom the movie. ( Forming, storming, norming, performing andadjourning)

7. Based on Ice Age Collision Course, which type ofcommunication used by the teams? Provide the scenes and examplesthat show the type of communication used. (All channel, circle, Yand wheel)

8. In your opinion, why leader is important in a team? Whatcharacteristics should a team own? Based on the Ice Age CollisionCourse, who is the leader in the team and prove it with the scenesand examples in the movie.

9. Based on the Ice Age Collision Course, which decision-makingstyles used by the leader? Prove it with the scenes and examples inthe movie. (Delegative style, facilitative style, consultativestyle and autocratic style)

__________ is the degree to which the authority to make decisions is delegated to lower levels in an organization's hierarchy.

	A.	Span of control
	B.	Distribution
	C.	Decentralization
	D.	Centralization
	E.	Bureaucracy

Which statement does NOT provide an accurate characterization of committees?

	A.	Managers are often assigned to numerous committees to improve coordination across departments.
	B.	Committees can help managers whose units must work together to adjust schedules, workloads, and work assignments in order to increase productivity.
	C.	Committees can be effective in communicating complex qualitative information.
	D.	Committees can become an effective personal mechanism for mutual adjustment across unit heads.
	E.	Committees are generally inexpensive and have a very good reputation.

Systems of rites are called __________.

	A.	rituals
	B.	artifacts
	C.	sagas
	D.	rules
	E.	routines

3 points

Question 43

The capacity or willingness to follow a leader is called:

	A.	leadership.
	B.	followership.
	C.	co-leadership.
	D.	equivalence.
	E.	trust .

As the diversity of opinion, values and meaning in an organization narrows, it becomes much less vulnerable to external change and more able to capitalize on external opportunities.

True

False

Followers contribute to the leadership process by 1) granting claims to leaders and 2)

	A.	claiming their own roles as followers.
	B.	motivating their leaders.
	C.	acting on a leader's instructions.
	D.	getting to know their leaders.
	E.	granting leaders permission to lead.

3 points

Question 38

Jason is appointed to position of formal authority in his organization. Of the following, which is expected to be exerted by Jason?

	A.	Followership
	B.	Formal leadership
	C.	Romance of leadership
	D.	Equivalence
	E.	Informal leadership

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