[SMG OB 221] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (30 pages long!)

• School: Boston University
• Department: Organizational Behavior
• Course: SMG OB 221
• Professor: Rouse Elizabeth

Document Summary

Success behind pixar: successful companies consist of people with diverse and values skill sets who effectively coordinate and collaborate with each other, strengthen the coordination/collaboration through long-term employment, teamwork, creativity, organizational culture, knowledge sharing, leadership, communication, coordination/collaboration. Contemporary challenges facing organizations: globalization: degree of globalization today is unprecedented because it and transportation systems allow a much more intense level of connectivity and interdependence around planet. Issue: how corporate leaders and employees can lead and work effectively in this emerging reality. Increasing workforce diversity: surface-level diversity: the observable demographic or physiological differences in people (e. g. , race, ethnicity, gender, age, deep-level diversity: differences in the psychological characteristics of employees (e. g. , personalities, beliefs, values, attitudes) Issue: the new reality, so organizations need to adjust both to survive and experience its potential benefits for the organizational success: emerging employment relationships. Issue: work/life balance: virtual work (telework or telecommuting) potentially reduces employee stress by offering better work/life.