Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Job Satisfaction, Future Orientation, Job Performance

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Nancy Annett

Document Summary

One of the challenges facing today"s global company is managing the diverse range of issues, interests, backgrounds of employees and contractors in a way that promotes a strong, unified workplace culture. Another challenge is when chronic skill shortages exist in many technical areas, which include legions of retiring baby boomers so companies have to attract the attention of qualified job seekers who have many options. Nexen (calgary based energy company) has new graduate rotation program, training programs, internship, etc. captures what people are like. Personality: structures and propensities inside people that explain their characteristic patterns of though, emotion, behavior. It creates people"s social reputation (the way they are perceived by others), and it. Personality is collection of multiple trait: recurring regularities or trends in people"s responses to their environment (adjectives such as easy going, polite, responsible) Cultural values: shared beliefs about desirable end states or modes of conduct in a given culture (captures what cultures like)