LINCOLN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, MALAYSIA

INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT BASED MODEL QUESTIONS

Course: Organizational Behavior

Course Code: MGT 501

INTRODUCTION

1. What is the importance of interpersonal skills?

2. What do managers do in terms of functions, roles, and skills?
3. Why is it important to complement intuition with systematic study?
4. Explain the OB Model covering the three levels of analysis.
5. Explain the major behavioral science disciplines that contribute to OB.
6. Why the study of Organizational Behavior is essential for all managers?
Explain with its managerial implications.
7. What are the emerging trends in OB and how these trends offer opportunities
or pose threats to the managers in Nepal?
8. OB system has input-processing-output and feedback components. Explain.

ATTITUDES AND JOB SATISFACTION

1. Define attitude. What are the different types of job related attitude? In what
ways are these attitudes alike? What is the unique about each?
2. Explain the components of attitude in brief.
3. Does behavior always follow from attitudes? Why or why not? Discuss the
factors that affect whether behavior follows from attitude.
4. Explain with suitable examples, the cognitive dissonance theory of attitude.
5. How do we measure job satisfaction?
6. What causes job satisfaction? What are the impacts of satisfied and
dissatisfied employees on the workplace? What implications does this have
for management?
PERSONALITY AND VALUES

1. What is personality? How do we typically measure it? What factors determine

personality?
2. With the help of work related examples, explain the Big Five Model of
personality.
3. Besides the Big Five, what other personality traits are relevant to OB?
4. What are values, why are they important, and what is the difference between
terminal and instrumental values?
5. Write short note on: Person-Job Fit and Person-Organization Fit.
6. Do values differ across generations and cultures? How so?

PERCEPTION AND INDIVIDUAL DECISION MAKING

1. What is perception? Discuss the major factors that affect perception of people
working in an organization.
2. What is perceptual process? “Behavior is based on one’s perception of what
the reality is, not on reality itself”. Discuss.
3. Define social perception and explain how attribution distorts social
perception.
4. What is attribution theory? What are the three determinants of attribution?
What are its implications for explaining organizational behavior?
5. Identify the shortcuts individuals use in making judgments about others.
6. What is the link between perception and decision making? How does one
affect the other?
7. Explain how individual differences and organizational constraints affect
decision making.
8. What are some of the common decision biases or errors that people make?
9. Contrast the three ethical decision criteria.
MOTIVATION

1. Define motivation. What are the three key elements of motivation? Compare
and contrast between Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory with Herzberg’s
Two-Factor Theory.
2. How is equity of motivation relevant to the present job situation of Nepalese
enterprises? Discuss. How is organizational justice a refinement of equity
theory?
3. What are the key tenets of Vroom’s expectancy theory? What does Vroom’s
Expectancy Theory tell about Motivation?
4. What is MBO? Explain its elements and process.
5. Goal Setting theory and Self Efficacy theory do not compete rather they are
complement to each other. How? What are the implications of employee
engagement for management?
6. What are the similarities and differences between goal setting theory and
management by objectives?
7. What are the similarities and differences between reinforcement theory and
goal-setting theory?
8. What are some contemporary theories of motivation and how do they
compare to one another?

MOTIVATION: FROM CONCEPTS TO APPLICATIONS

1. What is the job characteristics model? How does it motivate employees?

2. What are employee involvement programs? How might they increase
employee motivation?
3. Demonstrate how the different types of variable pay programs can increase
employee motivation. What are their advantages and disadvantages?
4. How can flexible benefits motivate employees?
5. What are the motivational benefits of intrinsic rewards?
FOUNDATIONS OF GROUP BEHAVIOR

1. Define group. What are the different types of groups?

2. What are the five stages of group development?
3. How do group norms and status influence an individual’s behavior?
4. How does group size affect group performance?
5. “Cohesiveness is the degree of closeness that the members feel with the group
but too much of group cohesion is dangerous for equality decision”. In the
light of the above statement explain cohesiveness and factors contributing to
it. With the help of a diagram explain relationship between group
cohesiveness, performance norms and productivity.
6. What are the advantages and limitations of cohesive groups?
7. What are the implications of diversity for group effectiveness?
8. What are the strengths and weaknesses of group (versus individual) decision
making?
9. How effective are interacting, brainstorming, nominal, and electronic meeting
groups?

WORK TEAMS AND REST CHAPTERS

1. Explain, in what aspects or process factors determine whether teams are
effective and show how our understanding of teams differs in global context.
2. What unique problems underlie cross-cultural communication? Suggest some
valuable strategies to overcome such potential problems.
3. What are the main forms of electronic communication? What are their unique
benefits and challenges?
4. Assess whether contingency theory of leadership promised to improve on the
behavioral approach in leadership research? State its managerial
implications.
5. Assess whether charismatic and transformational leadership generalize
across cultures? State its managerial implications.
6. Managers today are confronted with the conflict-handling strategy due to
their intentions. What advice can we give managers faced with excessive
conflict and the need to reduce it? Suggest some appropriate to control the
conflict level when found to be dysfunctional.
7. Apply the five steps of negotiation process. What factors influence the
negotiators to negotiate effectively?
8. What determines the structural designs? Do these designs contributes to
individual performance and satisfaction? Explain.
9. What constitutes as an essence for a good organization culture? Identify and
explain the factors that create and sustain an organization’s culture.
10.Describe the sources of resistance to change. Suggest some tactics that can
help change agents deal with resistance to change.
11.Explain the Lewin's Three-Step Model for successful change in organization. In
what ways can unfreezing takes place to move from equilibrium state?
12.Demonstrate two ways of creating a culture for change.
13.Define stress. What are it consequences? Suggest the individual and
organizational approach to manage stress.