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Institute of Business Management
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FIRST
SEMESTER EMBA/ MBA
Subject :
Organizational Behaviour
Attend
any 4 questions. Each question carries
25 marks
(Each
answer should be of minimum 2 pages / of 300 words)
1.Explain
the process by which we acquire patterns of behavior.
Answer :
2.Explain
the factors influencing perception.
Answer : Factors Influencing Perception
Perception is a process by which individuals
organize and interpret their sensory perceives in order to give meaning to
their environment. However, what one perceives can be substantially different
from objective reality. There need be, but there is often, disagreement. For
example, it’s possible that all employees in a firm may view it as great place
to work – favorable working conditions, interesting job alignments, good pay,
excellent benefits, an understanding and responsible management but, as most of
us known, it’s very unusual to find such agreement.
Why is perception important in the study of OB?
Simply
3.Explain
the factors that impact organizational culture.
Answer : Culture represents the
beliefs, ideologies, policies, practices of an organization. It gives the
employees a sense of direction and also controls the way they behave with each
other. The work culture brings all the employees on a common platform and unites
them at the workplace.
There are several factors which affect the
organization culture:
§ The first and the
foremost factor affecting culture is the individual working with the
organization. The employees in their own way contribute to the culture of
the workplace. The attitudes, mentalities, interests, perception and even the
thought process of the emp
4.How
does age affect productivity? Explain.
Answer :
5.What
is perception and why is it important? Explain.
Answer : Seamus Heffernan got a four
day suspension at Gowran Park on Friday night for what the stewards described
as an ‘injudicious’ on Drumbeat. The jockey in turn called their decision ‘a
joke.’ The curious thing is that while neither side might be totally right,
they very definitely aren’t totally wrong either.
That isn’t meant to be yet another
slide-rule, down-the-middle cop out. It’s just a reflection of the realities of
a case that illustrates perfectly the subtleties of what can happen out on the
track any day of the week, especially when dealing with a horse like Drumbeat.
Possessed of no small measure of
talent,
6.Explain
Contemporary theories of Motivation.
Answer
: These are
referred to as contemporary theories because these theories are able to more
appropriately explain the phenomenon of the motivation in the contemporary
organizations. There are eight theories in this regard. I will deal with the
ERG Theory, Cognitive Evaluation Theory and Job Design Theory in this article.
1. ERG Theory
2. Cognitive Evaluation Theory
3. Job Design Theory
4. The Equity Theory
5. Goal Setting Theory
6. The Achievement Motivation Theory
25
x 4=100 marks
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