Organizational Behavior

Find a business problem from your own professional work experience or the literature—articles from newspapers, business journals, business magazines, etc. and apply two concepts (total, not each) from the required reading for that Module/Week. Thread must be 600-750 words in length.

For Discussion Board 2 (Module 4), you must apply two concepts from chapters 5-9 in your discussion of the problem as well as ideas from the Lessons 3 and/or 4. Chapters 5-9 deal with decision-making, employee motivation, and group behavior, so find a scenario that is most applicable in those regards. Discuss the scenario and apply two core concepts from chapters 5-9 in doing so.

answer following questions based on reading (will be provided)
1. How do schema help members of an organization make sense of each other and of what happens in organizations?
2. Are stereotypes ever functional for the perceiver? Why or why not?
3. Why might a supervisor be motivated to perceive a subordinate’s performance as being poor when it really not
4. How might managers’ moods affect organizational decisions making?
5. In what ways might impression management be functional in organizations? In what ways might it be dysfunctional?
6. Can and should employees who are salient try to reduce their salience?
7. Why do perceptual biases exist?
8. Why might a supervisor make internal attributions for a subordinate’s poor performance?
9. Why are attributions important determinants of behavior in organizations?
10. Why might members of an organization disagree about the nature of hostile work environment sexual harassment?