Organizational Behavior

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Practical Connection Assignment

At University, it is a priority that students are provided with strong educational programs and courses that allow them to be servant-leaders in their disciplines and communities, linking research with practice and knowledge with ethical decision-making. This assignment is a written assignment where students will demonstrate how this course research has connected and put into practice within their own career.

Assignment:
Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study.

Requirements:

• Provide a 500 word (or 2 pages double spaced) minimum reflection.

• Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.

• Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.

• Demonstrate a connection to your current work environment. If you are not employed, demonstrate a connection to your desired work environment.

• You should NOT, provide an overview of the assignments assigned in the course. The assignment asks that you reflect how the knowledge and skills obtained through meeting course objectives were applied or could be applied in the workplace.

Submission: Upload/attach your completed paper to this assignment by the due date. Please see the Course Syllabus for the actual due date.

I currently work as an Automation Engineer at Kaiser Permanente Client.

Below is the topics learned from this course.

Chapter 1: What is Organizational Behavior

Learning Objectives:

1. Define organizational behavior (referred to as OB throughout the text).
2. Show the value of systematic study to OB.
3. Identify the major behavioral science disciplines that contribute to OB.
4. Demonstrate why few absolutes apply to OB.
5. Identify managers’ challenges and opportunities in applying OB concepts.
6. Compare the three levels of analysis in this text’s OB model.

Chapter 2: Diversity in Organizations

Learning Objectives:

1. Demonstrate how workplace discrimination undermines diversity effectiveness.
2. Explain how stereotypes function in organizational settings.
3. Describe how key biographical characteristics are relevant to organizational behavior (OB).
4. Explain how other differentiating characteristics factor into OB.
5. Demonstrate the relevance of intellectual and physical abilities to OB.
6. Describe how organizations manage diversity effectively.

Chapter 3: Attitudes and Job Satisfaction

Learning Objectives:

1. Contrast the three components of an attitude.
2. Summarize the relationship between attitudes and behavior.
3. Compare the major job attitudes.
4. Identify the two approaches for measuring job satisfaction.
5. Summarize the main causes of job satisfaction.
6. Identify three outcomes of job satisfaction.
7. Identify four employee responses to dissatisfaction.

Chapter 4: Emotions and Moods

Learning Objectives:

1. Differentiate between emotions and moods.
2. Identify the sources of emotions and moods.
3. Show the impact emotional labor has on employees.
4. Describe affective events theory and its applications.
5. Describe emotional intelligence.
6. Identify strategies for emotion regulation.
7. Apply concepts about emotions and moods to specific OB issues.

Chapter 5: Personality and Values

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe personality, the way it is measured, and the factors that shape it.
2. Describe the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality framework and the Big Five model,
3. Discuss how the concepts of core self-evaluation (CSE), self-monitoring, and proactive personality contribute to the understanding of personality.
4. Describe how the situation affects whether personality predicts behavior.
5. Contrast terminal and instrumental values.
6. Describe the differences between person-job fit and person-organization fit.
7. Identify Hofstede’s five value dimensions and the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) framework.

Chapter 6: Perception and Individual Decision Making

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain the factors that influence perception.
2. Describe attribution theory.
3. Explain the link between perception and decision making.
4. Contrast the rational model of decision making with bounded rationality and intuition.
5. Explain how individual differences and organizational constraints affect decision making.
6. Contrast the three ethical decision criteria.
7. Describe the three-stage model of creativity.