Organizational Behavior, the Modele, Elements, Challenges.

PRESTON UNIVERSITY EMBA PROGRAM DISTANCE LEARNING ASSIGNMENT ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR-1 Semester: Fall 2012 Deadline for Submission of Assignment: November 5, 2012 Attempt all questions. Your answers should not be copied, word-for-word, from the textbook. You may use the terms, concepts, examples from the textbook, but these must be written as your own, independent expression. 1. What are the three levels of analysis in this book’s OB model? And draw the diagram of OB model stage II 2. Identify the challenges and opportunities managers have in applying OB concepts. 3. Explain the key biographical characteristics and describe how they are relevant to OB 4. What are the main levels of†¦show more content†¦| |C. Managing Workforce Diversity | |Workforce diversity is one of the most important and broad-based challenges currently facing organizations. | | | |While globalization focuses on differences between people from different countries, workforce diversity addresses differences among people within given | |countries. | | | |Workforce diversity means that organizations are becoming more heterogeneous in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity. It is an issue in Canada, Australia, | |South Africa, Japan, and Europe as well as the United States.Show MoreRelatedCulture in Negotiation7014 Words   |  29 Pagesinformation sharing in negotiation. The article describes why inter-cultural negotiations pose signi ® cant strategic challenges, but concludes that negotiators who are motivated to search for information, and are  ¯ exible about how that search is carried out, can reach high-quality negotiated outcomes. Downloaded by [UQ Library] at 16:52 09 September 2011  à  à    Cet article presente un modele sur la maniere dont la culture in ¯ uence les processus et les resultats d’une negociation. Il commence parRead MoreOrganisational Theory230255 Words   |  922 Pages. Organization Theory Challenges and Perspectives John McAuley, Joanne Duberley and Phil Johnson . This book is, to my knowledge, the most comprehensive and reliable guide to organisational theory currently available. What is needed is a text that will give a good idea of the breadth and complexity of this important subject, and this is precisely what McAuley, Duberley and Johnson have provided. They have done some sterling service in bringing together the very diverse strands of workRead MoreGame Theory and Economic Analyst83847 Words   |  336 Pagescontributors Introduction Christian Schmidt Game theory has already observed the passage of its ï ¬ ftieth birthday; that is, if one accepts the conventional chronology which places its birth at the publication of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (TGEB) by Von Neumann and Morgenstern (1944). This anniversary evidently did not escape the notice of the Academy of Stockholm, which in 1994 awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to three game theorists, Nash, Harsanyi, and Selten. A