Ldr 531 Week 2 Learning Team Reflection

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Week 2 Learning Team Reflection Team A University of Phoenix LDR 531 Instructor November 09, 2011 Week 2 Learning Team Reflection During Week 2, team “B” reflected back on the assigned reading. The team evaluated how attitudes, emotions, personality, and values influence behaviors. Team B additionally developed a plan to increase employee motivation, satisfaction, and performance. The team found that managers and leaders influenced organizational behavior and employee attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values. These influences affect employee morale, motivation, satisfaction and performance. These factors play a role in the organizational climate. Attitudes and Emotions Influencing Behaviors Cassandra feels that employee attitudes and emotions can definitely play a role in influencing behaviors in the workplace. An employee displaying positive attitudes and emotions shares the feelings of a positive attitude with his/her co-workers. The coined expression “one bad apple spoils the bunch’ applies when an employee displays a negative or bad attitude or even an attitude that does not coincide with the already established organizational culture. Vaniser feels the most important thing one learns from these topics is the fact that not everyone’s attitude and emotions are the same and it is in that difference that we find interest, new ideas, and new ways of doing things. The value we put on an individual personality traits and moral values is more about what we are than about what we think they are. It is our perception of people, culture and events that colors our lives and creates the environment in which we make decisions. We can be on target with our perception, but that does not necessarily make us correct in how we attribute these perceptions to others. If we show a bad attitude or emotions then this can pass to your employees and they

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