Organizational Behavior Essay

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FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND FINANCE (FBF) ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014 MAY 2013 TRIMESTER SUBJECT CODE: UBMM2023 SUBJECT TITLE: ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR TUTORIAL QUESTIONS TUTORIAL 1 1. Ice-breaking session. 2. Self introduction by tutor and students. 3. Briefing on unit plan and assignments 4. Tutorial expectation and student’s participation 5. Team formation for group assignment. TUTORIAL 2 (TOPIC 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD OF OB) 1. A friend suggests that organisational behaviour courses are useful only to people who will enter management careers. Discuss the accuracy of your friend’s statement. 2. WindTunnel Ltd, a manufacturer of commercial vacuum cleaner systems, has heard about new computer-based technologies that help vacuum cleaner systems to work more efficiently and provide additional features to users. So far, only one British vacuum cleaner company has apparently moved to integrate this technology into its products, but more firms will soon follow. Senior executives at WindTunnel are also aware of a small engineering firm that has applied similar computer technology to military suction-like products. No one at WindTunnel has much experience or knowledge with this computer technology, yet the company needs such expertise quickly. Explain which knowledge acquisition strategy would best help WindTunnel to gain the necessary intellectual capital. 3. Debate the organisational opportunities and challenges of the emerging employment relationships. 4. ‘Organisational theories should follow the contingency approach.’ Comment on the accuracy of this statement. 5. Senior officers in a national military organisation decided that operations in supplies requisition were inefficient and costly. They brought in consultants who recommended that the entire requisition process be

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