question archive 1) The text identifies four basic managerial functions
1) The text identifies four basic managerial functions
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1) The text identifies four basic managerial functions. Based on your own experiences or observations provide examples of each function.
2. Which managerial skills do you think are among your strengths? Which are among your weaknesses? How might you improve the latter?
3. Suppose you have to hire a new manager. Once candidate has outstanding technical skills but poor interpersonal skills. The other has exactly the opposite mix of skills. Which would you hire? Why?
4. Some people believe that individuals working in an organization have basic human rights to satisfaction with their work and to the opportunity to grow and develop. How would you defend this position? How would you argue against it?
5. Many universities offer course in industrial or organizational psychology. The content of this courses is quite similar to the content of this one. Do you think that behavioral material is best taught in a business or in a psychology program or is it best to teach it in both?
6. Do you believe the field of organizational behavior has the potential to become prescriptive as opposed to descriptive? Why or why not?
7. Get a recent issue of a popular business magazine such as Business Week or Fortune and scan its major articles. Do any of them reflect concepts from organizational behavior? Describe.
