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Contemporary Organizational Behavior – Global Citizenship & Equity Assignment

Contemporary Organizational Behavior – Global Citizenship & Equity Assignment Questions: 1. What do you perceive as unique “Canadian” beliefs, values, and attitudes [at the individual level and at the organizational level]? How do these translate into [emergent] behaviours? 2. What parts of your identity, values, and/ or beliefs are the same as these “Canadian” values and what parts appear different?...
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Motivation Theories – Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor, McClelland

1. What is motivation? Motivation is an individual’s drive, desire, self-encouragement towards achieving a goal. One of the best-known theories of motivation [which is not really a theory about motivation, but has implications to motivation, and other things….] is Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y: Theory X managers think that employees are lazy, they dislike work, they avoid responsibility...
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Ellen Worksheet – Organizational Commitment, Stages of Dissatisfaction, Motivational Theories, Job Dimensions

Case Scenario Ellen got her ”first, good – real” job [not counting the “McJobs” she had while going to school to make some money for tuition, books, entertainment, etc…]. She got this “real” job after being interviewed once during a period when unemployment was very low. Not knowing any better, she felt lucky to get this job. In this “real”...
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Protected Grounds – Ancestry, Colour, Race, Citizenship, Ethnic Origin, Place of Origin

1. Find a relevant piece of Human Rights Legislation [either Canada-Federal or Provincial / Territorial]. For this assignment, I will discuss the Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC). 2. What are the “protected grounds? As per the OHRC, the protected grounds are citizenship, race, place of origin, ethnic origin, colour, ancestry, disability, age, creed, sex/pregnancy, family status, marital status, sexual orientation,...
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External Trends – CREST, PEST, PESTEL

1. Identify one organization operating in Canada. Air Canada, Canada’s national airline company.  2. List the external trends in each category of CREST/PEST/PESTEL. CREST: Competition, regulation and laws, economy, social, technology. PEST: Political, economic, social, technological. PESTEL: Political, economic, social, technological, environmental, legal. 3. Explain how the trends could impact this organization and what that organization would need to do...
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Research Paper – Workplace Productivity: Investigations into the Relationship between Hours Worked and Employee Productivity

Workplace Productivity:Investigations into the Relationshipbetween Hours Worked and Employee Productivity Table of Content A.   Introduction & Relevance to Us. 3 B.    Relevance to Contemporary Organizational Behaviour in the Canadian context 4 C.    Literature Search. 5 D.   The Case for the 6-hour Workday by Steve Glaveski on Harvard Business Review.. 6 E.    Working Hours and Productivity by IZA Institute of Labor...
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