Leader vs. Manager vs. Executive
June 11, 2009 – 11:06 pm | No Comment

Leader vs. Manager vs. Executive … one of these 3 terms does not belong here.
Which one? Leader! In business, leadership is a trait of a manager useful to exert formal authority in interacting …

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Organizational Development

“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” Eric Hoffer

Organizational Behavior

“Show me a great company and I’ll show you one that has radically changed itself and is looking forward to the opportunity of doing so again.” Lawrence Bossidy

Leadership

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.” Colin Powel

Negotiation

”If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.” Rudyard Kipling

Business Strategy

”In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.” Lee Iacocca

Job satisfaction
April 5, 2009 – 10:05 pm | 2 Comments

Job satisfaction is defined as a collection of attitudes next to your job. You like parts or all of it. It is important to measure it because in the study of organizational behavior …

You have to change your attitude or else
April 5, 2009 – 6:03 pm | No Comment

The management of a company has an interest in changing the attitudes mostly towards ethics, change management processes, safety practices, and workforce diversity.
A 1+1=2 process says that if you change beliefs or values …

What is attitude good for?
April 5, 2009 – 11:03 am | No Comment

Just defining the concept of attitude is nice.
I care mostly about the answer to one question: What’s in it for me?
The functions you achieve by understating attitudes relates to:

Expressing values – your attitude …

Attitudes
April 5, 2009 – 10:58 am | No Comment

Your attitude next to a subject (thing or person) is an evaluation process. The components are your feelings, beliefs and your predisposition to act towards the subject in a certain manner.
Your values are …

Cross-cultural values
April 3, 2009 – 4:46 pm | One Comment

Globalization is a buzz word. Isolationism is another. In any case there are some cross-cultural values that can be applied to nations which where defined by Geert Hofstede. These values influence the organizational …

Values
April 3, 2009 – 3:19 pm | No Comment

Values are not just basic beliefs, needs or standards relatively stable across the life span.
Values are the things that really matter to you!
They develop under the influence of culture, society, and personality and …

Attribution and how managers should deal with it
April 2, 2009 – 12:18 pm | No Comment

Attribution theory is focused how people understand what the causes of the event are and how they judge the people involved.
The causes of an event are:

Internal (dispositional) – under the observer control
External (situational) …

Biases in perception
April 2, 2009 – 12:14 pm | No Comment

Bias … a word that ranges from tendency to prejudice.  Some of the most common biases studied in organizational behavior are:
Primacy effect – the first impression, quick to appear but it last long. …

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