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. It is the main people selection tool that you use everyday. Try not to judge employees or employers based on that. You...
read moreA team justifies its existence only if it brings added value through numbers. That means if 1+1=3. An employee has the tendency to ‘free-ride”. It is human nature. Social loafing is an organizational behavior of an employee that makes less effort in a team compared with the way he behaves next to an individual task. The...
read moreAttribution 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) – under the control of the environment or other people A manager should pay attention to...
read moreThe performance of a team is based on what you start with, namely what type and number of people are in the team and how you define what they have to do (tasks). The ideal tasks are divisible tasks. They can be separated easily and the team members are happy with things being easily identified. The unitary tasks are those for which...
read moreAn effective team is not just a bunch of people put together. It is about complementarity of employee’s competencies, it takes time and if one member leaves, the team hurts. A team does not have what is called “group thinking”. A team does not a leader as in somebody to lead. A team needs a manager that is, most of...
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