OB - Questions For Review (PGDM, 2022)
OB - Questions For Review (PGDM, 2022)
1. What is Organizational Behaviour (OB)? List the key employability skills gained from studying
OB?
2. What are the two major forms of workplace diversity? Describe how organizations manage diversity
effectively?
3. What is personality? What factors determine personality? List the key aspects of MBTI and BIG-5
personality frameworks.
4. Discuss how the concepts of core self-evaluation, self-monitoring, and proactive personality
contribute to understanding of personality.
5. What is affective events theory? What are the sources of emotions and moods? Distinguish between
emotions and moods.
6. Describe attribution theory. What are the factors that influence our perception? Explain the link
between perception and individual decision making?
7. What causes job satisfaction? Identify three outcomes of job satisfaction.
8. What are the 3-components of job attitudes? What are the major job attitudes?
9. How do Hofstede’s five value dimensions and the GLOBE framework differ?
10. Define learning and outline the principles of the three major theories of learning.
11. Describe Emotional Intelligence (EI)? What are the strategies for emotion regulation?
12. How is rational model of decision making different from bounded rationality and intuition?
1. List with diagram the five aspects of Hackman and Oldham - 'Job Characteristics Model'
2. Briefly explain the Tuckman’s Model - Five Stages of Team Development
3. Give a diagrammatic representation of Four Types of Work Teams
4. What are the 3 Categories and 9 Roles of Belbin's Team
5. Explain the link between Group Size and Social Loafing
6. Explain the three 'Group Decision-Making Techniques'
7. Define Conflict and 5 conflict-handling intentions
LEADERSHIP
1. Explain with an example Situation-Based Leadership
2. Explain Leader-Member-Exchange (L-M-X) theory of Leadership
3. List Four points of distinction between Transactional Leadership and Transformational Leadership
Theories of MOTIVATION
* Abraham Maslow, ** Fredrick Herzberg, *** David McClelland, **** Edwin Locke
Short Notes:
[1] Counterproductive Work Behaviour (CWB)
[2] Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
[3] Deviant Workplace Behaviours
[4] Mintzberg’s Managerial Roles
[5] Discrimination in Workplace
[6] Job Characteristics Model
[7] Emotional Labour
Important: Refer to OB Text-Book by Stephen Robbins and Timothy Judge available in our Library.