MOD1501CS – Double Spaced Courier New - Include a cover page and reference page, in addition to the 4-5 pages of analysis described above.
Organizational behavior focuses on 3 levels of analysis: the individual, the group, and the organization. Module 1 focuses on the individual level of analysis. OB topics that are studies under this category include: diversity, employees’ motivation, job attitudes including job satisfaction, emotions and moods, personality and values.
In this Module we focus on job attitudes and job satisfaction and on motivation. Employees have attitudes about various aspects of their jobs, their peers, their supervisors and their organizations. Job satisfaction is considered the most focal employee attitude. The most-used research definition of job satisfaction is by Locke (1976), who defined it as “. . . a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job or job experiences” (p. 1304). Implicit in Locke’s definition is the importance of both feeling and thinking. According to Saari and Judge (2004): “when we think, we have feelings about what we think. Conversely, when we have feelings, we think about what we feel. Cognition and affect are thus inextricably linked, in our psychology and even in our biology. Thus, when evaluating our jobs, as when we assess most anything important to us, both thinking and feeling are involved”.
Work motivation refers to the driving force by which employees achieve their goals. Different motivation theories focus on different aspects of the motivation construct. Some theories distinguish between different levels of motivation while others differentiate between different types of motivation, like in the case of extrinsic versus intrinsic motivation or autonomous versus controlled motivation.
Organizational behavior focuses on 3 levels of analysis: the individual, the group, and