Discussion Questions by Week Week One Discussion Questions

Which of the following employee characteristics have the greatest impact on employee behavior: general attitudes, job satisfaction, emotions and moods, personality, values, or perception? Provide a rationale for your choice. *
What type of assessments and evaluations might you use to determine the characteristics of your employees? Does the type of tool used make a difference? Why? *
Which of the following employee characteristics have the greatest impact on organizational performance: general attitudes, job satisfaction, emotions and moods, personality, values, or perception? Provide a rationale for your choice. *
How might an individual employee’s personality affect the performance of an organization? If the effect is negative, how might you change this? If the affect is positive, how can you capitalize on this? *
As a manager, how can you use your knowledge of employee characteristics to improve organizational performance? Provide specific examples to support your response. *
Review the section in Ch. 5 of your text titled, “An Ethical Choice: What If I Have the ‘Wrong Personality?’” As a manager, what do you if you have someone who scores low in desirable personality traits, but their behavior does not reflect this? How would this affect your management of that employee? How might this affect the organization? Week Two Discussion Questions There are a variety of theories of motivation, many of which are complementary. Of the main motivational theories described in the text, which theory or theories do you think would apply most fully to the people you had take the self-assessments? Why? *
In Week One, you learned about individual personality characteristics. How do these traits affect the type of motivational strategy you use? Provide an example of how