Quiz 1 Flashcards
On the Folly of Rewarding
In War: Vietnam vs WWII
In Medicine: Prescriptions
In Academia: Research vs Teaching, Students, Learning vs Grades
In Sports: Individual stats vs team victory
Please corporations, Experiment on us
CAN it ever be ethical for companies or governments to experiment on their employees, customers or citizens without their consent?
Facebook
OKCupid
CEO writing letter to employees about 401K match - would it cause change, for better or for worse, how would it be measured?
Lincoln Electric
From Class: No lay offs Good pay No micromanagement A lot of stability, not a lot of pay raise
The upside of irrationality
Student coming back to professor at MIT
-Has big corporate job in NYC, gets laundry done for him
Upset that he spend so much time on a powerpoint, but it got tossed aside, lost drive
- Monkey video from class (grapes, cucumbers)
- Parrott working for food - motivate when he had to earn it
- What is it besides a paycheck that confers meaning onto work?
Is it completing a task?
We are dealing with something ‘bigger’
-Our work matters to someone
As long as we are doing something that is connected to our self image, it can fuel our motivation and get us to work much harder.
-Contrafreeloading - anmials prefer to earn food
Small m - that which creates a small level of meaning
What this class is about
Maximizing your potential
Potential of your teams
Your organizations(s)
Organizational Behavior:
“…the systematic study and application of knowlede about how individuals and groups act within the organizations where they work.”
Three levels of analysis:
Individual
Group
Organization
Managing Yourself > Managing your team > Managing your organization
Why does learning about managing and leading matter? -
because technical skills alone are not enough to succeed in management
Primary cause of workplace discontent -
their boss!
Over 70% of american workers are “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” from their work.
“The single biggest decision you make in your job - bigger than all the rest - is who you name manager”
Effective Management, You need to know how to:
Make good decidison
Motivate others
Persuade and influence other
Understand team and organizational dynamics
Organization Behavior:
the systematic study and application of knowledge about how individuals and gruops act within organiztions.
Based on data, not intuitions
Evidence based Management
Goals
Prediction
Explantion
Control
Class example: when is the best time to hold meeting?
Common Strategies
1) Look at what is commonly done
2) Following the marketing hype
3) Rely on salient examples (looking at others succeess)
The best way to learn:
Experimentation: Only by using an experimental design can we infer causality - meaning that a variable causes another variable to change
Independent Variable: the one you change
Dependent variable: the one you measue to see if it changed
Motivation:
the willingness to exert persistent levels of effort towards organizational goals
