organizational behaviour

WRITE 5 Blogs ( minimum 200 WORDS each ) in response to a periodical like a newspaper or business magazine that you find interesting .Answer 2 questions: 1) Why did you choose this article, what does it have to do with ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR? 2) What did you learn.
Also – what is your preferred dealing with conflict style ? is it avoiding – or smoothing – or forcing – or compromising – or problem solving ?
Give a real life example about the difference between hearing and listening

Use the follwoing problem solving technique and discribe a real problem and work through it using the following model ( check you tube ) for refrences

Definition of the problem – then Data collection- then cause analysis – then Cause Analysis – then Solution Planning + Implementation – then Evalution of Effects – then – Standarization of the solution. – Evaluation of Process -
Communication During Recession

In the recessions in the early eighties and nineties and after the 2001 terrorist attacks, layoffs were fairly private affairs. To be sure, news would often leak out to local and national media outlets, but companies did their best to keep it as quiet as possible. One consequence of the growth of the Internet in general, and of social networking sites in particular, is that this is no longer possible.

When Starbucks laid off employees in 2008 and 2009, the Web site StarbucksGossip.com received a barrage of posts from disgruntled employees. One 10-year employee wrote, ?This company is going to lose every great partner that it has. I am sick and tired of being blamed for not meeting my budget when the economy is in a recession. I used to be proud of my company . . . now I am embarrassed and feel physically ill every time I have to go to work.?

Some companies are taking a more proactive approach. When Tesla Motors laid off employees, its CEO, Elon Musk, posted a blog entry on the topic just before announcing the layoffs to employees. ?We had to say something to prevent articles being written that were not accurate,? he said.

?Today, whatever you say inside a company will end up in a blog,? says Rusy Rueff, a former executive at Pepsico. ?So, you have a choice as a company?you can either be proactive and say, ?Here?s what?s going on,? or you can allow someone else to write the story for you.?

Illustrating the perils of ignoring the blogosphere, when newspaper giant Gannett announced it was laying off 10 percent of its employees, it posted no blog entries and made no statement. Jim Hopkins, a 20-year veteran who left the company just before the layoffs, writes the unofficial Gannett Blog. ?I try to give the unvarnished truth. I don?t think the company offers the same level of candor to employees,? he said. Gannett spokeswoman Tara Connell replied, ?We attempt to make those personal communications happen as quickly as possible.?

Says blog expert Andy Sernovitz, ?There are hold-out companies that still wish there was traditional P.R. control of the message, but that day is long over?

CASE STUDY Communication During Recession Questions

1. Do you think Tesla CEO Elon Musk did the right thing when he blogged about impending layoffs just before announcing them to company employees?

Why or why not?

2.. How can a company develop a policy for handling communication of sensitive issues inside, and outside, the company
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