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PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW. EACH MUST BE IN THE DIFFERENT WORD DOCUMENTS.

Question 1:

Decision-Making

Our text suggests that objective reality is often significantly different from perceived reality and is an important variable to consider when making decisions within an organization. In addition, attribution theory describes how people create the explanations for their own and others’ actions, as well as the outcomes of the applied behaviors. Based on these two premises, consider the following and then, formulate an analysis about how attribution theory and bias (according to chapter 8 in our text) can explain human behaviors within organizations and industry.

  • Use, or closely follow, this template for your paper.
  • Consider the following information associated with attribution theory to support to your writing about decision-making:
    • perceptions
    • bounded reality
    • cognitive biases
    • conjunction fallacy
    • consistency
    • consensus
    • distinctiveness
    • fundamental attribution error
    • creative decision making
  • Writing Content
    • Decision-Making
      • Based on our content this week, discuss the importance of rationale decision-making in an organization, using necessary citations. Include how bounded reality, cognitive biases, and conjunction fallacy might affect decision-making.
    • Attribution Theory
      • Explain attribution theory using necessary citations. Include a discussion about the effects of consistency, consensus, distinctiveness, and fundamental attribution error. Consider inclusion about the effects of perception, primacy and recency effects, selective perceptions, contrast effect, stereotyping to further support your discussion.
    • Personal Experience: Inaccurate Judgement
      • Based on our content this week, consider your own experiences with others. Have your actions ever been judged inaccurately by a person such as a boss, a peer, or a family member? How could this experience support your thesis about whether or not attribution theory and bias affect human behaviors with organization?
      • Can self-serving, or other, bias affect one’s perception of a behavior?
    • Creative Decision Making
      • Explain how creative decision-making can improve our ability to make better decisions, considering the numerous obstacles to do so. Include an analysis about how good decision making can potentially affect productivity and job satisfaction.

Writing considerations:

  1. The introduction paragraph should introduce your topic and clearly explain what the paper will address.
  2. Headings can be used to organize your information. See template. (Each heading should include at least two paragraphs – minimum.)
  3. Each paragraph should make a point which can be linked back to your introduction paragraph. Design the topic sentence to embody what the paragraph will entail.
  4. The most important consideration in the body paragraphs is the argument that you want to develop (is or is not perceptions, attribution theory and bias applicable?) in response to the topic (applicability of perception, attribution theory and bias). This argument is developed by making and linking points in and between paragraphs.
  5. The conclusion paragraph should restate your thesis (your suggestion that perceptions, attribution theory and bias does or does not apply to human behaviors in organizations.)

Your assignment should be a minimum of five to six double-spaced pages, and should adequately discuss the topic, demonstrate maturating self-awareness, and include at least one peer-reviewed source, in addition to your text. Use the rubric to check for thoroughness. Include frequent citation to resources.

The Ashford Library should be used as your primary resource for this assignment, but other credible sources will also be accepted. Your sources should be cited according to APA format as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

The paper

Question 2:

Chapter 10, as well as your required resources, address employee attitudes and suggest that an increase in job performance is reliant on job satisfaction. The authors of our text suggest that highly satisfying jobs are more complex, requiring the worker to utilize a variety of skills and to deal with unpredictable situations (i.e. teaching, managing, engineering, etc.), unlike jobs where the work is repetitive and less thought-provoking (general laborers, factory workers, and the like). In addition, the work expectations are suggested to differ based on generations, which may likely also affect job satisfaction.

  • Consider the generation you fall into, based on the text:
    • Generation Y or the Millennials
  • Consider your own expectations. Do they align with what the content and outside sources suggest about the characteristics of these generational groups?
  • Applying this component (work expectations), consider you own goals for going back to school. Do your goals align with these expectations?
  • Do you think your educational/career goals align with the suggestions about job satisfaction? Do you desire to obtain a higher-level thinking career? If so, why? If not, why not?
  • After analyzing all of the factors, what do you think the implications might be on an organization’s productivity with the evolving employee expectations, need for work-life balance, and job satisfaction?
    • Do you think we will see changes in the future of how organizations achieve these goals? How?
  • Consider a goal you might assign to a group at your work, the organization where you volunteer, or other potential organization. (Examples: (a) to decrease the errors in timecard submissions, or (b) to successfully submit a group project to the instructor.) Applying Chapter 9, what potential strategies would be important to consider to assist a diverse multi-generational team in deciding on possible strategies and successfully meeting the goal?

Your initial post should be between 350 and 400 words. You must use at least one scholarly, peer-reviewed source that was published within the past five years. Cite all information from your sources according to APA guidelines as outlined in the In-Text Citation Helper: A Guide to Making APA In-Text Citations (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. List each of your sources at the end of your post according to APA style as shown in the sample page for References (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Question 3

Workplace stress can have long-term effects. Our text identifies the following four areas which can increase this type of stress:

  • Role conflict: two or more incompatible demands at work or across work and non-work roles
  • Role ambiguity: vagueness or unclearness in role responsibilities and functions
  • Workload incompatibility: occurs when the amount of work to be accomplished exceeds the employee’s capabilities
  • Job insecurity: the feeling that the security of one’s job is unstable

In addition, happiness and positivity can lead to personal success and further indicates the following ideas to increase one’s happiness:

  • Setting challenging and meaningful goals
  • Disputing negative thinking and deliberately practicing positive self-talk
  • Choosing to forgive others and let go of grudges and hard feelings
  • Counting one’s blessings and intentionally expressing gratitude for them
  • Visualizing future success
  • Practicing healthy habits such as a balanced diet, adequate sleep, and regular exercise

Thus, hypothetically these suggestions and ideas can be applied to each of our lives. Whether you are working and going to school, or just going to school, they are applicable since school, too, is an organization.

After reading and viewing all of the required resources this week, consider all of the factors related to a person’s health and the workplace, how can you apply the concepts to your own life right now?

  • Identify at least three strategies that you can implement today to increase your level of success in the situation you most identify with.
  • Why do you think these strategies can work for you?
  • What strategies could you utilize to increase someone else’s happiness level and assist them in increased success based on our content?
  • Overall, consider the past five weeks of content. What do you think are two of the most important factors that will be applicable to you and your current goals? What about to your future goals? Why or How?

Your journal should be a minimum of four to five double-spaced pages, adequately discuss all questions posed, and demonstrate maturating self-awareness.