You are to read chapters 3-6 and write a 2 page paper covering a topic of Organizational Behavior.

Topic: Choose a topic of your choice from the chapters above.

Each weekly written assignment (paper) is worth a minimum of 100 points. You must cite your sources. USE DIRECT QUOTATIONS AND PARAPHASING. THERES A MINIMUM OF 2 SOURCES 1 FROM THE TEXTBOOK AND THE OTHER FROM A SCHOLARLY SOURCE. The university standard has been the APA style. Your source citation must work – if I cannot get to the source it is invalid and will be graded accordingly.

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Organizational Behavior

The study of organizational behavior includes areas of research dedicated to improving job performance, increasing job satisfaction, promoting innovation, and encouraging leadership. Each has its own recommended actions, such as reorganizing groups, modifying compensation structures, or changing methods of performance evaluation.

The study of organizational behavior has its roots in the late 1920s, when the Western Electric Company launched a now-famous series of studies of the behavior of workers at its Hawthorne Works plant in Cicero, Illinois.¹

Researchers there set out to determine whether workers could be made to be more productive if their environment was upgraded with better lighting and other design improvements. To their surprise, the researchers found that the environment was less important than social factors. It was more important, for example, that people got along with their co-workers and felt their bosses appreciated them.

Those initial findings inspired a series of wide-ranging studies between 1924 and 1933.¹ They included the effects on productivity of work breaks, isolation, and lighting, among many other factors.

The best known of the results is called the Hawthorne Effect, which describes the way test subjects’ behavior may change when they know they are being observed. Researchers are taught to consider whether and to what degree the Hawthorne Effect is skewing their findings on human behavior.