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82Building a High Performance Team
Teams have existed in some form for as long as humankind and many books and articles have been written about how teams work. Most people have been on teams with mixed results. Teams can have a tremendous...
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95Organizational Behavior: Terminology and Concepts
Schermerhorn et al (2005), define organizational behavior (OB) as "the study of human behavior in organizations" (p. 3). OB uses scientific methods to test hypotheses. OB is also a multi-disciplinary study, taking knowledge from social and...
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82Labor Relations
Labor relations affects all aspects of an organizations operations. Federal law mandates workers ability to organize, but do unions really represent workers?
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87Management and Leadership
Managing and leading are two different, although related, functions in an organization. A manager is someone who takes care of the day to day responsibilities of an organization. These tasks include activities such as reporting, giving direction to...
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88Role and Responsibilites of Human Resources
In a short amount of time, Human Resources (HR) management has gone from an administrative function to a full fledged strategic partner in the enterprise. Many companies have completed this transition, but some companies still struggle with the...
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83Incentive Plans
Before deciding on an incentive plan, an organization must have a strategic need identified. Depending on the size of the organization some key reasons for creating incentive plans include; attracting new mployees or retaining existing ones, reduction of taxes, or plan for retirement. Not all experts agree on the effectiveness of incentive plans for motivating employees though. Some research has shown negative results for organizations which have implemented incentive plans.
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773 Logical Fallacies
Bad polling data, smoking bans, gambling superstitions, and causes of fires, all seemingly unrelated, but are they? Whenever these issuses are discussed it is easy to fall prey to logical sophistry....
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83Chunking as a Decision Making Tool
One method of problem solving or decision-making is a process called "chunking". Chunking is grouping or categorizing related issues or information into the smallest, most meaningful unit. Think about how hard...
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