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Question

You were recently promoted to a manager position in the Public Works Department with the City of Rio Salado. You will be overseeing four supervisor positions. Each supervisor has 7-9 employees in their unit.

You are excited about this promotion, but also a little nervous. As a new manager, you want to create team environment and assist your supervisors in understanding organizational behavior concepts so they can be strong leaders too.

To strengthen your understanding of organizational behavior, you will first conduct some research about organizational behavior topics and share this information with your new employees.

Select three of the topic statements below in the box and write *memo* about the topics to the supervisors you manage. Address each topic separately in the memo with a heading. The memo must include these components for each topic:

Identify, explain, and apply concepts and theories.

Provide examples of each topic including how you can apply this topic to the workplace.

Explain why it is important for a manager to understand this topic.

List of topic statements (Select 3 to write about):

Motivation and Behavior: Explain the relationship between motivation and behavior. How can a manager motivate employees?

Job Satisfaction and Behavior: Describe the relationship between job satisfaction and behavior. How does this relationship affect the workplace? How can the manager influence this relationship?

Effective Communication: Describe an effective communication program within an organization undergoing dramatic change.

Public Organization Culture: Identify at least three key elements that define a public organization's culture.

Resistance to Change: Identify and explain why individual and organizational resistance to change exists. How can a manager address the resistance?

Personal self: Explain the importance of understanding self-awareness, emotional intelligence, personality, emotions and values in the workplace.

Perception: Explain how perception affects the individual decision-making process. Also, what is the relationship between perception and behavior in the workplace?