Question 1:

(a) Define the concept of organization and organizational behavior.

(b) Trace the historical developments and schools of thought leading up to the field of organizational behavior today .

Question 2:

(a) Discuss how the ideographic and nomothethic approaches of personality can help in the study of behavior in organizations.

(b) Explain how the attribution process works and describe the various sources of bias in the perception process.

Question 3:

(a) How do norms,roles, status and cohesiveness influence the operations of groups?

(b) How do the phenomena of social facilitation and social loafing influence the performance of individuals in group settings?

Question 4:

(a)What forms of power may be found in organizations?
(b)Describe when organizational politics occurs and the form such behavior takes in organizations.

Question 5:

(a) What is job satisfaction and show the factors that influence job satisfaction?
(b) What are the different approaches to job design?