BUAD 200 Lecture Notes - Job Satisfaction, Neuroticism, Psychological Contract

• School: Mary Baldwin University
• Department: Business
• Course: BUAD 200
• Professor: Cavin Chung

Document Summary

List the key set of behaviors that matter for organizational performance. The polc framework: planning, vision and mission, strategizing, goals & objectives, organizing, organization design, culture, social networks. Leading: leadership, decision making, communications, groups/teams, motivation, controlling, systems/processes, strategic human resources. Successful organizations depend upon getting the right mix of individuals in the right positions at the right time: each individual brings the following to the workplace, skills, personality, ability, values. For example, the wonderlic cognitive ability test is used by the national football league when evaluating the learning aptitude of new players entering the draft. Security: the desire for safety and stability, firefighters and police officers undergo extensive training to help them achieve goals of protecting and serving others. Self-direction: the desire to be free and independent, many academics are drawn to a career in research because of the ability to independently pursue their intellectual curiosity on any number of topics with relatively little outside influence.