Organizational Behavior Week 2

Learning Activity #1

Using the side bars found in this week’s content tab, along with our reading material, explain how the trends are altering or making job performance harder to manage.

Be sure to identify in the answer what is meant by job performance.

Explain how the trend affects performance behavior.

Identify the challenge the trend has for the manager.

Learning Activity #2

Using the side bars found in this week’s content tab, along with our reading material, explain how the trends are altering or making job commitment harder to manage.

Be sure to identify in the answer what is meant by job commitment.

Explain how the trend affects job commitment.

Identify the challenge the trend has for the manager.

This week we examine job performance behaviors and what constitutes good job performance. Generally, relevant job performance behaviors fall in to three categories, task performance and citizenship behavior which contributes to the success of organization positively and counterproductive behavior which affects the organization negatively. Identifying behaviors that fall into these three groups and their relevance to organizational effectiveness will explain why job performance is considered one of the major outcomes in the study of organizational behavior.