QUESTION #1
1) Job attitudes are an important mediating variable for understanding the relationship between organizational
mechanisms, group mechanisms, individual characteristics, and individual and organizational outcomes.
a) What is role theory? Why is role theory important for understanding job attitudes? In your answer, make use
of the Affective Events Theory to describe why role theory is important for job attitudes.
b) What is the bandwidth problem? Why is it important to consider the bandwidth problem when examining the
relationship between job attitudes and outcomes of job attitudes?
QUESTION #2
2) Performance management is important for providing employees with timely feedback that helps them
understand the expectations of their work.
a) How can an organization's design influence its performance management system?
b) How can an organization's climate and/or culture influence its performance management system?
QUESTION #3
A financial company allows each manager to create their own selection process for hiring investors. After
comparing 20 teams similar in size and target markets, leadership has found that one team was moderately
profitable in the last year but has been fined more than any other team for ethical violations involving breaches
of privacy and FDIC violations.
After talking with the manager of the team, leadership found that the manager tends to make hiring decisions
on their own using an unstructured interview. In addition, the manager hires any candidate that will be "a good
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performer". The manager is aware that the team has the most violations in the company but thinks its justified
by the high profits they return.
a) Using all three of the philosophical perspectives of judgment and decision making, how would you describe
the manager's current hiring practices and what interventions would you implement to improve the manager's
hiring practices?
b) How would you train these investors to make more ethical decisions going forward? Be sure to use ideas
from judgment and decision making as well as training.
QUESTION #4
4) A sanitation company specializing in solid waste management has had trouble recruiting employees over the
last few years. To address the problem, they rebranded themselves as an "environmental services company"
and began to offer large signing bonuses and benefit packages for new employees.
The company uses an individualized (i.e., on-the-job) onboarding technique, but have found these new
employees are mostly confused about their job responsibilities or feel the culture of the organization isn't what
they signed up for and quit.
Furthermore, the company has found that their seasoned staff feel the situation is unfair as new employees are
coming in with higher pay and more benefits. They have become demotivated.
a) Applying research on the ASA framework, onboarding, and socialization, what would you suggest the
company do to help retain new employees?
b) What would you suggest the company do to motivate its seasoned staff? In your answer, include at least two
theories of motivation and one type of justice.
QUESTION #5
For I-O psychologists to provide a significant value over common sense and be effective science advocates,
we must collect scientific evidence to inform our theories and apply that evidence in our practice.
Select one topic we've discussed so far this semester (e.g., organizational culture, socialization, affect, job
attitudes) and discuss the following:
a) Briefly summarize the key themes we have discovered about this topic based on our scientific evidence.
b) Why are these themes relevant to organizations and how can we apply it effectively in practice?
c) What specific barriers exist to collecting scientific evidence on this topic (i.e., what makes it difficult to study
this topic)? Your answer can include theoretical and/or methodological issues.
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