Organization Behavior Week 2-1

People are completely different
People are exactly the same

Objective
* Identify individual learning style

3 Levels of Analysis
- Individual
- Group
- Organizational

*A learning organization is skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge and modifying its behavior to reflect new knowlege and insights.

Characteristic of learning org
-Systematic problem solving
-Experimentation
-Learning from past experience
-Learning from others
-Transferring knowledge

Adaptive
-small improvement
-one loop

Generative
-Double loop learning
-Creative orientation
-challenge underlying assumption
-Continuous experimentation and feedback

Personality
-Act, behavior,
-moods, states
-traits- consistency & duration most
-Two frameworks used to describe personality:
-Big Five Model
-Myer Brig

Self-Esteem
Machiavellianism - doing whatever it take to meet the means
Locus of Control - who's in control of u'r life?
Narcissism - in love w/ 1 self
Self - Monitoring - step back look at situation apart from self
Risk Taking - how much are u willing to take risk
Type A Personality - Hardriving push things done
Proactive Personality

Guideline for Dealing with Difficult people
-Create a rich picture of:
The Problem Person
Yourself
The situation
Reframe your goals
Stage the encounter
Follow up