What personal characteristics or competencies do you think the individual members of the team should possess? How do these characteristics or competencies contribute to the team’s success?

Organizational Behaviour: Motivation and Group Dynamics PurposeThis assignment will allow you to apply concepts of organizational behavior, specific to motivation theories and group dynamics.Using your experiences and knowledge of a workplace or organization where you have worked, volunteered or are quite familiar, read through and answer the following scenarios and questions. There are two parts […]

Discuss ways to impact expectancy and/or reward value to motivate action in one of the characters in one of the other two scenarios you did not choose. Provide support for your response.

The Puzzle of Motivation Watch The Puzzle of Motivation | Dan Pink before working on this week’s assignments. (TED talk) Read Using the DISC Behavioral Instrument to Guide Leadership and Communication to prepare for this week’s discussion. BEHAVIORAL INSTRUMENTS can be useful tools to help leaders gain insight into how to better communicate with coworkers. […]

Describe how this leader’s research/work has added to the body of IO psychology knowledge. Do you see an opportunity for further research in this area? How will you apply the key principles or ideas from this work in your own workplace or professional journey?

Leading Minds in the Industry Part 1: Watch ONE of the Ted Talk listed below. 10 Great TED Talks on Industrial-Organizational Psychology – https://www.organizationalpsychologydegrees.com/io-ted-talks/ – Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work – Dan Ariely: What Makes us Feel Good About Our Work – Alain de Botton: A Kinder, Gentler Philosophy of Success – […]