Category: financial management

List of potential research topics
To complete the Article Research Paper due in Week 5, please select a topic from the list
provided below or from the chapter readings.
 Managers’ challenges and opportunities in applying OB concepts.
 The three levels of analysis in this text’s OB model.
 Developing managers’ interpersonal skills also helps organizations attract and keep highperforming employees.
 Motivation and work performance
 Leader behavior and power and work performance
 Interpersonal communication and work performance
 Group structure and processes and work performance
 Attitude development and perception and work performance
 Change processes and work performance
 Conflict and negotiation and work performance
 Work design and work performance
 Positive organizational scholarship
 Workplace discrimination undermines diversity effectiveness.
 Stereotypes function in organizational settings.
 Key biographical characteristics and organizational behavior (OB).
 The relevance of intellectual and physical abilities to OB.
 How organizations manage diversity effectively.
 The relationship between age and job performance
 Race and ethnicity on employment outcomes such as hiring decisions, performance
evaluations, pay, and workplace discrimination.
 The components of an attitude.
 Relationship between attitudes and behavior.
 Major Job attitudes.
 Approaches for measuring job satisfaction.
 Main causes of job satisfaction.
 Employee responses to dissatisfaction.
 Differentiate between emotions and moods.
 Sources of emotions and moods.
 The impact emotional labor has on employees
 Emotional intelligence.
 Strategies for emotion regulation.
 Personality, the way it is measured, and the factors that shape it.
 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality framework and the Big Five model
 The concepts of core self-evaluation (CSE), self-monitoring, and proactive personality
contribute to the understanding of personality.
 Personality predicts behavior.
 Terminal and instrumental values.
 Person-job fit and person-organization fit.
 Hofstede’s five value dimensions and the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Effectiveness (GLOBE) framework.
 Factors that influence perception.
 Attribution theory.
 Link between perception and decision making.
 Rational model of decision making with bounded rationality and intuition.
 How individual differences and organizational constraints affect decision making.
 The three-stage model of creativity.
 Key elements of motivation.
 Early theories of motivation.
 Self-determination theory and goal-setting theory.
 Self-efficacy theory, reinforcement theory, equity theory, and expectancy theory.
 Employee job engagement for managers.
 Job characteristics model (JCM) and changing the work environment.
 Variable-pay programs and employee motivation.
 Intrinsic motivational benefits of employee recognition programs.
 Punctuated-equilibrium model of group development.
 Norms and individual’s behavior.
 Status and size and group performance.
 Issues of cohesiveness and diversity and group effectiveness.
 Strengths and weaknesses of group decision making.
 Continued popularity of teams in organizations.
 Team arrangements.
 Characteristics of effective teams.
 How organizations can create team players.
 Functions and process of communication.
 Downward, upward, and lateral communication through small-group networks and the
grapevine.
 Oral, written, and nonverbal communication.
 Automatic and controlled processing of persuasive messages.
 Common barriers to effective communication.
 How to overcome the potential problems of cross-cultural communication.
 Trait theories of leadership.
 The central tenets and main limitations of behavioral theories.
 Contingency theories of leadership.
 Contemporary theories of leadership and their relationship to foundational theories.
 Roles of leaders in creating ethical organizations.
 How leaders can have a positive impact on their organizations through building trust and
mentoring.