Individual Assignment of Organizational Behaviour IPMI Executive Class July 2011 Sugeng Rumawan

ANSWER Q1, 2 on PAGE 514 (chapter 19)

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Background: more ideas to learn more about organizations: On understanding the complexities of human behavior in organizations many managers eager to pursue ambitious growth strategies suspect that their organizations lack the right stuff to deliver. These leaders want desperately to crack the code of high-performance DNA. But performance anatomies are highly individual and delicately balanced. New research initiatives are making the je ne sais quoi of success more decodable, teachable, and learnable.---Julie Kirby On selecting topics for further exploration organizations tiptoe around politically and socially risque subjects especially parennial cringe-inducers like sex, death, and God. But if a subject makes you uncomfortable, chances are its exactly what you should be discussing. ---Leigh Buchanan On learning on business books publisher churn out around 3,500 business tittles a year, and wonder of wondersnot all of them offer good advice. Managers who cant afford to waste time on dreck need help navigating the ideas marketplace. Some rules of thumb: be skeptical of anything touted as new, keep an eye out for half-truths, and if someone calls himself a guru, run the other way. ---Jeffrey Pfeffer

Question: 1. Discuss each of those ideas 2. Write down some personal goals for what you would like to learn and how you will keep on learning after graduation Answer: 1. Comment to Julie Kirby ideas: I agree to the idea that success is decodable, teachable, and learnable. Criteria to determine a success is measurable, in which we can use it as baseline to perform and focus on the achievement. Super team can be created through continue and focus on the performance improvement and achieving highest performance. To increase teams performance: o Identify the strength and weakness of the team members (high performer and bad performer) o Motivate and influence the bad performer to improve their performance, and bring them to the higher level of performance. if it is not working, cut them out from the team

Inspire the team to achieve highest performance

Comment to Leigh Buchanan ideas: I agree with the idea that discussing on the point in which you are not confident to understand and how to manage it. It will encourage for deeper exploration on the literature to find out the best solutions fit it. It will create additional benefits to us, learning something new from which we do not understand before into mastering the case. If we are learning on the things that we have understood well before, it will not give more benefits to us. Comment to Jeffrey Pfeffer ideas: Indeed, filtering is required to choose which books are useful for us. We may use several approaches below to find out whether a book is good and useful or not: o See the outline or summary of the book content, which is usually put in the back of the book. Or find out through internet about the content of the book. o Read the comments and referrees from the reader or public figure, which is normally outlined in the cover of back of the book. Or find out the rating from readers through internet. o Find out the author through internet, what kind of other books he or she created previously, and find out how the rating from the readers 2. Personal goals to learn more about OB: o More learning on leadership (charismatic leadership, transformational leadership, heroic leadership). Personally it will give more benefits not only to my career but the most important is to my personal & social (moral) life, in which I can contribute significantly to the family, society and country. o More learning on the organizations effectiveness & organizations re-structuring. Personally it will give me benefits to my personal career, since nowadays (and more in future) business competition is quite challenging. Organizations must have enough adaptability to face this kind of environment to sustain the business growth.

How? o Reading books o Case study o Discussion with my superiors or professors