Chapter 1: What is OB?
Chapter 2: Job Performance
Chapter 3: Organizational Commitment
Chapter 4: Job Satisfaction
Chapter 5: Stress
Chapter 6: Motivation
Chapter 7: Trust, Justice, and Ethics
Chapter 8: Learning and Decision Making
Chapter 9: Personality and Cultural Values
Chapter 10: Ability
Chapter 11: Teams: Characteristics
Chapter 12: Teams: Processes
Chapters 13 and 14: Leadership part 1; Leadership part 2
Financial team case: Can be used for teams or decision-making
Goal setting exercise: Demonstrates benefits of specific, difficult goals over no goals
Managerial Grid self-assessment: Students assess their natural leadership style
Microsoft commitment exercise: A series of news articles about changes to Microsoft’s benefits
Car negotiation: I have students conduct this negotiation via email over a one-week period
Confirmation bias exercise: Demonstrates how we are prone to confirming previously held beliefs instead of testing for falsifying information
Lockheed Martin ethics exercise: PowerPoint file of a series of ethical dilemmas with scoring. Instructions are in the notes section of the title slide.
Ops, icks, and torps: 4th grade math problem that teams solve together (PowerPoint slides to use during this exercise: Torps.ppt)
Surface acting: Students act out emotions in pairs and the partner guesses the emotion. Demonstrates emotional labor.
Red/Black exercise: Game theory exercise where teams choose to cooperate or compete with other teams. Instructions are in the notes section of the first slide.
3-2-1 job performance exercise: Designed to get students thinking about the various facets of job performance
Apollo 13: NASA engineers have to quickly devise a plan to make a square air filter fit in a round hole. Can illustrate innovation, teamwork, time deadlines.
Behind Enemy Lines: Owen Wilson gets a ride with young people in war-torn Bosnia; one is dressed like Elvis, another loves American hip hop, and a third offers him a Coke. Can illustrate cross-cultural issues.
Berlitz commercial: Funny commercial on the importance of language
Braveheart 1: William Wallace’s inspirational speech before battle (I use this when teaching transformational leadership’s inspirational motivation factor)
Braveheart 2: William Wallace telling the nobles that he fights for freedom (I use this when teaching transformation leadership’s idealized influence factor)
Coach Carter: The coach makes the players sign contracts regarding their academic performance and announces that the gym will remain locked until everyone upholds the contract. Can be used to talk about outcome interdependence, team leadership, or even transactional leadership.
The Devil Wears Prada: Shows the office in a frenzy when they hear Miranda is returning early. I use it to illustrate organizational power.
Gattaca: Early part of the movie that talks about genetic engineering. Good for a class on ability.
Gladiator:
Shows Maximus leading the Roman army in
The Gods Must Be Crazy: The bushman kills a goat to eat, not realizing that it belongs to someone, and is arrested and imprisoned. Can be used to demonstrate cultural differences.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Marvin (the robot) is sent to pick up stowaways on the ship, but he is not happy about it. Can be used for job satisfaction or negative affect.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Shows Indiana at the "leap of faith." Can be used to illustrate affective commitment.
Joe vs. the Volcano: Joe has a lousy job. I use this in the first class.
Length of lines study: Vintage clip of Solomon Asch’s study on conformity to group opinion
Little Miss Sunshine: Shows Greg Kinnear as a motivational speaker. Illustrates internal locus of control.
Metrostar 1: Mr. T is a small business consultant for a real estate agency. This clip shows the problems they are facing (conflict, lack of leadership, lack of accountability, low performance norms).
Metrostar 2: This clip shows Mr. T’s intervention to improve the situation at Metrostar.
Nascar Training: United Airlines ground crews go through training by Nascar pit crews.
New Balance commercial: Shows youth athletes asking pros whether they compete for love of the sport or for money. Illustrates distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
Ocean’s 11: Brad Pitt prepares Matt Damon for his role. Deals with non-verbal communication.
The Office: Jim conducts a classical conditioning experiment on Dwight that is similar to Pavlov’s dogs.
The Office: Michael leads Oscar and Angela through a conflict resolution the humorously mirrors material in the textbook.
Princess Bride: Westley’s contest with Vizzini about which wine glass has poison in it. Can be used for class on decision-making.
Survivor: From an early season of Survivor, where one contestant won’t do his share of the work. Can be used to illustrate social loafing/ free-riding.
Tostitos commercial: Corporate guys look out a window at a construction team and complain about how one person does all the work. Can illustrate social loafing or disjunctive team tasks.
United 93: Shows the planning of the passengers and flight attendants to take the plane back from the terrorists. Demonstrates organic organizational structure.