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This 6-page paper focuses on various aspects of organizational behavior, including change management, customer service, work groups, job rotation/enrichment and diversity. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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be devoted to two case studies, one about Bayer, the other about Xeema. Do you believe that American workers will accept the idea that they must work together in
groups and receive group-based rewards rather than working as individuals and receiving individual-based rewards? Explain your reasoning. American workers, for the most
part, are individualistic. While many are team players who enjoy working together for the good of a company, everyone is basically out for his or her own edification, raise, praise
and so on. Part of this can be gotten from Hofstedes cultural awareness map; the United States tends to receive a fairly high "masculine" rating on this particular issue, with
masculine ratings moving more toward independence, as opposed to communal. The idea of working in groups and receiving group rewards is more
along the lines of what Asian societies practice, in terms of "all for one and one for all." Explain the differences between job rotation and job enrichment and analyze the
relative advantages of these two approaches in organizations. Job rotation and job enrichment were both the brainchilds of industrial psychologist Herzberg, who
claimed that if employees did the same things over and over again, they would ultimately become quite bored with their jobs (Accel-Team, 2005). Job rotation, which was tested, at first,
at IBM, uses the theory that employees can and should learn different skill sets within their basic jobs. With the IBM scenario, machine operators jobs included machine setting and inspection
(Accel-Team, 2005). The problem here, however, is that these extras were done without compensation or extra pay (Accel-Team, 2005). Job enrichment, on
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