Introduction to Business - Lead

Lead

Employee Behaviour
-Leading involves guiding and motivating your employees to behave in a certain manner towards achieving  the firm’s goals.

Types of Employee Behaviour:

• Performance Behaviour

-Behaviors that directly contributes to the employee’s work productivity.

• Corporate Citizenship Behaviour

-Enhance the performance behaviors of workers and thereby boost their productivity.

• Counterproductive Behaviours

-Behaviors that reduces work productivity.

Personalities, Attitudes and Motivation

Personality
A relatively stable set of psychological traits that a person is born with.

The Big 5 Personality traits:

• Openess
• Concientiousness
• Extroversion 
• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism

Work Attitudes

A person’s like or dislike towards a person, place, thing or an event. 

Job satisfaction:

•  Refers to how happy or unhappy workers are about their jobs.

Organizational commitment: 

• Refers to how committed and loyal a worker is to his/her organization and its mission. 

Benefits:

• Highly productive
• Take on hard work or big responsibilities willingly.
• See themselves as part of a family and stay long term at the organization.
• Overlook minor dissatisfactions at work.

A person’s attitude can change over time, whereas personalities are relatively stable.

Motivations and needs

A stimuli or need that moves a person into action.

Maslow’s Theory of Hierarchical Needs:

1. Physhiological needs
2. Safety needs
3. Social needs
4. Esteem needs
5. Self actualization needs

Class Activity

We did a sketch session in class regarding this topic. There were three groups sketching the personalitties, attitude, and motivations and needs.

Our group did a sketch about the effects of a teacher's teaching attitude towards the students. Our sketch is mainly focused in a math class. On the first day, everyone was doing their own things in the class. When the teacher came in they were still doing their own things, playing the phone, some of them are even sleeping. Nevertheless, there are always some good students which answers every question the teacher asked. However, when the teacher asks the students at the back of the class, they threw a joke on the teacher and she decided to change her attitude.

The next day, the students were still in their original state but the teacher came in with a dorky way. She started the class with lame jokes and got the attention of the students which likes to bully her. However, her lame jokes seems to annoy one of the students and he walked out of the class.