Group Activities

Fall 2000
MG 443
Organizational Behavior

a. Groups will be assigned by the instructor. There will be eight groups, about three persons each.

b. Each group will have two projects to work on simultaneously:

Fable Project

1. Each group will create a fable based on a behaviorial axiom (as if it were a moral). Group Fable Project Reports are scheduled on the Course Outline for October 18. Fable creation guidelines will be provided in class. It will be fun as well as educational!

2. The presentation will be considered a portion of the instructional content of the course.

3. Creativity is encouraged.

4. A single web page, in standard format, using links and graphics, will be prepared by the group, in lieu of a written report of the presentation. This web page will be published in the ESU On-line Management Journal.

5. Each presention will use a PowerPoint Presentation.

6. Presentation and question response should fit into a 12 minute time frame.

7. Each presentation will be peer reviewed in class.

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Research Project

1. Each Group will conduct a small research project using selected Assessment assignments in the back of the book: (Supplementary Module, Research Foundations of Organizational Behavior, pp. 411-417, will assist.)

Assessment 1	pp. 518-19	Group 1
Assessment 3	pp. 520-21	Group 2
Assessment 4	pp. 521-22	Group 3
Assessment 6	pp. 523-24	Group 4
Assessment 14	pp. 530-31	Group 5
Assessment 15	pp. 531	Group 6
Assessment 17	pp. 533-34	Group 7
Assessment 20	pp. 536-37	Group 8

2. During the 2nd and 3rd week of class, each group will ask the rest of the class to complete a questionnaire based on their Assessment research assignment.

3. Each Group will analyze the data they have collected using the information in the text (and any supplemental reading that might seem useful). At a minimum, the individual scores will be summarized, averaged, plotted, and put in a table and/or graphical form. Additional statistical tests maybe performed, at the discretion of the group (nice, but not expected).

4. On the scheduled days near the end of the term, each Group will report the results of their assessment research to the class, including an explanation of the meaning of the results. This may take an appropriate form for each group, which might include handouts, overheads, powerpoint or web page presentation.

5. Presentation and question response should fit into an 8 minute time frame.

6. Each presentation will be peer reviewed in class.