A. Should organizations be concerned about the sleepiness of their employees?
B. What factors influencing sleep might be more or less under the control of an organization?
A. How might sleep deprivation influence aspects of expectancy theory?
B. How might the incorporation of “nap rooms” for sleep-deprived employees demonstrate aspects of equity theory?
A. If you were a manager who noticed your employees were sleep-deprived, what steps might you take to help them?
B. What theories of motivation could you use to help them?
A. What are your top three values?
B. How well do they represent you?
C. Did you feel pressure to choose values that might seem most socially acceptable?
A. It is often argued that values are meaningful only when they conflict and we have to choose between them. Do you think that was one of the objectives of this game?
B. Do you agree with the premise?
Is there a value you would claim for yourself that is not on the list?
A. How much of Blakely’s success is due to her personality and effort and how much to serendipity (being in the right place at the right time)?
B. Does attribution theory help you answer this question? Why or why not?.
Use the three-stage model of creativity to analyze Blakely’s decision making. What can you learn from her story that might help you be more creative in the future?
Does hindsight bias affect the factors to which you might attribute Blakely’s success? Why or why not?
Analyze and describe two different and non-related instances where you experienced being treated fairly and unfairly. Work-related experiences are preferable, but nonwork examples are fine too. Evaluate the experiences through the Model of Organizational Justice and state whether each experience involved:
Distributive Injustice
Procedural Injustice
Interactional Justice
Organizational Justice
Be sure to state if the experiences have anything in common.
