Social Identity and Stereoty[ing

Refer to Yaya questions.here is the explanation of the 3 activities in the process of forming and maintaining our social identity..

Categorization

We look other people into distinct group they come from. For example we categorise people from metropolitan city like Kuala Lumpur is one category and people from rural area like Kampung Chukai Kemaman in one catagery...

Homogenization..

opss////sorry i have class..to be cont..

Ethic in workplace

Workplace Ethics – The Basics
The word "ethic" is defined as, "The body of moral principles or values governing or distinctive of a particular culture or group" or "A complex of moral precepts held or rules of conduct followed by an individual"1. It has been said that having ethics is doing the right or moral thing when no one is looking. Ethics is a personal choice and therefore, how workplace ethics are governed depends upon the personal ethics of those who are in authority over that workplace and also those who work in that environment.

Workplace Ethics – Personal Standards
Workplace ethics are an extension of the personal standards or lack of them that is inherent in the people who make up the workplace. With all of the news and attention upon those who have proven that they were devoid of moral ethics in the way that they conducted their business, it behooves us to look at the basis for ethics that will stand the test and the trial of temptation in a world that seems to reward the "shady deal." It seems that the current worldview deems that the only wrong thing about shady business dealings and immoral workplace ethics is in getting "caught."

Is Islam teach us ethic?....if you say yes whythere are many muslim caught due to the unethical behavior in workplace...If you cant imagine the unethically manners occur in workplace lets discuss it in your daily campus life....lets start with:-

1. Photostat

Do you know that photostat book without permission of the author is like stealing....we have been teach to not steal others thing from our chilhod..but when we are in university we do this without feel guilty...it surprising me ..when one of my fren told me that during his study in USA ..there is not many photostat shop around the campus area...but in Malaysia....where there is an University the mushroom of photostat shop will appear in every coner...in your course your are study about intelectual property ...remember if you aware about that and practising it...means my duty done already..but if not the learning process is only in class....

2.Using scolarship to buy things that not related to your study

Let look this circumstances....you rather buy something expensive to your boy/girl frens rather than buy text book...is that ethical

ok i have to stop at this point...if anybody want to add other example... you are welcome.....just write at coment.....this is the place we improve our writing skill.....we are in learning process...all the best





Below is the example article found in the net...lets share

ETHICS IN ORGANIZATIONS: A BRIEF RETROSPECTIVE
By Cornelius von Baeyer

EPAC/APEC Magazine, January 2006, vol. 6, no. 1

What can we learn from the roots of organizational ethics? In the dim mists of the past, Jimmy Carter introduced various pieces of ethics legislation to clean up after the scandals of Richard Nixon’s presidency, and the defence industry undertook a major ethics initiative to keep Pentagon contracts rolling in. We now live in world where organizations of all sectors – public, private and voluntary – often have to justify themselves if they do not have an active ethics program in place.

Over the intervening years, we have seen public interest in ethics mushroom in Canada. Ethics stories from every sector of life used to generate perhaps a newspaper story per week, often with the word ‘ethics’ not used at all. Then it began to generate a story a day, and now we often see whole pages of ethics-related stories in a single day. TV is not far behind. Where once the word ‘ethics’ was seldom used, now it is everywhere.

Unfortunately, as evinced by a myriad of recent public opinion surveys, this exposure has led to a palpable increase in public cynicism about ethics in Canadian organizations. However, something encouraging is also emerging: the beginnings of a strong, continuing demand for real reform.

People are increasingly embracing measures such as fraud awareness, legal compliance, disclosure of wrongdoing and whistleblower protection. These are to catch the few individuals in organizations who are actually crooks.

But even more encouragingly, people are also talking about integrity in leadership, and examining accountability and assessment of ethical performance. People are looking into ethics programs with elements such as communications, training and dialogue, as well as codes, values and confidential advice. These are to motivate and assist the entire body of employees and managers in an organization.

It would be nice if we could claim that the talk of reform is driven by the desire to do the right thing, but in fact, serious reform in organizational ethics has generally come only as a result of scandals. Our neighbour to the south has in recent years given us a whole raft of bad examples to learn from, and Canadians have some home-grown ones too!

The particularly Canadian contribution to the story is that simply increasing regulations and crook-catching activities is not enough. Organizations also need ethics programs to help the vast majority of employees and managers to do the right thing the first time around. And that is precisely the insight that drove the creation of the Ethics Practitioners’ Association of Canada (EPAC).

EPAC was created in 1996 in the business community in Toronto. At its inception it was an association of ethics consultants and ethics officers in corporations. Its purpose was to establish some basic standards for the profession and provide mutual assistance and networking opportunities. Over time, the organization added a strong link with the expanding work on ethics in the federal public service. Soon EPAC began to publish in French as well as in English. This set the stage for a major expansion into Quebec.

While EPAC was growing, the international community was also busy on these issues. The OECD, for example, has put in place ethics guidelines for public servants and for corporations. The UN, the Organization of American States and other multilateral bodies have also entered these waters. A consensus is emerging on the essentials of an ethics regime for organizations, founded on a respect for the law but going well beyond it. Meanwhile, the International Institute for Public Ethics was created to further the debate in the public sector.

Comparisons with other jurisdictions provide a mixed result. The Transparency International Corruption Perception Index ratings for Canada have been worsening of late. We have made bribery of foreign officials a crime, but we have no US-style sentencing guidelines to give legal recognition to the benefits of ethics programs in organizations. Many Canadian corporations have been unwilling to undertake work on ethics in bad economic times, while in several other countries legislation simply forces them to act.

So the ethical climate could be improved but is not terrible, and there are some solid achievements in ethics programs, particularly in parts of the federal and Quebec public sectors, and in some large Canadian corporations. The key lesson from the past? Get moving and keep moving on ethics. Virtue is its own reward, but the price of not improving is also sure to get higher and higher.

Cornelius von Baeyer is Past Chair of the Ethics Practitioners’ Association of Canada. He can be contacted at vonbaeyer@cyberus.ca.

Tutorial on 20/01/10

Title: Select any company of your choice and discuss either issue in ethic or value or case study on perception....sharing is caring...

Method: power point

Duration: 5 minutes

happy working.........

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MOU of MGT 534

Dear students...this Mou is create to ensure that you really :

understanding what tasks to perform
understanding relative importance of tasks
understanding preferredbehaviors to accomplish tasks

Ahaaa the above mentioned we have discussed this morning....yaaaaa this is the value and ethic you should learn as mizadgreat's students..

LEARNING & TEACHING APPROACHES

The emphasis in teaching Principles and Practice of Marketing is not simply on the transferring and acquirement of knowledge, but in actively engaging the students to understand and appreciate the subject matter. In this class students will be responsible for their own learning and professional development.

A range of interactive modes is used – class discussions, problem based learning, class presentations, and participatory teaching (with emphasis on flexibility, problem solving and project development).

The learning and teaching during the course will be supplemented by on-line learning support (e-learn), intended to enable information sharing.


Late acceptance policy:

Extensions of time to complete assignments will only be granted in very exceptional circumstances. This is to ensure:
 You are treated with fairness and consistency and
 Lecturers can manage the marking of assessments in an efficient manner

If you are unable to complete assignment work on time it is preferable to hand in an incomplete assignment rather than take additional time and get further behind with subsequent course work. If you are falling behind with your work you should contact the lecturer at the earliest opportunity.

To be granted an extension, you must:
 Approach the course lecturer before the assignment is due and be seeking an extension based on compassionate grounds.






PLAGIARISM AND DISHONESTY

This course regards most seriously any acts of dishonesty relating to assessment. Any such acts will result in a mark of zero for the assessment and may lead to disciplinary action.
In this course cheating includes:
• plagiarism
• unauthorised collaboration
• examination misconduct
• theft of other student’s work


Plagiarism

Plagiarism means borrowing from the work of another without indicating by referencing (and by quotation marks where exact phrases are borrowed) that the ideas expressed are not one’ own. Students may use the ideas and information of other authors, but this use must be acknowledged. It is not acceptable to submit an assignment that is simply paraphrasing of extracts from other authors: the work submitted must include some intellectual contribution of the student.


Unauthorised Collaboration

Unauthorized collaboration means joint effort between students or students and others, in preparing material submitted for assessment, except where this has been approved by the course program. Students are encouraged to discuss matters covered in classes, but when writing an assignment, report, essay, or other piece of assessed work, the recording and treatment of the data and the expression of ideas and argument must be the student’s own work.


Thank you and have a nice day

People are an organization's most important Assets

Organizations do best when leaders treat people well.The organization with positive human resource practice will gain competitive advantage.Many argues that organizations do best when leaders treats people well, valuing them as aset be nurtured and developed rather than costs to be controlled.We can refer to Malden Milss, maker of Polartec fleece for clothing. When the plant burned down several years ago,the CEO Aaron Feurstein refused to lay off the workers. He paid them while rebuilding, eventhough insurance only 75% percent. but just the company recover the economy turned down. The firm faced large debts and has to file for bankruptcy while reorganizing. His employee stood by the company.One of engineer said" I would never leave him at time like this, not for what he's done for me".DO you all know what this company get from its people regarding this issue..:

a. 900 workers gave up their paid for overtime days for a year to help cut expenses
b. They agreed to freeze salaries for two years

Hey guys...is that fantastic and imprees you...yeahhh...saving the company became a shared goal...this company get posibble support and highly comitted workforce.And lastly they won the fight...
I hope this case will motivate you guys to interested to OB even your are from accounting, computer science or multimedia....do to others as you want them do the same to you....

Happy reading..

Reference
Schermerhon Hunt Osborn

WELCOME TO OB 534

Dearest students and frens...i am sharing my lecture of Organizational Behavior in this blog... I hope its will make people more understand what is explain in OB..blogspot.com is easier than i-learn. To use I-learn you have to register this course first..since its take about a month to make u login to i-learn..blogspot.com is my alternative....

Course Synopsis

We are all aware of the dynamic changes that have taken place in many societies over the past decades. The transformation from the predominantly agrarian society with emphasis on the family, informal groups and small communities to complex industrial society characterized by the emergence of large, formal organizations has affected our lives in so many ways. Behavior of employees as well as groups within these organizations has been a major concern recently as they created an impact on productivity and profitability. Hence, this course is catered to address all the important issues pertaining to organizational behavior hoping that the exposure it gives will help students as practioners to manage their subordinates and organization effectively.

LESSON PLAN FOR DEC-APRIL 2010

Topic 1: Introduction to the OB
(4/01/10 – 08/1/10)
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Topic 2 : Individual and Learning Behavior in Organizations
(11/01/10 – 15/01/10)

•Topic 3 : Values and Attitudes
(18/01/10 – 22/01/10)

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Topic 4 : Perception and Attribution Theory
(25/01/10 - 29/01/10)

Topic 5: Learning
(01/02/10 – 05/10/10)

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Topic 6: Motivation
(08/02/10 –12/02/10)
•13/01/10-21/01/10 Mid Semester Break

Topic 7: Stress Management Definition/Nature of stress
(22/02/10-25/02/10) •
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TEST 1 (10%)- 08/02/10, 830-10.30am.(Topic 1-5)

Topic 8: Group behaviors
(22/02/10 – 25/02/10)
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GROUP ASSIGNMENT – submission & presentation
(10%)

Topic 9: Leadership
(01/03/10 – 05/03/10)

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Topic 10: Power
(15/03/10-19/03/10)

• GROUP ASSIGNMENT – submission & presentation(10%)
22/03/10-26/03/10

Topic 11: Organizational Change
(29/03/10- 02/04/10)

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QUIZ 2:Topic 6-9(5%)

Topic 12: Conflict
(29/03/10 –02/03/10)



INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT-
05/04/10-09/04/10
Title: Leadership(10 %)
(Submission)

REVISION
12/04/10-19/04/10

TEST 2 (10%) – 14/04/10,(Wed )
Topic 6-12


21/04/10-09/05/10 Final Examination

10 /05 /10– 4/07/10 Semester Break