Week 4 Learning Journal: What Drives People at Work

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Based on Chapters 4 and 5 of McShane and Warner's Canadian Organizational Behaviour, 12th Canadian Edition. This Week 4 learning journal brings together two connected parts of Organizational Behaviour: emotions, attitudes, stress, and employee motivation. Read together, these chapters show that workplace behaviour is rarely simple. People do not perform well only because they are … Continue reading Week 4 Learning Journal: What Drives People at Work →

Learning to See the System

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Organizational Behaviour on the Ledge: What We Have Learned So Far Standing on the Ledge began as a record of collapse, but the Organizational Behaviour learning journals have started to give that collapse a working language. At first, SOTL was about impact: what happens when the floor drops out, when work disappears, when trust breaks, … Continue reading Learning to See the System →

Organizational Behaviour Learning Journal Week 3.5

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This is Week 3.5 because the reading guide and facilitator guide did not line up with the same material, which means I missed a chapter. This entry corrects that gap and brings the material into one continuous learning journal. The chapter matters because it deals with something underneath almost every workplace decision: self-concept, how people … Continue reading Organizational Behaviour Learning Journal Week 3.5 →

Life in Cycles: Growth, Change, and Identity

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Life seems to move in cycles. At least, mine does. I do not know if that is a universal truth, a psychological pattern, a sociological pattern, or just the way I have learned to read the map of my own life. But when I look back, I can see it. Careers change. Relationships change. Communities … Continue reading Life in Cycles: Growth, Change, and Identity →

Organizational Behaviour — Week 3 Learning Journal

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Personality, Values, Jungian Type Theory, the Dark Triad, and Perception in Organizations MGT2382 Organizational Behaviour Topic focus: This journal entry reviews Chapter 2 of Canadian Organizational Behaviour, 12th Edition, including personality, the nature-versus-nurture debate, the Five-Factor Model, Jungian personality theory, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Dark Triad, and values. It also extends the reflection into … Continue reading Organizational Behaviour — Week 3 Learning Journal →