How Is This Stuff going to Help Me?
Leonor Rivera wants to be a manager. She enjoyed her accounting, finance and marketing courses. Each of these provided her with some clear-cut answers. Now the professor in the organizational behavior course telling her that there are really very few clear cut answers when it comes to managing people. The professor has discussed some of the emerging challenges and historical background and ways that behavioural science concepts play a big role in the course. Leonor is very perplexed. She came to school to get answers on how to be an effective manager, but this course surely doesn't seem to be heading in that direction.
Questions:
- How would you relieve Leonor's anxiety? How is a course human organizational behavior going to make her better manager?
- Why did the professor start off with a brief overview of emerging challenges?
- How does a course in human organizational behavior differ from courses in fields such as accounting, finance or marketing?