Question: 1. What are the similarities and differences among top-down approaches, bottom-up approaches, and "idiosyncratic deals" in job design?

2. How can managers create an organizational climate that fosters Positive Organizational Behavior

3. Summarize the transcript in 100+ words , as well as answer the attached question : MGT312 Motivation Theories and Positive OB Transcript : ANGELO KINICKI, PH.D.: Hi. I'm Dr. Angelo Kinicki. You are really in store for something good this week in your class. Do you want to have a happy life? Do you want to achieve things? Then this week is going to help you. You're going to learn about motivation and what we call positive OB.Now knowledge about motivation is going to help you in two ways. In the first way it's going to help you manage yourself and you know what, this is my theory. If you can't manage yourself, you can't manage anything out there. So you're going to learn what motivates you. You can then apply that knowledge to the motivation of others whether it's - it's your kids or whether it's a person in a store. You are going to learn about yourself as well as how you can apply motivation theories to others.You are going to learn about what we call positive OB and positive OB is all about how can we create work environments where people flourish and I'll tell you. What I have learned from the best places to work in fortune to the people who work in companies that make a lot of money, they create work environments so people can flourish. You are going to learn what those characteristics are. You're going to learn about a concept called mindfulness, that if you practice, it can help you to have better relationships at home and at work.

4. Summarize the transcript in 100+ words , as well as answer the attached question: MGT/312 Question: How Do Employers Measure Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)?ANGELO KINICKI, PH.D.: Brian from New Jersey wants to know with respect to KSAs, how can employers measure abilities? Measuring KSAs is not easy. Many organizations create their own standardized tests to do that. So when you say you want to know how do they measure ability, the first thing that comes to my mind is what kind of ability are you talking about?If you're talking about cognitive ability, how smart you are, most organizations don't try to measure intelligence. They would rather try to measure abilities that are needed for the job such as maybe decision-making ability or communication ability.So my answer to your question would be organizations measure more functional abilities than they do how smart we are.

5. Summarize the transcript in 100+ words , as well as answer the attached question : MGT/312 Question: Can You Change Organizational Culture? ANGELO KINICKI, PH.D.: Kimberly from Ohio - I'm from Ohio - wants to know can you change a negative work culture where people don't want to work, to a better one. Yes, Kimberly. You can absolutely do that and it doesn't take five years to do it.Let's pretend I'm a manager in a group and I have some people who don't like the work environment. If that manager were to come in and start being nice to people on a daily basis and saying good morning, Lena, how are you? How's your kids? What's happening?

Showing interest in people, you can start to change the culture.So changing culture is not easy by it is done with simple things and doing behaviors in a consistent way. Yes. You can turn around a negative work environment to a positive place.

6. Summarize the transcript in 100+ words, as well as answer the attached questionMGT/312 Question: Does Organizational Behavior Modification (OB Mod) really work? ANGELO KINICKI, PH.D.: Elliot from Kansas wants to know if behavior modification really works. Elliot, no it doesn't. Of course it does. Yes it works. We use B Mod from training our dogs. We train our children. You know, we train employees. B Mod works. And by the way, Elliot, I bet you use B Mod on yourself and if you're not, Elliot, you should.How would you do that? Simple. Elliot, set a goal. If you achieve the goal, give yourself a reward. That's B Mod baby.