St. Johns University

BUSINESS 401A

Chapter 01 Short Questions

1)Define the concept of an organization and briefly describe the characteristics of an organization.

2. List and describe some of the issues the Canadian workplace must address as it moves into the 21st century. Provide examples

to support your response.

3. List the particular issues that challenge organizations today at the individual level.
4. Describe some of the challenges that have resulted from doing business in the global village. Provide examples to support your

response.

5. Organizational behaviour is an applied behavioural science built upon contributions from a number of different disciplines.

What are these disciplines and what are the contributions of each discipline? Be complete in your response and include four

different behavioural science disciplines.

6. Having a broad range of interpersonal skills upon which to draw makes us more effective organizational participants. What

kinds of interpersonal skills do we need in today’s workplace? Provide examples to illustrate your points. (You may want to refer

to the Competing Values Framework Model as the basis for your answer).