A Senior Executive in Your Organization Read an Older Organizational

question 53

Essay

A senior executive in your organization read an older organizational behaviour textbook, which concluded that there is little relationship between job satisfaction and job performance. The senior executive now believes that it is a waste of time and money to have 'happy workers'. Instead, the executive is recommending finding ways to improve productivity without any consideration for employee well-being (beyond legal requirements). The company president is concerned that the executive's information may convince other members of the management committee to take a similar harsh view. Provide three different arguments why companies should try to maintain a reasonable level of job satisfaction among employees in this organization.

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Definitions:

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies

A group of psychotherapeutic approaches that treat problems by modifying dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and thoughts.

Schizophrenia

A severe mental disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and impaired cognitive function.

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Form of biomedical therapy to treat severe depression in which electrodes are placed on either one or both sides of a person’s head and an electric current is passed through the electrodes that is strong enough to cause a seizure or convulsion.

Schizophrenia

A long-term mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.