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Major courses problems

1. Dangerous situations and their impact on behavior.

Behavior in dangerous conditions, stress, the fear for life or people are afraid to be punished.

Some of them deliberately deceive other people in order to hide big lies.

Talk about behavior in danger – example of Middle East countries, refugees that come to Italy and problems they cause for EU members.

2. Competition and cooperation within and between groups

Competition is a contest between individuals, groups, animals, etc. for territory, a niche, or a location of resources. It arises whenever two or more parties strive for a goal which cannot be shared.

Six positive characteristics that make cooperation within a group more likely. 1. Effective communication. 2. Friendliness, helpfulness, and less obstructiveness. 3. Coordination of effort, divisions of labor, orientation of task achievements, orderliness in discussion, and high productivity. 4. Feelings of agreement with the ideas of others and a sense of basic similarity in beliefs in one’s own ideas and in the value that other members attach to those ideas. 5. The willingness to enhance the other’s power (as others capabilities are strengthened, you are strengthened) – football club. 6. Defining conflicting interests as a mutual problem to be solved by collaborative effort.

Talk about The prisoner’s dilemma as well.

3. Interpersonal conflicts – conflicts within and between groups.

Two or more individuals who must work together fail to share the same views, and have different interests or goals. Interpersonal conflict can be defined by the focus and source of the conflict.

People-Focused vs. Issue-Focused; Personal Differences (people have unique sets of values); Informational Deficiencies (info is not perfect or misinterpreted); Role Incompatibility (differences between roles and responsibilities); Environmental stress (scarcity of resources).

4. Sources and signs of power in organization.

There are several major sources of power inside organizations: 1) Legitimate Power (an agreement among organizational members that people in certain roles can request certain behaviors of others); 2) Reward Power (derived from the person's ability to control the allocation of rewards valued by others and to remove negative sanctions (i.e., negative reinforcement); 3) Coercive Power (the ability to apply punishment - "They say there are no bosses here, but if you screw up, you find one pretty fast); 4) Expert Power (legitimate, reward, and coercive power originate from the position. It is an individual's or work unit's capacity to influence others by possessing knowledge or skills that they want). 5) Referent Power (People have referent power when others identify with them, like them, or otherwise respect them. Like expert power, referent power comes from within the person). Information power, charisma power.


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