Organizational Behavior

For your assignment  each week, you are first required to choose ONE main concept of interest from EACH of the chapters which you have read this week – one main concept from Chapter 5 and one main concept from Chapter 6.  You must then find an employment focused/work related news article from a reputable source within the last 4 years which bridges both of your chosen main concepts from each chapter and shows how each of the main concepts are interconnected with each other.  Using the news related article as your context, you must then critically analyze each of your related concepts as well as their inter-relatedness. Analysis involves examining concepts from multiple and varying perspectives to develop the fullest and most complete view of said concepts, and a full discussion of your analysis must also be included in your response.  All analytical discussion of concepts and their relatedness must be substantiated using evidence from your readings as well as from external sources. Unsubstantiated points in your assignment response are merely opinion and do not constitute evidence! Lastly, to round off the analytical discussion in your assignment response, it is also important to discuss what you see as the potential implications and conclusions in the near future as well as long term for these concepts and their inter-connectedness as they relate to the workplace. Be sure to justify the reasoning behind your thought process regarding the implications and conclusions which you identify. As you put together your written assignment IN PARAGRAPH FORMAT without the use of bullets, your response MUST: clearly make the case for and specifically show how your chosen work related news article incorporates BOTH main concepts from each chapter. clearly show how your article of choice bridges or demonstrates a connection/shows the relatedness of BOTH core concepts. provide only a BRIEF summary of your work related news article to frame the more substantive areas of your response (In other words, your assignment response should not describe your work related news article in great detail but should be a small portion of your response to provide a workplace context for illuminating and clarifying the relationship between your chosen core concepts.)  meet ALL of the relevant criteria clearly outlined in the assignment rubric. include a link to the full work related news article at the end of your response and reference all external sources used in APA format. The use of external sources serve as supporting evidence to substantiate your arguments so that they are not merely opinion.