Table 1.

Students’ self-formulated questions from “Introduction to Organizational Behavior – Honors”

(1) Is there a way to “regulate” the inner circle of executives?

(2) What is the “correct” balance between centralized and decentralized power?

(3) Why do we let the presentation style of one worker represent a firm’s service or idea?

(4) How are perception, luck, and career progress related?

(5) Do you need a mask to hold a position of power?

(6) Can someone be a good team player without running into the harms that confirmation bias brings?

(7) If an organizational culture changes, do possible promotions for John and Mary become obsolete?

(8) Is normative control a form or tyranny or a movement of liberation?

(9) Is there a way to properly structure normative control to minimize the negatives?

(10) Where is the boundary between formality and informality?

(11) How do the different wage classes affect the performance of individual employees?

(12) How is tech culture similar or different from family culture?

(13) What dangers are present in leaving a rule such as “Do what’s right” ambiguous?

(14) Can you say “No?” How often?

(15) Who sets boundaries? Organizations or employees?

(16) Is your organization self your true self?

(17) What is the difference between multiple selves and masks?

(18) Who has a stronger sense of organizational self, management or lower level workers?

(19) Given the influence of normative control, how does one maintain work / life boundaries?

(20) Are organizations controlling or are employees allowing themselves to be controlled?

(21) Is there a way to prevent the loss of self or should we bother?

(22) What’s the point of an organization if the organization man needs to rebel against the organization?

(23) Does looser control create more or less confusion within an organization?

(24) Do women have to be more devoted at work to see the same results as men?

(25) Does work lead us to a sense of singlemindedness? If so, how can we restore balance?

(26) Does the pleasure come from motherhood itself or because you’re told it would bring pleasure?

(27) Under what circumstances would maternal employment have a positive or negative effect on children?

(28) What determines the power dynamic in a relationship?

(29) What effects do conforming to gender roles have on non-conformists?

(30) Would lower class women be neutral or equally passionate about the family and career devotion schemas?

(31) Why are laid off high-tech employees seen as villains?

(32) What role does the contemporary job search play on the unemployed worker?

(33) What is the source of the high-the workers’ career optimism?

(34) Is cost cutting or loyalty more important?

(35) Why did firms a few decades ago see themselves as morally obligated to take care of workers?

(36) Are we defined by our work?

(37) Can you have job identity without stability?

(38) Is self-marketing a result of normative control?

(39) Should networking be taught in school?

(40) What role do interim positions play on workers’ mental state?

(41) Is it naïve for employees to place their faith in the market?

(42) What role does self-esteem play in labor market success?

(43) How much does rising male unemployment have the potential to change gender roles / appreciation for roles?

(44) How do men and women differ in assigning blame for layoffs?