MGMT 4100 – Organizational Behavior
Attachment 1 – “Listen to the Music”
The following must be completed and submitted when making the presentation to the class. This
will count toward the Professionalism/Participation grade. Students must submit song titles to
professor in advance, as no two students may present the same song.
“Let’s Work”
Mick Jagger
1987
Rock and Roll
“The world don’t owe you”
“Don’t waste your energy on making enemies”
“And work your way up”
“Let’s work, be proud”
“Ain’t gonna sweat for you… If you’re lazy”
How does the song relate to
1) This song disputes what Follett belief that employees
OB (key course concepts)?
should be “pulled” instead of “pushed”. This song says
that the employees should be responsible for striving for
excellence and should be dependent on themselves and be
proud of their work. This can be seen in every lyric of the
song, especially when talking about how he will not
basically “pity” those who are lazy and do not work their
way up (ostracism) and not dealing with social loafing.
2) Learning Capacity and Human Capital is also addressed
through the song in that he basically says that you have to
keep moving and working in order to keep growing in a
company.
3) This would also fall under the Positive Psychology
Movement as this song is preaching about satisfaction,
hope, happiness, and so much more. Though again, this
song is saying that the employees should be responsible for
themselves in this aspect rather than management or the
company.
4) This song also relates to Organizational Culture as it is
attempting to spark a positive, hard-working attitude and
create and exclusionary effect on those that are lazy and
don’t live up to those expectations which also ties into
socialization, attitudes, and motivation.
a. Also applies to values, espoused values, and
enacted values.
5) This would be a great song for setting a societal culture,
like a theme song for a company as it would help people
understand how to think and act in a positive manner.
6) Something I don’t agree with, but is evident in this song is
Name of Song
Artist
Year Released
Music Genre
Key Lyrics Related to OB
(please attach the lyrics of
the entire song)
Does the song portray the
workplace/work in a
positive, negative, or
neutral manner? How so?
What questions does the
song prompt for you?
Why do you think the song
was written?
the collectivist culture that it fosters in attempting to make
everyone work hard in order to get everyone working
towards a higher group goal then individual goals. Though
there are parts that reflect individualistic tendencies, such
as: “and work your way up”.
7) This song also attributes internal factors to behaviors as it
is encouraging individuals to work hard to achieve success.
8) Self-efficiency is also a huge part of this song in believing
that you can get somewhere by doing something well and
working hard at it which goes along with proactive
personalities.
9) Motivation, especially intrinsic motivation, is definitely
evident through a sense of pride, promotion, and the ability
to be free.
10) This also deals with group cohesiveness as it relates the
work towards “us” and all “men and women”.
This song is neutral about the workplace, you don’t really get a
sense of what kind of job this is about, it can simply be about any
job, any organization. This song is more focused on creating a
positive, can-do attitudes in employees more than anything else.
This song reinforces my questions of: when did this country
change for independent, innovators to needy children that have to
have everything handfed? Honestly, a company should not have to
motivate a person to work, a person should be motivated to work
because they want things in life, do things in life, or just have
money, or because they simply enjoy it. If a employee is not
motivated to work, then the company should not concern
themselves with trying to motivate someone who cannot even
motivate themselves, they should move onto people who already
have a “can-do” attitude. So my question remains, what has
happened to this country, when we now have to come up with
“organizational behavior” to explain unmotivated employees?
I think the song was written, honestly, as a slap in the face to the
changing beliefs in society that we, as a people, need to work to
accomplish something instead of just holding out our hands and
expecting the world to cater to us. Of course, if you just take the
song at face value, then it could simply be an anthem to work hard
and strive for something greater.