MGT/605 (all discussions and all weeks assignments) full course
MGT605 Week 1 Discussion DQ 1, DQ 2 & DQ 3
MGT605 week 1 DQ 1
In many organizations,
being “people-centered” is considered soft, irrelevant, and unrelated to
profitability. Using support from historical perspectives of organizational
behavior, explain how you would rebut these arguments.
MGT605 week 1 DQ 2
Review the “Skills
Exhibited by an Effective Manager” (Table 1-2 in Organizational
Behavior). Identify your
particular areas of strength and discuss opportunities for your own development
as a manager.
MGT605 week 1 DQ 3
How would you go about
facilitating the creation of diversity in an organization that is traditionally
homogenous? What support is needed from top management in developing a program
to implement organizational diversity? What potential problems of implementing
a diversity program do you foresee and how can they be managed?
MGT605 Week 2 Discussion DQ 1, DQ 2 & DQ 3
MGT605 week 2 DQ 1
Discuss the role that
emotional intelligence (EI) plays in the self-leadership. Be sure to provide an
analysis of all four dimensions of EI (self-awareness, self-management, social
awareness, and relationship management) in your response
MGT605 week 2 DQ 2
What are your major
terminal and instrumental values? Which values, terminal or instrumental, are
valid predictors of career success in the workplace?
MGT605 week 2 DQ 3
Consider the concept
of work-family conflict by reflecting on these questions: Is your work really
meeting your needs? Are you defining yourself purely in terms of your
accomplishments at work? Why are you working so hard? To what personal ends are
you working? Are you making significant personal sacrifices in favor of your
work? Is your work schedule affecting other people who are important in your
life? Offer some suggestions on how to resolve such issues.
MGT605 Week 3 Discussion DQ 1, DQ 2 & DQ 3
MGT605 week 3 DQ 1
Assume for a moment
that one of your fellow department managers bursts into your office with a
troubled look on her face. She sits down and says with a tone of disgust, “You
can’t do anything with these new employees . . . they aren’t motivated by money
anymore.” Construct a detailed response (like a script) in which you describe
how content and process theories might be used to motivate employees. Be sure
to include comments on two content theories and two process theories and
highlight the significance of each theory.
MGT605 week 3 DQ 2
Max Points: 10.0
What is the current
design of your job? Assume that the opportunity arose for you to utilize the
idiosyncratic deals (i-deals) in redesigning your job. What would you do to
make your job inherently more motivating? How would you design the feedback and
reward systems in the new job?
MGT605 week 3 DQ 3
What is the current
design of your job? Assume that the opportunity arose for you to utilize the
idiosyncratic deals (i-deals) in redesigning your job. What would you do to make
your job inherently more motivating? How would you design the feedback and
reward systems in the new job?
MGT605 Week 4 Discussion DQ 1, DQ 2 & DQ 3
MGT605 week 4 DQ 1
Choose any group to
which you currently belong or have belonged to in the past. Discuss the type of
group, its intended purpose, and how it was formed. What were some benefits and
challenges you faced while working in this group? How might those benefits and
challenges differ in a virtual group setting?
MGT605 week 4 DQ 2
Refer to Table 11-4 in
the Krietner and Kinicki textbook. Which of the reasons for team failure have
you experienced and how would you do things differently to ensure that any team
you are involved in will be successful?
MGT605 week 4 DQ 3
Although virtual teams
are becoming more prevalent, there have been mixed reviews on their
effectiveness. Read “The Best Online Platforms for Virtual Meetings,” “5 Tips
for Virtual Collaboration,” and “Yahoo Orders Homeworkers Back to the Office”
(attached in the Module 4 Topic Materials). Discuss the steps you would take to
manage a successful virtual team (be sure to discuss how you would choose a
platform to use and guidelines for monitoring virtual team performance).
MGT605 Week 5 Discussion DQ 1, DQ 2 & DQ 3
MGT605 Week 5 DQ 1
Max Points: 10.0
Many types of
negotiations occur in business settings. This example is indicative of the
ethical dilemmas inherent in many negotiations.
Assume for a moment
that you are the owner – CEO of a small machine and tool company. You have 35
employees, most of whom are highly skilled machinists who belong to Local 999
of the International Brotherhood of Good Guys Union. Generally, you are an open
manager with an abiding sense of fair play and ethics. For this reason, you
have been able to attract workers who are skilled and committed to the
company’s long-term success. In fact, labor relations are calm – even
harmonious. For example, contract violations are usually handled between you
and shop stewards in a problem-solving context with an almost complete absence
of acrimony or contentiousness. Now, however, you face a serious and
unprecedented issue. Due to an economic downturn, business activity has taken a
sharp decline with the expectation that things will get much worse. You have
just met with your accountant who has informed you there is no other choice but
to lay off people or reduce wages. Your initial meeting with the union
representatives shocked you into reality since it was filled with divisiveness,
arguing, name-calling, and even occasional profanity. Things turn much worse in
the second meeting since the union lawyers were present. After reading the
article by Reitz, Wall, and Love (attached in the Module 5 Topic Materials),
you are stunned to discover that the deceptive tactics outlined in the article
read like a primer for what the union is doing. Answer the following questions
based on the case and the article:
1. What type of conflict is occurring in this
case and what conflict management style would you, as the manager use? Justify
your choice.
2. What are your options given the union’s
apparent duplicity and lack of ethical standards? The last negotiations ended
with your attorney angrily advising you to “fight fire with fire,” meaning that
business conditions dictate loosening your standards of integrity and honesty
in negotiation. The problem is you think she may be right. Describe
specifically what you would do.
MGT605 Week 5 DQ 2
Answer the following
questions based on the case presented in DQ 1:
1. What are the challenges to effective
communication in this case and how can these challenges be mitigated?
2. How would evidence-based decision making help
in resolving this case?
MGT605 Week 5 DQ 3
Workers increasingly
rely on means of technology-mediated communication in the workplace. Besides
email, workers commonly utilize tools, such as instant messaging and virtual
meeting spaces, to regularly interact with coworkers and clients. How do you
think such tools impact interpersonal dynamics in the workplace? What are the
benefits and challenges of these tools? How might those challenges be overcome?
MGT605 Week 6 Discussion DQ 1, DQ 2 & DQ 3
MGT605 Week 6 DQ 1
What are the key
values of your organization? How are they vital to understanding the politics
within the organization, the influence tactics used, and the power bases
emphasized in the organization? Why is understanding all of these important to
you as a citizen of the organization?
MGT605 Week 6 DQ 2
Conduct some web-based
research into two organizations that profess to have adopted a servant
leadership philosophy (e.g., SWA, Men’s Warehouse, TDIndustries). What are the
organizations’ values? Compare these organizations to others in the same
industry using major performance metrics (employee turnover, market share,
profitability, etc.) and conclude whether or not you think having a servant
leader philosophy makes a significant difference in company performance.
MGT605 Week 6 DQ 3
Read Suzanne
Peterson’s article, “Leaders, Too, Need Support.” How do you see yourself in
the role of supportive follower? What challenges do you have with this concept?
What can you do to overcome those challenges?
MGT605 Week 7 Discussion DQ 1, DQ 2 & DQ 3
MGT605 Week 7 DQ 1
One of your managers
heard you have just completed your MBA. He looked at you and smirked and said,
“All this emphasis on relationships is overrated. I have always made it clear
to my subordinates what they need to do if they want to remain employed. All I
have to say to them is, ‘Get it done and you will get rewarded, and if not,
there will be consequences.’ It truly is that simple! Developing relationships
with employees and suppliers or contractors, all that stuff is only good in the
textbooks. It never delivers results.” Prepare a response to him and post it on
the discussion board.
MGT605 Week 7 DQ 2
Contrast the tradeoffs
involved when an organization decides it is going to restructure. Be sure that
you evaluate the critical organizational design variables that you would want
to consider if you were heading up such a project.
MGT605 Week 7 DQ 3
Evaluate the
organizational chart for your current organization. Provide recommendations for
revising the organizational design so it more effectively serves the mission of
the firm and its many stakeholders.
MGT605 Week 8 Discussion DQ 1, DQ 2 & DQ 3
MGT605 Week 8 DQ 1
With technology
revolutionizing the way that work is done, we see significant changes in both
the organization of work as well as in organizational cultures. Read “How
corporate culture will change in the face of openness” and “Remodeling
corporate culture for the digital era” (attached in the Module 8 Topic
Materials). Based on the articles, discuss the major opportunities and challenges
that these shifts present.
MGT605 Week 8 DQ 2
Discuss the ethical
implications of a leader’s role in the socialization of new hires into the
preexisting culture of an organization. What responsibility does a company have
to inform newly hired persons that it wants to shape their values, perceptions,
and behavior to conform to the organization’s culture? What impact does
socialization have on both individual and organizational effectiveness?
MGT605 Week 8 DQ 3
Contrast the corporate
values espoused by two Fortune 500 companies.
Select two firms that seem to manifest very different cultures. Your response
should focus on the tradeoffs you would experience working in the two firms in
terms of the values you bring to the workplace. How might your values fit in or
clash with the culture of these two organizations?
MGT605 Week 2 Assignent Latest
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Self-awareness is
essential for developing management and leadership skills. Recognizing your own
strengths, weaknesses, and values, and understanding emotional intelligence and
learning styles can help you to be a more effective leader. Becoming self-aware
is an ongoing process requiring introspection. The more often people practice
self-reflection, the more opportunities they have to understand their own
behaviors and adapt their approaches to working with other people, which can
improve both your own and other’s abilities to meet their professional goals.
For the Module 2
assignment, you have the opportunity to take a variety of self-assessments to
learn more about yourself and identify your assets and weaknesses as a leader.
This will assist you in discovering how you can improve your own
self-leadership skills. You will be asked to think critically about your
results and submit a reflection as directed below.
The Module 2
assignment is only the beginning of a self-reflective process you are asked to
undertake in this course. You should continue to think about your
self-leadership skills as you progress through the readings and assignments.
You will be asked to refer back to your self-assessment results and reflection
when you compose your Leadership Philosophy statement, which is due later in
Module 6. The Module 6 assignment will ask you to build on the reflection
written in Module 2 in order to clearly articulate your values and leadership
qualities and how they form the basis for effectively leading others and your
organization.
Refer to “MGT-605
Self-Assessment Links” (attached in the Topic Material). Complete at least one
test from each of the first four categories andboth of the Diversity Tolerance
assessments:
1. Emotional Intelligence
2. Personality Test
3. Learning Styles
4. Values Survey
5. Diversity Tolerance
Be sure to document
the results of each assessment to assist you in completing the reflection
portion of the assignment below.
Self-Assessment Reflection
After completing the
self-assessments, write a 1,000-1,250 word reflection in which you discuss the
following:
1. Describe the importance of self-awareness,
self-concept, and emotional intelligence and the role they play in enabling
effective leadership.
2. Briefly summarize the results of each of the
six tests you completed. In general, do you believe the results represent who
you are? Explain.
3. What insights have you gained about yourself
after taking the assessments? How could this knowledge influence your values,
attitude towards others, and how you approach new tasks in the workplace?
4. Explain the significance of the
self-assessment results in relation to your individual behavior, your behavior within
groups, and within organizations. What have you learned about your ability to
manage others within the workplace? What have you learned about what it takes
to manage yourself or how you respond to the management tactics of others
within the workplace?
Prepare this
assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a
rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become
familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to
submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the
Student Success Center.
MGT605 Week 3 Assignment
Details:
Details:
Leading teams of
diverse individuals is a significant challenge. Negotiating individual
strengths, weaknesses, and personalities can be difficult. Nonetheless, as a
leader it is your responsibility to effectively lead teams through establishing
expectations designed to motivate individuals, fostering critical
decision-making skills, and improving communication and collaboration among
teammates. For the assignments in modules 4 and 5, as part of the management
team at a successful, regional airline, West Coast Transit, you have been
directed to form a team for a high-stakes, high-pressure project. Together, the
management team will come to a consensus and make a recommendation to the
director.
Your objective is to
individually select a team of six people from the given teammate profiles.
Begin by reading “West Coast Transit Company Profile” and “West Coast Transit
Team Member Profiles,” which are attached in the Topic Materials. Based on your
understanding of the company, the project, and the people involved propose your
team selection. Your proposal should be accompanied by a 1,000-1,250
explanation that addresses the following:
1. Why did you select the six team members you
did? Why did you decide against the others?
2. Considering the diverse factors that may
influence the behavior of your team members, what specific strategies will you
use to motivate this particular team of individuals? Why do you think they will
work? What motivational strategies do you think would be ineffective for this
team? Why?
3. What particular challenges or conflicts can
you anticipate this team facing? What strategies might you apply to manage this
team’s potential conflicts? (You will learn more about conflict management in
Module 5. It is acceptable to make relevant speculations based on what you know
about the team members and conflict management at this point. You will have the
opportunity to solidify your conflict management strategies when you join the
CLC assignment in Module 5.)
4. Finally, summarize your vision for the success
of this team. Based on what you have identified as the team’s particular
strengths and weaknesses, which specific leadership strategies might you apply
to ensure it is ultimately successful? Why?
Prepare this
assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a
rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become
familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to
submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the
Student Success Center.
MGT605 Week 5 & 8 (CLC PEAR EVALUATION) Assignment
WEEK 5
MGT-605 CLC Peer Evaluation Form
Complete this peer
evaluation for each member of your team, including yourself. The average score
from these evaluations will be used to determineyour final grade for the
assignment.
Rate each team member
on a scale of 1-100, with 100 being the highest. Use the rubric on the second
page to determine the score for each team member. Include comments explaining
why you gave your teammate this score.
Your peer evaluations
will be kept strictly confidential. Your grade for the evaluation will be posted in the gradebook
as an assignment, but individual ratings will not be shared.
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Scores will be
calculated as follows:
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After the total for
each student has been added together and divided by the number of team members
rating him/her, calculate the following: ___/100 x 2% =____ out of 2 points for
this evaluation.
WEEK 8
MGT-605 CLC Peer Evaluation Form
Complete this peer
evaluation for each member of your team, including yourself. The average score
from these evaluations will be used to determineyour final grade for the
assignment.
Rate each team member
on a scale of 1-100, with 100 being the highest. Use the rubric on the second
page to determine the score for each team member. Include comments explaining
why you gave your teammate this score.
Your peer evaluations
will be kept strictly confidential. Your grade for the evaluation will be posted in the gradebook
as an assignment, but individual ratings will not be shared.
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Group member: List names
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Rating: 1-100
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