MGT 311 Entire Course
MGT 311 Entire Course
MGT 311
(Organizational Development)
Week 1
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WEEK 1 DQ 1
DQ1:
Which of the following employee characteristics have the greatest impact on
employee behavior: general attitudes, job satisfaction, emotions and moods,
personality, values, or perception? Provide a rational for your choice
including examples of assessments and evaluations you might use to determine
the characteristics of your employees.
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WEEK 1 DQ2
DQ2:
How might an individual employee’s personality affect the performance of an
organization? If the effect is negative, how might you change this? If the
affect is positive, how can you capitalize on this? What examples can you
provide of changes you have successfully affected in your organizations? As a
manager, how can you use your knowledge of employee characteristics to improve
organizational performance Provide specific examples to support your response?
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WEEK 1 DQ 3
Review
the section in Ch. 5 of your titled, “An Ethical Choice: What If I Have the
“Wrong Personality?”
DQ3: As
a manager, what do you if you have someone who scores low in desirable personality
traits, but their behavior does not reflect this?
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WEEK 1 SUMMARY (150+ Words)
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Week 2
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Week 2 DQ 1
DQ1: In
week one, you learned about individual personality characteristics. How do
these traits affect the type of motivational strategy you use? Provide an
example of how this would apply.
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Week 2 DQ 2
DQ2:
Evidence indicates high-performing managers tend to be more media sensitive
than low-performing managers – they are better to match appropriate media
richness with the message to be delivered. As a manager, how would you
determine which communication channel should be used for a particular message?
What barriers might distort the message?
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WEEK 2 DQ 3
DQ3: As
a manager what factors do you consider when determining the most effective way
to communicate a message to your employees? Does this change if you are
preparing to communicate the same message to your supervisors? Why?
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Week 2 Learning Team (250 Words)
Discuss
the objectives for Week One and Two. Your discussion should include the topics
you feel comfortable with, any topics you struggled with, and how the weekly
topics relate to application in your field.
Write a
350- to 700-word summary of the team’s discussion.
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WEEK 2 SUMMARY (150 + Words)
Employee Portfolio (250+ Words)
Employee Portfolio (250+ Words)
·
Employee Portfolio Management Plan (350+ Words)
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Week 3
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WEEK 3 DQ 1
DQ1:
Although the optimal level of conflict can be functional, no conflict or too much
conflict can be dysfunctional. What steps would you as a manager take to
stimulate some degree of conflict when appropriate and reduce conflict when it
is excessive?
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WEEK 3 DQ 2
DQ2:
What is the difference between a group and a team? Would your strategy be
different for putting together a group than creating a team? Explain your
answer.
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WEEK 3 DQ 3
DQ3: In
the article, “Conflict Management”, the author discusses several strategies for
resolving group or team conflict. Which type of strategies seems to fit you
best? What criteria should you consider when determining the best conflict
resolution strategy?
Week 3
Employee
Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan
Determine
the motivational strategy or strategies that would likely be most appropriate for
each of your three employees, based on their individual characteristics.
Indicate how you would leverage their employee evaluations to motivate each of
the three employees. Describe one or more of the motivational theories and
explain how the theories connect to each of your selected motivational
strategies.
Week 3
Learning Team Reflection (650+ Words)
MGT/311 WEEK 3 Summary (250 + Words)
MGT/311 WEEK 3 Summary (250 + Words)
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Week 4
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WEEK 4 DQ 1
DQ1:
Organizational culture is in many ways beneficial for an organization and its
employees but can also be a liability. What do you think are the most
significant ways that organizational culture is beneficial? A liability? Be
sure to provide specific examples. In what ways is organizational culture beneficial
or a liability in your organization?
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WEEK 4 DQ 2
DQ2: An
effective manager accepts the political nature of organizations. Power tactics
are used to translate power bases into specific action, and there are a number
of tactics that could be used in various situations. As a manager trying to
influence your employees, what tactics would you personally be most likely to
use? Why? What tactics have been used by your manager that have been effective?
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WEEK 4 DQ 3
DQ3:
What is the difference between the position a person holds in a company and
their political power? Is the top executive in an organization always the
person who holds the most political power? Explain your answer. Who holds the
most political power in your organization? How do you know?
Team
Strategy Plan Part I Week 4 (700+ Words)
Conflict
Management Plan Part 2 Week 4 (650+ Words)
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Week 4 Team Reflection (300+ Words)
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