DEVRY PSYC305 Week 8 Discussion Latest 2019 January Question # 00598088 Subject: Education Due on: 02/12/2019 Posted On: 02/12/2019 07:24 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.9/5

PSYC305 Motivation
and Leadership

Week 8
Discussion

Looking Ahead

Initial Post Instructions

Take a moment to review again our learning objectives for
this course listed below. Identify one of the course learning outcomes and
share with the class how you feel you have mastered that learning objective.
What new skills or knowledge have you gained throughout the class that relate
to that objective? What activities, resources or experiences in class helped
you to gain that knowledge or skill? What strengths or weaknesses have you
identified in yourself as a team member and leader that relate to that
objective? What do you still have questions about or wish to explore further?

Given the need to design an effective strategy for the
leader of a short-term academic or workplace team project, describe how team
members with varying personalities and communication styles can be led
collaboratively in the successful completion of the project. (Covered in Week
2)

Given a work scenario where an important organizational
change has recently occurred, design strategies a leader can use to establish
quality leadership in that new work setting, considering effective leadership
variables, leadership qualities, and situational work factors. (Covered in Week
1)

Given a competition-driven workplace where the leader is
aware of important changes that may affect the market and alter the structure
of the organization, assess the need for a vision, and factors contributing to
organizational climate and power while considering the importance of values and
ethics in the workplace. (Covered in Weeks 3 & 5)

Given a work-group situation such as a team’s discrepancy
about performance, where the supervisor/manager has been asked by the members
to intervene, generate possible relevant resolutions that will increase worker
morale, acknowledge variables that define human relations in the workplace, and
account for team development processes, placing emphasis on the
leader/supervisor/manager role as team developer and facilitator. (Covered in
Week 5)

Given that a newcomer to an organization is promoted to
leader of an existing work group that has gone through a period of negative
business transactions, low work quality, and low morale, demonstrate how the
new leader can gain authority, establish quality as an imperative, and also
empower subordinates. (Covered in Week 4)

Given that a relatively new leader is asked to appraise his
or her subordinates, evaluate the different appraisal tools that could be used,
the possible consequences of performance appraisal, and the effects of
performance appraisals on discipline, compensation, behavior modification, and
professional development.(Covered in Week 6)

Given that a group is assigned to a completely new work
venue (or project) under the responsibility of a new but highly technically
trained supervisor, determine the different strategies that can be used to
ensure effective work assignment and work delegation and specifically analyze
the role of personality and job fit. (Covered in Week 3)

Given that in a group with strong ethnic or cultural
identity the supervisor/manager hires two new individuals who differ from the
existing group, assess the variables that would affect the resulting work team,
such as personality, sources of diversity, emotional intelligence, motivational
levels, and conflict resolution skills of all stakeholders. (Covered in Week 7)

Given a chosen business sector where new technologies are
being introduced, determine the different training and human resource
development strategies that could be used, the consequences of ineffective
change management practices, and the possible effects of, and ways of
preventing, stress and burnout. (Covered in Week 6)

Given an individual who has leadership experience or
aspirations, generate a proposal for the development and/or evaluation of a
leadership development plan, based on leadership and situational variables such
as team processes, sources and effects of diversity, organizational change
factors, ethics, personal and interpersonal psychological factors, hiring,
training, and performance appraisal procedures, power relationships, and
motivational factors. (Covered in Week 2)

Follow-Up Post Instructions

Respond to at least two peers or one peer and the
instructor. Further the dialogue by providing more information and
clarification.

Writing Requirements

Minimum of 3 posts (1 initial & 2 follow-up)

APA format for in-text citations and list of references