MGT605 Full Course Latest 2019 January Question # 00598622 Subject: Education Due on: 02/28/2019 Posted On: 02/28/2019 05:20 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.6/5

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Leadership and Organizations

Week 1
Discussion

DQ1 In many organizations, being “people-centered”
is considered soft, irrelevant, and unrelated to profitability. Contemplate the
Conscious Capitalism principles (i.e. conscious leadership, stakeholder
orientation, conscious culture, and higher purpose) as a framework and consider
at least two companies that have successfully adopted this business philosophy
to gain success and combat traditional corporate approaches. How do these
companies embody the tenet of “higher purpose” and create deeper
meaning by focusing their goals beyond profits and inspiring their
stakeholders? What connections can you identify between the four principles of
Conscious Capitalism and the Christian concept of putting others before
oneself?

DQ2 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.

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Week 2
Discussion

DQ1 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.

DQ2 Refer to the results of your “Rokeach Values
Survey” that you completed for this week’s assignment

http://www.wec.ufl.edu/faculty/jacobsons/wis6525/rokeach_value_survey%20personal%20responses.pdf

What are your major terminal and instrumental values? Which
values, terminal or instrumental, are valid predictors of career success in the
workplace? To what extent do you believe your personal values are aligned with
the values of your organization?? What impact does this have on your sense of
belongingness/fit with your organization?

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Week 3
Discussion

DQ1 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? Be sure to include comments on two content theories and two process
theories and highlight the significance of each theory.

DQ2 Goal setting research suggests that people should be
given difficult goals. Provide an explanation that reconciles this research
finding with expectancy theory. Use a practical example (preferably work
related) to illustrate this.

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Week 4
Discussion

DQ1 Refer to Figure 11-2 in the Organizational Behavior
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? Research the tenet of conscious culture and explain its
role in promoting successful teams.

DQ2 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.” 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).

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Week 5
Discussion

DQ1 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 and CEO of a
small machine and tool company. You have 35 employees, most of whom are highly
skilled machinists who belong to a local 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 because it was filled with divisiveness, arguing, name-calling,
and even occasional profanity. Things turn much worse in the second meeting
because the union lawyers are present. After reading the article “Ethics
in Negotiation: Oil and Water or Good Lubrication,” 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:

What type of conflict is occurring in this case, and what
conflict management style would you, as the manager use? Justify your choice.

What are the challenges to effective communication in this
case and how can these challenges be mitigated?

How would evidence-based decision making help in resolving
this case?

DQ2 Workers increasingly rely on means of technology-mediated
communication in the workplace. Besides e-mail, 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?

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Week 6
Discussion

DQ1 Conduct some web-based research into one organization
that professes to have adopted a servant leadership philosophy (e.g., SWA,
Men’s Warehouse, TDIndustries). What are the organization’s values? Compare
these organizations to another 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.

DQ2 Read the article, “Leaders, Too, Need
Support.” How do you see yourself in the role of supportive follower? What
power bases would a supportive follower be more likely to employ? What
challenges do you have with this concept? What can you do to overcome those
challenges?

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Week 7
Discussion

DQ1 One of your managers hears you have just completed your
MBA. He looks at you and smirks and says, “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 this manager and post it on
the discussion board.

DQ2 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. Next, 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.

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Week 8
Discussion

DQ1 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? Considering the concept of putting others
before oneself from Topic 1, how could this same concept affect a company’s
culture in regards to its organizational effectiveness?

DQ2 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?

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Week 2 Assignment

Self-Assessment and Reflection

This assignment focuses on the tenet of conscious
leadership, the importance of self-assessment, and reflection. 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.

Self-Assessment

For this 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. As a
starting point, review the resources on conscious capitalism at:
http://www.consciouscapitalism.org/. There are several helpful resources,
including white papers and speech transcripts, available under the Content tab
on the main page of this site. Conduct additional research beyond this website
on the principle of conscious leadership.

Refer to the “Self-Assessment Links” resource in
Topic Materials and complete each test. 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:

Explain the characteristics of conscious leadership as
defined by Mackey and Sisodia and compare them to the primary characteristics
of two or three other leadership theories you have studied.

Describe the importance of self-awareness, self-concept, and
emotional intelligence and the role they play in enabling effective conscious
leadership.

Briefly summarize the results of each test you completed. In
general, do you believe the results represent who you are as a leader? How will
the results inspire you to be a conscious leader? Explain.

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?

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?

Include at least four academic references for this
assignment to support your analysis and reflection.

This assignment uses a checklist. Please review the
checklist prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the
expectations for successful completion.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in
the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not
required.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.
Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

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Week 3 Assignment

CLC – Leading Teams at West Coast Transit

This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment.

It is not unusual for organizations to have several people
in leadership roles who participate in collaborative decision making for the
benefit of the entire organization. Leading teams of diverse individuals is a
significant challenge and negotiating individual strengths, weaknesses, and
personalities can be difficult. Nonetheless, as managers 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 Topics 3 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 a recommendation will be delivered to the director.

In assigned teams, individuals should share their
recommendations for a team of six people from the given teammate profiles. Once
each individual has made a case, together, the CLC must negotiate and select a
team that will eventually be presented to the director. Begin by reading
“West Coast Transit Company Profile” and “West Coast Transit
Team Member Profiles.” 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:

Why did you team select the six team members? Why did you
decide against the others?

Considering the diverse factors that may influence the
behavior of the selected team members, what specific strategies will the
management team use to motivate this particular team of individuals? Why do you
think they will work? What motivational strategies does the management team
think would be ineffective for this team? Why?

What particular challenges or conflicts can the management
team anticipate this team facing? What strategies might you apply to manage
this team’s potential conflicts? (You will learn more about conflict management
in Topic 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 in your
Topic 5.)

Finally, summarize management team’s vision for the success
of this team. Based on what you have identified as the selected team’s
particular strengths and weaknesses, which specific leadership strategies might
you apply to ensure that the vision is ultimately successful? Why?

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in
the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not
required.

This assignment uses a checklist. Please review the checklist
prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for
successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.
Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

q	POSSIBLE	ACTUAL
The proposal explains why the six team members were selected and the other members omitted.	25
The proposal identifies diverse factors that may influence the behavior of the team members, identifies specific strategies that will and will not successfully motivate the team, and explains why.	25
The proposal anticipates challenges or conflicts the selected team might face and speculates about relevant strategies for managing conflict.	25
The proposal summarizes the vision for the team’s success and discusses specific applicable leadership strategies for ensuring the team’s success.	25
Reflection is prepared according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.	10
Mechanics of Writing: · Student is clearly in control of standard, written American English. · All work includes correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar.	10
Language Use and Audience Awareness: · Student uses correct sentence construction, word choice, etc. · Student uses language in a manner that is appropriate to the purpose, discipline, and scope of the assignment.	10
TOTAL	130

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Week 5 Assignment

Benchmark – Final Team Selection for West Coast Transit
Presentation

In Topic 3, selections for the West Coast Transit marketing
team were made and now your job is to present the recommendation to your
director. Surprisingly though, a directive is issued informing management that
only four people will be able to staff the team, which will of course increase
the pressure finalizing the selection.

Consider the vision for a successful West Coast Transit
marketing team composed in Topic 3. Narrow down the team selection to four
individuals for presentation to the director. Decide which strategies will be
most effective for leading the agreed-upon team. Compose a PowerPoint
presentation (10-12 slides) with a justification for the team selection and
summary of the decision-making process that addresses the following:

Who are the four team members, and what was the primary
reason each person was selected?

What are the primary strengths of the team? What are its
potential weaknesses? How positive is the management team about the team’s potential?
Justify your answers with evidence from “West Coast Transit Team Member
Profiles.”

What strategies will be most effective for motivating the
team, managing conflict, and ensuring its success? Cite specific motivational
theories, conflict-resolution strategies, and leadership strategies in your
answer.

How difficult was it to come to a decision regarding team
selection? Which potential team member was most difficult to come to a
consensus about? Why?

Justify how the selected team embodies the values of
Conscious Capitalism how the tenet of stakeholder orientation played a role in
the team selection process.

Describe how value is created for each stakeholder, and in
what ways will the team positively impact the business as a whole?

You are required to use at least three academic references
to support your reasoning for the team selection process.

While APA format is not required for the body of this
assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and
references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be
found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

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 not required to submit this assignment to
LopesWrite.

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Week 6 Assignment

Leadership Evaluation and Leadership Philosophy

In earlier topics, you explored the tenet of conscious
leadership and the influence of self-awareness on your leadership style. You
established that a clear understanding of your abilities, motivation, and goals
provides a firm foundation for leading others. Leadership studies demonstrate
that the most effective leaders know how to draw upon self-leadership skills to
in turn motivate and lead others to expand their strengths to ultimately better
serve the goals of an organization. For this assignment, you will continue to
study conscious leadership and look at a leadership example from contemporary
media and evaluate how well the particular leader exemplifies the qualities of
effective and ethical conscious leadership. Then, you will compose your own
leadership philosophy statement to articulate the qualities that will make you
an effective conscious leader of people and organizations.

Part 1:

For Part 1, select a relevant and topical leadership issue
from current news media that revolves around ethics and ethical decision
making. Topics must be approved by your instructor. Once approved, research the
situation and gather data in order to evaluate the dynamics of the situation.
Write an evaluation (500-750 words) of the situation that addresses the
following:

The power bases used by the leader.

The influence tactics used by the leader.

The leadership style of the leader.

The outcome (or potential outcome) of the situation.

Conclude by justifying whether or not you think this leader
supports the values of conscious capitalism. Is the leader’s leadership style
effective? Do you believe the leader acted ethically in the situation? Be sure
to consider each tenet of conscious capitalism in your leader evaluation.

Next, imagine yourself as a practitioner of servant
leadership. You have been appointed into the leadership role in this same
circumstance. Explain how the situation would be different. Address the four
criteria listed above in your discussion and incorporate the principles of
conscious capitalism by explaining how your personal values and style are
influenced by each tenet.

Part 2:

For Part 2, develop a leadership philosophy statement as an
appendix to your evaluation in Part 1. Begin by reviewing your self-assessment
results from Topic 2 and reflecting on what you have learned about effective
leadership and conscious capitalism in the course. Keep in mind that one’s
leadership philosophy is a unique statement that encapsulates your own view of
leadership, so the final product may vary, but your statement should
incorporate the following:

Personal values and beliefs that influence your leadership
style.

Past experiences or people that have influenced the
development of those values.

Expectations of self and others.

Leadership style and influence tactics.

Your goal is to create a distinctive statement (250-500
words) that incorporates the elements outlined above. The end product should
clearly articulate how you view yourself as a leader and how others would view
you as a leader. It should also make clear how you can contribute to the
success of other people and an organization as a whole.

Prepare this assignment according to the 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 LopesWrite.
Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

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Week 8 Assignment

Benchmark – Organizational Design, Structure, and Change
Presentation

Each year Fortune magazine publishes a “Most
Admired” list of the top companies in the United States. Firms are rated
on these eight dimensions: innovativeness, quality of management, long-term
investment value, social responsibility to the community and the environment,
people management, quality of products and services, financial soundness, wise
use of corporate assets, and, if international, a ninth dimension:
effectiveness in doing business globally.

For this assignment, select a familiar organization (you are
encouraged to select an organization in which you have been employed for at
least 6 months). Then, choose one of the eight dimensions used to rate top U.S.
companies in which the organization appears to be underperforming. Prepare a
PowerPoint presentation (12-15 slides) that addresses the following:

Identify a major issue the organization is facing and in
which dimension (of the eight identified above) it is underperforming. Explain
the ramifications the underperformance is currently having on the organization.
Identify the likely consequence of failure to improve in the selected
dimension.

Analyze the relevance of the current organizational
structure, design, and culture and their influence on organizational
effectiveness, especially in relationship to the dimension in which the
organization is struggling.

Determine whether the organization embodies the principles
and values of conscious culture and management and its relevance to improving
organizational function.

Present a plan to bring about necessary improvement using
Kotter’s 8-step change model.

Address possible challenges to the suggested change and your
plans for managing those challenges.

Explain how different subsystems need to be realigned in
order to bring about the change.

Detail any lessons learned and evaluate strategies that you
as a manager will either avoid or engage in when designing the structure,
building culture, and managing change in your organization.

Present evidence from at least three scholarly articles to
support your position and proposed change initiative.

While APA format is not required for the body of this
assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and
references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be
found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

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 not required to submit this assignment to
LopesWrite.

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Week 3 Assignment

PEER EVALUATION

Complete this peer evaluation for each member of your team,
including yourself. The average score from these evaluations will be your grade
for the assignment.

Rate each team member on a scale of 1 to 100 with 100 being
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.

Group member: List names	Rating: 1 – 100	Comments: Must be completed for each team member
1. Your name
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

CATEGORY 100-93
pts (A) Excellent 92-83
pts (B) Good 82-73 pts (C)
Improving 72-0 pts (D)
Needs Improvement

Contributions Routinely
provides useful ideas when participating in the group discussion. Contributes a
lot of effort. Usually
provides useful ideas when participating in the group discussion. A good group
member who tries hard. Sometimes
provides useful ideas when participating in the group discussion. A
satisfactory group member who does what is required. Rarely provides useful ideas when participating in the group
discussion. May refuse to participate.

Quality of Work No
correction or revision necessary, work is complete and of high quality. Revisions and corrections may not be
necessary and work is adequate for what is needed. Some revision and/or correction is needed or work is not
always completed in the manner required. Work
provided constantly needs correction and revision and is often incomplete.

Time-management All
work is turned in on time or even earlier than what is needed, the team member
is reliable for posting/submitting whole pieces that the group has put together
and responsibilities never need to be reassigned to compensate Work is, for the most part, on time and
on a few occasions early.For the most part, the team member is reliable for
submitting completed team documents. Group member does not need to be
compensated for. Occasionally the
work is on time, and rarely is it early. On one or two occasions, the rest of
the group needed to compensate for missing or late work. Occasionally the work is on time and is never early. Team
member cannot be relied on to turn in team documents and other members sometimes
must compensate for tardiness of work assigned.

Attitude Always
has a positive attitude about the project and works well with the other team
members. Any criticism given is constructive. Usually
has a positive attitude towards the work and group, but conflict is usually
minor. Any criticism is often constructive. Attitude
is hit or miss towards project and group, but member is for the most part
tolerable. Criticism given is on occasion constructive if at all given. Rarely has a positive attitude.Participation,quality
of work, and time management is severely affected by such and team member has
difficulties and conflict with group