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    Career Development Discussion

    Discussion 1: Failure to differentiate or integrate or both may result in poorly designed jobs, which may lead to performance problems. In contrast, well-designed jobs improve productivity and enhance employee satisfaction. Four approaches to job design developed during the 20th century include scientific management, job enlarg

    Downsizing to Solve Capital Problems

    Questions: How and why has corporate downsizing been effected in the last 18-months? Why have so many employees been laid off? What are some of the statistics of lay-off/corporate downsizing? How important of a role has the HR function played in recession-driven downsizing?

    Common Grounds Among Diverse Workforce

    See the attached file. Managers today must manage the problems that arise from mixing people together who come from very different backgrounds. This can be daunting, but not if you adopt the perspective that we are all the same in many ways. People are people, no matter where they come from. We all share common characteristic

    Tuckman's Five-Stage Model in Organizational Behaviour

    • Reflect on a team of which you have been a member. Describe what happened in each stage of the group's development according to Tuckman's Five-Stage Model. Was it a mature group? How did you know? • Did the group progress linearly from one step to another or did it experience periods of little progress punctuated by burst

    Organizational Behavior Theory

    Please help with the following problem. Provide at least 300 words. Describe and discuss the best organizational behavior theory and why it's liked.

    Research Studies Focused on Business

    - Find a business research article that used secondary data and describe the source of the secondary data used. Describe why you chose the source you did. Do you believe this to be the best secondary source available? Why or why not? - Suppose you are the research director for your state's tourism bureau. Begin by assessing you

    Organizational Stress Prevention

    A critical factor in promoting a healthy work environment is the stage at which stress is managed. The three levels of prevention are the primary prevention stage (designed to reduce or eliminate the stressor), the secondary prevention stage (designed to modify the response to stress), and the tertiary prevention stage (designed

    Performance

    If poor performance is not attributable to work design or organizational process problems, attention should be focused on the employee. The problem may lie in some aspect of the person's relationship to the organization or supervisor, some area of the employee's personal life, or a training or developmental deficiency. Think abo

    Problem solving-QC and CI

    Using the Problem Statement: How can a school increase online student satisfaction? 1. Brainstorm a list of at least three ideas. 2. Be sure to discuss why you feel these ideas would improve student satisfaction. 3. Select one idea and create a plan for implementing the idea.

    Organizational Stressors: An Annotated Bibliography

    Need for My Job Organizational Stressors: An Annotated Bibliography Organizational stress seems to be an inevitable consequence of doing business in today's fast-paced global society. But what are the causes of organizational stress? What is the impact of these stressors on an organization? How can these sources of stress be

    Data Collection Methods for Organizational Behavior

    1. Imagine you are an OD Consultant and need to investigate the working climate within a hospital. What diagnostic methods of data collection would you use? Explain details giving reasons for your answer. 2. Compare and contrast the interview and survey methods of data collection. 3. What data collection methods would you

    Performance Problems

    What would be an example of a situation where instruction is not necessary to solve a performance problem?

    Organizational behaviour case study

    After reading the case study answer the following questions 1.What were the external and internal forces for change at HCL? 2.To what extent did Vineet Nayar follow the change models proposed by Lewin and Kotter? Explain. 3.Which of the target elements of change within the systems model of change were affected by the chan

    Quality in Logistics

    What is quality in a logistics system? Is it important to stress quality in a logistics system? Why or why not?

    Individual motivations - case studies

    For each of the following incidents, determine whether the individuals will be motivated to behave as desired. Then select the appropriate managerial action from those listed.Please explain your reason Motumba is a small African nation with rich deposits of several rare metals. Tall, forbidding mountains to the North and W

    Recruiting Motivation and Managerial Actions

    For each of the following incidents, determine whether the individuals will be motivated to behave as desired. Then select the appropriate managerial action from those listed. Explain your reasoning. I. Frank Edwards is head basketball coach at a small regional state university, a campus of the state's main university system.

    Employee Termination Case: Harry vs. Sally

    Scenario: Your company has suffered a large loss of revenue over the past year, resulting in the need to downsize. You are the executive in charge of making the decision on which employees are terminated.There are two candidates on the table: Harry, who has been with the company over 20 years, has provided optimal productivi

    Toyota Corp. Weakness Assessment

    Weakness 1: Ford Motors High cost structure Recommendation Implantation Positive Ramifications Negative Ramifications Toyota has the largest recalls in history Feedback Measurement Tools Weakness 2: Toyota has the largest recall Recommendation Implantation Positive Ramifications Negative Ramifications Feedback M

    Increasing Employee Productivity

    Could you assist me with examine Pay for Performance in the public sector. Consider the developments that are occurring in the public sector. Many local and State government agencies are reducing staff and implementing pay concessions from their workers. Even union members are being asked to share in these cutbacks. With this i

    What is the impact on employee motivation.

    Could you assist me with the role of employee benefits and their importance in maintaining a workforce that is committed to the organization. Could you assist me with the important characteristics of these benefit programs in government. I can discuss the impact on employee motivation. Could you assist me with 300 words

    Create a Management Performance Plan

    Define a management performance plan that links action plans to the following issues: *Motivation *Empowerment *Training *Coproduction with patients and families Create an employee hiring/training/retention plan that includes the following information: Define an employee hiring/training/retention plan that links action p

    Pros & Cons of Performance-Based Pay

    What are the advantages and disadvantages of performance-based pay? Explain why employees in an organization should or should not earn pay based on performance. Performance based is based on sales performance. Thanks

    Is CEO Compensation justified by Performance?

    Is CEO Compensation justified by Performance? Yes or No. Which view do you agree with and Why? Explain. Reference at least two outside resources that further support the view point you side

    Relating Cultural Values to Work Performance

    List and discuss three personal values specific to your own (micro) culture. How do these values relate to work performance? What can management do to leverage these values to improve work performance? People are constantly bombarded with information. Page 42 of the text that cites an example of a study by Iyengar and Lepper