MGT 311 Organizational Development
Entire Course
MGT 311 Organizational Development
Entire Course
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?
- MGT/311 WEEK 1 SUMMARY (150+ Words)
MGT
311 (Organizational Development)
Week
2
MGT/311
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?
MGT
311 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.
- MGT/311 WEEK 2 SUMMARY (150 + Words)
- Employee Portfolio (250+ Words)
·
Employee Portfolio Management Plan (350+ Words)
MGT
311 (Organizational Development)
Week
3
MGT/311
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)
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311 (Organizational Development)
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?
MGT/311 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)
- MGT 311 Week 4 Team Reflection (300+ Words)
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