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MGT 311 Week 1 Self-Assessments
Imagine you are a manager of three employees. You have decided to assess each individual’s character, personality, and job satisfaction to improve your ability to manage them.
Resources: Self-Assessment Library, University of Phoenix Material: How to Save the Self-Assessments Guide
Ask three co-workers, friends, or family members to take the following self-assessments:
- How Satisfied Am I with My Job?
- Am I Engaged?
- How Are You Feeling Right Now?
- What’s My Affect Intensity?
- What’s My Emotional Intelligence Score?
- Am I A Deliberate Decision Maker?
Ask the participants to return the completed self-assessments to you.
Follow the instructions in the University of Phoenix Material: How to Save the Self-Assessments Guide to save copies of each completed self-assessment.
Note: Be sure your browser is not set to automatically clear your cache and cookies. Your survey results will be cleared if you have your browser set to automatically clear your cache and cookies.
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MGT 311 Week 2 Employee Portfolio: Management Plan
You are a manager of three employees at Riordan Manufacturing. You recently had these employees take a series of self-assessments to aid you in managing them. Now that you have these assessments, you are now tasked with creating an Employee Portfolio for each of the employees to help guide you in developing ways to best manage them.
Resources: Results of Self-Assessments, University of Phoenix Material: Employee Portfolio Management Plan
Complete the Employee Portfolio: Management Plan found on your student website for each of the three employees.
Write a 350- to 700-word summary. Include the following in your summary:
- Howmight these three employees’ characteristics affect the performance of the organization?
- Recommendations for additional assessments.
Submit the Self-Assessment Results with the Employee Portfolio and Summary.
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MGT 311 Week 2 Organizational Issue Topics
Individual Assignment:
Submit x2 case studies for your week 3 presentation. Case studies should have a brief description.
Example:
- Wal-Mart/ Pay Discrimination(Primary)
- Brief Description of the case(Minimum 15 Sentences)
- Disney/Gender Discrimination(Secondary)
- Brief Description of the case(Minimum 15 Sentences)
Submission of case studies is in first-come/first-serve basis. If more than one participant had selected the same case, the secondary case will be used. Researching the case name in the Internet or public library will help you analyze the history, facts, and reasoning of the case. The presentation will start at week 3. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me via mobile: (909)605-3562. You may not select Wal-Mart, Disney or Starbucks as your case study. APA Format
MGT 311 Week 2 Case Study Analysis
Case Study Analysis
Participation is required in this assignment. Absence/Tardiness in week 2 will result of loss in participation points and assignment points
MGT 311 Week 3 Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan
You are a manager for Riordan Manufacturing. You recently administered a series of assessments to your three employees to give you a better understanding of their different traits. You have begun putting together an Employee Portfolio for each employee. Now you must use the information from the assessments to create a Motivational Plan.
Resources: University of Phoenix Material: Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan, Self Assessments from Week One and Week Two Individual Assignment
Determine the motivational strategy or strategies that would likely be most appropriate for each of your three employees based on their individual characteristics, and complete the Motivational Action Plan for each employee. How will you leverage employee evaluations to motivate each of the three employees?
Describe how the strategy selected connects to one or more of the motivational theories described in the text.
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MGT 311 Week 3 Organizational Issue Presentation
Individual Assignment: Organizational Topic Issues in Management
- Each student will be responsible to summarize, analyze, and present the case problem to the class via PowerPoint. The PowerPoint presentation should have the following information:
- Describe the legal and organizational issues related to the case. (3 Points)
- Explain how the relationship between legal issues and responsible management practices relates to your topic. (3 Points)
- What legal aspects did management face during this dilemma? What legalities governed or should have governed the decision? (3 Points)
- Student’s Conclusion(Overall Point of View of the Case) (3 Points)
- The presentation should be no more than 15 minutes (Minimum 10). (3 Points)
- Wal-Mart, Disney, and Starbucks cannot be used as a topic of presentation.
- No open discussion allowed during the presentation.
- No video clips are allowed.
MGT 311 Week 4 Groups, Teams, and Conflict
Part I: Team Strategy Plan
You are part of a group of newly hired team superintendents with Riordan Manufacturing. Your group was hired to lead new teams and begin production of the newly designed CardiCare Valve heart valves. This will be at the organization’s Pontiac, MI, location that is currently manufacturing custom plastic parts. Many of the production employees are current employees from other divisions, and the company expects to hire some new employees.
Resources: Riordan Manufacturing Virtual Organization, and University of Phoenix Material: Team Strategy Plan
Review the Riordan Manufacturing intranet site and the Human Resource section under Demographics, Employees, Employee Files, and Reports.
Prepare a plan to create the teams. Address the following in your plan:
- Identify various strategies available to build teams.
- What challenges or barriers may happen?
- How will the best strategy be determined?
- What measures will you use to determine if the team is operating successfully
Part II: Conflict Management Plan
While developing the teams, the management group finds that there is currently some internal conflict among two of the employees chosen for this project. David Nguyen has spoken to his current manager twice regarding his feelings that James Deal is intentionally creating problems on the production line, which is causing David to miss his quality checks. James insists that he has no idea what David is referring to and does not understand why David is trying to cause problem. James now goes to his own superintendent because he feels David is spreading rumors that he is looking for other work. David advises his own manager that he is not sure why James thinks this because he has never said anything like that.
Before the new teams are formed, the management group knows they must resolve this issue so that the new production teams can operate smoothly. Both James and David are good employees with positive performance reviews, and they were chosen for the new project because of this reason.
Resources: Riordan Manufacturing Virtual Organization, and University of Phoenix Material: Conflict Management Plan
Create a Conflict Management Plan for the conflict between David and James. In this plan, include the following:
- The various conflict management strategies
- The strengths and weaknesses of each
- Considerations for selecting a strategy
- Alternate strategies
- Possible challenges
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MGT 311 Week 4 Case Study Analysis
Case Study Analysis
Participation is required in this assignment. Absence/Tardiness in week 4 will result of loss in participation points and assignment points
MGT 311 Week 5 Change Management and Communication Plan
Riordan Manufacturing has decided to make a change to company’s customer management system. The company does not currently have any formal system for managing their customer information and has traditionally left this up to individual employees. This new system will require all employees to use one customer management system. Your team is now working to help Riordan implement this planned change. Your team must do the following in your role as consultants:
Resource: Riordan Manufacturing Virtual Organization
Review the intranet site for Riordan Manufacturing including Human Resources – Organizational Charts, Employee Files, etc., and Sales & Marketing – Marketing Information Systems.
Create a change management plan and communication plan of 1,050- to 1,400-words. Your plan should include the details from section I and section II outlined below.
Section I: Change Management Plan
- Identify the current formal and informal power structures in the organization. How might the power and political structure of the organization affect employee behavior?
- Identify the most appropriate and effective organizational structures for Riordan Manufacturing that will help them accomplish their planned changes.
- What are the potential effects of this selected structure on employee behavior?
- Identify characteristics of the company’s culture. What are the potential influences of the corporate culture on employee behavior?
- Identify the potential sources of resistance to change and develop strategies to manage resistance to change.
- Recommend a strategy to implement the changes over the next 12 months.
- Describe how you will evaluate the success or failure of the planned change.
Section II: Communication Plan
Create a Communication Plan for the proposed change covered in the Change Management Plan. In the Communication Plan, complete the following:
- Select the most appropriate channels to communicate the change to the employees, and explain why you selected these channels.
- Identify the potential barriers to effective communication and strategies for overcoming the barriers.
Develop a message for one of the selected communication channels. In the message, complete the following:
- Identify those areas affected by the change.
- Establish the need for the change.
- Create a sense of urgency around the change.
- Outline next steps in the change process.
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