OI 361 Week 4 Mental ModelMindsets Paper

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OI 361 Week 4 Mental ModelMindsets Paper
OI 361 Week 4 Mental ModelMindsets Paper
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OI 361 Week 4 Mental ModelMindsets Paper

 

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Week

4 Mental Model/Mindsets PaperAssume you work in Human Resources as a part of the management

team for AAA Transportation in Waukegan, WI, which has recently been acquired.

AAA Transportation is an interstate trucking company that specializes in

transporting wholesale produce in refrigerated trailers throughout the Midwest.

The new owners want to make some sweeping changes in the services offered. One

of the things that they would like to do is add delivery of nonperishable

products, such as canned foods, to their delivery routes, allowing AAA to

expand the area they cover and to provide expanded service to their existing

customers. They think that, because many of the routes do not require a full

load on the trucks, there is room to add the nonperishable goods and provide

delivery at a lower rate than the customers are now paying.Two of your coworkers, Vernon and Bud, are resistant to the

changes proposed by the new owners. Vernon supervises the company’s drivers and

Bud works in the corporate offices. Vernon does not think that it is a good

idea to expand out of their core business, while Bud thinks that AAA is not

strong enough to compete with existing companies that service the nonperishable

foods market (several of whom AAA has had a long history of mutually respecting

each others’ customers and routes); they risk alienating long-term customers;

and transporting nonperishable goods in refrigerated trailers is inefficient.

Both employees have been with the company for more than 20 years and have much

influence among the rest of the employees. Management does not want to

terminate such long-term and influential employees but need for Vernon and Bud

to join the effort to make the company successful.Write a

1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you define and discuss mental

model/mindsets and their impact on you and your two coworkers.Identify the

four steps to changing mental models/mind sets and how you could use them to

bring Vernon and Bud onto the team.Identify the

five forces that influence those mental model/mindsets of your coworkers and

discuss how those forces might affect your coworkers’ mindsets.Include examples

of what mental models/mindsets are possibly affecting Vernon and Bud’s

decision-making processes and affecting their relationship with the company.Analyze your

most commonly used mental models/mindsets that guide your decision making in

the workplace. How do these models influence your decision making?

Format your

paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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