MGT 302 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND TEAMWORK FULL COURSE-TRIDENT

1. MGT 302 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND TEAMWORK FULL COURSE-TRIDENT Visit Below Link, To Download This Course: https://www.tutorialsservice.net/product/mgt-302-organizational-behavior-and-teamwork-full-course- trident/ Or Email us on SUPPORT@TUTORIALSSERVICE.NET MGT 302 Organizational Behavior and Teamwork Full Course-Trident MGT302 Organizational Behavior and Teamwork MGT 302 Module 1 Discussion Latest-Trident Actions for Personality Traits and Personality Tests Personality Traits One area of controversy is how well you can accurately assess the personalities of employees or potential employees. One popular way is through various questionnaires. For your first post, give the following information:. How would you rate yourself on each of the Big Five personality traits based on only the description of the trait? Would your friends agree with your self-ratings? After your own self-ratings, do a word search in Google or other search engines on “big five personality test” and find an online personality test that will tell you how you rate on the Big Five dimensions. Take the test, and compare your results with your initial self-ratings. How do you feel about the personality test you took? Was it accurate, or not very helpful? Also, provide the link to the test you found in case any of your classmates want to use it.

2. For your second and third posts, compare your results with those of your classmates, and try to find a classmate with opposite traits as you as well as one with very similar traits. Additional Key Elements of the Assignment: Your Initial Post should occur in a timely manner (by the third day of the module for full timeliness points). Include the original questions along with your initial, informative post. Support your post with information from at least one reference and provide the complete source information (so that your peers can find the article if they wish). Bring in your own personal experiences, as applicable. Your Subsequent Posts: Read through responses by peers and post responses to at least two classmates’ posts. Bring in ideas/comments and/or research not mentioned yet. Remember—To receive full credit in this forum, you need to post a minimum of three quality posts (your own initial post, and responses to two classmates). Only one outside source is needed (in the initial post). But in any post, if you borrow ideas/information from other authors, give them credit for their work. MGT 302 Module 2 Discussion Latest-Trident Hierarchy of Needs Based on what you learned about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which need (or needs) in the hierarchy are most important for you at this time for your career? Once you answered 1 above, do a word search on “hierarchy of needs test” and find an online survey that measures your hierarchy of needs. Report what you found. Were the results surprising, or what you initially suspected? Also, provide the link to the test you found in case any of your classmates want to use it. Compare and contrast your results with those of your classmates. Did your classmates with the similar personal traits in the Module 1 discussion also have similar hierarchy of needs? Additional Key Elements of the Assignment: Your Initial Post should occur in a timely manner (by the third day of the module for full timeliness points). Include the original questions along with your initial, informative post. Support your post with information from at least one reference and provide the complete source information (so that your peers can find the article if they wish). Bring in your own personal experiences, as applicable. Your Subsequent Posts: Read through responses by peers and post responses to at least two classmates’ posts. Bring in ideas/comments and/or research not mentioned yet.

3. Remember—To receive full credit in this forum, you need to post a minimum of three quality posts (your own initial post, and responses to two classmates). Only one outside source is needed (in the initial post). But in any post, if you borrow ideas/information from other authors, give them credit for their work. MGT 302 Module 3 Discussion Latest-Trident Groups and Teams First explain whether or not you think you are a team player or more someone who works better alone. After your own self-rating, go online and do a search on terms such as “team player quiz” or “team player questionnaire.” Report your results and compare with your initial self-ratings. Also, provide the link to the test you found in case any of your classmates want to use it. Finally, take a look at the Modules 1-2 discussions and the responses from your classmates and assess whether this class has a diverse variety of different personalities and other characteristics, or if you think your classmates generally have similar characteristics. If you and your classmates were all to work at a company for the same manager, do you think this manager would have any easy or hard time managing this group? Additional Key Elements of the Assignment: Your Initial Post should occur in a timely manner (by the third day of the module for full timeliness points). Include the original questions along with your initial, informative post. Support your post with information from at least one reference and provide the complete source information (so that your peers can find the article if they wish). Bring in your own personal experiences, as applicable. Your Subsequent Posts: Read through responses by peers and post responses to at least two classmates’ posts. Bring in ideas/comments and/or research not mentioned yet. Remember—To receive full credit in this forum, you need to post a minimum of three quality posts (your own initial post, and responses to two classmates). Only one outside source is needed (in the initial post). But in any post, if you borrow ideas/information from other authors, give them credit for their work. MGT 302 Module 4 Discussion Latest-Trident Our Module 4 Discussion is similar to Part 1 of the SLP—how we rate our organization along the following dimensions: detail-oriented, team-oriented, innovative, aggressive, outcome-oriented, and people- oriented. For Discussion:

4. Before answering the Discussion 4 question, dive into the Background reading material. Conduct a word search in Google or another search engine on “Quiz: What Is Your Corporate Culture” to find an organizational culture quiz. Take the quiz and discuss your results with your classmates. Be sure to provide the link to the quiz. Are the cultural dimensions you took from the quiz more useful than the standard textbook dimensions of organizational culture that you read about in the background readings? Refer to one or more authors (by name) in your discussion. Additional Key Elements of the Assignment: Your Initial Post should occur in a timely manner (by the third day of the module for full timeliness points). Include the original questions along with your initial, informative post. Support your post with information from at least one reference and provide the complete source information (so that your peers can find the article if they wish). Bring in your own personal experiences, as applicable. Your Subsequent Posts: Read through responses by peers and post responses to at least two classmates’ posts. Bring in ideas/comments and/or research not mentioned yet. Remember—To receive full credit in this forum, you need to post a minimum of three quality posts (your own initial post, and responses to two classmates). Only one outside source is needed (in the initial post). But in any post, if you borrow ideas/information from other authors, give them credit for their work. Be sure to also complete the Self-Reflective Section of the Module 4 discussion that follows. It is also graded. MGT 302 Module 4 Reflective Discussion Latest-Trident Summary and Reflection Paragraphs 1-3: Given the readings and assignments in the course, identify and discuss three important concepts applicable to your work experience, profession, and/or career plans for the future. Describe how each applies. Paragraph 4: What part of the course (background materials, assignments, and so forth) helped to shape or reshape your perceptions of the workplace? Note: No outside research or citations are needed with your four paragraphs to the Reflective Discussion. Also, no responses to your peers’ posts are needed.

5. MGT 302 Module 1 Case Latest-Trident Module 1 – Case INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN THE WORKPLACE Assignment Overview Strong cognitive abilities are usually considered a very important and positive trait to seek when hiring new employees. However, one police department decided not to hire those who scored too high on a cognitive skills exam on the grounds that people who are too intelligent will not be satisfied with their job as a police officer and will end up quitting (Naish, 2013). This of course is a controversial policy that resulted in at least one lawsuit. For this assignment we will be looking at individual characteristics that may predict job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and job performance for police officers. Being a police officer is a demanding job that requires strong physical capacity, sharp mental capacity to deal with difficult and life threatening situations, and strong interpersonal skills in order to effectively work with the communities they protect and serve. The issue of what traits to look for in police officer recruiting is a controversial one. Review the background materials on individual traits, personality, and attitudes such as job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Then read these articles on law enforcement recruitment with the issues in the background materials in mind: Naish, R. (April, 2013). Too clever by half. E.Learning Age, 8. Means, R., Lowry, K., & Conroy, D. (2011). Hiring: Background investigation, part 3. Law & Order, 59(3), 12-13. Reaume, S. (2009). Improved hiring for child protective investigators. Law & Order, 57(2), 19-20,22,24. Case Assignment Now suppose a police department has hired you as a consultant to come up with an exam to assess personality and other traits of applicants to the department. The department is looking to hire applicants who meet the following criteria: Are likely to have strong job satisfaction and organizational commitment to the police department after they are hired.

6. Will be able to work effectively under stressful and sometimes life threatening situations, can make good decisions under pressure. Will be able to present a positive image of the police department in the communities they serve and maintain strong relations with community leaders. Using what you’ve learned in the background materials about personality traits such as the Big Five Personality traits and factors that influence job satisfaction and organizational behavior, come up with a four to five page paper addressing the following issues: Do you think cognitive abilities should be part of the exam? Do you agree with the police department mentioned in Naish (2013) that there should be an upper limit to cognitive abilities, or should the department try to hire those with the highest cognitive abilities? Consider the concepts of ability testing in Chapter 3 of Nair (2010) as part of your answer. What personality traits do you think will best predict a police officer’s ability to handle stressful situations in the field and make decisions under stress? Consider the Big Five traits as well as any other personality traits that you read about in Chapter 6 of Nair (2010). Be specific about what traits the department should consider and why these traits will be associated with an ability to work under stress. What personality traits will best predict an ability to work cooperatively with their coworkers as well as with members of the community they serve? Again, be specific about which traits the department should consider and why these traits will be associated with a good ability to work with others. Use Chapter 6 of Nair (2010) as your source of information about Big Five and other personality traits to consider. Assignment Expectations Answer the assignment questions directly  Stay focused on the precise assignment questions, don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you find an article on the internet, make sure it is from a credible source. Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13-14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide”, which is found under “My Resources” in the TLC portal.   MGT 302 Module 1 SLP Latest-Trident Module 1 – SLP

7. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN THE WORKPLACE Assignment Instructions For the Session Long Project, you will be applying the concepts from the background materials to your own personal workplace experiences. For this assignment, think of two former or current coworkers that had unique personalities. Choose two people that you worked with closely enough that you were able to get a good idea of their personality traits and workplace attitudes.  Review the main personality traits and attitudes from the background materials, and think about how these apply to your two coworkers. Then write a three-page paper addressing the following issues: How would you describe the personalities of these two coworkers? Use the Big Five Personality traits and other personality traits discussed in Chapter 6 of Nair (2010) to find the personality traits that best describe your coworkers. You must use specific personality traits that you found in the background readings for your answer. How would you describe their workplace attitudes including job satisfaction and organizational commitment? Use the concepts from Chapter 4 of Nair (2010) in your answer. Do you think their personality traits impacted their workplace attitudes, or did other factors such as the work environment, job characteristics, etc. have a greater impact on their attitudes?    SLP Assignment Expectations Answer the assignment questions directly  Stay focused on the precise assignment questions, don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you find articles on the internet, make sure it is from a credible source. Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13-14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under “My Resources” in the TLC portal.   MGT 302 Module 2 Case Latest-Trident Module 2 – Case WORKPLACE MOTIVATION Assignment Overview In the background materials you read about some very traditional theories of motivation such as Theory X and Theory Y, and the hierarchy of needs. But one trend that has received a lot of attention in the media is that of weird or offbeat methods to motivate employees. The recent movie The Internship is set in the

8. odd (or “googly”) workplace culture of Google. Zappos Shoes even mentions “weirdness” in the list of corporate values. CashLinq, a financial services firm, is famous for their Nerf gun battles in the office. Eric Ryan, founder of the highly successful soap company Method, was known to go to extremes to motivate employees such as dressing up as a chipmunk or holding impromptu office dance parties. Other examples of unorthodox motivation techniques may include unusual perks such as health insurance for your pets, or allowing employees to ride scooters in the office. But is this just a passing fad for trendy new companies, or is there actually a method to their madness? For this assignment, you will be doing some research on these offbeat new motivation techniques and investigating whether or not these techniques actually fit in with standard textbook theories of motivation. Review the background materials, and then read the following articles and also see if you can find any other examples of bizarre or unusual workplace motivation techniques: Alsop, R. J. (2010). The last word. Workforce Management, 89(10), 50. [Proquest] Petrecca, L. (Dec. 30, 2011). Quirky perks for workers: Pet insurance, massages. USA Today [Proquest] Quirky offices may inspire employees. (Dec. 17, 2010, Dec 27). McClatchy – Tribune Business News [Proquest] Habib, M. (Oct. 7, 2011). Foosball? bah. employers dangle offbeat incentives. The Globe and Mail [Proquest] Case Assignment When you are done with your research, write a four- to five-page paper addressing the following issues:  Are these unusual motivation techniques more closely matched to McGregor’s Theory X, or his Theory Y? Cite at least one of the textbook chapters from the required background readings to support your answer. Which of Maslow’s needs do you think these techniques address or do not address – physiological, safety, belonging, esteem, and/or self-actualization? Cite at least one of the textbook chapters from the required background readings to support your answer. Overall, what do you think the main advantages and disadvantages are of these new and unusual motivation techniques as compared to more traditional techniques?   Assignment Expectations Answer the assignment questions directly

9.  Stay focused on the precise assignment questions, don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you find articles on the internet, make sure it is from a credible source. Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13-14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under “My Resources” in the TLC portal.   MGT 302 Module 2 SLP Latest-Trident Module 2 – SLP WORKPLACE MOTIVATION For the Session Long Project, you will be writing about an organization you currently work for or have worked for in the past and applying the background materials to your own experience. So the first step in this assignment is to choose an organization that you have worked for that you want to write about.  Think about your own experiences at this organization, and how motivated you were and what factors increased or decreased your motivation. Then write a two to three page paper covering the following issues: What steps did management at your organization do to motivate workers? Did management seem to apply Theory X or Theory Y for their motivation strategies? Or did they use elements of both? What needs in Maslow’s hierarchy does management at your organization try to address?    SLP Assignment Expectations Answer the assignment questions directly  Stay focused on the precise assignment questions, don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you find articles on the internet, make sure it is from a credible source. Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13-14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under “My Resources” in the TLC portal.   MGT 302 Module 3 Case Latest-Trident Module 3 – Case GROUPS AND TEAMS Assignment Overview

10. A rapidly growing trend in the business world is the growth of virtual teams. Some companies are allowing teleworking, which means that more and more workers have to coordinate their activities with other team members through the phone or Internet. Even among workers who are working from their office, more and more companies are having employees work in teams with employees who work at other locations who they may or may not have ever met in person. New technologies have been developed to help facilitate virtual teamwork, but challenges still remain. Review the background materials and also do some research on virtual teams. Here are a few articles on virtual teams to get you started: Garfoot, A. (May 2003). The reality of virtual teams. IT Training, 32-34. [ProQuest] Sadri, G., & Condia, J. (2012). Managing the virtual world. Industrial Management, 54(1), 21-25. [ProQuest] Rigby, R. (2013). How best to manage a virtual team. The Financial Times [ProQuest] Case Assignment When you are finished with your research, integrate what you learned in general about group dynamics in the background materials with more specific information you learned about virtual teams. Write a 4- to 5- page paper addressing the following issues:  How do you think the five stages of group development (forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning) will be different for virtual teams as compared to traditional teams? Discuss in regard to all five stages of group development as covered in Nair (2010) and Aswathappa (2010). Do you think virtual teams will be more or less cohesive than traditional teams? Include a discussion of the issue of groupthink in your discussion, and use Nair (2010) and Aswathappa (2010) as your guide to the concepts of group cohesiveness and groupthink. Overall, do you think virtual teams will perform better or worse than traditional teams? Explain your answer with references to the background readings.   Assignment Expectations Answer the assignment questions directly  Stay focused on the precise assignment questions, don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you find articles on the internet, make sure it is from a credible source. Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13-14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide”, which is found under “My Resources” in the TLC portal.  

11. MGT 302 Module 3 SLP Latest-Trident Module 3 – SLP GROUPS AND TEAMS This SLP has two functions. First, it helps you review the topics in Module 3. Second, it measures the continuing development of your written communications skills. The SLP will be graded using a special Written Communications rubric, which you should review at this time. Background: You work for a management consulting firm, Capital Consultants (CC). Your firm has been hired to advise Fast Forward Fashions, a small high-end house with a celebrity clientele. You have received the following memo from the head of the company. Dear , <Your first name>, I am assigning you to our newest client, Fast Forward Fashions (F3). As you may know, this well-known fashion house has experienced problems since the death of its chief designer, Sir Francis Cutwell. In the two years since Sir Francis’s death, the CEO of F3, M. Etienne Roget, has delegated artistic control to a committee of experienced designers chosen from within the company. The results have been catastrophic. In the first year, the committee could not decide on a theme for Spring. As a result, that season’s collection was a confused mess that one critic referred to as “the remnants of a Hollywood garage sale.” In the second year, the committee tried to avoid making the same mistake and settled on a theme after meeting for only one hour. The “Game of Thrones” collection was another disaster, with such memorable items as a bronze helmet and a bearskin cape. Roget has been searching the world for a chief designer to fill the void created with Sir Francis’s death. He has been unsuccessful to date. Further, he fears that disbanding the committee would be seen by its members as a vote of no confidence and would lead to mass resignations. Your job is to join the committee as a co-chair and advise it on organizational matters. Obviously, you should not try to advise it on fashion—CC has no expertise in that area. Your task will be to guide it in its deliberations and help a small group of experienced, opinionated designers achieve good results on the Winter 2017 collection. Before you join the committee, M. Roget would like to have some idea of what you will be looking for and what you may be able to accomplish. To that end, you should prepare a paper briefly discussing what

12. may have happened to the committee in the past two years and what you could do to keep it from happening again. The paper should be between 3 and 4 double-spaced pages. While not downplaying your or your company’s expertise, you should be appropriately respectful toward M. Roget, who is a world fashion leader. Furthermore, you should write in clear, concise, grammatically correct English, bearing in mind that English is M. Roget’s fourth language (after French, Italian, and Spanish). I have discussed this assignment with CC’s chief technical adviser, Dr. Manfred Paradigm. Manfred would like to make sure your paper is theoretically sound before we send it to F3. For that reason, I am asking you to include a list of references at the end, and citations in the body of the paper showing us where and how you used those references. (To make sure you include all the information we need, you should use some standard style. APA would be a good choice.) Manfred and I will edit out the citations and references before sending the paper to M. Roget. Congratulations on being selected for this important project. I am looking forward to seeing the final draft of your paper within two weeks.     Cordially Vladimir I. Lobachevski President and Senior Partner Capital Consultants PLL SLP Assignment Expectations Prepare the requested paper. You may interpret the “within two weeks” deadline as meaning “before the end of this module.” Study the Written Communications rubric. Review it before, during, and after writing your paper. Demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the materials cited on the Background page. Supplement these with relevant sources you locate on the Web. Provide complete references on the last page of your paper and citations in the body of your paper showing where you used the sources. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13-14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide” which is found under “My Resources” in the TLC portal. MGT 302 Module 4 Case Latest-Trident Module 4 – Case ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

13. Assignment Overview Signature Assignment—Written Communication Skills  Southwest Airlines and Koch Industries are both known for their distinctive organizational cultures, and both have been highly successful and profitable companies. Southwest Airlines is known as a “fun” place to work where socialization and humor in the workplace are strongly encouraged. Koch Industries, on the other hand, has a culture defined by the principles of “market-based management” where performance and revenue growth is emphasized. Do some background reading on the cultures behind Southwest Airlines and Koch Industries. While doing your research, keep strongly in mind the characteristics of organizational cultures discussed in the background materials such as team-oriented, people-oriented, outcome- oriented, etc. Here are some articles to get you started on your research that will give you some background about the cultures at these two organizations:  Klein, D. (2011). Creating cultures that lead to success: Lincoln Electric, Southwest Airlines, and SAS Institute. Organizational Dynamics 41(1), 35-39 [Available in Science Direct. Note: you only have to read the middle portion of the article concerning Southwest Airlines and not the whole article] Bird, A. (Mar. 13, 2011). Southwest: Corporate culture combines work, play. The Post and Courier. [Proquest] Whatley, H. (2013). Principles and dimensions of market-based management. Independent Journal of Management & Production, 4(1), 126-135. [Proquest] Dissecting the Kochtopus. (Jun. 7, 2014). The Economist, 411, 76. [Proquest] Case Assignment When you are finished with your research, write a four to five page paper addressing the following issues:  Describe the organizational culture of Southwest Airlines the best you can using the characteristics of organizational culture discussed in Rao (2010) and Piccolo and Bardes (2011). These include but are not limited to detail-oriented, team-oriented, innovative, aggressive, outcome-oriented, and people-oriented. Be specific as you can regarding which characteristics of organizational culture that you read about in the background materials apply to Southwest and which ones do not. Describe the organizational culture of Koch Industries the best you can using the characteristics of organizational culture discussed in Rao (2010) and Piccolo and Bardes (2011).  Now suppose Koch Industries decided to purchase Southwest Airlines. Compare and contrast the two cultures, and explain what kind of challenges do you think they would face in merging the two cultures. Also, explain what steps you think would need to be taken in order to prevent culture clashes between the

14. two organizations. Use concepts from Rao (2010) or Piccolo and Bardes (2011) as part of your recommendations on steps to take to avoid culture clashes. Assignment Expectations Answer the assignment questions directly  This assignment has been selected as a signature assignment to assess written communication skills. A different rubric will be used for this assignment that emphasizes written communication skills. Stay focused on the precise assignment questions, don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you find articles on the internet, make sure it is from a credible source. Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13-14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide, which is found under “My Resources” in the TLC portal.    MGT 302 Module 4 SLP Latest-Trident Module 4 – SLP ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Assignment Instructions For this final SLP, choose an organization that you currently work for or have worked for in the past. You will be applying the concepts of organizational culture that you read about in the background materials to this organization.   Write a two to three page paper addressing the following issues: Describe how your organization rates on these cultural characteristics: detail-oriented, team- oriented, innovative, aggressive, outcome-oriented, and people-oriented. Discuss how strong the organizational culture is at your organization. To what extent is the organization’s culture shared by employees and managers? What aspects of your organization’s culture do you think should be changed, and what steps would you recommend to change the culture? Use concepts from Rao (2010) in forming your recommendations.   SLP Assignment Expectations   Answer the assignment questions directly Stay focused on the precise assignment questions, don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials

15.  Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you find articles on the internet, make sure it is from a credible source. Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13-14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under “My Resources” in the TLC portal.  Download now