Formulate an action plan to promote effective organizational change with an emphasis on conflict management policy planning. Discuss your personal strategies for managing conflict and how you could incorporate different strategies into these processes.

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Effective Organizational Change Unit VII

This is the second part of a three-part assignment where you will be applying many of the course concepts that have been discussed in this unit and in previous units by conducting a well-researched analysis.

For this part of the assignment, refer to the comments left by the instructor in your Unit VI Scholarly Activity surrounding your selected organization and department.

For this assignment, you will be expanding upon the unit, department, or team you selected for the Unit VI Scholarly Activity by addressing the components listed below.

Formulate an action plan to promote effective organizational change with an emphasis on conflict management policy planning.

Discuss your personal strategies for managing conflict and how you could incorporate different strategies into these processes.

Consider priorities that public managers and employees must possess throughout change processes.

Integrate proven theories to help with rationale, input, and expected outcomes from policy changes.

Discuss possible efforts and tactics for implementing change to ensure a smooth and productive transition.

During this phase, you must develop at least a three-page action plan and utilize at least four of the sources listed in your Unit VI Scholarly Activity or selected replacements.

Be sure to properly format your title page and reference page in APA style, and keep in mind that the aforementioned do not count toward meeting the three-page minimum requirement.

Describe each type of team player; relate each type of team player to a real or fictional historic figure; connect how each historic figure fits his or her respective type; and establish how you will handle the team makeup during each phase of development.

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Team Player Unit V

In the resource below, Ngo (2016) notes that there are four primary types of team players: contributor, collaborator, communicator, and challenger.

Ngo, S. (2016, February 16). The 4 types of team players: Which are you? Showbiz CheatSheet.

Within your company, the CEO has just posted an opening for manager within your department. The post provides all of the requirements for the job and also notes that you will need to provide an essay related to Ngo’s four primary types of team players; however, you must present this in a creative way as the CEO is looking for uniqueness and outside-the-box thinking about the types of team players.

Your essay must include the following components:

Describe each type of team player;

relate each type of team player to a real or fictional historic figure;

connect how each historic figure fits his or her respective type; and

establish how you will handle the team makeup (provided you had each type of team player) during each phase of development.

Your essay must be at least two pages in length, not including the title and reference pages. Be sure to include an introduction in your essay. Next, you must include at least two references

Identify the main points and arguments of the author(s). Assess how the article relates to your experience or current job in the public or nonprofit sector. Evaluate how the points or arguments of the author or authors can be applied to the public sector.

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Organizational Behavior Unit I Article Critique

Your task is to offer a detailed critique of a peer-reviewed article that you locate in the text book.

Denhardt, R. B., Denhardt, J. V., Aristigueta, M. P., & Rawlings, K. C. (2020). Managing human behavior in public and nonprofit organizations (5th ed.). CQ Press.

The article must be related to one of the historic approaches to organizational behavior discussed in Chapter 1 of the course textbook (e.g., scientific management, humanistic, positive organizational scholarship).

In your critique, address the following points:

Identify the main points and arguments of the author(s).

Support your opinion of the article with course-related terminology.

Assess how the article relates to your experience or current job in the public or nonprofit sector.

Evaluate how the points or arguments of the author or authors can be applied to the public sector.

Your focus of this assignment is to collect your thoughts and opinions on the topic and relate them in an intelligent, critical fashion. This is represented by the second and third bullet above.

Extend the relationships between stress mitigation and creativity development practices that you have not implemented before or that interest you. How can enhancing your creativity help with stress mitigation? Explain.

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Workplace Stress

Your task is to contemplate some of the most common contributors or causes to personal workplace stress and how this stress affects your performance. After you have done this, review some of the stress management methods that have been discussed in this unit (or through your own research) that you have not implemented before and that are of particular interest to you.

Next, extend the relationships between stress mitigation and creativity development practices that you have not implemented before or that interest you. How can enhancing your creativity help with stress mitigation? Explain.

Finally, develop a reflection paper where you review the contemplated contributors and express your thoughts on the general effectiveness and viability of the management tactic(s) selected.

Develop your findings and recommendations in which you discuss the items below. Discuss the different types of power that you could conceivably employ in coming to the most appropriate decision-making processes.

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Effective Decision Making Unit IV Case Study

You are the manager of a small department within a local government. You want to develop processes for effective decision-making with your newly assembled leadership team, but you want to ensure that you are not acting in an overly authoritative manner.

Develop your findings and recommendations in which you discuss the items below.

Determine different decision-making tactics that would be more appropriate for improving communication within a small team or group of about four to six mid- to high-level managers.

Discuss the different types of power that you could conceivably employ in coming to the most appropriate decision-making processes.

Differentiate between the sources and exercises of power that would be most appropriate for this group in the context of public administration organizational behavior.

Provide an example from your own personal experiences of positively engaging in decision-making processes when you have not been the manager or in charge of the decision-making process.

Develop an action plan to implement a more effective group organization and conflict management policy, while also providing insight on how you will personally manage stresses incurred.

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Effective Manager Unit VI

This is the first part of a three-part assignment where you will be applying many of the course concepts that have been discussed in this unit and in previous units by conducting a well-researched analysis.

In Units VII and VIII, you will develop an action plan to implement a more effective group organization and conflict management policy, while also providing insight on how you will personally manage stresses incurred.

For this assignment, you will begin by completing the following tasks:

Selecting an organization that you currently work for, have worked for in the past, or have a special interest in; and

Focusing on one particular department or team along with considering how this unit is organized and how it manages group conflict or similar activities.

Your assignment should contain the components listed below.

Include background information about the organization selected such as, but not limited to, its structure, personnel size, approximate budget.

Synthesize your preliminary thoughts on suggested policy updates that could benefit teamwork and conflict management with the organization.

Include no fewer than eight sources, four of which must be from peer-reviewed sources or academic journals.

Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed but a title page and a separate references page are required.

 

 

Analyze, compare, and contrast the three images and explain how the behaviors of those images would be different or the same during your companies’ changes and how those differences could (or did) impact the success (or failure) of the change, comparing and contrasting the results at both companies. Explain which image (or combination of images) you feel would have best facilitated the described change, and explain why.

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The Change Analysis—Images of Change Paper (Milestone 1)

The Images section focuses on the six different images of managing change and how each approach to change affects all that follows in its implementation and continued support. Download the Project Images Grid from the Course Resources area. Select three of the images of change explained in the lesson from the grid. Then, analyze how those particular images would affect the ensuing diagnosis and implementation in your two selected companies on their change plans.

Here’s what to do.

Review the changes in each company and describe them thoroughly in a Word document. Explain how the change impacted the companies and who it impacted. Compare some of the similarities and differences between the change in the two companies.

Review your prepared grid, and select three images of change from your grid. Complete the empty blocks on the grid for those three images using outlines, bullet points, and rough ideas for both company’s change.

In a Word document, analyze, compare, and contrast the three images and explain how the behaviors of those images would be different or the same during your companies’ changes and how those differences could (or did) impact the success (or failure) of the change, comparing and contrasting the results at both companies.

Explain which image (or combination of images) you feel would have best facilitated the described change, and explain why.
Based on the information you read about the results of this change, state which image you think the leader of the change actually resembled the most. You may speculate on which image you feel best represents the change agent at either or both of the companies. This will depend on how much information you found about the internal workings of the company during the change.

This paper should focus on evidence that demonstrates how the management of the organization integrated one or more of the six images of managing change, how effective the change was, and what management could have done differently to increase the probability of successfully implementing the strategic change initiative. Again, this is a compare and contrast paper, so include information about both companies in your report.

Why is it important for managers to understand individual differences at work?   Which employee abilities seem to be most important in determining job performance? Explain.   Define personality. Which personality traits are most relevant to understanding organizational behavior? Why?

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Business Management
Instructions
This week you have learned about individual and cultural differences.  For this week’s assignment address the following in a three to five-page paper in APA format.

1.     Why is it important for managers to understand individual differences at work?

2.     Which employee abilities seem to be most important in determining job performance? Explain.

3.     Define personality. Which personality traits are most relevant to understanding organizational behavior? Why?

4.     Explain how the concept of locus of control works. Provide an example.

5.     Describe the basic incongruity thesis. Do you agree with this thesis? Under what circumstances might the thesis be most likely to be true? Least likely to be true? Explain.

6.     Why is it important for managers to understand ethical standards in the workplace? How do ethics affect our behavior at work?

7.     Define culture. How do culture and cultural variations affect work behavior and job performance? Provide examples to show why knowledge of such differences is important for managers.

8.     Analyze how managers can impact organizational culture to promote organizations’ goals and vision.

In your three-five page paper (not including title page or reference listing) you are required to have a minimum of three relevant sources from the UMGC Online Library for support (other than the textbook). Keep in mind that whenever you use an idea from an outside source you must include a properly formatted APA Version 7 citation. You also need to have a properly formatted reference listing on the last page of the paper (reference listings go on their own page.)

Review the grading rubric for the assignment as well as the late work policy, as this assignment is due on Tuesday. If you submit after Tuesday, your paper will be subject to the late work penalty.

 

Apply knowledge of the interdependence of operations processes and of the operations function with the other key functional areas when solving operations management problems. Evaluate the strategic role of operations management in creating and enhancing a firm’s capabilities and competitive advantages.

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Operations Management

LO2 Apply knowledge of the interdependence of operations processes and of the operations function with the other key functional areas when solving operations management problems.

LO3 Evaluate the strategic role of operations management in creating and enhancing a firm’s capabilities and competitive advantages.

LO4 Apply operations management principles, techniques and problem-solving tools to the analysis and evaluation of operations management problems.

 

Evaluate the contribution of HR Development to the recruitment, retention, and performance management processes. Critically examine ways of maintaining a positive Employee Relations climate. Analyse the role of HR in managing diversity in the organisation.

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Human Resources Management

Module Code & Title: HRM3108M – Human Resources Management

Contribution to Final Module Mark: 50%

 Description of Assessment Task:
Your task is to analyse the case and write a 2,000 word (+/-10%) report focusing on the ‘Organisation’.

For the purposes of the assessment, you have been brought in to assess the Organisation’s failings when addressing the unique circumstances surrounding Kate. Your task is to critically evaluate the contribution of HRD to the recruitment, retention, and performance processes highlighted throughout the case.

Your report will evaluate ways the Organisation and Union could have maintained a positive employee relations environment throughout this scenario, while also addressing the role of HR in appropriately managing diversity in the Organisation.

Recommendations for learning and development across the Organisation are required. Your report should make use of images, models/frameworks, and appendices where appropriate. Justify your arguments using academically appropriate resources.

 Learning Outcomes Assessed:

LO4                Evaluate the contribution of HR Development to the recruitment, retention, and performance management processes.

LO5                Critically examine ways of maintaining a positive Employee Relations climate.

LO6                Analyse the role of HR in managing diversity in the organisation.