How do managers stimulate employee creativity and tolerance for change?

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Topic: How do managers stimulate employee creativity and tolerance for change?

The paper must contain:
a. A title page that includes the topic of the paper, your name, and the date.

b. Section 1: Introduction. A short one paragraph introduction that identifies the paper’s purpose, provides a thesis statement (i.e., what are you trying to prove or disprove), and presents a brief overview of the information to be presented.

c. Section 2: Literature Review. The literature review is a written overview of the sources researched on your selected topic. The literature review provides a description, summary, and evaluation of each source.

d. Section 3: Discussion. In this section, provide one or more paragraphs that provide your findings from the literature review.

Do your assumptions agree or disagree with previous research? Do the results of the previous research help you to interpret your own assumptions? If your assumptions are different, why?

e. Section 4: Conclusion. In this last section, provide any final statements to persuade me why your position on the topic is the best one. Or, conversely, what you discovered in your research that caused you to change your opinion.

 

How effective was your workflow system in responding to challenges in the installation process?

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ASSESS AND EVALUATE HOW THE WORKFLOW SYSTEM IN RESPOND TO THE CHALLENGES.

In an essay of around 700 words examine and evaluate the way using a workflow
system affects the completion of the installation. In your essay, consider the following questions:

What worked well in your workflow system and what could have been improved on?

How effective was your workflow system in responding to challenges in the installation process? Did you have to completely redevelop it or did it adapt well to challenges?

How effective is your workflow system for getting the studio apartment project finished efficiently and within the specified time frame?

Include examples from your work in task 1 to illustrate how your workflow system improves the quality and efficiency of the installation.

Identify 3 positive and 3 negative aspects of the job and describe work conditions.

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In this assignment, you will explore job descriptions and realistic job previews. Research your chosen career fields and gather information on the education, skills (soft, certifications, etc.) as well as experience necessary to obtain the job. It is a good idea to review sites like and job descriptions.

Be sure to:

Identify 3 positive and 3 negative aspects of the job.

Describe work conditions.

In other words, let the reader know what a day is like on the job (good and bad).

Why do managers have to worry so much about employee motivation issues?

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Motivation

Most of us have to work for a living, need our job, and a job is a central part of our lives.

Why do managers have to worry so much about employee motivation issues?

What happened? Why did this delegation go wrong? What needed to be done differently?

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A manager delegated the task of receiving, organizing, and posting invoices. The person he delegated to had no idea what went where, no previous experience with anything that had to do with invoices, and he seemed to not be open to questions.

He assumed that this employee would have the know how because it was “expressed” that accounting was something he wanted to get into.

When this was expressed, he meant he was going to take some classes and would like to help when the time came. However, the manager misunderstood “going to class” as “taken some classes.

Soon after all the facts were sorted through, a person was hired to do the tasks of receiving and posting, but the employee lost his desire to learn about accounting.

The whole situation made him phobic of the department and its tasks.

What happened? Why did this delegation go wrong? What needed to be done differently?

Develop messaging guidelines, based on channel specifications and campaign goals, that maximize content effectiveness.

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Overview: Based on the recommendations outlined in the campaign overview and media plan (Milestones One and Two), you will develop a content plan that identifies both paid, owned and earned content needs.

Prompt: You will assume the role of an account executive with a small marketing firm that specializes in digital advertising campaigns. You have been asked to develop a digital strategy for an existing (fictional) client who wants to develop a forward-thinking digital campaign that leverages key learnings from past campaigns.

In addition to the Client Packet, you will find supporting resources, information, and templates in the Campaign Toolkit.

For this milestone, you will develop the content plan for your campaign proposal. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

a. Requirements: Outline the types of content and key information needed for the selected channels.

b. Touch point Map: Develop a visual map that illustrates content touchpoints for paid, owned and earned channels.

c. Messaging Guidelines: Develop messaging guidelines, based on channel specifications and campaign goals, that maximize content effectiveness.

d. Legal Issues: Identify potential legal requirements and concerns related to content.

e. Ethical and Cultural Issues: Identify potential ethical and cultural issues related to content and propose possible responses to address these concerns.

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 3- to 5-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font,

and one-inch margins. Any citations must be in APA format.

Your client for the final project is KitchenAid, a United States–based appliance brand known for

leveraging best-in-class technology to create state-of-the-art products that solve novice chefs’ toughest kitchen challenges.

A key component of KitchenAid’s rollout strategy is their countertop appliance offerings, including tabletop ovens that eliminate the need for a big oven, blenders, juicers, and food processors that peel, dice, and chop. KitchenAid’s goal is to make the time consumers spend in the kitchen efficient, fun, and “simply brilliant.”

A core component of the business and KitchenAid’s foremost marketing priority is its product launches.

Once every four to six weeks, KitchenAid introduces a new product to the market. The products are each introduced with the same amount of attention, care, and of course, a big digital advertising spend.

As part of your work for this client, your job will be to research the category, better understand the brand’s consumer, and propose a digital campaign strategy that helps ensure the client’s next launch is one of its most impactful.

Analyze your results and indicate which of the options you will recommend to your boss – hire the firm or continue dealing with the breakdowns at the current rate?

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You decide to run a test to determine the mean time between failures. During the test. you start with 20 operational machines on your production line producing widgets. You record breakdowns during an 80-hour observation period in which three of the machines broke down. One at 35 hours into the test. one at 50 hours into the test. and the 3rd failure comes at 75 hours.

Use Excel and the data you collected to calculate the MTBF of your machines. Analyze your results and place them on the spreadsheet.

Continue to Step 2: Calculate the Expected Breakdown Maintenance Costs …
After collecting and analyzing the MTBF data. you were surprised at how often your machines really broke down.

At your last company. you remember that they had a service firm that would come in and perform preventive maintenance (PM) on your machines and you wonder if this would be an option to reduce breakdowns. However. before you go to your boss to pitch the idea. you want to see if using an outside PM firm would reduce your cost
So you do some research on the cost and run another study on the number of breakdowns of your machines.

Over the last 12 months. the machines have broken down at the rate indicated in the following table:

You find a service firm and request a price quote from them. The PM service firm costs $200 per month. but they tell you that you can still expect on average of 2 breakdowns per month even with the PM service.

Use Excel and the data to calculate the expected breakdown maintenance cost versus hiring the PM firm to service your machines.
Analyze your results and indicate which of the options you will recommend to your boss – hire the firm or continue dealing with the breakdowns at the current rate?

How to create Pareto chart in Excel For additional details, refer to the Module Five

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How to create Pareto chart in Excel For additional details, refer to the Module Five Health care quality management: Tools and applications. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

Do you agree with their response? Why or why not?

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Review the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Advisory Circular (AC) 120-92B that provides a framework for Safety Management System (SMS) development by aviation service providers along with its four pillars: Safety Policy and Objectives. Safety Risk Management. Safety Assurance. and Safety Promotion.
In this discussion activity. after reviewing the four pillars of SMS. pick one of the pillars and address the following:

Described the framework for SMS and the pillar you have selected for aviation maintenance safety culture and explain why it is important to overcome unsafe conditions within . aviation maintenance environment to promote safety. After your primary. original posting. review and respond to a minimum of two of your classmates’ postings. From a manager’s perspective. evaluate their response. Do you agree with their response? Why or why not?

Discuss the Eisner case study in the context of two or three of Bolman and Deal’s Political Frame assumptions included above.

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In the Module 3 Case, you will write Chapter 3 of your thesis-style paper – relating to the Political Frame.

Using specific examples of “politics” (i.e., the “jungle”) as defined by Bolman and Deal, you will use the Political Frame as a lens through which you will analyze the downfall of Walt Disney Company CEO Michael Eisner.

Begin the Module 3 Case by visiting the Walt Disney Company website:

White, D. (2005, Oct 01). When Mickey finally turned on his master. Michael Eisner’s reign at Disney is over. Dominic White reports. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved from Proquest.

Consider Michael Karpeles’ article relating to politics in the Disney boardroom:

Karpeles, M. D. (2005). Boardroom lessons from the Disney/Ovitz case. Corporate Board, 26(155), 6-10. Retrieved on June 10, 2014 from EBSCO – Business Source Complete.

After you have reviewed the contents of the Walt Disney Company website, completed the above readings and those provided at the Background page of Module 3, and performed additional research from the library and the internet, write a 6- to 7-page paper in which you do the following:

Using the following five assumptions of the Political Frame, complete an in-depth assessment of the Walt Disney Company:

Organizations are coalitions of diverse individuals and interest groups.

There are enduring differences among coalition members in values, beliefs, information, interests, and perceptions of reality.

Most important decisions involve allocating scarce resources—who gets what.

Scarce resources and enduring differences make conflict central to organizational dynamics and underline power as the most important asset.

Goals and decisions emerge from bargaining, negotiation, and jockeying for position among competing stakeholders.

Keys to the Assignment

The key aspects of this assignment that are to be covered in your 5page paper include the following:

Using Bolman and Deal’s Political Frame, analyze the political behaviors surrounding the departure of Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Specifically, address the following:

Briefly identify and discuss the key political forces that led to Eisner’s downfall.

How does the “Jungle” metaphor apply to the Eisner case?

Describe the coalitions that formed at Disney. Then, identify those salient interests that caused the division between coalitions, and how these differences were ultimately resolved.

Discuss the Eisner case study in the context of two or three of Bolman and Deal’s Political Frame assumptions included above. How do the assumptions you’ve chosen inform what happened in the Michael Eisner case?

Briefly comment on the significance of the “Toxic Triangle”