...and Performance Objectives 3 1.2 Effectiveness in Meeting the Performance Objectives 4 1.3 Recommendation for Improvement of Performance Objectives 4 1.4 Motivational Techniques to Improve Quality of Staff Performance 5 2.1 MEMO Writing to All Colleagues Outlining the Solutions to Work Problems 6 2.2 Types and Levels of Communication 7 2.3 Effective Time Management Strategies 8 3.1 Different Roles People Play in Team and Their Effectiveness 8 3.2 Analysis of Team Dynamics 10 3.3 Forwarding Alternatives Ways of Achieving the Assigned Task Set by Line Manager 11 4.1 Methods to Solve Work Based Problems 11 4.2 Appropriate Strategy for Solving Problems 12 4.3 Advantages and Disadvantages of Compromise and Collaboration 12 Conclusion 13 References 14 Introduction Before entering the job market it is required to sharpen employability skill. To develop employability skills, identifying and improving the understanding of the responsibilities and performance in the workplace. Interpersonal and transferable skills are inevitable in working with dynamic team. The manager shall also hone leadership and communication skills. Identification, analysis of problem, formulating appropriate strategy, executing the plan perfectly and evaluating the result with desired result through reflective practices are also inevitable element of employability skills. 1.1 Own Responsibilities and Performance Objectives As a duty manager the personnel should have specific responsibilities and performance...
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...University of Phoenix Material Team Strategy Plan 1. Complete the following table to address the creation of teams at Riordan Manufacturing. Strategy | Strengths | Weaknesses | Expectations of goals | Good for measuring the objectives and enhance the competence a team. | If a team member fails to communicate or does not believe her or she is part of the group the team is likely to fail. | Open communication | Consistent communication leaves no team members guessing what he or she should do. | Lack of communication may lead to team member not doing the correct task. | Tem cohesiveness | Team is unified and works as if they are one person. | Conflict of personal interest may cause the a team not to integrate. | Resolving conflict | Teams who solve conflicts quickly and as a team are likely to succeed. | Clashing personalities could draw conflicts out longer average. | Consequences | Teams realizing consequences allow creativity within the group. | Team members who believe he or she is not accountable may omit themselves from the consequence. | 2. Identify the team formation strategy that is most suitable for Riordan Manufacturing, and provide the rationale for the decision. Your response should be at least 100 words. The diverse group of employees at Riodan Manufacturing Pontiac, Missouri will allow a team formation strategy called Six Hats. The concept behind Six Hats is each employee wears a different "hat" (role) in the team. Each of the Six Thinking Hats represents...
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...University of Phoenix Material Team Strategy Plan 1. Complete the following table to address the creation of teams at Riordan Manufacturing. |Strategy |Strengths |Weaknesses | |Common Goal |Determine what types of behaviors are |Teams fail when there are multiple agendas | |Forming Strategy; the first stage in group |acceptable. Objectives are measurable. Most|or uncertainty. Some employees may be | |development |people are polite and positive with each |anxious. | | |other. | | |Storming Strategy Commitment from each team|Establish process and structure, and work |Authority may be challenged. Members resist| |member |to smooth conflict and build good |the constraints it imposes on individuality| | |relationships between team members. |because of being part of a team. | | |Normally provide support. | | |Norming Strategy |Hierarchy is established. Team members come|If new tasks may come up, the team may | |Everyone Cannot Lead...
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...Team Strategy and Conflict Management Plans Kimberly Faagata, Carrie Firman, Dan Lyle, Stephen Nelson, and Dera Tennelle MGT 311 June 10, 2013 Penny Thomas Part I The purpose of this paper is to discuss different strategies for team building which helps is overcoming conflicts in a working environment. Based on current strategies available on subject, it tries to figure out some leading challenges to addressed, and extracting the best strategy for team building. It covers analysis of factors and measures for building up a successful team, which serves as a common ground for a progress in evaluation of best strategy for the particular purpose. Introduction Every organizational environment has teams, which refer to different members, who are working as one. Every team is usually built on a base that acquaintances or secures the members collectively in every action to promote growth within the unit, and it is known as team building. Team building concerns to a range of activities and program, which are used by different organizations, for instance businesses, sports, academic institutions, religious and non-profit grouping with an intention of boosting up team performance. The activities manifest using a choice of methods and advancement approches, ranging from a plain bonding action to an exigent simulations, used for planned team building outings and recoils intents to build up everyone. Strategies Available to Build Teams There are many strategies available to...
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...gathering a team of employees that will support a new product. Employees will be selected from nearby plants and additional employees will be hired depending on the volume of sales. Recently, a self-assessment was completed by each employee in the organization. The survey was focused on the areas of: job satisfaction, emotional intelligence, decision making, engagement, current feelings, and affect intensity. The information from these assessments will be used to create a work team. Each employee’s results along with their tenure and demographic information will be compiled to complete the plan. Team Formation Strategies To create an effective team one must decide which type of team best suits the organization. Problem solving teams are based on the notion that no one person has the authority to make a decision. These teams usually meet a few times a month to discuss and align on the project at hand. The unique aspect of problem solving teams is that decisions need to be made with a group consensus. Self-managed teams are teams that do not operate with positional authority. Customarily, a manager is responsible for providing communication, planning, and making the final decisions. In a self-managed team, the manager delegates responsibilities and decision-making to the team. The goal of this type of team is to create a better outcome through teamwork. Cross-functional teams are teams that are pieced together from different departments. These types of teams are usually...
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...transnational teams Cultural heterogeneity within a team: A value or burden? Bachelor Thesis Organization & Strategy, 2009-2010 Name : Grace Bronmans Anr : 588850 Supervisor : Miranda Stienstra E-mail : gracebronmans@gmail.com Date : 11-06-2010 Nr. of words : 7967 Management summary Globalization has become an important aspect in business the last decennia. Companies’ competitive position is challenged by a globalizing market, and globalization is a natural development for growing companies to sustain their competitive position. When a firm enters the global market, management faces the challenge to work with transnational teams. International project teams are where most of the boundary spanning works in international enterprise goes on, making them a key factor in organizational success and an important catalyst for individual and organizational development. However, little is known about the management strategies on motivation of diversity, and existing information is scattered. Motivation is a key driver of performance, therefore it is important for management to know how they can influence motivation of transnational teams. This thesis will provide an overview of the effect of culture on the motivational strategy of management on transnational team motivation. This will be guided by the following research questions: RQ 1: How is management related to team motivation...
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...job. Some of the specific points I found interesting in this course are understanding what the purpose of HR business strategy is, learning what a high-value organization is, the components of an HR business strategy, learning about the HR business strategy matrix, learning what an HR business strategy looks and feels like, human systems and organizational culture, understanding the HR maturity scale, learning about teamwork, employee value, appreciation, and value measures and management tools. Human resource strategies are designed to ensure that small businesses have the staff they need to meet customer demand. Considerations that impact human resource strategy include both internal and external environmental changes, such as anticipated turnover, the need for new types of skills and experience, growth or expansion into a new market, changing economic pressure and competitive pressures. At the highest level, the objectives of a human resource strategy will require businesses to consider two key things: the type of staff needed to manage and run the business to meet stated business objectives, and the pay/benefits and other programs necessary to attract, develop and retain effective staff. These foundational questions form the basis for the development of a human resource strategy. Aspects of the organization will impact the development of strategies related to human resources. The company's culture has a critical impact and represents the personality of the organization...
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...------------------------------------------------- Home Appliance Industry ------------------------------------------------- Designing an HR system for a changing industry Gwendolyn Hill, Cheolhyun Park, and Kexin Xu May 7, 2012 Professor Lepak, HR IV Table of Contents I. Industry Trend & Major Business Implications 3 II. Clear explanation of the impact on managing people 4 1. Employee Competencies 5 2. Motivation/Effort 8 3. Opportunities to Contribute (Work Design) 9 III. Ideal HR System 10 1. Work Design & Workforce Planning 10 2. Managing Employee Competencies 12 3. Managing Employee Attitudes & Behaviors 14 IV. Major Hurdles & Strategies to Overcome Them 17 Bibliography 19 I. Industry Trend & Major Business Implications Home appliance industry includes manufactures of household cooking appliances, laundry machine, refrigerator, dishwasher, water heater, and other household appliances. Like other retail industry, household appliance manufacturing business had hard time with recent recession. Especially fallen housing market directly affects the industry because people generally purchase new appliances for new homes. Moreover, cost of raw material and labor as well as government regulations for energy efficiency product raised price of product. Consequently, industry revenue and employment growth rate were below zero in past five years. According to IBIS industry report, in US market, Whirlpool has 43.8% market...
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...Learning Team D - Katherine Simpson Cynthia Lukas, Jennifer Ferreyra, Sabina Mieliczek, Shanita Polite, Tyleen Wilson MGT/311 January 19, 2013 Rocco Natale Teamwork and Collaboration There are many different ways of resolving conflict within a group. Each strategy, when implemented correctly, can be very effective. Some of these strategies are: accommodation, avoidance, collaboration, competition, compromise. At one point, everyone has been in some type of a group. It could be in elementary school when your gym teacher picks teams for a game, at work when your supervisor asks everyone to come up with fresh, new ideas for the company and as fellow college students who are put together in a learning team. All of these examples can put the members of the group in an awkward situation and at times it can be intimidating. Learning Teams are an opportunity for all of us to work together in groups to come up with a final product. Although it is fun and interesting to meet and work with new people, it is not always an easy task. People in learning teams come from all over the country. They come from different backgrounds and cultures. The differences can sometimes cause conflict while working on an assignment together. In order to stay respectful and stay on task with finishing the assignment, conflicting group members must have a strategy to cope with conflicts and come up with a solution. Each team member has a different approach on getting their portion of work done....
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...MGT/311 Riordan Manufacturing – Team Strategy Plan Part I. Team Strategy Plan Being part of a group of newly hired team the Superintendents at Riordan Manufacturing believes in trusting teams; also, this is the key way to suppling work duties and completing a job on time. Teams will start to develop from present employees and some will be new hire. This purpose of the teams is to begin production of the newly designed CardiCare Valve heart valves at the Pontiac Michigan provision. The objective of this team strategy plan is to identify strategies available to build the teams. In addition, there are challenges or barriers that may occur. Then we must know how to determine the best strategy and discussed. Finally, to ensure effectiveness, certain procedures that had to be taken to determine each team’s success. There are many strategies to bring into play in creating successful teams. After selecting team members, the superintendents will have to agree on what strategies are helpful in team building. Than their will have to be a leader, so creating a leader for the teams will build certain members of the team so they will know what his or her role is, and the workload can be evenly distributed. An excellent leader will distribute workers skills and put a person into the right job task within the team. Some team building strategies will make sure that the groups who make up your production work together as a team towards the same goal. Having understanding by empowering...
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...Phoenix Material Team Strategy Plan 1. Complete the following table to address the creation of teams at Riordan Manufacturing. |Strategy |Strengths |Weaknesses | |Plan out each activity there is, and make |Keeping the communication among team |Lack of accountability among the teams. | |sure that the plan has an accurate agenda |members clear, so that some information | | |and purpose of the agenda. |won’t be misplaced from any of the team. | | | | | | | |Each team member is focus on their part. |Understanding each team could cause | |Diversity among the team | |conflict. | | |The work that each team is given should be |The team may not agree with the work that | |Maintaining Leadership |divided among each individual. |is given | |Accomplish the Goals at a certain time |Divide the team that will accommodate each |The team may discontinue to do work that is| |frame ...
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...defined objectives 4 P 1.3 Make recommendations for improvement 5 P1.4 Review how motivational techniques can be used to improve quality of performance 5 TASK 2 8 P2.1 – Develop solutions to work-based problems 8 P2.2 Communicate in a variety of styles and appropriate manner at various levels 9 P2.3 Identify effective time-management strategies 12 TASK 3 13 P3.1- Explain the roles people play in a team and how they can work together to achieve shared goals 13 P3.2- Analyse team dynamics 14 P3.3 Suggest alternative ways to complete tasks and achieve team goals 15 TASK 4 17 P4.1 Evaluate tools and methods for developing solutions to problems 17 P4.2 Develop an appropriate strategy for resolving the problem of labour turnover in an organisation of your choice 18 P4.3 Evaluate the potential impact on the business of implementing the strategy 19 References 20 Introduction The following report seeks to detail a number of aspects which affect individuals performance in the organization as well as the performance of the organization. To start with, the report will develop a set of responsibilities and performance objectives as well as evaluation of these objectives and how they can be improved for better performance. The paper will also develop solutions to a work-based problem in addition to how communication is applied in organization whether verbal or non-verbal. The report will also identify effective time management strategies that can enable completion...
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...Business Research Report Compensation Strategies Assessment Code: RWT1 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Research Findings 4 Finding Number 1 4 Finding Number 2 5 Finding Number 3 5 Recommendations 5 Conclusion 6 References 7 Executive Summary The XYZ Manufacturing Company harnesses employee happiness to produce high quality goods. Happy employees equates to loyalty and long term employee – employer relationships. To continue this formula, there are 3 strategies that will assist: 1) Group Performance Compensation, 2) Hourly Job Compensation, and 3) Contingent Employee Compensation. Group Performance strategy will foster teamwork, collaboration and higher production outputs. The diverse skill set of the group will allow them to work independently with minimally supervision. Bonuses for meeting and exceed manufacturing goals will be offered. The Hourly Job strategy will compensate all employees for their actual time spent working. Employees that are paid hourly have been found to be happier and more loyal to their employer. Profit sharing bonuses will be offered to keep the employees vested in the company thus keeping overtime to e minimum. Contingent employees will allow the company to meet the demand of peak production without the costly investment of higher regular employees. These contingent employees will be skilled temporary / seasonal workers and independent contractors. They will be hired to meet the just in time production...
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...------------------------------------------------- ARABOPENUNIVERSITY ------------------------------------------------- FACULTY OF BUSINESS STUDIES T205B – SYSTEMS’ THINKING THEORY & PRACTICE ------------------------------------------------- 2012-2013 - Spring 2013 - SEMESTER II ------------------------------------------------- T205 B - TMA – Spring 2013 Please read these instructions carefully, and contact your tutor if you require any further clarifications. You should submit your completed assignment to your tutor to arrive no later than the cut-off Date (April 20 to 27, 2013) Please use standard A4 size paper for submitting the hard copy of your TMA. Your name, personal identifier, course and assignment numbers must appear at the top of each sheet. A soft copy of your TMA must be uploaded to the university moodle within the indicated cut-off date. The hard & soft copies must be identical. Please leave wide margins and space at the end of each sheet for tutor comments. It is better to use double spacing so that you can easily handwrite corrections to your drafts and tutors have space to include their feedback on the script. Start each question in the assignment on a new page. Any extended text should ideally be word-processed, but, diagrams and accompanying notes may be hand drawn and hand written and on an A4 paper. Completing and sending your assignments When you have completed your TMA...
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...paper Team A is responsible for developing teams for Riordan Manufacturing’s newly designed CardiCare Valve heart valves. The location of these teams is in Pontiac, Michigan, which produces plastic parts for the organization. Team A will develop a Team Strategy Plan of which we will identify several strategies in building viable teams, identify challenges or barriers that may occur, determine the best approach, and measure the teams efficiency. While developing these teams, Team A will create a Conflict Management Plan of which we will analyze the teams strengths and weaknesses, implementation of different conflict management strategies, select the best approach, identify potential challenges, and consider alternate strategies that will foster an efficient team. The Various Strategies Available to Build Teams Riordan Manufacturing is striving to create the perfect teams of employees to generate the best possible production of the newly designed CardiCare Valve heart valves. Creating those perfect teams requires much planning and organization. An important thing that Riordan needs to think about when trying to construct their teams is the number of members of each of the team. Generally speaking, the most effective teams have five to nine members (Robbins & Judge, 2011). When teams are larger, coordination and communication amongst its members may be an issue making it harder to get work done. Another thing for Riordan to consider when building their teams is the...
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