...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence LDR/531 April 25, 2012 Positive Influence In this week’s assignment, the task is to create a plan for positive influence. In this plan it should include the challenges of communication, elements of effective collaboration, conflict management, and a plan for how to mediate the differences in attitudes, emotions, personalities and values within an organization team or group. It will also address how this plan will influence behaviors. Team Task Soul Optics Entertainment is a local music artist booking and management company. It employs around 100 employees, with more than half of the employees being part time contractors, and at least 85% of the employees work remotely. This is a small moderate size group of workers who at times work in small groups or teams. The company CEO has expressed that there needs to be a tighter and a more efficient way of booking and managing artist. There is also an option for Soul Optics to expand its client base in the US and surrounding countries within the next year. This would mean an increase in employee hiring as well. The task is to streamline the existing applications of business practices, and to expand, and enhance more diversity within the company to match the needs and differences of the new and existing clients. Effective Collaboration To address these new needs, company directors were...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence A team has been assigned to complete a television show series scheduled to air on a major network next year. The team has one year to complete the television show pilot and the first season of the show. The team was composed of producers, writers, videographers, editors, and staff coordinators. The team has been tasked with developing a plan designed to motivate, satisfy, and increase performance within the group assigned to create the show. The team needs to take into consideration individual behaviors, such as values, attitudes, emotions, and personalities. The author of this paper was tasked with writing the plan that will create a positive influence within the team that will be creating the television show. Creating a plan for Positive Influence The three main areas that need to be focused when creating a plan of positive influence are satisfaction, motivation, and performance. The employees need to work in an environment that satisfies their basic needs for employment. The employees need to be properly motivated to work on a project for an extended period. The main result that the employer is looking for is performance of the employees who produces a completed television series. Satisfaction Holland (2011) stated, “Job satisfaction is known to be a significant attitudinal variable associated with employee commitment in both job and organizational performance.” (p. 96). The employees need to be committed to the...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence Sandra Frieze University of Phoenix Creating a Plan for Positive Influence The effect of a positive influence plan in a business can transform a working environment, especially when a team needs to work together for a period of one year before the project is complete. Productivity increases, customers are more satisfied and new clients are attracted to the company. A manager must take time to fully develop and implement a plan based on positive influence. This is accomplished through self-analysis, daily efforts in role modeling and instilling positive behaviors in workers. These types of initiatives create a motivated and dedicated team. Positive Behaviors Assess yourself critically in terms of your own positive behavior. As the manager, you are the role model for your employees so you need to correct and address issues, such as pessimistic language, in a timely manner. If a negative issue comes up, it is important to address and resolve the issue in as much of a positive way as possible. Establishing and keeping a positive atmosphere and environment can take some effort. Encourage your employees to become more positive in little ways like smiling more, speaking in an upbeat tone and thanking co-workers more often for their contributions. Beyond being positive, work to keep your team enthusiastic about the project. The assigned project’s timeline is long and employees can get distracted and discouraged when the project does...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence LDR 531 January 10, 2011 Creating a Plan for Positive Influence In the 21st Century, America has shifted from individual using his or her skills to combining different employees to a group to get more work production. This is a fairly new process to many human resource departments in the United States. Companies and organizations are continuingly seeking multiple ways to increase a team motivation, satisfaction, and performance. The difficult segment of the process is dealing with human different behaviors, such as personalities, emotions, attitudes, and values. This paper will outline a positive plan that businesses will be able to implement to increase their teams production and happiness. Motivation Team motivation is one the most important elements that could help teams succeed. Industrial psychologist Fredrick Herzberg discovered during his motivational theory research that true motivators are achievement, recognition, responsibility, and advancement. To increase motivation within a team setting, these areas are required to be addressed: 1. Achievement- Ensure that each member sees his or her value of their work and contributions that help benefit the company. Allow the feedback from the clients or customer be known to the team for exceptional performance or service 2. Recognition- Managers should take time out of work schedule to congratulate and praise employees to for jobs well done. 3. Responsibility- Create...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence LDR/531 October 1, 2012 Christine Pettiford Lynette Grizelle The summer has ended and it is time to start planning for the 2013 summer program. With the planning on the way the center has hired four more team players to help run the center and help with the summer program plans. The team members are: Christine (the head coordinator), Dani (an employee for three years and has helped with the program for the past two years and she is very open minded to change), Mike (is new to the center and ex military with a strong over powering tone), Fran (is new and one of the youngest team members and has worked for the YMCA in the past with their summer program), Vaughen (is new and has an follow the leader attitude), and the last new hire is Ebony (she has a take control attitude and is very pushy). This is the team that is going to help plan for 2013 summer program at the center. They have been given a year to have it all planned out from the programs, cost, events, field trips, transportation, and so on. But as they go into their first meeting there is already tension in the air with some of the team members. Christine has notices that there are some personalities that are trying to overpower others. It is causing attitudes to run high and emotions to carry over into the work place. The best way to help with this is to first call a team meeting to talk about the issues at hand. In the meeting the main topics that need to be addressed would...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence By Roderick Wissar LDR 531 October 9, 2011 Dustin Phillips As a member of an organization that seeks continuous improvement and pursuit of excellence within and outside the organization, it is a privilege to present a plan that seeks to increase the three most important factors in any company: Motivation, satisfaction, and performance of each member. Discussed in previous opportunities, human capital in any organization is the most important asset in achieving company objectives. The role as managers and leaders is to understand that we are working with people who have their own way of thinking and behaving. For this reason this time we are given (one year) we must use our energy, creativity, knowledge, and experience to enhance the three factors mentioned above. Our plan must be clear to understand, transparent in their actions and to establish clearly the role of each team member. The way we approach each of the different attitudes, emotions, values and personalities allow us to improve and identify the mechanisms that we use to create a productive work environment. Team Performance and Effectiveness Teamwork is essential to the performance of a team and is necessary for most development programs as it needs multiple skills to manage any development project (Biswas, 2008). When a team is formed several factors must be considered in order to determine if a team is able to succeed. They are personality, values...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence Stephanie Sparks LDR/531 May 14, 2011 Dr. Elmer Hall In this paper, a plan will describe ways in which a team can collaborate to increase the team’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance in a business setting. Specifically, the plan will demonstrate how similarities and differences in attitudes, emotions, personalities and values can be used to positively influence the team within the work environment. Attitudes Employees with high scores in the participation of their job really value and care about the quality of the work they perform and how it is related within the organization. They have a good attitude toward their job. Employees who score low in the participation of jobs will not care about how well they complete their job. They will not even care about their boss thinks about how they perform their job. It is known that managers who have positive attitudes can in turn motivate his or her employees. According to Judge & Robbins, this increases job performance. To motivate employees, managers should provide trainings as well as try to include employees in making decisions. This will provide them with an opportunity to provide their input on various issues. Sometimes, people have to modify their behavior because of certain situations. I heard a Social Worker describe an accomplishment made at a conference. When working with challenging...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence Organizational Leadership / LDR531 When we work in a group towards a common goal in business there are some obvious advantages to not working on a project alone. “Groups are an excellent vehicle for performing many of the steps in the decision-making process and offer both breadth and depth of input for information gathering. If group members have diverse backgrounds, the alternatives generated should be more extensive and the analysis more critical. When the final solution is agreed on, there are more people in a group decision to support and implement it.” (Robbins & Judge, 2011, p. 295) To have an effective team you have to have as much diversity as you possibly can to avoid the possibility of having every member thinking the same way and not getting the best possible outcome. The more input you have from people with different opinions the more you can have open discussion and group members teaching and learning from each other while bringing up options that you would have never come up with otherwise. This doesn’t come easy of course; every member of our team working on this project is coming from different backgrounds and has their own set of values. This is a breeding ground for conflict but it doesn’t have to be the end to effective collaboration and the potential to achieve the goal of the group. According to "Resolving Team Conflict" (1996-2013), “Conflict can be constructive as long as it is managed and dealt...
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...Tyco International Ltd. was started by Arthur Rosenburg in 1960 and became owned publicly in 1964. Within 1973 to 2001, Tyco International Ltd. Grew swiftly amid the acquisitions of different companies with “annual revenues of more than $500 million and a net worth of nearly $149 million (Tyco, 2004-2009). The New York Stock Exchange depicts Tyco International Ltd. as a “diversified global provider of security products and services, fire protection and detection products and services, valves and controls, and other industrial products” (NYSE, 2009).” As a diversified company Tyco International Ltd. Comprise of five sections: ADT Worldwide, Electrical and Metal Products, Fire Protection Services, Flow Control, and Safety Products” (NYSE, 2009). Though the company got enormous earnings from their acquisitions, the Securities Exchange ran an enquiry on Tyco International Ltd. ensuing in the resignation of then CEO Dennis Kozlowski in the wake of the allegation of misusing millions of company funds for private use. Furthermore the then CFO Mark Swartz was also charged with the distortion of fiscal report to inflate stock prices and subsequently trading the stock for more $500 million dollars. With the resignation of Kolzowski, Ed Breen became the new CEO; he promptly restructured the board of directors and the senior level executives of Tyco International Ltd. Organizational behavior theories such as administrative misdeeds and the absence of managerial responsibility may perhaps...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence Amanda Geiger LDR/531 August 29, 2011 Donna Samuels A positive influence in the workplace helps maintain a team’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance. Leaders in the workplace must ensure employees are properly inspired to complete the task at hand. This paper will show the importance and capacity motivation, satisfaction, and performance has on a team. Motivation Employee motivation increases employee satisfaction. Various ways managers and leaders can motivate employees are job security benefits, recognition of hard work, compensation, paid time off, and a safe work environment (Heathfield, para. 8). Different forms of motivation work for different people because everyone has separate interests so managers must keep this in mind when motivating teams to achieve the tasks or goal. Any team thrives on motivation and only good communication can foster motivation. According to (Robbins & Judge, 2011), “Communication fosters motivation by clarifying to employees what they must do, how well they are doing, and how to improve performance if it is subpar.” Motivation creates satisfaction and enhanced performance for employees and the team. Satisfaction A satisfied employee tends to perform better and brings more productivity to the team because a satisfied employee creates a good work environment. Employee satisfaction is defined as the individual employee’s general attitude toward the job (HumanResources...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence Creating a Plan for Positive Influence Kirk Carlson LDR/531 Creating a Plan for Positive Influence A team has been assigned to complete a television show series scheduled to air on a major network next year. The team has one year to complete the television show pilot and the first season of the show. The team was composed of producers, writers, videographers, editors, and staff coordinators. The team has been tasked with developing a plan designed to motivate, satisfy, and increase performance within the group assigned to create the show. The team needs to take into consideration individual behaviors, such as values, attitudes, emotions, and personalities. The author of this paper was tasked with writing the plan that will create a positive influence within the team that will be creating the television show. Creating a plan for Positive Influence The three main areas that need to be focused when creating a plan of positive influence are satisfaction, motivation, and performance. The employees need to work in an environment that satisfies their basic needs for employment. The employees need to be properly motivated to work on a project for an extended period. The main result that the employer is looking for is performance of the employees who produces a completed television series. Satisfaction Holland (2011) stated, “Job satisfaction is known to be a significant attitudinal variable associated with employee commitment in both...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence LDR/531 December 14, 2012 Creating a Plan for Positive Influence The objective of this paper is to create a plan for positive influence that may be applied in a business setting and that would increase a group or team’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance. The topics of discussion will concentrate on specific attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values that the members of the team will collaborate with, and address how each difference influences behavior within the business setting. In a business setting there are three essential factors that team members need so that they increase productivity and a constructive business environment. Additionally, the leader in the team setting must make certain that the members are inspired to complete the task by motivation. Next the norms must be set so that the team understands what is acceptable and what will not be, and agreed upon by each member. The agreement on the acceptable standards will influence the members’ behavior with the least amount of external controls. According to (Robbins & Judge, 2011, pg. 285-286), “norms are acceptable standards of behavior within a group that are shared by the group’s members.” Motivation The three key elements of motivation are direction, intensity, and persistence. Intensity describes the passion a person has about the designated task; this is the element most individuals focus on when thinking about motivation. However, the intensity...
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...Motivation Plan Jonathan Grace LDR/531 September 23, 2014 Edythe McNickle Motivation Plan In today world every business organization has a diverse workforce and each employee has a specific motivation and emotion. Understanding the challengers involved in creating an environment that combines the employees’ motivation, satisfactions, and job performance in an organized and an effective workplace is what a good manager should understand. A manager must create a plan incorporating the employees’ job satisfaction, motivation, and performance. The perception of both managers and employees are ensuring that the viewpoints are incorporated into the plan for optimistic influence. According to Robbins and Judge (2013), “Motivation is the method that accounts for a direction, individual intensify, and persistence of an effort toward a specific goal. Satisfaction is defined as the “fulfillment of a need or want” and performance is defined as “the execution of an action or fulfillment of a clam, promise, or request.” Motivation, satisfaction, and performance are important aspects that a manger must utilize with people and each aspect can be define as a success or failure of the employees or as a team. The manager will be able to increase an employee motivation, satisfaction, and performance, if a manager has a positive influence within his or her span of control. Most manager can influence a variation of tools in increasing and gauging employee motivation, satisfaction...
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...goals, values, relationships, teaching, leadership practices and the structure of the organization. Several studies have concurred that student performance is directly related to school climate. Students in schools with a positive school culture have higher achievements. Therefore, creating and maintaining a positive school culture should be essential to the role of school administrator. Good schools depend on a strong sense of purpose and leadership (MacNeil & Maclin, n.d.). Principals must steer their staff, students, and community in a common direction in an effort to establish a set of norms, goals, and objectives that describes their vision of learning and the overall objective of the school. A school administrator has a strong influence on shaping a schools culture (MacNeil & Maclin). Once a strong school culture is established, it tends to act as a powerful socializer of thought and programmer of behavior (MacNeil & Maclin). Yet, shaping and creating such a culture does not just inexplicably happen. It requires a negotiation of sentiments of school stakeholders (MacNeil & Maclin). When points of view and beliefs compete in schools, deciding which ones are relevant can cause struggling. Principals are in an advantageous position to influence the outcome of this conflict (MacNeil & Maclin). When establishing a school culture, a principal must be able to infuse varying values, beliefs, ideas, theories...
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...Creating a Plan R. Butler LDR/531 March 11, 2013 Robert Sell Creating a Plan The objective is to create a plan for positive influence may be applied to any type of a business plan or setting that will increase a team or group’s motivation, performance, and satisfaction with the organization. The plan will be centered on specific attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values that members of the team or group can collaborate with each other on how the differences influences each member’s behavior in a business setting. A business setting has three essential factors that a group or team need to increase productivity in a business environment. The leader in the team setting has must make certain steps that will inspire members or the team or group to become motivated to complete the task. One difficult part of the process is able to deal with different human behavior personalities, values, emotions, and attitudes. Motivation is important to the team or groups, the element that will help the group to succeed. Achievement, recognition, responsibility and advancement and establishing a strong relationship with each member will also help to increase motivation. Satisfaction and performance contributes to the teams or groups satisfaction in the organization that includes perks. By increasing the team’s satisfaction such as flexibility, rewards, and fulfillment and working environment it will also increase the performance of the team. Employees’ determine that they are satisfied if...
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