...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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...Planning for Positive Influence LDR/531 Business Law Traci Stevenson Instructor: Rovella Phillips May 27, 2013 Abstract Our team has been assign a project that will take one year to complete. To have a successful work experience and get the job done there are factors that we must consider. Start by creating a plan to increase motivation, satisfaction and performance. We must start also by evaluating each team member attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values and how they influence behavior. Diversity is in the workplace and it is necessary to improve the value of effort from each individual on the team. The three elements in a business setting to making goals achievable are motivation, satisfaction, and performance. This paper is to prepare a plan and apply it in a business setting in increasing the performance, satisfaction and motivation of all members of a team. Throughout the paper will be addressing the differences in motivation and personalities discover in team collaboration and how each influence behavior. Introduction When working in a group there is various types of teams that are found in many settings. Regardless of the setting of the team, accepting and appreciating the similarities and differences of the teammates can contribute more effectively and improve productivity as a whole. Creating a plan that will influence organization positively is important for management in an organization. Teams need to understand the objectives of the task and know...
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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 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 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 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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...impact the bottom line. How can management influence the importance of adding value to coworkers? *How will coworkers accept and understand that they must perform in order to rewarded as well as meet* the expectations of management? Management has the power to positively or negatively influence the importance of adding value to coworkers. Since the ultimate goal of an organization is to receive maximum performance from a team member, here are a few suggestions on how management can positively influence the outcome of adding value to all team members and the organization. Has there ever been a time, where you really needed a pick-me-up at work? For some, this feeling is quite frequent; for others-not so much. There is a way in which management can influence a team member to prevent this feeling. This is done by “Creating Moments that Matter”. This is a concept that can positively impact all team members of an organization in many ways. Creating moments that matter in an organization, means going above and beyond what is “typically” done in a work environment. Creating moments that matter makes a big difference on the time shared at work. All employees would like to have some feeling of appreciation after a days work. Well how do you get an employee to give maximum performance? First, hire those who want to work and meet or exceed the jobs qualification requirements. I believe management can have a positive impact by exuding awareness to each employee...
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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 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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