Team D: Week 5 Reflection MGT/311 May 6, 2012 During week 5 we learned about managing diversity and methods to manage organizational change. Managing diversity is important now that the workforce is more diverse. We have to look at people differently than managers of the past. The two things we have to consider are demographic characteristics and biological characteristics. Since everyone has something to offer in the workplace, we should take the time to get to know our employees skills and
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Learning Team "D" Reflection Week 4 MGT/311 April 15, 2013 Learning Team D Week 4 Reflection Organizational culture is important in many ways to any organization. Many organizations will often times grow because of their culture and the practices they have adopted over the years. It is important to note that one’s organizational culture will determine the values deployed into action at your organization. One’s Organizational culture can build the company and help to make the right moves
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Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan * Determine the motivational strategy or strategies that would likely be most appropriate for each of your three employees on basis of their individual characteristics. Indicate how you would leverage their employee evaluations to motivate each of the three employees. Describe one or more of the motivational theories and explain how the theories connect to each of your selected motivational strategies. Team Member Name | Summary of Individual Characteristics
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Employee Portfolio: Management Plan MGT/311 University of Phoenix Employee Portfolio: Management Plan Riordan Manufacturing managers are developing a plan to improve their abilities to manage employees. Three employees were recently tasked with completing a series of self-assessments to identify specific characteristics and to determine how those traits affect the performance of the organization. The self- assessments analyzed job satisfaction, employee engagement, and emotions. As a result
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Learning Team B Week Two Reflection MGT 311 Learning Team B Week Two Reflection The first two weeks of this course have had several objectives. Some of the objectives of the first week include: evaluating individual characteristics of employees, determining managerial methods based on individual employee characteristics, and analyzing the influence of individual characteristic on organizational performance. Week one focused on individual characteristics of the employee. The second week of
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Employee Portfolio: Management Plan MGT 311 Employee Portfolio Management As a manager at Riordan Manufacturing, it is the responsibility of management to develop ways to help supervise the employees. Riordan has an extensive employee portfolio management system with files on its employees to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of employees, and allows for reviewing their wide range of activities related to the organizations goals (Portfolio Management, 2013). Three employees
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Employee Profile: Motivation Action Plan Brenda Baillargeon MGT/311 – Organizational Development August 6, 2012 Steve Rosales Employee Profile: Motivation Action Plan Motivation is individual effort expended with intensity, direction, and persistence toward reaching a goal. Managers have a responsibility to understand, support, and encourage motivational procedures and habits for their employees. Individual characteristics determine which motivational strategies would be most appropriate
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Change Management and Communication Plan Damon , Kesha , MGT/311 Change Management and Communication Plan Riordan Manufacturing has a prevailing structure and an organization based on formal and informal power. The obvious formal power structure identified through its organizational chart, is legitimate power. Legitimate power “represents the formal authority to control and use organizational resources based on structural position in the organization” (Judge & Robbins, 2014. p.414)
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Riordan Manufacturing Management and Communication Plan Riordan Manufacturing does not have a defined management and communication plan in place. Management hired a team of consultants to write-up and define the company’s power and political structure, organizational structure, possible effects on employee behavior, details on the company’s culture, and possible sources of resistance. The plan also includes a strategy to implement the changes, determine how to evaluate the success or failure of
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Employee Portfolio: Management Plan Summary MGT 311 January 2013 Employee Portfolio: Management Plan Summary When giving assessments at work, one of the most important areas a manager/employer must look at is the emotional state of the employee that is working for them. Many changes at work can have major emotional influence on an employee when unexpected (Lancaster, 1998). Things, such as hiring, firing, promotions, demotions, as well as just a change in what area they work in can take effect
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