Module 4 - Conflict Management Style Survey Reflection (1)

Purpose of This Assignment The Ethics and Social Responsibility competency addresses how to evaluate ethical dilemmas and formulate a defensible resolution. The final assessment for this competency is to write a paper that addresses stakeholder analysis, rules for ethical decision-making, ways to cultivate an ethical corporate culture, business sustainability, and Return on Investment (ROI). Ethics and Social Responsibility Final Assessment: Outline & Rubric In your paper, you should identify the various ethical dilemmas and identify the stakeholders involved in the dilemma. Since the stakeholders have different roles and responsibilities, you should analyze the ethical dilemma(s) from their perspective and identify how the ethical dilemma affects them. You are expected to synthesize what you have learned about ethical decision-making, as well as the “rules” and relevant theories of ethics and the importance of business sustainability, and apply that knowledge to this situation. Item…

Please identify the bias in the following scenario: You have been struggling in your job and your last two projects were over budget, late and not completed well. You have made several mistakes on important presentations and actually emailed the wrong client import information belonging to another client. You have had a heated discussion with your boss this morning and you were terminated this afternoon. You maintain to believe that the reason you were terminated was the heated discussion with your boss. Select one: a. framing effect b. stereotyping c. focusing effect d. choice supportive bias e. attribution theory

As a boss you are required to make a presentation in front of your team and share with them the sales forecast for product A for the year 2019-20. For the past one year, the company has been facing employee turnover in the sales team. The new software purchased for data analytics is also not working properly and the team struggles when they have to make a report. Apart from these issues, your team might be required, in the coming six months, to start working on a new product development. Finally, the day comes when you make the presentation but just as you complete and about to say: `Any questions?’ one of the team leads raises his voice and says:` How can you expect us to double the sales next year when we have been struggling so hard?’ He then elaborates in agitated tone all the problems the team has been facing (as stated above). As a good listener, mention the effective listening strategies that you are required to follow in order to convert hostile audience to at least a neutral…

This assignment is a case analysis and there are two organizations involved - Hopwood Manufacturing and Lambert University. The reading for this assignment is in the Harvard Business Publishing course packet for this course.  You will be addressing the case from the perspective of Lambert University and informing on (1) the key issues raised in this scenario and (2) the best course of action to correct the issues. You will prepare your response in Memo format (addressed to me) that reflects your ability to identify people management issues and make informed recommendations to management for their decision-making/taking action. In your memo, consider the following questions for your analysis (Note: Memos are NOT to be written in a Q&A format):   Define the issues as you see them in light of what you have learned about managing human capital in organizations. Did the university demonstrate "due diligence" in preparing employers for engaging in their workplace? Explain to support…

Change and Communications Management Plan in Project Management Development of a change and communications management plan for the project to createan enterprise PMO. Development of an approach to change management and communicationsmanagement PMI’s change processes. Roles and Responsibilities What key roles are needed to execute the change and communications management activities?   What are the responsibilities of each key role? High-level Process  What processes will be used to execute your change and communication management plan? Are there linkages or dependencies between these or other processes?

Let's pretend that Xesoft has hired you to work as a software quality engineer. You have delegated quality control monitoring to the "Missile tracking system" project. We have only begun the brainstorming phase of the project. Specify the procedures and processes you'll implement from the project's outset to its close in order to guarantee its excellence.

Review the five common project risks below. Resource Risk: The inability to secure, or maintain, sufficient resources on the project team Scope Creep: Any uncontrolled, unapproved work that occurs after the project has started Budget Risk: Any type of budget control issues, such as cost overruns Stakeholders: Risks related to stakeholders’ abilities to fulfill their project commitments Micromanagement: The management style where senior management or project stakeholders closely observe or control subordinates, possibly affecting the project timeline Discuss the following: The importance of risk management and mitigation in project management The strategies you would recommend using to mitigate the five common project risks The steps an organization can take to reduce risks from affecting future projects, so they do not need to be included in the risk register

You work in the human resources department of a company that has just undergone a new organizational working team concept (working in virtual teams). You have been chosen as the team leader for a five-member team to design policies and procedures for the newly designed virtual teams concept and present your recommendations to the leadership team. Your immediate task is to organize and assign each team member with their specific assignments to complete the project. Describe how you would go about creating an implementation plan, including which team member is assigned to which tasks. Address the following in your plan: Identify at least 3 potential team conflict challenges and how you as the team leader plan to address each challenge.

You work in the human resources department of a company that has just undergone a new organizational working team concept (working in virtual teams). You have been chosen as the team leader for a five-member team to design policies and procedures for the newly designed virtual teams concept and present your recommendations to the leadership team. Your immediate task is to organize and assign each team member with their specific assignments to complete the project. Describe how you would go about creating an implementation plan, including which team member is assigned to which tasks. Address the following in your plan: Explain your role as the leader and the importance of collaboration and communication. Define both collaboration and communication. Provide 1–2 examples of collaboration and communication from a team perspective.

Exploring the data involves looking at your data set from many angles, describing it, and summarizing it. This helps you make sure that the planned analysis is appropriate and allows you to modify the analysis if necessary. Please make a choice from one of the following two options: Option I: Identify a project within your work or business interest Describe your case briefly and discuss how they explored the data, which tools and statistics had been applied (e.g., plot, mean, standard deviation…)

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“Up-think Consultants” are celebrating for successful completion of a complex project they were working since along. All the deliverables were handed over to the customer on time and within budget. All the documents related to the project’s initiation, planning, execution, and monitoring were prepared and made available with all the concerned teams and individuals. Management has decided to announce a performance bonus for the team and asked you (the project manager) to recommend the team members by writing a performance review for each of them. You know that the team will get disbanded/parted and in the next project, you may not get the same team members who so successfully delivered the current project. Question: [02 Marks] What kind of organization structure Up-think Consultants has? [02 Marks] What is still missing as part of project phases?

A depressed employee's manager is having trouble with the said depressed employee. Although the employee if achieving her quotas, she is having difficulties submitting her reports and her manager feels like she is bringing down her entire team. Almost everyone in the company knows that the company has counseling services for its employees, but are reluctant to go. What should the manager do to address this issue? Should she push through with her initial plan of terminating the depressed employee?

The Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Managing Director (MD) of Illustrious Limited recently had the following conversation regarding the development of a new information system for the company:CIO: The way to go about the analysis is to first examine the old system, such as reviewing key documents and observing the workers performing their tasks. Then we can determine which aspects are working well and which should be preserved.MD: We have been through these types of projects before, and what always ends up happening is that we do not get the new system we are promised. Instead we get a modified version of the old system.CIO: I can assure you that will not happen this time. My team just want a thorough understanding of what is working well and what is not.MD: I would feel much more comfortable if we first started with a list of our requirements. We should spend more time in determining what exactly we want the system to do upfront. Then your team can come in and determine what…

The Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Managing Director (MD) of Illustrious Limited recently had the following conversation regarding the development of a new information system for the company: CIO: The way to go about the analysis is to first examine the old system, such as reviewing key documents and observing the workers performing their tasks. Then we can determine which aspects are working well and which should be preserved. MD: We have been through these types of projects before, and what always ends up happening is that we do not get the new system we are promised. Instead we get a modified version of the old system. CIO: I can assure you that will not happen this time. My team just want a thorough understanding of what is working well and what is not. MD: I would feel much more comfortable if we first started with a list of our requirements. We should spend more time in determining what exactly we want the system to do upfront. Then your team can come in and determine…

The Application Analyst (AA) department manager, Lori Williams, called the training department and asked to sit down and discuss the new product they were rolling out to all the company's AAs, worldwide, and what training could be offered starting on August 11 and ongoing as they were looking to roll out Document Manager on October 2. This product would affect 2500 people.Lori Williams met with two trainers, Sarah Ward and Caroline Smith. Lori explained that all of the AAs were creating the same documentation over and over again, but had to save it to their own desktops and were unable to share the information because they didn't have a document repository. Document Manager was going to fix this problem. All of the AAs could then share documentation. Document Manager too would have a template in it for the AAs to use. Document Manager would make the AA's work much easier and quicker. The AAs were asked by upper management to be more effective with their documentation. Lori wanted to…

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For his workplace project for his professional course, Humphrey decided to study the effectiveness of the joint consultative committee in South Africa National Health Insurance. His title was ‘An evaluation of the effectiveness of the Joint Consultative Committee in South Africa's Hospital's National Health Insurance’. Draft some objectives which Humphrey may adapt to complement his title. In your response also discuss the research methodology approaches that Humphrey could adopt for his research and explain why.

Consider a situation where an urgent IT project is nearing completion, and it is becoming clear to the Project Manager that many of the users of the new system are not pleased about the changes this will cause. Many attempts have been made to explain why the changes are necessary, but the users remain unconvinced – they feel the training has been inadequate, the new system is confusing, and their job descriptions appear to be significantly different as a result. The Project Manager has reported to the Project Steering Committee that resistance seems likely, and this will further delay full implementation at a time of urgency. It is decided that those users who engage with the new system and get through the urgent work will be offered a one-off bonus in their pay once the urgency has passed. Which one of the following best describes this change strategy?          Normative-re-education approach         Rational-empirical approach         Environmental-adaptive approach…

Participatory M&E is one the best ways in which one would deploy in evaluating a project or program, however this has several ethical issues linked with it. Identify five (4) of such issues and state how you would deal with each.

Briefly Explain the Following:  Critical Role of a Feedback System Key Components of Effective Project Monitoring Major Tasks of Project Audit/Closure Audit Life Cycle Retrospectives

PROJECT MANAGEMENT : Which metric would you select and use to determine the value of long-term customer relationship in an organization? Why?  Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Customer Satisfaction & Retention Net Promoter Score (NPS) Number Of Customers

Many organizations establish project management office (PMO) as an integral part of their organizational strategy in order to standardize governance structures for project management. You have been assigned the task of making a presentation to the senior management committee, to make the case for creating a PMO in your organization, given the number of projects that have been started in the last twelve months. Discuss why your organization should create a project management office. Part of your discussion should include forms of PMO, the expected tasks, and implementation strategy for the PMO once it is approved by the senior management committee.

I need a report written from the question below with the grade criteria from the picture of LO2.  I need a merit and distinction for the report. The following question: Your manager has asked you to write a report that does an analysis of how various factors can influence decision making for HRM Departments.Your report must explain – External factors that can influence HRM decisions Internal factors that can influence HRM decisions The importance of organisational development The characteristics of Agile organisations.