MGT 415 This course provides students with the opportunity to integrate and apply their learning from the course

2.  MGT 415 Entire Course (Ash)
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MGT 415 Week 1 DQ 1 Organizational Design
MGT 415 Week 1 DQ 2 The Research Project
MGT 415 Week 2 DQ 1 Group Development Process
MGT 415 Week 2 DQ 2 Influence of Informal Groups
MGT 415 Week 3 DQ 1 Group Cohesion and Productivity
MGT 415 Week 3 DQ 2 Norms and Conformity
MGT 415 Week 3 Assignment Best Workplace
MGT 415 Week 4 DQ 1 Group Decisions
MGT 415 Week 4 DQ 2 Power, Conflict and Resolution

3.  MGT 415 Week 1 DQ 1 Organizational Design (Ash)
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 Organizational Design. More than ever, groups and teams are
responsible for executing tasks in the workplace. Take a position on
the following statement: All organizations should use the group
structure as the basic building block for designing and organizing
jobs.
Provide examples to support your answer. In your responses to
classmates, take the opposite position your classmates have
presented and provide a convincing response designed to change
their minds

4.  MGT 415 Week 1 DQ 2 The Research Project (Ash)
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 The Research Project. Identify a generic organization (e.g.,
manufacturing plant, hospital, educational institution). You will use
this same organization in your Final Project. Assume that you are
part of a research team examining work groups in the organization
to determine factors that enhance or inhibit group productivity.
Identify what factors you would examine in your research

5.  MGT 415 Week 2 DQ 1 Group Development Process (Ash)
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 Group Development Process. Consider the Tuckman group stage
process schema as discussed in Chapter 3 of your text. Identify
specific actions a manager can take at each stage of the process to
best help a group reach the performing stage. Respond to at least
two of your classmates’ posts.

6.  MGT 415 Week 2 DQ 2 Influence of Informal Groups (Ash)
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Influence of Informal Groups. Informal groups exist in almost
every kind of organization. Answer the following questions
and provide examples to support your position
a. What types of informal groups do you belong to in your
workplace?
b. How do norms of the informal groups to which you belong
influence your behavior and that of other group members?

7.  MGT 415 Week 3 Assignment Best Workplace (Ash)
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 Best Workplace. Review the most current results of FORTUNE
Magazine's annual ranking of America's “100 Best Companies to
Work For.” Explore the website of at least three of the companies
noted. Develop a two- to three-page paper that addresses the
following:
a. When reviewing the descriptions of the work environments,
identify elements that appear to foster employee motivation and
group cohesion among employees

8.  MGT 415 Week 3 DQ 1 Group Cohesion and Productivity
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Group Cohesion and Productivity. Describe your most positive experience in
working on a group project in which the group’s cohesiveness led to greater
work productivity. Have you experienced a situation that was just the
opposite – a situation in which group cohesiveness negatively impacted the
productivity of the project? Provide examples to support your descriptions.
Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.

9.  MGT 415 Week 3 DQ 2 Norms and Conformity (Ash)
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Norms and Conformity. Norms influence behavior conformity among group
members. What factors will influence group members to conform to a
group’s norms, and when will members remain independent? Do individuals
who do not conform to the group’s norms ever succeed in influencing the
rest

10.  MGT 415 Week 4 DQ 1 Group Decisions (Ash)
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Group Decisions. Discuss how decisions are made in your workgroup. Which
model is used for what situation? Be sure to provide specific examples of at
least three situations and what model was used in each situation. Critique the
effectiveness of the model, as applied to each situation. Respond to at least
two of your classmates’ posts.

11.  MGT 415 Week 4 DQ 2 Power, Conflict and Resolution
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Power, Conflict and Resolution. Evaluate your workplace and identify a group
that has “power” in the organization. Analyze why the group is considered
powerful.
a. What are the elements that contribute to the group’s power base?
b. Is there a perception among employees in your organization that a
disparity of power exists between the “powerful group” and other work
groups?

12.  MGT 415 Week 5 DQ 1 Leadership (Ash)
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Leadership. In a group environment, should leaders be assigned at the
beginning of a project or should leaders emerge as the group is working on
the project? Outline the positives and negatives of each approach. Is there a
particular type of group that uses a particular leadership approach? Why do
you think this is the case? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts

13.  MGT 415 Week 5 DQ 2 Conflict and Competition (Ash)
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Conflict and Competition. Discuss whether intergroup conflict and intergroup
competition are the same or different. Provide examples to support your
position. What strategies can a leader use to ensure that there are positive
results from the conflict or competition? Respond to at least two of your
classmates’ posts.

14.  MGT 415 Week 5 Final Assignment (Avon Consultant
Report) (Ash)
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Focus of the Final Paper
In Week One, you will choose a generic organization (manufacturing plant,
hospital, etc.). Assume that you are a hired consultant for this organization.
You have been asked by the president of the organization to prepare a
background paper on the results of your research and to make
recommendations to improve group productivity in the organization.
Your research has identified the following problems: