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What steps could be taken to make individual group members be more outspoken in suggesting a possible course of action is unethical?
Your objective is to gain an appreciation of the conflict process and to understand the difficulties involved in managing conflict successfully.
Identify how differentiation might potentially give rise to conflict between different employees or groups in this organization.
What is the role played by ethical values in the negotiation and bargaining process to ensure that outcomes are fair and equitable?
What kinds of employees would probably prefer to work in a virtual team rather than in a team that meets face to face?
How would you characterize the major tasks performed by this group in terms of Thompson’s model of task interdependence?
Identify the kinds of process gains and losses associated with this change to work groups and discuss ways.
Are Fiedler’s contingency model and the trait approach consistent with one another or inconsistent? Explain.
What kinds of actions of a leader would you regard as being clearly unethical in their attempts to influence and persuade employees?
What kinds of skills do you think Savage possesses that have made her an effective leader?
What are the principal sources of a manager’s formal power and informal power? How does the way a manager exercises power affect subordinates?
In what ways can the manager of a function deliberately set out to gain power inside an organization?
Form groups of three or four people, and appoint one member as the spokesperson who will communicate your conclusions to the rest of the class.
How should you pay the servers to ensure they are motivated to do a good job and provide high-quality service to your customers?
Should managers try to eliminate all or most role conflict and ambiguity? Why or why not?
Is a certain level of stress necessary to motivate employees to perform at a high level? Why or why not?
Analyzing a “Real” Group Choose a work group featured in a television series e.g., Gray’s Anatomy, Boston Legal, CSI Miami, CSI New York, Numbers.
Objective Your objective is to gain experience in redesigning a job to increase employee autonomy.
Why might a person with a very high level of motivation perform poorly?
Why might a very capable employee have low expectancy for performing at a high level? How does the choice of a referent influence perceptions of equity and ineq
Why might fair procedures be perceived as being unfair by some employees? Is inequity always dysfunctional for an organization? Why or why not?
How would you characterize your expectancy for this activity? Why was your expectancy at this level?
How might a manager redesign the job of a person who delivers newspapers to raise levels of the core job dimensions identified by the job characteristics model?
Can principles of scientific management and the job characteristics model both be used to design a job? Explain why or why not.
Why should organizations clearly communicate organizational objectives to their employees?