Assignment: Apply Team Dynamics
Access Connect through the McGraw-Hill Connect Access link at the top of this course.
Review Ch. 8, 10, and 12 of Organizational Behavior in Connect.
Scenario:
You have worked at your current employer for five years. Recently your company merged with a much larger Boston Accounting Firm to improve efficiencies, increase revenues, cut costs and adopt best practice in the industry. After the merger, you find yourself on a team of four other individuals that you have never met. Each individual is from a different department: Auditing, Tax, Corporate Governance, Legal and Insurance. The purpose of your team is to downsize your department in terms of employees.
Create a 10-slide restructuring and downsizing plan presentation with speaker notes that can be used in each department.
Answer the following questions in your plan:
• Why is the change needed?
• What will change?
• Who will be affected?
• How will they be affected?
• How will potential conflict be managed?
• How will trust be strengthened or repaired?
• How will power be shared in the organization after the restructuring/downsizing?
• What tactics will be used to achieve a successful restructuring/downsizing transition? What tactics will be avoided?
• What are the benefits of the planned changes?
• What is the timeframe of implementation?
• How will changes be communicated to the employees?
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.