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MGT 415 Entire Course For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com   MGT 415 Week 1 DQ 1
Organizational DesignMGT 415 Week 1 DQ 2 The
Research ProjectMGT 415 Week 2 DQ 1 Group
Development ProcessMGT 415 Week 2 DQ 2 Influence
of Informal GroupsMGT 415 Week 3 DQ 1 Group
Cohesion and ProductivityMGT 415 Week 3 DQ 2
Norms and ConformityMGT 415 Week 3 Assignment
Best WorkplaceMGT 415 Week 4 DQ 1 Group
DecisionsMGT 415 Week 4 DQ 2 Power, Conflict and
Resolution 
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MGT 415 Week 1 DQ 1 Organizational Design For
more classes visits www.snaptutorial.com   Organiz
ational 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. Respond to at least two of your
classmates posts.  
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MGT 415 Week 1 DQ 2 The Research Project For
more classes visits www.snaptutorial.com   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 and provide a
rationale for your choice. Respond to at least
two of your classmates posts.  
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MGT 415 Week 2 DQ 1 Group Development Process For
more classes visits www.snaptutorial.com   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.  
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MGT 415 Week 2 DQ 2 Influence of Informal
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m   Influence of Informal Groups. Informal groups
exist in almost every kind of organization.
Answer the following questions and provide
examples to support your positiona. 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?Respond to at least
two of your classmates posts.  
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MGT 415 Week 3 Assignment Best Workplace For more
classes visits www.snaptutorial.com   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 followinga. When reviewing the descriptions
of the work environments, identify elements that
appear to foster employee motivation and group
cohesion among employees.b. Relate your analysis
to the material presented in the chapters
assigned for reading this week. For example,
there may be elements that support George Homans
theory, or another theory of exchange in
groups. 
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MGT 415 Week 3 DQ 1 Group Cohesion and
Productivity For more classes visits www.snaptutor
ial.com   Group Cohesion and Productivity.
Describe your most positive experience in working
on a group project in which the groups
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.  
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MGT 415 Week 3 DQ 2 Norms and Conformity   For
more classes visits www.snaptutorial.com   Norms
and Conformity. Norms influence behavior
conformity among group members. What factors will
influence group members to conform to a groups
norms, and when will members remain independent?
Do individuals who do not conform to the groups
norms ever succeed in influencing the rest of the
group? Provide examples to support your analysis.
Respond to at least two of your classmates
posts  
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MGT 415 Week 4 DQ 1 Group Decisions For more
classes visits www.snaptutorial.com   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.  
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MGT 415 Week 4 DQ 2 Power, Conflict and
Resolution For more classes visits www.snaptutoria
l.com   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 groups 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?c. How can managers minimize the
possibility of negative reactions or conflict
between groups if the perception of power
disparity exists?Respond to at least two of your
classmates posts.  
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MGT 415 Week 5 DQ 1 Leadership For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com   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.  
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MGT 415 Week 5 DQ 2 Conflict and Competition For
more classes visits www.snaptutorial.com   Conflic
t 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.  
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MGT 415 Week 5 Final Assignment (Avon Consultant
Report) For more classes visits www.snaptutorial.c
om   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 problems1. Role conflicts within
groups2. Communication problems among group
members3. Lack of cohesiveness in groups with
diverse members4. Excessive intergroup
conflictIn an eight- to ten-page paper, include
the following 
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