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Assess Employee Reactions in Modern Structures

Telecommuting is a major trend in today's business environment, and experts maintain that it can greatly improve employee satisfaction and equally offer employers some organizational benefits as well.

For this assignment, assume you are an HR expert in the field of telecommuting and you have been called by a company to deliver a presentation about telecommuting to help decision makers determine whether they should start offering telecommuting arrangements to employees to work remotely. Your role is to prepare a broad presentation that covers various issues that were discussed in this course, including:

1. Leadership styles

2. Employee attitudes and motivation

3. Team development

4. Telecommuting

In particular, you will address the following in your presentation:

- Write an introduction about the importance of telecommuting today, including details about the benefits it provides employers and to introduce some numbers and statistics from studies and reports that show its popularity.

- Discuss in detail how telecommuting affects attitudes and behaviors.

- Write about the challenges and risks of telecommuting for companies and human resource management policies and practices that companies can use to deal with those challenges.

- Explain the type of leadership style that should be used in conjunction with telecommuting work (i.e., authoritative, participative, paternalistic).

- Conclude with a discussion in how companies can increase social interaction among teams that telecommute.