Reference no: EM131836338
Assignment 1
Description
You are employed at a large global hightech company that has offices worldwide in such places as Tokyo, London, Bombay, Toronto, Mexico City, Chicago, and Seattle to name a few. Although sales have been reasonable these past few months even with the global economic crises, an internal crisis exists related to employee morale being at an alltime low. There are many different beliefs on what is right and what is wrong across the board, especially when it comes to the cultural and communication differences and the technological equipment challenges. There are also concerns regarding the selfishness of the employees; where the employees do not enjoy working as a team. Your supervisor has tasked you as the as the VP of the Service Department to prepare a research paper that will communicate information and solutions as well as provide a foundation of knowledge so that you can work with your peers and employees to solve these problems. At a minimum, your research paper must:
What steps can management take to make the teams cohesive? Evaluate the steps that are necessary in this scenario to create high performing teams. Evaluate the importance of the internal environmental factors that include the cultural, language, political, and technological differences that will affect the team building process.
What can be done to overcome the communication barriers between locations? What are the best practices that should be implemented going forward?
Present your findings as a Word document of 35 pages formatted in APA style.
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:
Title page: Remember the running head and title in all capital letters.
Abstract: This is a summary of your paper, not an introduction. Begin writing in thirdperson voice.
Body: The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and abstract page, and it must be doublespaced between paragraphs. The typeface should be 12pt. Times Roman or 12pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 3-4 pages. Intext academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
Reference page: References that align with your intext academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hang indention, italics, and upper and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the reference page is not a bibliography, but it is a further listing of the abbreviated intext citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding intext citation.
Assignment 2
Objectives
Evaluate effective communication, dynamics of a team, and how to handle conflict.
Assess diversity in today's workforce and how to effectively use diversity to strengthen the workforce Assess how personality, values, attitudes, cognitive differences, emotions, and charisma affect leadership Assess organizational culture and how to effectively manage culture/diversity conflict.
Description
You are employed at a large global hightech company that has offices worldwide in such places as Tokyo, London, Bombay, Toronto, Mexico City, Chicago, and Seattle to name a few. Although sales have been reasonable these past few months even with the global economic crises, an internal crisis exists related to employee morale being at an alltime low. There are many different beliefs on what is right and what is wrong across the board, especially when it comes to the cultural and communication differences and the technological equipment challenges. There are also concerns regarding the selfishness of the employees; where the employees do not enjoy working as a team. Your supervisor has tasked you as the as the VP of the Service Department to prepare a research paper that will communicate information and solutions as well as provide a foundation of knowledge so that you can work with your peers and employees to solve these problems. At a minimum, your research paper must:
What steps can management take to make the teams cohesive? Evaluate the steps that are necessary in this scenario to create high performing teams. Evaluate the importance of the internal environmental factors that include the cultural, language, political, and technological differences that will affect the team building process.
What can be done to overcome the communication barriers between locations? What are the best practices that should be implemented going forward?
Present your findings as a Word document of 35 pages formatted in APA style.
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:
Title page: Remember the running head and title in all capital letters.
Abstract: This is a summary of your paper, not an introduction. Begin writing in thirdperson voice.
Body: The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and abstract page, and it must be doublespaced between paragraphs. The typeface should be 12pt. Times Roman or 12pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 3-4 pages. Intext academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
Reference page: References that align with your intext academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hang indention, italics, and upper and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the reference page is not a bibliography, but it is a further listing of the abbreviated intext citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding intext citation.