MGMT591 Discussions Latest 2022 April (Full)

MGMT591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior

Week 1 Discussion

Case Study: Arctic Mining Consultants

The Case Study: Arctic Mining Consultants is located in the Additional Cases section in the back of the textbook.

After reading the case study in the textbook, answer the following questions for your initial post for this week.

What course of action would you recommend? Why?

How are you or an appropriate organization going to implement changes?

MGMT591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior

Week 2 Discussion

Emotional Intelligence

Consider an organization that you have some familiarity with. This may be an organization where you currently work. Or, it may be one where you have worked in the past. Use this week's threaded discussion to evaluate the impact of emotional intelligence on organizational behavior and workplace effectiveness in your selected organization.

Here are a couple of questions to help get you started.

What is the impact of one's emotional intelligence on how they make decisions in an organizational setting?  Why is this important to consider and discuss?

Based on your analysis of emotional intelligence, assess the likely outcomes of organizational behavior as compared to workplace effectiveness. Why are these two ideas important to consider and discuss?

MGMT591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior

Week 3 Discussion

Employee Motivation & Performance Practices

Four-drive theory recommends that companies must keep fulfillment of the four drives in balance. What is this “balance” and why is it important? Give an example (real or hypothetical) of how a company maintains balanced drive fulfillment. Also describe a company that does not provide this balance, including the consequences of this imbalance on employees’ attitudes and behavior.

MGMT591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior

Week 4 Discussion

Team Effectiveness in the Workplace

Teams and their use in organizations seem to have varying degrees of success. We all know what a successful athletic team looks like. Managers often times try to translate that structure and in turn success back to the organization by organizing their employees in teams. But, what starts out as a really great idea ends up being a total disaster, at least operationally. And inevitably, you have the one individual on a team who takes the approach of, "Get out of my way and let me do this!" And, the more shy and reticent team members naturally ever so gently "fade" into the background and let the superhero try and run with the project.

For this weekly discussion, evaluate the effectiveness of teams in the workplace. Especially consider the unique challenges that teams face when trying to work effectively remotely. Here are a couple of questions to help you get started.

Assess the effectiveness of team members in working in a virtual-only environment. Which individual behaviors seem to be beneficial to the overall team process? How can you tell? Which ones are deleterious? How can you tell?

Consider the following. Emotions are running wild during a current team meeting that you are attending. There are five people on this team. What would you do during the meeting to try and calm emotions and get back to team problem-solving? Why?

MGMT591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior

Week 5 Discussion

Case Study: Simmons Laboratories

The Case Study: Simmons Laboratories is located in the Additional Cases section at the back of the textbook.

After reading the case study in the textbook, answer the following questions for your initial post for this week.

What course of action would you recommend? Why?

How are you or an appropriate organization going to implement changes?

MGMT591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior

Week 6 Discussion

Organizational Culture

Take a moment and reflect on the organization that you selected and are researching and writing about for your Course Project. Based on your research thus far, appraise the strength of your selected organization's culture. Use the following questions to help you get started in this week's discussion.

To what extent has your organization been able to adapt to the changing business conditions. How can you tell? How has the culture adapted?

How has your selected organization's leadership team adapted? How can you tell?

MGMT591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior

Week 7 Discussion

Describe your Experience

Please write one paragraph to describe how this course helped you. State at least ONE thing you liked about Leadership. Feel free to share anything you think is important about the course and your professor. Make sure to post your response at the latest by Wednesday and comment on at least one of your classmates' posts.

MGMT591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior

Week 8 Discussion

Career Assignment - Your Skills ... Their Business Need

Your Skills ... Their Business Need

Identify one employer in your area that you could see yourself working for. This should be a new employer that you haven't worked for in the past nor are you currently working for.

Write a brief summary overview of your selected employer.

Questions to answer in your first response:

What does the company produce? Or what service/services do they provide? What is the main source of their revenue?

Who are their competitors? Is your selected company leading in their target market? Are they considered established or new?

What does their vision / mission statement include?

What do you think that employer needs to do in order to be successful or remain successful?

What are some activities that they should be doing to stay relevant or to become more relevant within their target market?

In your second post, write a brief summary of your strengths and skills and explain how they align with the company's direction.

What business need do you solve? How do you solve it?

What skills do you have or need to have to be of value?

Why should they hire you?