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 Your boss has recently heard a little about attribution theory and has asked you to explain it to him in more detail, focusing on its possible usefulness in managing your department. How do you address his request? Please make sure you indicate your department. Use and cite the course textbook in your initial post. 

Review the following scenario:

As a supervisor, you often contribute to your team’s internal blog. The blog was created over a year ago and is often used instead of meetings or email discussions. The blog has primarily been a way to connect with team members, especially those working remotely, to share important organization-wide and department news so no one would feel uninformed. From the time of its creation, the team’s blog has never had any hard and set rules about posts other than a text limit for responses.

For the past couple of months, you have seen a more negative change in the blog posts that indicate there is conflict among your diverse team members. First, there was a series of negative posts when there was a difference of opinion regarding a global project. People at the U.S. home office accused remote team members of not speaking English well enough to understand the team’s major task. Other blog posts suggested that the company should not hire people who are not fluent in English, stating it is too difficult communicating and working with them. It was clear from the tones of the posts that team members on both sides of the conflict were frustrated, impatient, and even irritated. The non-native English speakers were also starting to show less motivation to contribute to the team’s work.

In another situation, when the promotion of a younger staff member was announced on the blog, there were posts from more seasoned employees in opposition stating this newly promoted staff member came to work at inconsistent times, which they considered willful tardiness. Younger employees immediately wrote posts stating and supporting the statement that you really “can’t teach old dogs new tricks.”

Not only are you aware of these negative posts, so is your boss. So, you know you must respond.

Review this week’s academic resources and research regarding the best practices for resolving conflict on diverse teams. Then, compose two separate blog posts regarding the negative posts. The first post must address the negative blog posts from each situation. The second post should include new changes, rules, and/or recommendations regarding the use of the internal team blog. Be sure to include tips for your employees to help embrace change and remain motivated, or increase motivation if it has been affected.

Length of blog posts: 1-2 pages for each blog post, not including title and reference pages. Support your blog posts with at least three scholarly sources.

Your blog posts should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your submission should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards where appropriate. 

This assignment emphasizes the information in Chapter 4 of your textbook but also draws on elements from Chapters 5 & 6 and comes in two parts.  As the owner of a small local ice cream manufacturing facility, you are convinced that your brand has something special that could make it into a national brand if you can figure out how to do it. 

Part I.  After reading the chapters in your textbook, your first task to to read the attached document on Strategic Planning that your instructors developed as supplemental material for this assignment.  It will both clarify and emphasize materials that will help with the second part of this assignment.

Part II.  Your task  is to develop a vision statement, a mission statement, and to describe a workable strategic plan for your company today with goals and milestones along the way for the next 10 years when your local brand will be a national brand.  Finally, students are to describe the relationship between their strategic, tactical and operational planning as their company is today. 

For Clarity:

Does it contain:

1. Vision statement
2. Mission statement
3. Brief summary of your company
4. Corporate-level strategies
5. Functional-level strategies
6. A ten-year plan

You can find a brief explanation of these items in Exhibit 4-5 on page 133 (DuBrin).

Limit your work to two pages of text but use APA citations and references to show that your plan is more than just an opinion.  References and citations show me that you researched your ideas and have solid support for your ideas from experts on business planning.

You will research the compensation plan of an organization. You will describe the plan in sufficient detail.  Additionally, you will demonstrate the application of at least four (4) compensation domains or concepts demonstrated in that company’s compensation platform.

• Find peer-reviewed articles or use business journals/articles for references.
• You must include a minimum requirement of 4 full pages of content (this does not include the title, abstract or reference pages) and 5 scholarly resources in APA format (refer to the APA manual for specific details) on the information researched from the article and your views as well. 
• You must present full pages of content.  

Option #2: Operational, Tactical, and Strategic Dashboards 

Dashboards serve many purposes one of which is to capture and communicate performance.

• Explain the different purpose of each of the three types of performance dashboards: operational, tactical, and strategic.
• Explain the differences in terms of the users, scope, information, frequency of updates and the emphasis for each.
• Include an example of a dashboard as an appendix to your paper and include which type it is. (Remember that appendices are after the references page in APA format.)

Paper Requirements:

• Be sure to properly organize your writing and include an introductory paragraph, headings / subheadings for the body of your work, discussion recommendations, and a conclusion.
• Format your entire paper in accordance with the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA (Links to an external site.).
• Your paper should be at least five pages. The page count does not include the required title page and reference page, nor does the page count include any supplemental pages, should you use them, such as appendices.

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 To me, change control is taking the proper steps to get an aspect or aspects of a project changed, without having to change the project completely, falling behind schedule, or discontinuing the project all together. It is needed because, there is no doubt that issues will come up. When these issues come up, change is needed. When changes happen on a project team, you have to get proper authorization in order for these changes to be made. 

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Weekly written assignments are to be written in a formal, academic, expository (research) manner. There is no need for an abstract in the weekly written assignments. The weekly written assignments should be written in APA format with appropriate credible, academic, peer reviewed references/citations. The written assignment topic can be of your choosing as long as it’s from subject material we have studied. The weekly essay should be a short 1 to 2 page expository essay. This does not include the title page or reference page (per APA). Information on expository writing and an APA sample paper will be posted for your use. The sample paper will provide you with information about format and writing style. Please read the syllabus carefully to determine the grading criteria for the written assignments. I would highly recommend that you visit the Purdue OWL writing lab web site and click on the “site map.”  There is a wealth of information about writing on that site.  ( http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/ ) 

What ideas and strategies do you use when you are confronted by your own problems in living? What is your preferred coping style? Take some time to reflect on and make notes about two or three recent episodes in your life when you have been troubled or under stress. For the purpose of this exercise, your focus should not be on the actual situation itself, but on what you personally thought and did in order to resolve the situation. Once you have mapped out at least some of your favoured coping strategies, go through each of them in turn and identify the underlying cultural assumptions and discourses (e.g. religious, medical, psychological, philosophical) that they are drawn from. It can be valuable to carry out this learning activity in a small group as a means of becoming aware of the diversity of assumptions and strategies that people use. Finally, in relation to your counselling role: how do you react when you have a client whose ideas about dealing with personal troubles are different from your own?

APA FORMAT

300 WORDS MIN

each assignment needs to. be on its own word document. 

Unit III Journal

Instructions

Find an example in your current career or life to which one of the motivational theories can be applied. How would you apply the chosen theory? What do you expect the outcome to be? Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

Unit III Case Study

Instructions

For the case study, we will focus on the importance of safety and all parties helping to make safety a priority. The effectiveness of the safety training will depend on how prepared the participants are for the training and their perception of the training. 

Review “Case: Safety First” located in the textbook on pages 199-200, and respond to the prompts below. You are not required to answer the questions at the end of the case study in the textbook. 

1. Examine the components of an effective training needs analysis for this scenario. What would the basic parts for a successful training program be? 
2. Describe how the training should be delivered, and briefly describe one motivational theory from those listed on pages 163–173 in the textbook and how it supports this type of training to enhance an organization’s performance. 

Safety First

BNSF Railway is a North American freight transportation company with over 32,000 miles of routes. BNSF Railway hauls agricultural, consumer, and industrial products and coal. BNSF Railway puts safety above everything else it does, including productivity. BNSF Railway recognizes that safety is based on having well-trained employees who share BNSF Railway’s vision for an injury- and accident-free workplace and who are willing to look out for one another. Thanks to its employees’ commitment, a carefully maintained network and equipment, and well-prepared communities, BNSF Railway is a safety leader in the rail industry. Approaching Others About Safety (AOAS) is a training program for all BNSF Railway employees. Four hundred and fifty BNSF Railway employees train their peers. Employees serve as trainers because page 200BNSF Railway believes they are in the best position to keep themselves and their peers safe. The goal of the program is for BNSF Railway employees to be confident about giving feedback to each other about safe behavior and avoiding unsafe situations. Employees need to learn the value of providing feedback when they see unsafe behavior or situations, including positively recognizing when someone is working safely or correcting them when they perceive another employee is at risk. Training should focus on the types of exposures that tend to result in the most injuries, including walking/path of travel around trains, rails, and equipment, pinch points between the railway cars, and climbing or descending locomotives and railway cars.

Describe the different types of instructional characteristics that this program should have for learning and transfer to occur and for a decrease in injuries and accidents to result. Would these characteristics vary depending on who was attending the program (e.g., managers, train crew, employees who maintain track, structures, or signals)? If so, how would they vary? Explain how a community of practice (COP) could be beneficial for this program.

Source: Based on M. Weinstein, “BNSF Railway Is on the Right Track,” training (January/February 2017), pp. 42–44; “BNSF Railway: Approaching Others About Safety,” training (January/February 2014), pp. 108–109; www.bnsf.com, website for BNSF Railways, accessed March 11, 2015.

Your case study should be at least two pages in length. You are not required to use APA style for this assignment; however, your writing should be clear and concise.

Unit IV Journal

Instructions

Consider the evaluation methods discussed in this unit. What method would you select for your organization’s training? What factors led to this decision?  Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

Unit V Journal 

Instructions

Technology influences the process of learning. As a member of the workforce, how does technology affect the training demands in your work environment? How do you see technology changing your duties and responsibilities in the near future? Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.