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• MGT 415 Entire Course (Ash Course)
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• 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 Conformity

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• MGT 415 Week 1 DQ 1 Organizational Design (Ash
  Course)
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• Organizational 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.

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• MGT 415 Week 1 DQ 2 The Research Project (Ash
  Course)
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• 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

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• MGT 415 Week 2 DQ 1 Group Development Process
  (Ash Course)
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• 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 Groups
  (Ash Course)
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• 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?

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• MGT 415 Week 3 Assignment Best Workplace (Ash
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• 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 following

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• MGT 415 Week 3 DQ 1 Group Cohesion and
  Productivity (Ash Course)
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• 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 (Ash
  Course)
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• 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?

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• MGT 415 Week 4 DQ 1 Group Decisions (Ash Course)
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• 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 (Ash Course)
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• 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?

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• MGT 415 Week 5 DQ 1 Leadership (Ash Course)
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• 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 (Ash
  Course)
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• Conflict 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.Related

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• MGT 415 Week 5 Final Assignment (Avon Consultant
  Report) (Ash Course)
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• 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
  members

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