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MGT 415 Entire Course   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com   MGT 415 Week 1 DQ 1
Organizational DesignMGT 415 Week 1 DQ 2 The
Research ProjectMGT 415 Week 2 DQ 1 Group
Development Process
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MGT 415 Week 1 DQ 1 Organizational Design   For
more classes visits www.snaptutorial.com   Organiz
ational 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   For
more classes visits www.snaptutorial.com   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
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MGT 415 Week 2 DQ 1 Group Development
Process   For more classes visits www.snaptutorial
.com   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   For more classes visits www.snaptutorial.
com   Influence of Informal Groups. Informal
groups exist in almost every kind of
organization. Answer the following questions and
provide examples to support your position
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MGT 415 Week 3 Assignment Best Workplace   For
more classes visits www.snaptutorial.com   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   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com   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   For
more classes visits www.snaptutorial.com   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? Provide examples to support your analysis.
Respond to at least two of your classmates posts
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MGT 415 Week 4 DQ 1 Group Decisions   For more
classes visits www.snaptutorial.com   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   For more classes visits www.snaptutor
ial.com   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   For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com   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   For more classes visits www.snaptuto
rial.com   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.    
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MGT 415 Week 5 Final Assignment (Avon Consultant
Report)   For more classes visits www.snaptutorial
.com   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
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