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Assignment 1: Teamwork and Motivation

 

Due Week 6 and worth 200 points

 

Imagine that you are the owner of a small manufacturing company. Your company manufactures a commodity, widgets. Your widget is a clone of a nationally known widget. Your company’s widget, WooWoo, is less expensive and more readily available than the nationally known brand. Presently, the sales are high; however, there are many defects, which increase your costs and delays delivery. Your company has fifty (50) employees in the following departments: sales, assembly, technology, and administration.

 

 

 

 

1. Consider how communication, attitudes, behaviors, and culture affect team performance. Outline a guide that you would use to lead a work team (e.g., cross-functional, virtual, problem-solving, etc.).

 

1. Reflect on your individual experience working with your team. Ensure that you include the following:
   1. How and why the team leader was selected
   1. How often your team met
   1. Challenges that you experienced during this process
   1. How you would approach team projects / assignments differently in the future
   1. The most important lesson learned from this experience

 

1. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

 

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

 

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

 

• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.

 

 

 

• Explain the variety of motivational theories and job design considerations.

 

• Analyze the formation and dynamics of group behavior and work teams, including the application of power in groups.

 

• Use technology and information resources to research issues in organizational behavior.

 

• Write clearly and concisely about organizational behavior using proper writing mechanics.

 

 

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric found here.