Answer each question as a short answer (1-2 paragraphs each) and submit your exam as a word doc in Blackboard on the final exam.
Each question has equal weight, answer 8 questions. Do not use the exact words from the book, explain in your own words. Your answers need to be your original work- avoid plagiarism of other students’ work (of this or previous classes) or from any other sources. Good luck.
Short Answer Questions
1. Explain how managers can help in supporting their employees' career development? Give 1-2 examples.What is the greatest support your manager could give you at this stage in your career development?
2. Compare the advantages gained when a manager utilizes group versus individual decision making. Give an example of both individual and group decision making you may have observed recently in an organization. What were the results
3. What are competitive dynamics? Briefly describe the factors that influence a firm's action or reaction? Give an example from an industry you are familiar with.
4. What is meant by the horizontal dimensioning of an organization? Also explain the terms "departments" and "departmentalizing," and give an example of the various modes of departmentalizing in an organization.
5. What is the value virtuality offers to organizations and the employees within them?
6. Pick one theory of leadership and discuss it using an example of a situation/conflict or incident you experienced or witnessed at a place of work.
7. Pick one current event, that is not your own, and explain how it will change or inform how you will perform as a manager
Answer only one of the following three questions:
8a. What role does behavior modification play in motivation of employees? Give an
example of either giving or receiving behavior modification in an organizational setting.
What were the results?
OR
8b. Discuss the five stages of team development. How does this relate to your own
experience of team development? How could knowledge of these stages help one to successfully navigate the group dynamics?