C2W3D1&2

Week3 - Discussion 1

Job Design

What kinds of jobs are needed in an organization? How has specialization of labor, or division of labor, been implemented in an organization in which you have worked (or researched)? How are departments organized? Do you perceive these groupings to be effective? Why or why not?

Guided Response: Respond to two of your classmates’ posts. Analyze their discussions by agreeing, disagreeing, or adding other ideas to strengthen or enhance the perspective presented in their initial posts.

Week 3 - Discussion 2

Organizational Life Cycles

Read the article, “Organizational life cycles and shifting criteria of effectiveness: Some preliminary evidence”.(Access this article by going to the Library homepage and clicking on the ProQuest alternative database link in the pink announcement area on the right side; search using the article title).Describe the chronicle of life cycle change and the early stages of development, performance and resource acquisition, events leading to later stages of development, and the development of the formalization and control stage. Why do you think the author wrote about this topic? Why is it important?

Guided Response: Respond to two of your classmate’s posts. Compare the information in the article to the analysis provided by your classmates in reference to initiating and formalizing control. Are your classmates’ analyses of the article accurate? Why or why not?

4. Posting requirements---at least one course material reference per discussion post and two outside scholarly reference per post (doesn’t include replies to other students but is looked at favorably).  Need substantial posts and replies for a chance at full credit. 

 

5. Grades for discussion posts will be reduced for the following reasons: not supporting your discussion post answer with course material principles, concepts and theories along with 2 scholarly references; not addressing each component of the assignment;  not replying to the proper quantity of peers with substantial and analytical replies that deconstruct that peer post answer to the discussion question;  and lastly not posting or replying in enough depth (substantial postings).