Read the Article and then answer the questions from ch 11 to ch 15 ………………………...

Chapter 11: Motivating People

Congratulations! You ‘ve been offered your first full-time career job to start after you graduate in May.

You learned, from the interview process, about starting salary, benefits, schedule, job description, working conditions and so forth. But is the starting salary a little lower than the going rate? You just may be able to find out before you accept the current offer. How?

Going to Websites like Glassdoor.com, Salary.com, Vault.com, and Payscale.com can give you the going rate information.

Glassdoor.com can also give you a sense of how intrinsically motivating it can be like to work there. With thousands of detailed reviews from company insiders describing the pros and cons of the company and bosses.

1. So what have you learned to date about salary, and intrinsic motivators in your first job in your new company?

2. So what have you learned to date about salary, and intrinsic motivators if the job is an internship or a summer job?

3. So what have you learned to date about your potential new employer from professors, customers, vendors, current or former employees?

Chapter 12: Teamwork

Playing Devil’s Advocate Can Help Your Team Make Better Decisions.

1. Give me an example of a time when you played “Devil’s Advocate” in a work group.

2. What was the situation?

3.What did you say to ensure you presented your feedback as constructive in nature?

4. What was the outcome?

5. What would you do differently next time?

Chapter 13: Communicating

The 10 Tips for Making Formal Presentations More Powerful!

Please reflect on the 10 Tips in the Take Charge of Your Career article, and our class feedback on your leader presentation to determine what you can do differently to make your formal presentations more powerful.

1. What should you do more of?

2. What should you do less of?

3. What should you start doing?

4. What should you stop doing?

5. What should you continue doing?

Chapter 14: Managerial Control

How to Control Without Being Too Controlling

In your classes this year you are usually part of a working team. To effectively answer the following 4 questions you need to have taken a leading role in some team activity this semester. Leading roles can be:

a. sharing of expert information you know

b. sharing of expert experience you have

c. you volunteered to lead the group

d. you were volunteered to lead the group

e. someone needed to give a team member feedback, and no one else was willing to do it

After reviewing the tips for how to exert control without being too controlling answer the following questions:

1. Describe a time when you had to lead development of a detailed project plan including key milestones and due dates.

2. Describe a time when you were leading a team and realized a teammate made an obvious mistake. You then asked him what he could have done differently to avoid the error.

3. After a project is finished, you asked your teammates what could be done to improve the process for next time.

Chapter 15: Innovating & Changing

The “New Job Security: Continually Add Value at Work

Review the list of Ten Methods in the final Take Charge of Your Career Article that can help you add value and in doing so increase your job security. Consider work related situations as well as school related situations you have experienced that use one or more of the methods to demonstrate your ability to add value to the situations. Provide 4 examples below.

2. Method/ Situation/ Outcome

3. Method/ Situation/ Outcome

4. Method/ Situation/ Outcome