Human

OL 125 Module Five Short Response Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: With unstable economies becoming increasingly more common, businesses look to different aspects of their company to save money, improve performance, and boost their position amongst their competitors. One of the most important areas of focus is human relations, which directly influences productivity, motivation, and employee retention. In order for you to succeed professionally, you will need to develop a special set of human relations skills that includes self-awareness, strong leadership qualities, the ability to motivate, and the ability to facilitate communication.

You have learned about theories of motivation, the experience of conflict, negotiation processes, and methods for making effective decisions. This assessment allows you to engage with the primary skills that are necessary for successful leadership and organizational relations across the business environment. Your short response should address your own knowledge of human relations and your interpretation of the reading materials and other resources provided to you in this course.

This assessment addresses the following course outcome:

 Illustrate how the relationship between motivation, stress, and time management influences workplace dynamics

Prompt: For this short response paper, discuss the ways in which motivation, stress, and time management can influence workplace dynamics, using your own experiences as a reference. In doing this, you will address the elements below in one paragraph each.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Motivation: Describe a way in which organizations can influence workplace motivation, using an example from your own experience where this was done effectively or ineffectively. What was the result on workplace dynamics?

II. Workplace Stress: Describe how an organization, and specifically organization leaders, can minimize workplace stress. Provide an example from your own experience here as well, explaining how the organization’s action reduced stress in the workplace.

III. Time Management: Describe how you, as a leader, can use effective practices in time management to prioritize your time for critical issues in the workplace. Why is prioritizing your time important?

Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your short response paper should be 3 paragraphs (250–300 words) in length. It should use double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value Motivation Meets “Proficient” criteria and

shows a nuanced understanding of the influence of motivation on workplace dynamics

Describes a way in which organizations can influence workplace motivation, explaining a personal example and its result

Describes a way in which organizations can influence workplace motivation, but does not clearly explain a personal example and its result

Does not describe a way in which organizations can influence workplace motivation or does not provide a personal example

31

Workplace Stress Meets “Proficient” criteria and shows a nuanced understanding of the influence of stress on workplace dynamics

Describes how an organization, and specifically organization leaders, can minimize workplace stress, explaining an example from personal experience

Describes how an organization, and specifically organization leaders, can minimize workplace stress, but does not clearly explain example from personal experience

Does not describe how an organization, and specifically organization leaders, can minimize workplace stress and increase productivity or does not provide an example from personal experience

31

Time Management Meets “Proficient” criteria and shows a sophisticated grasp on how and why you use time management to address priorities in the workplace

Describes how you use effective practices in time management to prioritize time for critical issues in the workplace, explaining the importance of prioritizing

Describes how you use effective practices in time management to prioritize time for critical issues in the workplace, explaining the importance of prioritizing, but response contains gaps in logic

Does not describe how you use effective practices in time management to prioritize time for critical issues in the workplace

31

Articulation of Response

Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-to-read format

Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

7

Total 100%