Management strategy performance

PA 2 – Team Concepts

Introduce material here… Remember, each case study must have the heading listed below and must be answered according to instructions; each heading is worth a percentage of each case grade. This is how I want your paper turned in. Your audience is someone like your roommate – intelligent, educated, but has NO IDEA what the case study is about.

This is generally one paragraph. The easiest way to explain this section is to think of it like an abstract or introduction. This section, if written properly, can actually act as the abstract for this paper. . It will, in a sense, set up the rest of the paper, which is the review of the case, analysis, recommendations, and the summary and conclusions sections. Remember that you got this information from the textbook. Consequently, you should cite Baldwin, Bommer, and Rubin (2013). You should NOT write “According to the textbook” as your reader has NO IDEA who or what is that.

If there is a second paragraph, it will look like this. The paper should be written in third person narrative. I do not want to see you writing in the first person. One other note: a business is an “it,” not a “they.” Remember that when you use pronouns describing a business.

Team Characteristics That Can Sink Talented Individuals

In this section, you will answer your question: What team characteristics (or lack of) do you think could "sink” a boat of very talented individuals? Note: I do not want to see heading written as questions or you asking questions within the paper. The idea is to answer it in essay form.

Factors Contributing to Victory for Less Talented Teams

In this section, you will answer your question: Being as specific as possible, what factors might account for how the 2001-2002 Army Crew Team JV boat--consisting of the bottom eight rowers on the team--frequently beat the Varsity boat? Note: I do not want to see heading written as questions or you asking questions within the paper. The idea is to answer it in essay form.

Coach Preczewski’s Choices

In this section, you will answer your question: Would you allocate rowers to the boats in the same way that Coach Preczewski did? What other options exist? Note: I do not want to see heading written as questions or you asking questions within the paper. The idea is to answer it in essay form.

When the Best is Not the Best

In this section, you will answer your question: Can you think of other examples where the best group of individuals has lower performance as a team than do less talented teams? Note: I do not want to see heading written as questions or you asking questions within the paper. The idea is to answer it in essay form.

The “Right” People

In this section, you will answer your question: Herb Brooks, head coach of the famous American Olympic hockey team that defied extraordinary odds and won the Olympic Gold Medal against a far superior team from the Soviet Union, once commented that the reason that his team won was because he "did not have the 20 best guys, but the 20 right guys.” Explain. Note: I do not want to see heading written as questions or you asking questions within the paper. The idea is to answer it in essay form.

Variables for Team Success

In this section, you will answer your question: What variables are the most important to team success? Be as specific as possible. Note: I do not want to see heading written as questions or you asking questions within the paper. The idea is to answer it in essay form.

Also, you must provide at least eight scholarly references and cite the references in the form of in-text citations in the body of the paper (i.e., the textbook and eight additional sources). Again, when you reference material in your paper, you must also have in-text citations in the body of the paper for each reference. Remember, EVERY citation must correspond to a reference and EVERY reference must correspond to a citation. You CANNOT have one without the other.

Summary and Conclusions

This section will tie together all sources used for this case study, conclusions drawn from the reading and any inconsistencies. This section will generally be one to two paragraphs. Notice the paper has a continuous flow; there are no page breaks between sections. The only page breaks occur between the title page and the introduction and the summary/conclusions and the reference page. All references for the case study must appear on a separate page, see the following page for an example).

References

This section will reference all original work cited throughout the paper. The heading should appear at the top of the page and all reference material should be listed below in alphabetical order by first last name; also, the title for books is always in italic format and in sentence form. In contrast to book references, the title for articles is in sentence format, not in italic, but the name of the publisher is in italic. See examples below:

Baldwin, T., Bommer, B., & Rubin, R. (2013). Managing organizational behavior: What great managers know and do (2nd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill

Barzani, R. S. (2014). Studying the effects of business strategies on the organization's performance in regards to human resources' policies at the social security insurance companies based. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 4(5), 549-561.

Cain, K. (2012, June 29). The negative effects of Facebook on communication. Social Media Today RSS. Retrieved from http://socialmediatoday.com

Chopra, M., Munro, S., Lavis, J. N., Vist, G., & Bennett, S. (2008). Effects of policy options for

human resources for health: An analysis of systematic reviews. The Lancet, 371(9613),

668-74.

McShane, S., & Von Glinow, M. (2013). Organizational behavior (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill

You must also provide a reference for all sources used to support the case study. (Note: As a minimum, the textbook and eight additional sources shall be used and referenced.)