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Week5-Finals.docxAssignment Details (Team Leadership) Discussion (300 or more words) (Due 7-10-2020)
Employees who are not enthusiastic about working on a team could feel this way due to any number of reasons. However, if your organization depends on cross-functional or cross-departmental teams to maximize resources and manpower, the employees will need to not only work on a team but also be an active member. Discuss the following:
· When faced with employees who are not willing to be an active member of a cross-departmental team, how would you coach the employees to gain their buy-in?
· Why do you feel it is important to establish the authority a team has in the decision-making process prior to a project beginning?
· When an organization has offices in multiple countries, how would you overcome the location and language barriers when creating a cross-functional or cross-departmental team?
Assignment Details (Production Planning) Discussion (300 or more words) (Due 7-10-2020) No 1st person
What competencies were you able to develop in researching and writing the Comprehensive Project that was due in Unit 5? How will these competencies and knowledge support your career advancement in management?
Assignment Details (Production Planning) (Final Project) 5-6 body pages, Introduction & Conclusion, APA, References. (Rubric included). No 1st person (Due 7-12-2020) – you will need this paper done in order to answer the discussion question above. Keep in mind that the discussion question is due first!!
After all your production planning analysis, you have been asked to prepare a Quality Management Planning Strategy for management and employees.
Using course materials and other resources, develop a strategy document with the following action items:
· Identify the overall Quality Management Process (TQM, ISO 9000, Six Sigma) the company will use, and explain the rationale for such change. Be aware of industry requirements (i.e. service operations are different from manufacturing, and each process may offer specific advantages for a specific industry). Describe how you will implement the process in the company (make any necessary reasonable assumptions you need with the scenario, such as company organization or structure).
· Once you identify and explain the process, outline the specific tools and techniques the company will use for quality management. Consider the usefulness of all the charting and statistical quality metric techniques and identify which ones it should use.
· Develop a communications memorandum to the factory workers announcing these changes and explaining the value of them. Remember, quality management principles all focus on employee involvement and continuous improvement.
Individual Project Rubric
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Grading Criteria |
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Deliverable requirements addressed; understanding of material and writer's message and intent are clear. |
35% |
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Scholarly research that supports the writer's position is properly acknowledged and cited. Direct quotations may not exceed 10% of the word count of the body of the assignment deliverable (excluding title page, abstract, or table of contents if used and tables, exhibits, appendices, and reference page). Inclusion of plagiarized content will not be tolerated and may result in adverse academic consequences. |
20% |
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Critical thinking: Position is well-justified, there is logical flow, and there are examples. |
20% |
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Structure: Includes introduction and conclusion, proper paragraph format, and reads as a polished, academic paper or professional presentation, as appropriate for the required assignment deliverable. |
10% |
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Mechanical: No spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors. |
10% |
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APA: Deliverable is cited properly according to the APA Publication Manual (6th ed.). |
5% |
Assignment Details (Team Leadership) (3-5 body pages) APA (Due 7-13-2020)
You are employed at a large, global, high-tech company that has offices worldwide in places such as Tokyo, London, Bombay, Toronto, Mexico City, Chicago, and Seattle, to name a few. Although sales have been reasonable these past few months even with the global economic crises, an internal crisis exists related to employee morale being at an all-time low. There are many different beliefs about what is right and what is wrong across the board, especially when it comes to the cultural and communication differences and the technological equipment challenges. There are also concerns regarding the selfishness of the employees, where the employees do not enjoy working as a team.
Your supervisor has tasked you, as the as the VP of the Service Department, to prepare a research paper that will communicate information and solutions as well as provide a foundation of knowledge so that you can work with your peers and employees to solve these problems. At a minimum, your research paper must include the following:
· What steps can management take to make the teams cohesive? Evaluate the steps that are necessary in this scenario to create high-performing teams.
· Evaluate the importance of the internal environmental factors that include the cultural, language, political, and technological differences that will affect the team-building process.
· What can be done to overcome the communication barriers between locations? What are the best practices that should be implemented going forward?
Present your findings as a Word document of 3–5 pages formatted in APA style.
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:
· Title page: Remember the running head and title in all capital letters.
· Abstract: This is a summary of your paper, not an introduction. Begin writing in third-person voice.
· Body: The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and abstract page, and it must be double-spaced between paragraphs. The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 3–4 pages. In-text academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
· Reference page: References that align with your in-text academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hang indention, italics, and upper- and lower-case usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the reference page is not a bibliography, but it is a further listing of the abbreviated in-text citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-text citation.
