Discuss Resistance and Communication

Introduction

Using your selected organization, diagnose the organization’s level of resistance, and construct a solid communication plan.

Instructions

Write a paper in which you:

Diagnose the reasons for resistance to change.
Interpret the potential causes of resistance in the organization. Identify and describe three potential causes of resistance to your change plan. Identify and describe three potential sources of resistance to your change plan.
Create a plan for minimizing possible resistance to your change management plan.
Elaborate on the relationship between resistance to change and communication.
Evaluate three communication strategies.
Recommend one communication strategy that would be applicable to your organization. Diagnose why this communication strategy is best for your organization.
Create a solid communication plan for your change initiative.
Use at least four quality academic resources in this assignment.

Evaluate the differences between performance management and disciplinary issues

Evaluate the differences between performance management and disciplinary issues. Provide one example of each and describe the possible outcomes. Why does it make a difference in managing performance?

Prepare a slide presentation of your team’s strategic approach to performance management that addresses the following:

Explain the pros and cons of five performance appraisal methods.
Evaluate the differences between performance management and disciplinary issues. Provide one example of each and describe the possible outcomes. Why does it make a difference in managing performance?
Describe types of rater errors that can occur during performance review conversations.
Present three examples of how an organization can prepare managers for the performance review.
Compare formal and informal appraisal processes. Explain why both components are important to the performance management process.
Create recommendations for organizations to implement a performance management approach to the appraisal process.

Describe Ethics In Business

Read the ethical dilemma here below.

Marcos is the marketing director at Happy Pictures. He has been in the company for 20 years. He started at the sales department making calls to prospective clients with a very low salary and worked his way up after the company paid his college degree in marketing. The director let him know, in a secret meeting on Friday after everybody left, that they had lost one of their main clients and, therefore, they would have to lay off one hundred workers. Marcos’s job was not included among the ones to be eliminated. A week went by and Marisa, his best friend from college, asked him while they were in the parking about a rumour that they were laying off workers. She wants to know because she is planning to have a baby and about to sign for a new house. What should Marcos say?

o Apply the ethical decision-making process to make a decision regarding that ethical dilemma. Explain every step.

o Explain your final decision based on one of the theoretical frameworks discussed in class.

o Make two recommendations for Happy Picture Inc to avoid situations like the one in the dilemma. Justify your recommendation based on the concepts discussed in class.

Analyze Team Motivation And Performance

People are a team’s most valuable resource. A major role of a leader is to attract smart and talented people, as well as raise the intellectual level in the team.

For this assignment, think of an organization with which you are familiar, and do the following:

Discuss examples of leadership practices in the organization that support that humans are the most valuable resource
Discuss examples of leadership practices in the organization that suggest that humans are not the most valuable resource
To get you started, think about how this pertains to your work, sports, church, or school history. If none of these apply, think of how leadership works in your family structure. Take those examples of leadership practices that support that humans are the most valuable resource and those that suggest that humans are not the most valuable resource.

Change Management and Development Plan

Overview

Using a self-assessment that reflects your proficiency on leadership competencies related to change, you will develop a specific actionable development plan to increase your personal effectiveness.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies:

Assess the personal competencies that enable leaders to become more effective change leaders.
Communicate effectively in a professional manner.
Assignment Requirements

Using the Agile Leader Self-Assessment, create a development plan which includes the following:

Identify personal change-related leadership competencies targeted for development. Consider one or two competencies to focus on for this assignment.
Support with a rationale the importance of each identified change-related leadership competency.
Develop an action plan for each change-related leadership competency. Include at least four actionable steps for each identified competency.
Explain action steps for improving each change-related leadership competency. Be as specific as you can in explaining your deliberate experimentation of increasing your effectiveness.
Develop a timeline for each action step, including a target date for assessing progress. Use the next six-month period for your timeline.

Explain why you think these challenges are critical and how they will impact HR

Current Workplace Challenges

There are many changes and challenges facing today’s organizations and employees. There are organizations that are moving off-shore and in some cases outsourcing work to other organizations. There is a new generation of employees who will be joining the work world and the dynamics of the workers are changing. In this discussion, you will reflect on what you understand about the economy, workforce (those entering and those exiting), and the dynamics of diversity that may impact organizations.

For your initial post, address the following:

Identify what you think are the top three challenges facing companies that may impact the work that human resources (HR) does in an organization (speculate what you think the near future may hold for HR)
Explain why you think these challenges are critical and how they will impact HR
Describe what you think HR’s role should be (if any) in working with these challenges

Ipo puzzles

Please respond to the following:

Describe the four characteristics of IPO puzzles, in your own words, and why a financial manager is concerned about them. Find an example of one of these puzzles using a business news website, such as Bloomberg, CNBC, or Marketplace, among others. Briefly describe the example and how it fits with one of the puzzles

Article review

Locate and review an article that describes how an organization’s structure can shape the roles of a project manager and project team throughout the duration of a project. The article you select must be at least five pages long, and no more than five years old.

Write a summary of the article. Include the purpose for the article, how research was conducted (if any), the results, and other pertinent information. How does the article relate to what you are learning in this course? In other words, describe how the structure of the organization discussed in the article helped to shape the project manager and project team member roles throughout the duration of the project.

Discuss the meaning or implications of the article’s contents, as well as any flaws you find in the article. What could have made the article better? Was any information left out?

How could the author expand on the results? Does the article’s information relate to your professional or personal life? How?

Book club review

For this assignment, you are a book critic. The book to critique is “How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk” by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish. You will offer a review of one of the books that you read with your Book Club Group during the semester. To do this, you need to do these things:

Briefly describe the book. Be sure to include the full title and the author(s).
Tell what is good about the book. Explain your opinion.
Tell what is not as good about the book. Explain your opinion.
In telling what is good or not good, refer to at least one concept from the textbook that you have learned this semester.