The goal of this exercise is to give students practice aligning individual and organizational goals, and thinking like a manager in managing employee motivation.

 Group Assignment Guidelines and Specifications

 Note: The lecture slides may contain the basic key concepts only and students are expected to have read a wide range of scholarly literature to complete the assessment. Students are expected to have undertaken additional research using Google Scholar and ProQuest research database. If you’re in doubt about what is a peer-reviewed article, please ask your tutor in the interactive tutorial sessions or the unit coordinator in the drop-in sessions.
 Each group of 4 students will analyse the following exercise and submit a collaborative written report.A group is required to select one of the following topics.

GROUP EXERCISE 1: Strengths-Based Development

Learning Objective: This exercise incorporates many ideas in this unit with the main point reinforcing the fact that each individual is different. Intelligence is a related concept in this situation and identifying other personality traits when deciding the corporation’s course of action.

Learning Objective: Explain why different people are motivated by different things.

Summary: The goal of this exercise is to give students practice aligning individual and organizational goals, and thinking like a manager in managing employee motivation. Identify any business of your interest and imagine that you are the management team. Your company’s business strategy is to provide high-quality customer service and to provide high-quality products. You are not the cheapest store in town, but you expect your employees to create a service-oriented atmosphere that customers will be willing to pay a little extra for. You recognize that your sales staff will be essential to your business’s success, and you want to create a system that motivates them to help create a competitive advantage for your business. Because this is the first store you have opened, you have the opportunity to decide how to best motivate your staff. Market-competitive starting salaries have already been established, but you have decided to allocate 10 percent of the stores’ profits to use to motivate your sales staff in any way you see fit.

Task: A Group of 4 students should answer the following questions:

1. What behaviours would you want from your sales staff?
2. What goals would you set for your sales staff, given your answer to Question 1?
3. What type of system would you set up to reward these behaviours?
4. What challenges would you be on the lookout for? How would you proactively address these potential challenges to prevent them from happening?
    

GROUP EXERCISE 2 – Ethical Decision-Making at Black Diamond Equipment

Learning Objective: Explain the impact of diversity and its benefits in contemporary organisations Summary: Black Diamond Equipment specialises in climbing and skiing equipment. The global company looks for employees who share the company’s attitude, values, and passion toward outdoor sports and ethical values. Black Diamond also promotes fair labour practices, sustainability, and low environmental impact.

Task: A Group of 4 students should answer the following questions:

1. How can Black Diamond integrate social responsibility into its culture? Provide examples.
2. How does the global nature of the company and its markets influence how it thinks about employee diversity? Provide examples.
3. If you were the CEO of Black Diamond, how would you create a culture of inclusion to help your company realize the benefits of diversity? How can diversity be a source of competitive advantage at Black Diamond?

GROUP EXERCISE 3: Attitudes, Values, and Perceptions

Learning Objective: To explore several concepts discussed in this unit, such as attitudes, values, and perceptions and how they affect behaviors.

Summary: The case begins by outlining a scenario of VPs reporting monthly sales when the president of the company throws a chair at a VP reporting low monthly sales results, stating: ‘Next time, I won’t miss.’ Consultant Lynn Taylor calls bosses like this Terrible Office Tyrants, or TOTs. Managers who can’t control their power when they’re placed under stress. Taylor provides 20 common traits characterizing TOTs, including bragging and bullying. Taylor offers some concrete coping techniques for subordinates of TOTs including putting everything in writing and be a star performer.

Task: A Group of 4 students should answer the following questions:

1. According to some experts, the sort of behaviour reported here is more prevalent in the business world than in the rest of society. Assuming this is true, why do you suppose that’s the case?
2. How might attitudes, values, and perceptions affect the behaviours illustrated in this case?

Many people think of stress as a simple problem. In reality, however, stress is complex and often misunderstood. Discuss some stress management techniques.
 

Assignment report structure should be, as follows:

• The report must include Holmes cover page with who did what section in the report.
• Table of Contents
• Executive Summary
• An Introduction and background information of the selected exercise: Briefly introduce the purpose of the report. Within the introductory paragraph, you need to address the key topics you will address in the body paragraphs
• Detailed analysis of the questions in the selected exercise.
• Conclusion: The conclusion must briefly summarise the key points in the body paragraphs
• Reference List: Please include all in-text references in the list of references formatted in the ‘Adapted Harvard Referencing’ requirements. A minimum of 10 references is required.

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