Management

Leading in a Multicultural VirtualOrganization

Leading in a Multicultural VirtualOrganization

Leading in a Multicultural Virtual Organization

Refer to the article “Successfully Transitioning to a Virtual Organization: Challenges, Impact and Technology,” where the author presents factors that can enhance or derail success in a virtual organization.

Imagine that you are a certified project manager at Arup. Arup conducts robust post-project peer reviews. You are assigned to assess the Water Cube team’s performance managing a global, virtual, and diverse project team.

Prepare a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses these items:

  • Select two enhancers from the model in Figure 1 below. Assess whether or not the Water Cube project management team achieved the selected enhancers. Identify specific examples to justify your assessment.
  • Select two derailers from the model in Figure 1 below. Assess whether or not the Water Cube project management team successfully avoided the selected derailers. Identify specific examples to justify your assessment.
Figure 1: A Model to Enhance Leadership Skills for Success in a Multicultural Virtual Organization
EnhancersDerailers
Promote trust and maintain effective working relationships with virtual workers.Inability to establish the additional levels of trust required with remote workers
Establish virtual guiding principles and organization charters to ensure the organization is in alignment.Inadequate communications skills required for virtual network effectiveness
Identify and define virtual worker roles, responsibilities, and accountability.Lack of comfort and expertise with technologies required for success in the virtual organization
Establish a reward and recognition process commensurate with the virtual organization characteristics while maintaining consistency with traditional organization structure.Inability to address conflict resolution within the group
Demonstrate cultural competency when interacting globally.Lack of sensitivity toward different styles of communication
Source:
Successfully transitioning to a virtual organization: Challenges, impact and technology. (2010, April). HR Magazine, 55(4), 1–9.



References:

Successfully transitioning to a virtual organization: Challenges, impact and technology. (2010, April). HR Magazine, 55(4), 1–9.

Smits, K. (2017). An invisible constraint: Don’t overlook the power of organizational culture. Here’s how to nurture a positive environment. PM Network, 31(5), 24.

another reference:

Zou, P. X. W., & Leslie-Carter, R. (2010). Lessons learned from managing the design of the ‘Water Cube’ National Swimming Centre for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 6(3), 175–188.

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Essay quesiton: Indicate the answer just below the question

Essay quesiton: Indicate the answer just below the question

Provide written responses to the following questions. Prepare your responses in a Word document (with your name on it) and submit it via the TurnItIn link provided in the class Canvas site under Week 4.

15 points each

  1. Store #34 of CDA Hardware Associates has had below average sales over the past few years. As head of franchise operations, you are concerned with the continued low sales volume. The store manager wants you to diagnose the problem and recommend what might be possible causes. Using at least 3 parts of the MARS model in your text, provide a possible reason for each part of the model as to why employees at Store #34 might be performing below ave2rage. Provide an example for each of the possible reasons.
  2. You supervise 20 sales representatives who are spread out across the country. You must monitor their work and have frequent communication with them from company headquarters. Considering the text/course material on feedback and motivation, how would you design a feedback plan that would improve the performance of these employees with respect to increasing sales with new clients.
  3. Your organization wants to improve employee motivation. The employees already appear to have strong P-O expectancies and the outcomes valences are quite favorable for supporting strong performance. However, employees seem to have a low E-P expectancy. What is this and what could your company do to address this?

10 points each

  1. What is emotional labor? Provide an example of a situation when you have experienced emotional labor. What kinds of jobs tend to involve emotional labor? What can organizations do to help minimize the negative consequences of emotional labor?
  2. Choose ONE of the following questions to answer.
    1. There is an ongoing debate in the organizational behavior field as to whether one should consider the personality traits of job applicants when selecting them into an organization. Take the view that personality traits should be considered in the selection process and provide an argument for your position. Why is this important? Does industry/type of job matter?
    2. A courier service laid-off a large percentage of its production staff during last year’s recession. These low-skilled employees performed routine tasks filling orders. The company now wants to rehire them. However, most of these former employees have since found employment in other companies and industries. Do you think the company lost much of its intellectual capital in this situation? Explain your answer.

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Power point presentation for senior management

Power point presentation for senior management

For your final presentation, create a PowerPoint presentation which includes information about each of your three chosen countries.

1) describe your selection process for each country. Germany, Cuba, Nigeria

2) present your choice (or choices) of country for future expansion by your company. If you have found that none of the three countries are a good fit, you can make a case for that as well. That is the whole purpose of the due diligence process is to research so you can make and back up those educated decisions.

This should be presented as a professional presentation for senior management. What you would say during the presentation should be written out in the notes section at the bottom of each slide. (They will be listening to what you say in the presentation while they are looking at your slides. You do not want them to have to read your data.)

The information should come from the five milestone projects you have created.( all the info needed is attached below) You must have a title slide and reference slides at the end. You would not put citations on the slides, but into the notes area.

There is not a set number of slides which are required, but remember you are presenting to your senior management. You want to impress them with enough slides to get your points across, but not overload them. This is a high level presentation, so you are going to want to stick with what you found and how you came to your conclusions.

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Leadership and Teams – Conformity

Leadership and Teams – Conformity

 

Submit a critical essay that responds to the following questions:

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

  • 3-4 pages in length (inclusive of APA formatted title page and Reference Page)
  • Formatted according to APA Standards. Please visit the CSULB Style Manual and Citation Methods
  • Contain a minimum of two scholarly sources, at least one of which is not provided in, or linked from, the course. The CSULB Library is a great place to find these scholarly sources!

Write clearly and logically, as you will be graded on content, analysis, and your adherence to the tenets of good academic writing, which should be succinct where possible while also exploring the topics appropriately. Remember that you can always improve your work by providing support from outside scholarly sources, which help both to bolster your own assertions and supplement your ideas.

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