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Week 1MGT/311 WEEK 1 DQ 1DQ1: Which of the following employee characteristics have the greatest impact on employee behavior: general attitudes, job satisfaction, emotions and moods, personality, values, or perception? Provide a rational for your choice including examples of assessments and evaluations you might use to determine the characteristics of your employees.MGT/311 WEEK 1 DQ2DQ2: How might an individual employees personality affect the performance of an organization? If the effect is negative, how might you change this? If the affect is positive, how can you capitalize on this? What examples can you provide of changes you have successfully affected in your organizations? As a manager, how can you use your knowledge of employee characteristics to improve organizational performance Provide specific examples to support your response?MGT/311 WEEK 1 DQ 3Review the section in Ch. 5 of your titled, An Ethical Choice: What If I Have the Wrong Personality?DQ3: As a manager, what do you if you have someone who scores low in desirable personality traits, but their behavior does not reflect this?MGT/311 WEEK 1 SUMMARY (150+ Words)MGT 311 (Organizational Development)Week 2MGT/311 Week 2 DQ 1DQ1: In week one, you learned about individual personality characteristics. How do these traits affect the type of motivational strategy you use? Provide an example of how this would apply.MGT/311 Week 2 DQ 2DQ2: Evidence indicates high-performing managers tend to be more media sensitive than low-performing managers they are better to match appropriate media richness with the message to be delivered. As a manager, how would you determine which communication channel should be used for a particular message? What barriers might distort the message?MGT/311 WEEK 2 DQ 3DQ3: As a manager what factors do you consider when determining the most effective way to communicate a message to your employees? Does this change if you are preparing to communicate the same message to your supervisors? Why?MGT 311 Week 2 Learning Team (250 Words)Discuss the objectives for Week One and Two. Your discussion should include the topics you feel comfortable with, any topics you struggled with, and how the weekly topics relate to application in your field.Write a 350- to 700-word summary of the teams discussion.MGT/311 WEEK 2 SUMMARY (150 + Words)Employee Portfolio (250+ Words) Employee Portfolio Management Plan (350+ Words)MGT 311 (Organizational Development)Week 3MGT/311 WEEK 3 DQ 1DQ1: Although the optimal level of conflict can be functional, no conflict or too much conflict can be dysfunctional. What steps would you as a manager take to stimulate some degree of conflict when appropriate and reduce conflict when it is excessive?MGT/311 WEEK 3 DQ 2DQ2: What is the difference between a group and a team? Would your strategy be different for putting together a group than creating a team? Explain your answer.MGT/311 WEEK 3 DQ 3DQ3: In the article, Conflict Management, the author discusses several strategies for resolving group or team conflict. Which type of strategies seems to fit you best? What criteria should you consider when determining the best conflict resolution strategy?Week 3Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action PlanDetermine the motivational strategy or strategies that would likely be most appropriate for each of your three employees, based on their individual characteristics. Indicate how you would leverage their employee evaluations to motivate each of the three employees. Describe one or more of the motivational theories and explain how the theories connect to each of your selected motivational strategies.Week 3 Learning Team Reflection (650+ Words)MGT/311 WEEK 3 Summary (250 + Words)MGT 311 (Organizational Development)Week 4MGT/311 WEEK 4 DQ 1DQ1: Organizational culture is in many ways beneficial for an organization and its employees but can also be a liability. What do you think are the most significant ways that organizational culture is beneficial? A liability? Be sure to provide specific examples. In what ways is organizational culture beneficial or a liability in your organization?MGT/311 WEEK 4 DQ 2DQ2: An effective manager accepts the political nature of organizations. Power tactics are used to translate power bases into specific action, and there are a number of tactics that could be used in various situations. As a manager trying to influence your employees, what tactics would you personally be most likely to use? Why? What tactics have been used by your manager that have been effective?MGT/311 WEEK 4 DQ 3DQ3: What is the difference between the position a person holds in a company and their political power? Is the top executive in an organization always the person who holds the most political power? Explain your answer. Who holds the most political power in your organization? How do you know?Team Strategy Plan Part I Week 4 (700+ Words)Conflict Management Plan Part 2 Week 4 (650+ Words)MGT 311 Week 4 Team Reflection (300+ Words)