Annie is considering amending her current organizational structure.  Using your reading  to support the reasoning, advise Annie on the organizational structure that might work well to help solve her project problem:

Project:  Annie Oakley wishes to develop the business to incorporate a new style of rifle that is computer generated, plastic, and collapsible.  The rifle also takes plastic bullets. This process must cost less than 1 million dollars and take less than 2 months to produce.  Annie has one large client who will pay 3 times her investment and is anxious to accept the project.  However, it will be a one of a kind project and Annie is not sure others will have a use for the gun in the future.

Annie currently has four leadership team members that each head up a division: rifle design, rifle manufacture, customer service, and sales. They each have final decision making authority within their departments.  Annie says that she is thinking of creating an additional link in the decision train for the new project with one department head that like the other division heads, reports to the leadership team.  Annie feel the need to disband the project after the client sale is complete.  Annie would like to know what would happen if the fifth link were self-contained.  Explain how you would allocate the resources of the company to make the new link in the decision train work on a daily basis?  Be creative yet practical thinking of the types of people you would need to accomplish the goal, financial resources, human capital, etc.  Be sure to consider the various other departments and how they would interface with the project team.  Alternatively, how would the link work if it were self- contained?

Learning Activity 2 – Theme 2

Choose one of the two questions below and answer it using the weekly readings and two external sources to support your reasoning.

1)    How has technology changed the way manager define how tasks are performed within an organizational structure?

2)    One of the manager’s job is to keep stability within an organization. What happens to structure when the walls are missing? How do tasks get complete and by whom?

Don’t forget to include your in-text citations and references in your responses.  Also, please make sure that you post your learning activities (LAs) separately.

 

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Which of the following is a reason for a company to raise its prices?
Select one:
a. to address the issue of overdemand for a product
b. to win a larger share of the market
c. to use excess capacity
d. to boost sales volume
e. to balance out decreasing costs
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The National Traffic and Safety Act (1958) provides for the creation of compulsory safety standards for ________.
Select one:
a. automobiles and tires
b. peak hour traffic volumes
c. exposure to vehicular pollution
d. speed limits and emission checks
e. periodic testing of license holders
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CashSecure is a financial services provider. Whenever a customer has a child who is about to become eligible for a driver’s license, CashSecure sends the customer materials related to teaching teenagers how to drive safely. This is an example of using ________ information from a customer database.
Select one:
a. demographic
b. geographic
c. psychographic
d. metadata
e. political
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Which of the following is an example of a free online database that a company could access in order to develop marketing intelligence?
Select one:
a. LexisNexis
b. Hoover’s
c. Dialog
d. U.S. Security and Exchange Commission’s database
e. ProQuest
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Setting a price for products that must be used along with a main product is known as ________ pricing.
Select one:
a. by-product
b. market-penetration
c. skimming
d. product bundle
e. captive product
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________ marketing calls for meeting the present needs of consumers and businesses while also preserving or enhancing the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
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a. Sustainable
b. Customer-driving
c. Mass
d. Customer-driven
e. Differential
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1.       A _____ is a person who reports alleged wrongdoing

2.       All of the following are conditions of conducting a successful selection interview, EXCEPT

3.       Samantha has been asked to join a task force that is charged with boosting organizational productivity. First, she was asked to jot down ideas on how to increase productivity, and after that, the group met to discuss everyone’s ideas and come up with solutions together based on those suggestions. Samantha’s taskforce best exemplifies which creative problem solving method

4.       Giving employees the authority and responsibility to achieve their individual and the organization’s objectives is known as _____

5.       Care 1 Hospital is renowned for its impeccable reputation and strong employee morale. These types of qualities can best be described as _____ standards

6.       Which of the following statements is true of formal performance appraisals?

7.       _____ is one of the elements of the hot stove rule of disciplinary action

8.       ARVA International is a nonprofit organization that strives to promote social justice throughout the world. At ARVA, employees continually improve their skills and expand their capacities to meet the organization’s social objective. In this scenario, ARVA International can best be described as a ______

9.       The collaborate style of conflict resolution is characterized as

10.   _____ is a leadership style that emphasizes collaboration, trust, and empathy; engages followers in all aspects of the organization; and helps followers to better themselves

11.   Bettina’s supervisor has assigned her an extremely challenging task and has given Bettina more personal authority in how to perform the task. This is an example of ____

12.   Organizations that have implemented discipline without punishment have reported

13.   The _____ approach has the problem solver not only identify the various factors that have caused the problem but also consider the potential interrelatedness of the causes of the problem

14.   The level of emotional commitment an employee has to an organization and its goals is known as _____

engagement

15.   One difference between the manager and the leader is that:

16.   Which of the following is a physiological factor influencing personality

17.   Which of the following is a method of overcoming barriers to effective communication

18.   The directive approach to interviewing differs from the nondirective in that:

19.   At L.T. Manufacturing, a team was formed to tackle recent issues with the timely shipping of products. Members of the team come from different departments including production, design, distribution, and marketing. Which of the following terms can best describe the team

20.   Carla is upset about a recent action taken by a top manager at her company that was against the interest of the employees in the lower levels of management. Carla knows that others employees also feel the same way. If she wanted to form a group to look into the matter more closely, which type of group would be recommended

21.   Kenyon is a supervisor at Rhombus Inc. Maggie has been the top performing employee last year, but her performance has sharply declined over the last two months and her tardiness is becoming an issue. In this scenario, Kenyon should

22.   Followership is defined as

Read the attached case study and complete each task as required. Assignment should be submitted in .docx format.

Task 1:

Evaluate credibility. Assume that you’re evaluating Tia’s credibility at the beginning of her internship from the vantage points of the marketing team members at the Prestigio. Explain two ways in which she potentially possesses and one way in which she potentially lacks each of the following elements of credibility: competence, caring, and character.

Task 2:

Establishing credibility. Assume that you are giving advice to Tia about how she can establish credibility. Provide your ideas in the following contexts: (a) gaining credibility among her colleagues while at her internship and b) establishing credibility with clients while at her internship.

Task 3:

Review Tia’s resume and suggest improvements based on the information provided in the case and instances where you consider the information provided is incomplete.

Copy Tia’s resume into a new Word document and leverage track changes to highlight required modifications.

Assignment should be submitted in .doc or .docx format. To review the grading criteria, click on the assignment title and then “View Rubric” on the next page.