Category: Operations Management homework help

Trust is a key aspect in team dynamics. It is one of the basic emotions that brings teams together, and unfortunately it can also destroy a team if trust is lost.
 
For the first paragraph of your post, address the following bullet point (and sub-bullet points):
Discuss a team that you have been a part of where something has happened and the trust was lost. If you have not experienced this, talk to someone who has and use their situation instead.

Why did the loss of trust occur?

 
Were all members involved or just select members?

 
What did leaders do to try to fix the situation?

 
Was the team able to recover?

 
What would you have done differently if you were the leader in that situation?

For the second paragraph of your post, choose one of the following bullet points.
What are the key processes leaders or organizations consciously use to create trust?

 
Since most teams do not have conscious designs for creating trust among team members, design a strategy for incorporating trust among them.

 
How do group and individual emotions affect the trust-building, trust-maintaining, and trust-losing processes?

 
What is the role of the socialization within an organization for enhancing trust?

 
The final paragraph of your post (3 to 4 sentences) should summarize the one or two main points that you are attempting to make in your post.
Provide a substantive (500–1,000 words) initial discussion post addressing each of the components as prompted. Justify your answers with examples, reasoning, and research.
Submission Details:
Due by 10/31/24 at 8pm CST 
 
Requirements:
1. Make certain to include in text citations from your course text in addition to your outside leadership resources within your main  post. This adds credibility to your argument. [Textbook]: Butterfield, J. (2017). Teamwork and Team Building (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.  ISBN: 9781337119276
2. No plagiarism will be tolerated. Must be in 7th Edition APA format with cited sources within the last 5 years.
3. No AI support, score must be 0% and less than < 10% score on Turnitin

Grunig and Hunt argued that at its purest, lobbying means providing sufficient data to a legislature so that all the facts can be known before a vote is cast. But is it that simple? Some third-party political actors have shown a willingness to use their resources to win arguments against policymakers in the public sphere, thereby shaping public policy to suit private interests.Does lobbying help or hinder the democratic process in Australia?

Organizations are full of teams. For the final team project in the course, choose an organization you are familiar with.
Company Name: Amazon
Choose three different teams within that organization that you will use for this assignment. You will use one (or more) of those teams in each weeks’ project paper. Keep track of the team challenges and insights that you develop each week as you assess the teams.
It will provide the best learning experience for you if one of the teams for your final project is a team that you are on. 
My Company Role: Operations Manager
For the Week 1 paper:
Summarize the purpose, goals, and objectives of each of the three teams.

 
Analyze each team’s type (manager-led, self-directing, self-governing, etc.).

 
Evaluate the current stage of team development within each of the three teams.

 
Examine the dynamics of each team and how any interpersonal issues within the team are resolved.

 
Analyze the performance and productivity of each team, citing support from the readings this week.

 
Compare the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards for each team, citing support from the readings this week.

 
Prepare a minimum 5-page Word document addressing these questions.
Submission Details:
Due by 10/28/24 at 11:30pm CST 
 
Requirements:
1. Make certain to include in text citations from your course text in addition to your outside leadership resources within your main  post. This adds credibility to your argument. [Textbook]: Butterfield, J. (2017). Teamwork and Team Building (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.  ISBN: 9781337119276
2. No plagiarism will be tolerated. Must be in 7th Edition APA format with cited sources within the last 5 years.
3. No AI support, score must be 0% and less than < 10% score on Turnitin

Forecasting and Demand Presentation
Forecasting is essentially a reactive approach that considers fluctuations in demand to be mostly outside the firm’s control.
Rather than simply forecasting and reacting to changes in demand, however, business executives would prefer to influence the
timing, pattern, and certainty of demand to whatever extent they can. They do this through demand management activities that
adjust product characteristics including price, promotion, and availability. The purpose is to influence product demand to achieve
sales objectives and to accommodate the supply chain resources and capacities that a firm has in place.
1. How would you require extra resources to expand and contract capacity to meet varying demand for your current
organization?
2. How does backlogging smooth out certain orders to demand fluctuations?
3. When does customer dissatisfaction create an inability to meet all demands?
4. How would you buffer a system through the use of safety stocks (excess inventories), safety lead time (lead times with
a cushion) or safety capacity (excess resources) at work?
5. 10 – 12 slides excluding cover and reference page
6. Three outside sources
EXAMPLE TO USE: Beats Earbuds: use Beats earbuds as an example in your discussion. 
Due: November 1

 Survey Interview/Plan
Submit the following to the discussion board: 
10 interview or survey questions
A list of the 20 people you plan on interviewing or sending your survey to (name, organization, position and contact information)
Review the LinkedIn accounts for the 20 people you plan on surveying.  Research and review the following:

List their names and titles
Gather information on each individual from LinkedIn.  The information must include the following but not limited to the following:

Current and past work experience
Education
What people say about each person
Any other information you find.

You are part of an organizational team. For the three years prior to a new member joining the team, performance was high. In the year after the new member joined, performance has gone down. The new team member has a slower than usual growth curve. A few months after being employed, the existence of a minor medical issue made it possible for the new team member to avoid some responsibilities. Since that time, the team’s workload has also increased. It would seem as though the team is overworked at this point, and it is starting to take its toll on the team’s overall performance and motivation.
 
For the first paragraph of your post, address any one of the following bullet points. 
What stage of team performance would you consider this team to be currently in? Why? What should be done to move the team to the next stage of development or to a healthier stage of development?

 
Looking at this situation, explain what intrinsic and extrinsic motivations may be influencing the change in team performance?

 
Describe what is happening at the individual level within the team. What are some of the task and relational dynamics affecting the team?

 
For the second paragraph of your post, choose one of the following bullet points. 
If you were the team leader in this situation, and you had the opportunity to make changes, what are some of the changes you would recommend?

 
Would it be a good idea to solicit input from the team members in regard to finding a solution? Why or why not? What would be the advantages and dangers?

 
What could be the significant problems for the team and its members if the performance continues to decrease? Explain what the team leader’s role is in ensuring this does not happen.

 
The final paragraph of your post (3 to 4 sentences) should summarize the one or two main points that you are attempting to make in your post.
 
Provide a substantive (500–1,000 words) initial discussion post addressing each of the components as prompted. Justify your answers with examples, reasoning, and research.
 
Submission Details:
Due by 10/23/24 at 10am CST 
 
Requirements:
1. Make certain to include in text citations from your course text in addition to your outside leadership resources within your main  post. This adds credibility to your argument. [Textbook]: Butterfield, J. (2017). Teamwork and Team Building (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.  ISBN: 9781337119276
2. No plagiarism will be tolerated. Must be in 7th Edition APA format with cited sources within the last 5 years.
3. No AI support, score must be 0% and less than < 10% score on Turnitin

Why do you think so many firms are concerned about logistics issues when they move into new markets such as China  and Russia? (150 – 200 words)
No Ai
Source – attached pptx ONLY 
Due: Wednesday 10/23

You are part of an organizational team. For the three years prior to a new member joining the team, performance was high. In the year after the new member joined, performance has gone down. The new team member has a slower than usual growth curve. A few months after being employed, the existence of a minor medical issue made it possible for the new team member to avoid some responsibilities. Since that time, the team’s workload has also increased. It would seem as though the team is overworked at this point, and it is starting to take its toll on the team’s overall performance and motivation.
 
For the first paragraph of your post, address any one of the following bullet points. 
What stage of team performance would you consider this team to be currently in? Why? What should be done to move the team to the next stage of development or to a healthier stage of development?

 
Looking at this situation, explain what intrinsic and extrinsic motivations may be influencing the change in team performance?

 
Describe what is happening at the individual level within the team. What are some of the task and relational dynamics affecting the team?

 
For the second paragraph of your post, choose one of the following bullet points. 
If you were the team leader in this situation, and you had the opportunity to make changes, what are some of the changes you would recommend?

 
Would it be a good idea to solicit input from the team members in regard to finding a solution? Why or why not? What would be the advantages and dangers?

 
What could be the significant problems for the team and its members if the performance continues to decrease? Explain what the team leader’s role is in ensuring this does not happen.

 
The final paragraph of your post (3 to 4 sentences) should summarize the one or two main points that you are attempting to make in your post.
 
Provide a substantive (500–1,000 words) initial discussion post addressing each of the components as prompted. Justify your answers with examples, reasoning, and research.
 
Submission Details:
Due by 10/23/24 at 10am CST 
 
Requirements:
1. Make certain to include in text citations from your course text in addition to your outside leadership resources within your main  post. This adds credibility to your argument. [Textbook]: Butterfield, J. (2017). Teamwork and Team Building (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.  ISBN: 9781337119276
2. No plagiarism will be tolerated. Must be in 7th Edition APA format with cited sources within the last 5 years.
3. No AI support, score must be 0% and less than < 10% score on Turnitin

Why do you think so many firms are concerned about logistics issues when they move into new markets such as China  and Russia? (150 – 200 words)
No Ai
Source – attached pptx ONLY 
Due: Wednesday 10/23

Discussion week 9
Chapter 12 – NegotiationsInitial Postings: Read and reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Then post what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding in each assigned textbook chapter.Your initial post should be based upon the assigned reading for the week, so the textbook should be a source listed in your reference section and cited within the body of the text. Other sources are not required but feel free to use them if they aid in your discussion.Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:
What are tips for negotiations within projects? What examples/situations can you share when you have been in project negotiations?
[Your post must be substantive and demonstrate insight gained from the course material. Postings must be in the student’s own words – do not provide quotes!] [Your initial post should be at least 450+ words and in APA format (including Times New Roman with font size 12 and double spaced). Post the actual body of your paper in the discussion thread then attach a Word version of the paper for APA review]