...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence LDR/531 December 14, 2012 Creating a Plan for Positive Influence The objective of this paper is to create a plan for positive influence that may be applied in a business setting and that would increase a group or team’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance. The topics of discussion will concentrate on specific attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values that the members of the team will collaborate with, and address how each difference influences behavior within the business setting. In a business setting there are three essential factors that team members need so that they increase productivity and a constructive business environment. Additionally, the leader in the team setting must make certain that the members are inspired to complete the task by motivation. Next the norms must be set so that the team understands what is acceptable and what will not be, and agreed upon by each member. The agreement on the acceptable standards will influence the members’ behavior with the least amount of external controls. According to (Robbins & Judge, 2011, pg. 285-286), “norms are acceptable standards of behavior within a group that are shared by the group’s members.” Motivation The three key elements of motivation are direction, intensity, and persistence. Intensity describes the passion a person has about the designated task; this is the element most individuals focus on when thinking about motivation. However, the intensity...
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...A Plan for Positive Influence Teamwork is defined as an action performed by a group of people to develop goals and achieve a mission (Robbins & Judge, 2011). Working in teams is an advantage because the productivity of diversified people, working on the same task, is always greater than one person. For years, organizational leaders have recognized the value of having employees work in teams (Robbins &Judge, 2011). Companies who have choose teamwork, have expressed that the performance and work production have increased. Team work can improve job satisfaction and achievement for employees. An example of this, working in teams improves employees’ performance and also makes the work enjoyable to them. The biggest advantage of working in teams is the workload is shared among the team members. Team members will create a plan for positive influence. This plan will discuss the differences in attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values as well as how these differences influence behavior positively in a business setting. The plan will also adopt a plan for increasing motivation, satisfaction, and performance in a team. Attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values are different with each team member. Recognizing the strengths, weaknesses, values, and personalities can help in determining what each team member can provide and how each team member can motivate each other to complete the task. Motivation, satisfaction, and performance are necessary in a business setting...
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...Motivation Plan Motivation Plan It takes a good deal of discontentment in a team for a leader to have to make a motivational plan. For any adjustment to occur correctly, the leader must identify a varying set of unique characteristics for each member of his or her team to assist in establishing cohesive relationships within that team. According to Woodward (2011, March 7), “Building and cultivating relationships is an integral part of any career strategy” (para. 1). The leader must understand the organizational culture and each team member’s attitudes, emotions, personality, behavior, and values before implementing the changes for the new motivational plan. Organizational Culture When identifying the culture of the organization, Robbins and Judge (2013) stated, “Organizational culture refers to a system of shared meaning held by members that distinguishes the organization from other organizations” (p. 512). At each of level, division, department, and team, the cultural identification philosophy is also used. A leader can treat the culture as the personality of the organizational and align his or her management style to that personality. Mentor identified the organizational culture as fun and inviting with a high level of required results (personal communication, June 6, 2013); Palmira (2013) classifies this as a “Work Hard/Play Hard Culture” (para. 12). The personality is one of fun, humor, and dedication to the customer. When viewing the culture as a personality, Schein...
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...A Plan for Positive Influences LDR/531 December 13, 2010 Hoby Follis When it comes to working in team’s it is the attitude, and the contribution that reflects the behavior and outcome in working in teams rather it’s positive or negative. Building successful teams can be very challenging because of the multiple of personalities that’s within a team. Every member of a team rely on each other to perform, and accomplishes his or her task to achieve the team goals, and objectives. All teams are made up as a group of people and a leader to accomplish the team tasks. All team members have multiple characteristics and talents that can to be used as an advantage. In this paper, each learning team members was required to complete self assessments in which results needed to be reported back to the team. This assessment is based from the outcome of each member Disc assessment, and prepares a plan that that will identify how to encourage motivation, satisfaction, and performance in a workplace setting. In addition, it will discuss differentiation of people attitudes, emotions, personalities, and their values. Also, how they can influence team behavior. Lastly, address how it can influence a team positively. Plan for Positive Influence: Managers are put into place for managing positive efficient working environment, enforce rules and regulations, and assist in accomplishes the goals with employees or members in the workplace. In order for this to be accomplished managers must...
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...The definition of teamwork is “work done by a number of associates with usually each doing a clearly defined portion but all subordinating personal prominence to the efficiency of the whole” (Teamwork Motivation, 2010). A team has a common goal to solve a problem and build ideas of how to solve the problem. Team C will create a plan to have positive influence and address attitudes, personalities, emotions, and values as well as positive and negative behavior in a business team environment. The assessments completed by each of our team members shows the attitudes, personalities, values and emotions are very different and show weaknesses and strengths that will be used to create a plan to positively influence a team. A process that accounts for persistence in attaining a goal, direction and a person’s intensity is known as motivation. Motivation sets a direction to help employees to do the job well and to take ownership for their performance (Teamwork Motivation, 2010). A business without motivation could suffer from employee’s failure to apply efficiency and performance. If there is no incentive’s such as financial and non-financial rewards the employee’s have no reason to perform. Examples of motivational tools are job enlargement, job rotation and job enrichment. Job satisfaction occurs when employees are content and happy to perform well for the business. Employees enjoy a challenge using their abilities, skills and mind: performance is associated with job satisfaction...
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...A Plan for Positive Influence LDR/531 – Organizational Leadership January 31, 2011 A Plan for Positive Influence This week assignment was to complete three assessments and create a plan to increase motivation, satisfaction, and performance of a team that could be applied in a business setting. I will address how motivation, satisfaction, and performance are related to each other. Next, I will address specific differences in attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values in the learning team and how it influences behavior. Lastly, I will address how those differences can be implemented to positively influence the team. Motivation, Job Satisfaction, and Performance Motivation can be defined as the processes which account for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort towards a goal (Robbins & Judges, 2007 pp. 186). Motivation positions an individual’s efforts directed to achieve goals and cultivate persistence. Persistence validates how long an individual will dedicate efforts to achieving a set goal. Job satisfaction can be defined as a positive feeling about one’s job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics (Robbins & Judges, 2007 pp. 30). Job satisfaction is subjective towards the nature of work, promotions, salary, supervision, coworkers, and relationships. Performance is standards for an individual’s behavior in the workplace that help them perform effectively. When people are highly motivated it leads to job satisfaction and eventually...
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...Impact of Drug-Testing Programs in the Workplace Paul DiLorenzo Marquette University Americans are concerned about drugs, and employers are no exception. They have been told that drug use in the workforce is common and that workers who use drugs will harm their businesses through increased accidents and absenteeism, or through more subtle, but serious effects of decreased efficiency and productivity. It is certainly true that the abuse of drugs, both licit and illicit, is a problem in America today. A company of any size is, over time, likely to encounter employees or applicants with drug problems. How to respond to this problem however, is anything but clear. Most employers are not experts on drug use or abuse and in the absence of personal knowledge, may turn to others for information they need to make decisions. However, much of the information thus far that has been made available to employers is not helpful and one-sided, with the majority of the information coming from the drug testing industry. This misinformation has lead to the majority of major companies now requiring drug analysis as a condition for hire. Most employers now utilize a urinalysis, hair sample or oral swab as detection for substance abuse. The Drug Free Workplace Act was passed in 1988 with the intentions on providing a safe and healthy workplace for all employees. The Federal Registers (1988, 2000) report release...
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...Running head: Plan for Positive Influence Plan for Positive Influence LDR 531 - Organizational Leadership Dr. William C. Shearer August 23, 2010 In light of the recent endeavor Learning Team D has been tasked with, a plan must be developed to better ensure member retention while providing the necessary support to motivate members and nurture their continued growth and development. This paper will detail a Plan for Positive Influence that will increase team motivation, satisfaction, and performance. The first element of this plan is to implement an effective appraisal system. An effective appraisal system “provides an opportunity to set goals, clarify expectations, reinforce a job well done, initiate change, and foster a healthy working relationship between supervisor and employee” (Ditzler, 1994, para. 2). Strategic control is also enhanced with such a system. “An effective performance appraisal system assures that feedback is provided on a continuous basis, not in the form of a written annual evaluation, but in the form of daily, weekly, and monthly comments from an employee’s supervisor or manager”(Caruth & Humphreys, 2008, p.27). To promote open communication and constructive feedback, team members will have a bi- weekly one on one meeting with their immediate manager. During this meeting, manager and employee will initiate and follow-up on discussions regarding employee performance (as to what is being done well and what requires improvement), training...
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...Creating a Plan R. Butler LDR/531 March 11, 2013 Robert Sell Creating a Plan The objective is to create a plan for positive influence may be applied to any type of a business plan or setting that will increase a team or group’s motivation, performance, and satisfaction with the organization. The plan will be centered on specific attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values that members of the team or group can collaborate with each other on how the differences influences each member’s behavior in a business setting. A business setting has three essential factors that a group or team need to increase productivity in a business environment. The leader in the team setting has must make certain steps that will inspire members or the team or group to become motivated to complete the task. One difficult part of the process is able to deal with different human behavior personalities, values, emotions, and attitudes. Motivation is important to the team or groups, the element that will help the group to succeed. Achievement, recognition, responsibility and advancement and establishing a strong relationship with each member will also help to increase motivation. Satisfaction and performance contributes to the teams or groups satisfaction in the organization that includes perks. By increasing the team’s satisfaction such as flexibility, rewards, and fulfillment and working environment it will also increase the performance of the team. Employees’ determine that they are satisfied if...
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...Employee Portfolio: Management Plan MGT/311 University of Phoenix Employee Portfolio: Management Plan Riordan Manufacturing managers are developing a plan to improve their abilities to manage employees. Three employees were recently tasked with completing a series of self-assessments to identify specific characteristics and to determine how those traits affect the performance of the organization. The self- assessments analyzed job satisfaction, employee engagement, and emotions. As a result of the analysis of the assessments, additional self-assessment recommendations are included to provide greater insight for the successful management and motivation of the individual employees. J. Aguilar, Rick Smith, and Janet Mills are the employees who participated in the self-assessments. The employees took the following self-assessments: How Satisfied Am I with My Job?, Am I Engaged? And How Are You Feeling Right Now? The manager identified the strengths and weaknesses of the employees based on the assessments and developed a management plan for the organization to best capitalize on the employees’ characteristics. The results of J. Aguilar assessments indicated a job satisfaction rating below the means, exhibited high engagement, and positive emotions during the assessment. Rick Smith scored higher than the means in job performance, demonstrated high engagement, and exhibited positive emotions. Janet Mills scored below the means in job satisfaction, is only moderately engaged...
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...Positive Influence Plan LDR/531: Organizational Leadership November 7, 2011 Positive Influence Plan Many elements formulate a team that can perform effectively together, stay on-topic, focus on the end-goal, and have the best results. The positive attitudes, emotions, and personalities along with the personal values of the individuals can increase the team’s satisfaction, motivation, and performance. The creation of a plan that has a positive influence on the team will be the cohesive that keeps the team together and assist them to rise above the trivial minutiae. This paper will show that business plan and how the plan will increase the team’s morale, contentment, and production. This paper will also show the specific differences in those elements and how these differences will have a positive influence on the team. Team Collaboration The collaboration of several diverse individuals as a team, especially in the business setting, and achieving the best results can often be challenging and taxing. The implementation of a positive influence plan, especially for teams that will be together for a long period, is beneficial, judicious, and wise. The plan will help produce satisfaction, high performance, and motivation for the team. The plan can help address the specific differences and how to manage those differences without taking away the advantages of the diversity. Each individual on the team brings strengths and weaknesses. If the management has this understanding...
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...Assignment 1: Trends in the Workplace Jacqueline Williams January 25, 2015 HRM 500: Trends in the Workplace Dr. Matthew Gonzalez Introduction When it comes to “Trends in the Workplace”, the effect of good productivity and employee satisfaction is very important. Human Resource professionals has to make sure those employees are prepared and ready to take on the challenges and changes that are coming before them. The continued use of HR Analysis can be the key to a successful organization. Technology is a big tool that continues to expand and develop, therefore human resource has to be able to train and develop employees as well. This paper will discuss the key trends in the workplace that have significant influences on organizations. It will discuss how HR professionals play a key role in helping organizations respond to evolving trends, comply with federal and state regulations, and manage workplace flexibility. Specify the key functional areas of Human Resources Management and how each function contributes to the overall performance of an organization. The key functional areas of Human Resources Management play a very important role in today’s workplace. An HR professional has to strategically plan each function and implement them accordingly. The key functional areas of Human Resources Management that I will discuss are staffing, compensation and benefits (total rewards), human resource development also known as training and development, employee relations...
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...self-awareness especially the concept of self-monitoring. High and low self-monitoring behavior has a direct correlation to workplace success. Educating my staff to recognize and practice high self-monitoring behavior and workplace performance would be a high priority in my training in the first couple months of the new hires training. I’d also implement a performance measurement program. Use quote to support using it. “As part of their overall management strategy, public managers can use control, budget, and performance measures to evaluate, motivate, promote, celebrate, learn and improve. (Behn, Why Measure Performance? Differant purposes require differant measures, 2003) Working closely with my staff, motivation would come from me directly, although outcome data would serve as a significant measure although delayed. “Organizations don’t produce outcomes, organizations produce outputs. And to motivate an organization to improve its performance, managers have to motivate it to improve what it actually does. Consequently, although managers want to use outcome data to evaluate their agency is performance; they need to motivate it to improve what it actually does.” (Behn, Why Measure Performance? Differant purposes require differant measures, 2003) Motivation Satisfaction and Performance plan LDR 531 February 13, 2012 Motivation Satisfaction and Performance plan Employers want to offer interesting, challenging jobs to their employees. People want to make a difference in...
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...Jemmichettu centre, Bhavanipuram, Vijayawada 520010 Vijayawada 520012 Andhra Pradesh. Andhra Pradesh. Mohammad Sadiq Khan (Student) Modern Degree College Krishna University Vijayawada. Email id: khans877@gmail.com Contact no: 9291374786 Address: 3-141, Indiranagar-1, Yenmalkuduru, Penamaluru mandal, Vijayawada 520007 Andhra Pradesh. ABSTRACT: For many years, the topic of interrelation between the management and ethics has been a topic of intense scrutiny. It is understood that management is looked to for setting the standards for work culture and shaping ethics and performance in the workplace. When situations go wrong, management looks towards common culture to resolve workplace issues. Management has to ensure that this culture is consistent with the organizational goals and commitments. But in more cases than not, ethical breaches are consistent in the top levels given how the primary objective of a company’s management is the company’s growth. This study aims to observe and comment upon the ethical culture prevailing in the top level of management and how issues are dealt in that context. INTRODUCTION: For many years, the...
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...Case 7 6.0 Ineffective Design of Reward System 8 6.1 Reward System in Today’s Context 8 6.2 Ineffective Reward system 8 6.2.1 Application to Case 9 7.0 Recommendations 9 8.0 Conclusions 10 9.0 References 12 10.0 Appendices 17 10.1 Appendix 1: SWOT Analysis 17 10.2 Appendix 2: Add-on Effect of Transformational Leadership 18 10.3 Appendix 3: Organisation’s Life Cycle and its Leadership Requirements………………….19 1.0 Executive Summary InsureCo has met with several consequences that have adversely affected the company’s overall productivity, turnover rate, compensations costs and workplace engagement. It is imperative for the executives to understand the underlying causes behind these detriments to better the prospects of this company. If these problems persist, with impending global competition, InsureCo may not be able to adapt to the evolving demands of the workplace; this can result in its practices becoming obsolete and the perpetual costs to the company may bring about a financial deficit. Therefore, it is in the company’s best interest to identify the core problems behind these consequences; subsequently, devising long-term...
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