Assignment 1 Details

Unit 4 Assignment 1: Annotated Bibliography #4

Instructions

A critical skill for managers is developing high-performance teams. This Assignment will help you connect with literature related to high-performance teams. You will also assess the relevancy, validity, and reliability of that information. The final component of the Assignment will be applying the highperforming team article to teams in your context.

Your Annotated Bibliography should be limited to academic articles and include a review of the author's credibility. Be sure to identify the author's intended audience. Knowing who the author is addressing will be a key part of understanding the author's message. Summarize the article in your own words and critique it. What is fact and what is opinion? How reliable are the findings? Finally, be sure to assess and apply the article to your own leadership practice. How will you apply the article to your leadership practice tomorrow? See the following rubric for details.

For the Unit 4 Annotated Bibliography #4, limit your search to the key terms for Chapter 18. Be sure to utilize the following documents located in Doc Sharing:

? How to Write an Annotated Bibliography

? APA Guidelines Summary

Unit 4 Keywords for selecting Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Below is a starting list of relevant keywords/authors/journal titles for each chapter in each unit. Utilizing this list will assist your Kaplan Library research process as you locate relevant peer reviewed, full-text journal articles to annotate. Remember that you need to focus your article search on relevant key terms that pertain to the readings for each unit. These journals and keywords are a starting point. You may use other relevant journals or keywords.

Assignment 2 Details

Unit 4 Assignment 2: Team Assignment

This short multimedia video describes the Unit 4 Assignment and offers guidance on how to proceed during the unit. This document is the full text of the multimedia video.

Virtual Team Best Practices

Virtual Team Success (DeRosa and Lepsinger, 2010) is based on a 2008 study conducted by the authors involving 48 virtual teams in 16 organizations, spanning several industries. As a result, the book is linked to research and appropriate for graduate studies (details of the study are provided in the appendix). Statistics cited in many of the chapters are taken from this study.

At the same time, the authors have attempted to write the book for practitioners. It is written to be a goto guide for managers and leaders. Each chapter stands alone. You can turn directly to a chapter that addresses an immediate need or interest. Note in the Introduction on page xxvii that there is a quick reference guide for using the book. You can find a challenge or question of interest and turn directly to that chapter.

The book will be used as a text in GM500, GM501, GM502, and GM503. In each of these courses, there will be a Team Assignment in Unit 4. Sections from this book will be linked to the Unit 4 in those courses. The focus of the Assignment will be determined by the assigned unit reading; however, this book will be used as a part of the Unit 4 Team Introduction as a means of providing best practices and support for your virtual team. The book will prove to be a handy reference moving forward. Keep it accessible to quickly reference in the future for issues, or problems, you encounter with subsequent virtual teams.

Mapping:

GM500 Unit 4 Team Exercise: Chapter 3: "Virtual Team Launch Kit"
GM501 Unit 4 Team Exercise: Chapter 7 - "How to Facilitate High-Impact Virtual Meetings"
GM502 Unit 4 Team Exercise: Chapter 4: "What Differentiates Great Virtual Teams"
GM503 Unit 4 Team Exercise: Chapter 5: "How to Lead Virtual Teams"

Team Assignment

Take the "How Do You Like to Work?" inventory on page 595. Each graduate course in the Kaplan University School of Management and Business has at least one Team Assignment. Many students in the school do not like doing these Team Assignments, for some of the reasons outlined in the section "The Dilemma of Teams" on pages 601-602. Chapter 18 is packed with solutions to "The Dilemma of Teams." Think back to your GM500 Unit 4 Team Exercise, or a previous team experience. What were the dilemmas on that team? What, from this chapter, would address that dilemma? Your Assignment this week will be to put together a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, addressed to incoming GM500 students, focusing on positioning them for success with their GM500 Unit 4 Team Assignment. It will be an orientation presentation for incoming GM500 students.

Instructions

For this Assignment, you will prepare a PowerPoint presentation based on Case 14.1. For the purpose of this Assignment, assume that Stan has sought out your consulting group to help him lead his team.

You may choose to utilize this optional guideline.

Criteria

? The presentation should be a minimum of 12 slides, not including the title and reference slides.
? Each slide is required to also include a script of what would be said at that point in the presentation.
? The slides should be easy to read.
? The introduction slide should clearly articulate the purpose of the presentation and why it is of value to incoming students.
? Be sure to include a call to action accompanied by a motivational slide that would incline the student to act positively upon your recommendations.
? The presentation should have a minimum of four academically credible sources from outside of the course materials. Your sources should follow proper APA format. (Review the APA formats found in the Kaplan Writing Center. To access the Kaplan Writing Center, select this link.).
? Review the Rubric below to ensure all points have been captured in the presentation.
? Note that team participation will be assessed by the quality of each team member's contribution to the Assignment, and the completion of the Team Peer Evaluation Form. The Team Peer Evaluation Form is located in Doc Sharing.

Text Book: GM501 | Management Theory and Practice II