Assignment

Part 1: Diversity and Personality at Work

You are assigned to work on a team in the workplace with a person who has a different personality type than you. Connect with your team members who have a different personality than you.

Create a 700-word paper which includes the following:

• A description of each team member's personality type
• A description of the advantages of working with those with differing personality types
• A discussion of the disadvantages of working with those with differing personality types
• Examples of ways organizations can manage a diverse group of employees

Cite 1-3 business sources not including the text that support the team's ideas regarding personality.

Format the paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Part 2: Organizational Climate

Locate a list of the 100 best companies to work for by using a search engine.

Research companies from that list to ensure sufficient information is available to review the Organizational Behavior environment of that company.

Look for the following key words: amplifying effect, pro-social behaviors, positive deviance, conscious capitalism.

Part 3: Five Bases of Power

Create an 8-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation in which you examine the five bases of power.

Include the following:

• A description of each base
• An example of each as used in the workplace
• An evaluation of which are the most and least desirable
• Ways to increase positive power bases

Select one of the companies as a team.

Create a 700-word analysis of the team's chosen organization and its climate regarding organizational behavior.

Include the following in your review:

• Does this organization encourage positive Organizational Behavior?
• If yes, how do they demonstrate this?
• If not, what type of Organizational Behavior do they seem to encourage?

Peer Review: The teams will share their findings with at least one other team in class. The teams will critically analyze the review to see if the other team provided adequate evidence to support their claims regarding the organizational climate of the chosen organization.

Incorporate the feedback from the peer review in the conclusion of the paper.

Format the paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Part 4: CAREER CONNECTION: Socialization and Mentoring

CAREER CONNECTION: This assignment builds socialization skills and establishes the importance of mentoring to aid in career advancement.
The team has been invited to present at a conference before top executives of Fortune 500 companies. The topic the team is presenting on is "How Can Socialization and Mentoring Be Used For Career Advancement?"

Create a 15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation in which you address the following as they relate to the topic:

• How can socialization and mentoring be used to advance a career?
• How can socialization and mentoring help minimize resistance to change using the contingency approach?
• How can socialization and mentoring help people embrace these changes as a part of career advancement?
• Include Feldman's three-phase model of socialization and the six socialization tactics as part of the discussion.

Cite a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed sources other than your textbook.

Format the references according to APA guidelines and include as a reference slide at the end of the presentation.

Overview

In this course, your team will work together to complete a few assignments. This chartering assignment is designed to help you apply your project management skills to understand the scope of your project, then break the project into goals, tasks, responsibilities, resources, and milestones. The assignment also asks you to discuss and answer some questions that will lay the foundation for developing your project.

Beyond the Standard Charter

You will notice that this chartering process goes beyond your standard University of Phoenix Charter by helping your team create a project plan for team success by providing you with opportunities to define your deliverables, recognize the connections between the deliverables and other classroom activities, determine your timelines and milestones, identify each team member's expected contribution, and answer questions that lay the foundation for building your projects.

Putting "I" in "Team"

Important to note is the section for defining learning team expectations related to participation, collaboration, communication, team contributions, assignment deadlines, and other considerations. Please take the time to discuss and document how your team will address each area and any challenges that may arise. It is important to understand that we are "Putting 'I' in 'Team'". In short, we will recognize and reward individuals according to their contributions to team output, not according to their team membership. This means that individual grades may be different from the team grade depending on each individual's contribution to each team deliverable.

Completing this Assignment

To complete this assignment, please do the following:

Review the Charter and Project plan.

Review the Partly Learning Team deliverables.

Complete the provided Learning Team Charter and Project Plan, including the following: team member contact information, project by Part, learning team expectations, team discussion questions.