• Video Journal # 1: Ethics
Video Journal #1 - How Ethical Are You? Take the Ethics Guy's Quiz on CNN (Chapter 2)
The Video Link can be accessed on your Student Resource Page of your textbook or at:
https://edge.sagepub.com/lussier6e/student-resources/chapter-2/video-links
Background:
Business ethics has been at the heart of many discussions over the years and continue to trouble employees and shareholders. Stories about dishonesty and wrongful behavior in the workplace appear on a regular basis in newspapers and on the national news.
Instructions:
After watching the video, answer these questions in an attached document/file.
Questions:
1. Can someone date another person in the workplace? Does your opinion differ from those offered in the video? Explain
2. Corporate cards are for corporate use only. Do you agree? Why?
3. What is insider trading and how can it impact people at work?
4. For up to 5 bonus points for this assignment, find an article or video that discusses Ethics and provide the link. Tell me what the video or article is about and what did it teach you?
Video Journal # 2: Global Virtual Teams
Video Journal #2 - Managing Global Virtual Teams (Chapter 3)
The Video Link can be accessed on your Student Resource Page of your textbook or at: https://edge.sagepub.com/lussier6e/student-resources/chapter-3/video-links
Background:
Members of global virtual teams are physically located in different places but work together as a team. Advances in information and telecommunication technologies are allowing new ways of structuring, processing and distributing work and overcoming the barriers of distance and time. (Lussier, 2015, pp 220 - 221).
Instructions:
After watching the video, answer these questions in an attached document/file.
Questions:
1. What types of things can managers do to be more globally diverse?
2. How much does cultural difference impact the business behavior?
3. How can managers be effective leading at a distance?
4. For up to 5 bonus points for this assignment, find a company that does an excellent job of managing employees globally or find an article or video that discusses global work teams. What did this video or article teach you about managing from a distance?
Video Journal # 3: Learning Agility
Video Journal #3 - W. Werner Burke - Learning Agility (Chapter 6)
The Video Link can be accessed on your Student Resource Page of your textbook or at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4U8XgHJT8k
Instructions:
After watching the video, answer these questions in an attached document/file.
Questions:
1. Can learning agility help you become a better change agent?
2. Why is it that complacent people do not like to learn very much?
3. Can you learn from a situation regardless of the behavior that it causes you?
4. For up to 5 bonus points for this assignment, find an article or video that discusses Learning Agility and provide the link/reference. What is the video or article about and what did it teach you Learning Agility?
Video Journal # 4: Taylorism
Video Journal #4 - Frederick Taylor and "Taylorism" (Chapter 7)
The Video Link can be accessed on your Student Resource Page of your textbook or at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slfFJXVAepE
Background:
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915), an engineer known as the Father of Scientific Management, focused on analyzing jobs and redesigning them so that they could be accomplished more efficiently (Lussier, 2015, p. 16).
Instructions:
After watching the video, answer these questions in an attached document/file.
Questions:
1. Frederick Taylor said that one machine can change work performance---The Stopwatch. Explain what he meant.
2. How can managers find ways to make their workplace more productive?
3. Is there a chance that we may live and work by Taylorism?
4. For up to 5 bonus points for this assignment, find an article or video that discusses Frederick Taylor and provide the link/reference. What is the video or article about and what did it teach you productivity?
Video Journal # 5: The Happiness Factor
Video Journal #5 - Human Resource Management - "The Happiness Factor"(Chapter 9)
The Video Link can be accessed on your Student Resource Page of your textbook or at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXy__kBVq1M
Instructions:
After watching the video, answer these questions in an attached document/file.
Questions:
1. Can positive psychology be the answer that managers need to manage people?
2. What has brain research done to open the minds of managers in the workplace?
3. If you can just think of three positive things each day, would you be better off?
4. For up to 5 bonus points for this assignment, find an article or video that discusses Positive Psychology and provide the link/reference. What is the video or article about and what did it teach you about being positive at work?
Video Journal # 6: Leadership
Video Journal #6 - Leadership - Bruce Avolio: Showing Up for Leadership (Chapter 12)
The Video Link (approx 20 minutes) can be accessed on your Student Resource Page of your textbook or at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9clFG5yBWEA
Instructions:
After watching the video, answer these questions in an attached document/file.
Questions:
1. How can history and leadership go together to understand leadership?
2. How can people take ownership of their work so that they are more engaged?
3. Leadership that grows people, leadership that sustains people, and leadership that diminishes people. Discuss these three tenets according to Bruce Avolio
4. For up to 5 bonus points for this assignment, find an article or video that discusses any Leadership theory that is discussed in Chapter 12 of your textbook. Provide the link/reference. What is the video or article about and what did it teach you about that particular leadership theory?
Video Journal # 7 Communication
Video Journal #7 - Organizational Communication (Chapter 13)
The Video Link (approx 17 minutes) can be accessed on your Student Resource Page of your textbook or at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5oXygLGMuY
Background:
There are many ways to communicate including oral communication, nonverbal communication, and written communication.
Instructions:
After watching the video, answer these questions in an attached document/file.
Questions:
1. How does communication make up our social world?
2. Organizations exist as communication. What does this mean?
3. What do we gain with a conventional approach to organizational communication?
4. For up to 5 bonus points for this assignment, find an article or video that discusses any organizational communication as discussed in Chapter 13 of your textbook. Provide the link/reference. What is the video or article about and how do you plan to use what you learned in your current or future job?