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Team Planning Worksheet

Scenario

In the Week 4 assignment, you worked on a project as a contractor related to defining a company’s mission, vision, and ethics statement. In the Week 6 assignment, you developed a well-rounded view of the company functional areas from the internships you completed as a new employee. Your task for this assignment is to build and plan for a cross-functional team to solve a business problem.

In this assignment, you will bring in the knowledge you gathered earlier of your selected company’s functional areas to assemble a team to solve a problem.

The business problem to be solved:

The logistics function (warehousing, trucking, and inventory) is having a problem with channels of distribution. Some customers have recently complained that their orders are delayed 2–3 weeks, while others have praised the company for delivering the orders in advance. It will require a cross-functional team to study and brainstorm solutions for the situation.

Preparation

In preparation for this assignment, complete the following:

  • Study your chosen company website to see what characteristics make its teams successful. Notice if it has any particular team guidelines or communication strategies that contribute to the group functions. You may have to observe the images on the website to make some assumptions about their teamwork.
  • Gather the background information you need about key characteristics of effective team members, group processes such as conflict resolution, and communication strategies that make teams successful.
  • Access the Team Planning Activity media to review the profiles of eight current employees. Select three people to be members of your team based on their representation of the various functional areas and their individual characteristics. Fill in the grid with the information about each team member. Important: Your manager will also assign one person to your team, so be on the lookout for the additional member. You will meet the assigned individual within the Team Planning Activity.
  • Highlight the strengths that each member brings to the team and indicate why those characteristics are important to build an effective team by using the Team Planning Worksheet [DOCX].
  • Develop a plan on the Team Planning Worksheet [DOCX] for building your team that you could present to the CEO as part of a budget plan and funding request for staff. You will also create some effective team communication practices and conflict resolution strategies that will support a successful team, and you’ll wrap it up with a final pitch to the CEO about how your plan will result in an effective team that will contribute to organizational success.

Instructions

Develop a plan for building an effective team with representatives from different functional areas that will work together to solve a business problem. Use the Team Planning Worksheet [DOCX] for the team-building plan.

Consider the business problem presented above. In the Team Planning Worksheet [DOCX]:

  • Explain the reasons for including the specific functional areas in the organizational team.
  • Create a communication plan that includes recommendations for how the team will connect daily, weekly, and over the course of the project.
  • List 3–5 steps of a plan to solve the problem.
  • Explain strategies for delegating the various responsibilities in each step.
  • Describe how business skills from the functional areas will contribute to problem solving and how individual soft skills of the team members will help to maintain a positive working relationship and functional problem solving on the team.
  • Explain strategies that the team can use to resolve conflict.

Example assignment: You may use the Week 8 Assignment Example [PDF] to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.

Additional Requirements

Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:

  • Font and font size: Times New Roman, not smaller than 12-point font.
  • Organization: Based on the intended CEO audience, your answers should be well-organized and written in clear, succinct language.
  • Worksheet: Complete all sections of the Team Planning Worksheet [DOCX], plus a reference page.
  • Resources: Include at least three reputable resources to support your ideas. Include a reference page
  • APA: Follow APA rules for citing sources that support your analysis and conclusions. See the Evidence and APA section of the Writing Center for guidance.

SCORING GUIDE

Your work will be evaluated using this criteria.

VIEW SCORING GUIDE

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

  • Competency 3: Solve business problems using critical thinking and effective decision making.
  • Competency 4: Explain the skills and characteristics of an effective team.
  • Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for the field of business.

Using Market Data to Understand the Healthcare Environment

Write a 2-3-page paper, analyzing the impact of the external healthcare environment on organizational outcomes, working from an initial PESTLE analysis.

Assessment Overview

In this assessment, you will build off your previous foundational work. You will continue to analyze the impact of the external healthcare environment on organizational outcomes, both overall and specific to your topic, working from your initial PESTLE analysis. You will also continue to apply foundational knowledge and an understanding of the external health care environment across core disciplines by market data identification and integration.

Assessment Instructions

Complete the rest of your PESTLE Analysis section and the first portion of the Market Data Analysis section of your Course Project Template. Remember that you should be building on the same template you submitted in the previous assessment. Address the points below.

PESTLE Analysis

  • Within the context of your PESTLE analysis done in the previous assessment, address questions such as:
    • Who are the customers?
    • What is the external supply chain?
    • How does the external world impact the revenue model?
    • Who are the competitors?
    • Who are the external strategic partners?
    • Who are the internal and external stakeholders?
    • What relevant laws and regulations impact this organization?
  • Apply a balance of theories, models, and practices to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of a full range of the external health care environment across core disciplines.
  • Describe any uncertainties or barriers to achieving the objectives established in the previous assessment. How will you overcome these?

Market Data Analysis

  • Identify health care market data needs to examine the challenges or opportunities related to your topic.
    • Determine where to obtain data and how to integrate data from multiple sources, from differing perspectives, and across various disciplines.

Submission Requirements

  • Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message and quality.
  • Format your paper according to current APA style and formatting.
  • Use at least two scholarly resources beyond those given in the course.
  • PESTLE Analysis: Between 1–2 pages; Market Data Analysis: 2–3 pages. Update references page as needed.
  • Use 12-point, Times New Roman, double-spaced.

Refer to the Using Market Data to Understand the Healthcare Environment Scoring Guide to ensure that your reflection meets the grading criteria for this assessment before submission.

Evaluation

  • Competency 1: Analyze the impact of the external health care environment on organizational outcomes.
    • Apply a balance of theories, models, and practices to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the PESTLE analysis.
  • Competency 2: Analyze health care market data to identify opportunities and challenges for health care organizations.
    • Identify health care market data needs to examine opportunities or challenges for selected topic.
  • Competency 4: Communicate healthcare management needs, opportunities, and strategies with multiple stakeholders.
    • Writes coherently to support a central idea with proper APA format, correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a business professional.

Expectancy Violations Theory

Expectancy Violations Theory

Please only write up a references page for this assignment. I will order the rest after a have a references page completed. As I need them at different times

This should be written on expectancy violation theory

Find 10 journal articles on this topic These must be Research articles where experiments and data have been collected. Please use Only open data bases like google scholar or any thing else the public has access to. Pych info is the only non-open research cite that may be used.

Write a 10-page review paper about this theory.

locate relevant research and literature
understand a major communication theory
review primary research
critique primary research
evaluate strengths and limitations of a communication theory
apply a communication theory to the real world
Come up with possible new research idea

Describe the theory, elaborate on how the theory works, how it has been tested, how it has been applied, and what shortcomings have been identified.

Sample outline:

I. Introduction/overview of the theory – Briefly cover the “big picture” of your theory. If you are focusing on a subset of research stemming from a broad theory, describe the area you have chosen.
II. Definitions of concepts – What are the main concepts and how have they been defined? This section should include definitions of concepts and examples of how concepts have actually been measured. Again, cite primary research.
III. Relationships among concepts – How do the concepts defined above impact one another? What other factors have come into play in the literature you have reviewed?
IV. Major themes – What major themes emerge from the studies? Are the themes consistent or are there contradictory findings? *It is very important that you summarize the themes in the literature rather than write distinct summaries of a series of individual articles.
V. Critique – What are the strengths and limitations of the theory? What are both proponents and critics concerned about? This section will likely include issues of conceptualization, measurement, and general usefulness of the theory.
VI. Practical implications of the theory – Here you may discuss How does this theory fits in with what you have observed in the real world? And How can you apply the theoegqry to the field of psychology?