2024 – Assignment 1 Twenty First Century Change Challenges Power and politics in organizations are not new considerations However with the competitive challenges

Assignment 1:Twenty-First-Century Change Challenges

Power and politics in organizations are not new considerations. However, with the competitive challenges organizations face in the twenty-first century, power and politics require new meaning and application to enhance organizational functional efficiency and effectiveness. Though many leadership theories have been proposed and implemented in the last twenty years, have these theories really reshaped organizational behavior (OB) in such a way that employees are excited and ready to help the organization achieve its goals and objectives? Are there newer theories beyond servant leadership, stewardship, or transformational leadership that might reframe employees and even OB? Were theories proposed more than twenty years ago perhaps too futuristic at the time?

Consider the aforementioned questions using the module readings and the University online library resources. Then, respond to the following:

• Power and politics have often been touted as influencing, even shaping, organizational behavior. Discuss how leadership might be used (the style, approach, and essentials) so that power and coercion do not shape employee behavior negatively.
• How can you reframe employees’ feelings about offshoring jobs to restore trust in leader/managers?

By Saturday, May 30, 2015, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, June 3, 2015, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses.

Write your initial response in 400–500 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

 

Assignment 2: Applying Organizational Behavior Theory

In this assignment, you will apply organizational behavior theory to an organization with which you have past or present experience.

You are an organizational change consultant who has been hired to address a current problem within an organization. In addition to defining and justifying the problem, you must also apply organizational behavior theory to bring about positive change regarding the problem.

Complete the following:

• Consider an organization with which you have past or present experience and for which you can make a case. Define a problem, past or present for that organization.
• Using a combination of trade industry materials and/or personal communication with industry leaders/managers, justify the problem (i.e., provide enough detail to prove the existence and significance of the problem). Use appropriate academic peer-reviewed literature to support your argument.
• Using organizational behavior theory, discuss how the theory might be applied practically to manage employee behavior to bring about positive, constructive change to the noted problem.
• Explicitly include in your case a discussion of the following aspects of systems theory:
• The climate and types of cultures likely to be encountered, and the types of systems to be considered based on the organization’s cultural climate
• Employee motivation, including factors of motivation (such as planning and communication) and the types of motivation present within the organization
• Possible employee satisfaction issues regarding development and implementation of a change plan to address the noted problem

Write a well-argued, 5-pages paper in Word format. Note: The title page, references, and appendices are not included in the page count.

Apply APA standards to citation of sources .. The course text, the trade journal(s) noting the problem, and peer-reviewed journal articles are to be used to support your position and theoretical constructs. General Internet sources will not be accepted as references.

Write your responses in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2.doc.

 

By Wednesday, June 3, 2015, deliver your assignment to the M4: Assignment 2 Required Assignment Dropbox.