Management A Practical Introduction 10th International Edition Angelo Kinicki, Denise Breaux Soignet - Solutions

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Have you reviewed the benefits you provide to ensure that the correct tax and NIC are being applied?
How can you involve people more in changes to reward?
Are you maximizing the existing opportunities to communicate key messages from reward, such as pay reviews?
Would some form of reward statements, or flex, help you get better value from what you spend on reward?
What is there in the example reward philosophy statements that could fit with your organization?
Can you do a first draft based on what you have read so far?
How would it be best to consult with key stakeholders?
How would you position it within your other policy statements?
What process would you go through to get it out into the organization?
Do you know if the people in your organization understand what their total reward is, how much it is worth and how it works?
Describe how evidence-based management and data analytics contribute to decision making.
Describe how artificial intelligence is used in decision making.
Compare the four decision-making styles.
What is the status of your problem-solving skills? Are you surprised by the results?
Based on identifying the four lowest scored items on the assessment, what can you do to improve your problemsolving skills? Explain.
What things would you say during an interview to demonstrate that you possess this career readiness competency?
Are you intuitive at work? Did the results surprise you?
What can you do to increase the amount of intuition you use at work? Describe.
What things might you say during a job interview to demonstrate that you possess the career readiness competency of critical thinking/problem solving?
What is your dominant decision-making style?
What are the pros and cons of your style?
What might you say to a recruiter during a job interview to demonstrate your awareness regarding your decisionmaking style?
Where does the team stand on the three aspects of groupthink?
Based on your survey scores, what would you do differently to reduce groupthink in the group you evaluated? Be specific.
What is the level of minority dissent in the group, and to what extent are you satisfied with being a member of this group?
Use the three lowest items that measure minority dissent to answer the following question: What can you do to increase the level of minority dissent in this group? Be specific.
Why do you think many groups muzzle the level of minority dissent?
Describe the process you use to make decisions. Provide a specific example in which this process resulted in a positive outcome.
Tell me about a time in which you had to make a quick decision. How did you approach the situation and what obstacles did you face? How did you make this decision without having all the necessary information?
Describe a time in which you used intuition to make a decision rather than relying on data or hard facts. What was the outcome of your decision, and what did you learn from the experience?
What is the underlying problem in this case from Juul CEO K. C. Crosthwaite’s perspective?
What do you think about Juul’s approach for solving the problem? Explain.
What do you think the FDA will decide? Why?Application of Chapter Content
What are some barriers to Crosthwaite’s ability to utilize rational decision making? Explain.
Is the VTA’s support of flavored e-cigarettes ethical?Use Figure 7.4 in your response.
How is Juul utilizing evidence-based decision making? Explain.
How can Juul utilize big data to overcome the challenges it is facing?
Are regulatory and law enforcement agencies suffering from groupthink? Why or why not?
Do not implement the new rules. The airline should allow emotional support pets to travel unrestricted, just as service dogs do. Airlines should not be in the business of categorizing passengers’ pets.
Implement the new rules. Emotional support pets are not service dogs and should be treated differently.The airline needs to ensure the safety of employees, passengers, and other animals during flight.
Explain why managers need to align organizational culture, structure, and HR practices to support strategy.
Identify the major features of an organization and explain how they are expressed in an organization chart.
Describe the eight types of organizational structure.
Explain how to use the career readiness competencies of understanding the business and personal adaptability to better understand and change your level of fit with an organization.
How would you describe the organizational culture?
Do you think this type of culture is best suited to help the company achieve its strategic goals? Explain.
In rank order, what are your preferred culture types? Are you surprised by the results?
Compute the gap between your preferred and actual culture types by subtracting your actual culture type score (Self-Assessment 8.1) from your preferred type score (Self-Assessment 8.2). Where are the largest gaps?
Make a plan to improve your person–organization fit.Focusing on your two largest culture types, identify what is causing the gaps. You will find it helpful to look at the survey items that measure these types.
Now use the 12 levers just discussed and suggest at least two things you can do to improve your level of fit.
What are three organizational structures that open boundaries between organizations?
I think it’s a good idea. The benefits exceed the costs, and I don’t agree that it fails to appreciate diversity.The socializing activities can be varied to fit the values and needs of diverse employees, thereby supporting diversity.
I don’t like it. What employees do after work hours is their business, and companies should not infringe on them. Socializing outside work hours should be voluntary.
I believe that employers have no business interfering with how employees spend time outside of work. This means that I don’t want either voluntary or mandatory requests about socializing outside of work hours.If people want to socialize outside work, let them arrange it on their own.
Describe the processes used for onboarding and learning and development.
What is your level of fit?
Whether you have high or low fit, what are the main causes for your level of fit? Explain.
What questions might you ask a future recruiter to ensure a higher level of person–job fit? Be specific.
Are you suited for a career in human resources? Which specific aspect of human resources do you prefer?
Look at the top two areas of HR for which you tested as being best suited. Look over the descriptions of these fields and then identify what skills you need to have to be successful.
Even if you do not pursue a career in HR, which skills do you feel you should continue to develop? Explain.
What is the underlying problem in this case from the perspective of a hospital administrator?
What role do you believe hospital administrators have played in contributing to nursing shortages and high nurse turnover?
What can hospitals do to increase nurse supply and retention rates?Application of Chapter Content
What could hospitals do during recruitment and selection to help with nurse retention?
What type of learning or development might hospitals offer to help reduce nurse turnover?
What steps could hospitals take to ensure male and female nurses are given equal opportunities in compensation and promotion decisions?
Do hospitals have a legal and/or ethical responsibility to invest more money in equipment to prevent workrelated nursing injuries? Why or why not?
What do you think are the primary reasons nurses experience so much mistreatment on the job, and what can hospitals and nurses do to decrease these incidents?
Why do you think so many nurses continue to work, despite the many challenges they face and the lack of safety on the job?
Of course. Every company needs to protect its proprietary and confidential information.
In moderation. I agree that it makes sense to protect proprietary information like formulas, equations, trade secrets, and intellectual property for certain occupations or industries. But this should not apply to all jobs, such as working in a sandwich shop.
No. They should be against the law because they prohibit people from finding employment.
Discuss three forms of change, Lewin’s change model, and the systems approach to change.
Where do you stand when it comes to your attitude toward change? Are you surprised by the results?
Based on your three lowest scoring survey items, how might you foster a more positive attitude toward change?Be specific.
What things might you say during an interview to demonstrate that you possess the career readiness competency of openness to change?
Of the four components, which is the lowest?
How do you think this result will affect the success of the particular change? Be specific.
Who seems to be most ready, you (components 1 and 2)or the organization (components 3 and 4)?
What things might you say during an interview to demonstrate that you possess the career readiness competency of personal adaptability?
What is the level of innovation? Are you surprised by the results? Explain.
Select the three lowest survey item scores. Use the content of these items to recommend what the company could do to become more innovative.
What is your level of adaptability? Are you surprised by the results?
Based on your scores, identify three things you can do to increase your level of adaptability. Explain.
What things might you say during an interview to demonstrate that you possess the career readiness competency of personal adaptability?
Are you more or less willing to accept change? Discuss.
Based on your scores, identify three things you can do to lower your resistance to change. These changes may involve new thoughts or beliefs or the display of new behaviors.
What might you say during an interview to demonstrate that you possess the career readiness competency of openness to change?
What is the underlying problem in this case from the CDC’s perspective?
What are some of the causes of this problem?
Do you think Carnival CEO Arnold Donald should be held personally liable? Explain your rationale.Application of Chapter Content
Using Figure 10.1, describe the forces for change both inside and outside Carnival during the outbreaks.
Does Carnival need adaptive, innovative, or radically innovative change? Explain.
Utilize Lewin’s model of change (Figure 10.2) as a blueprint to describe how Carnival’s executives might inspire change at Carnival.
Use a force-field analysis to explain the changes that did and did not occur at Carnival during the outbreaks.
Think about the outbreaks of COVID-19 aboard Carnival cruise ships and utilize the organizational development process (Figure 10.4) to remedy the issue.
What specific reasons can you see for Carnival executives’ resistance to change? Explain.
I would side with Clearview. If citizens choose to post photographs on the Internet without protecting their security, then Clearview has the right to find and save those photos.
I would side with the plaintiffs. Companies do not automatically have the right to obtain photographs from the Internet, and law enforcement agencies should not use technology that has proven bias issues.

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