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You may choose from one of the following companies for the report.
1. Tesco
2. John Lewis
3. Asda
4. Marks and Spenser
5. Amazon
6. Boots
7. Next
8. Primark
9. Boohoo
10. Sainsburys
11. Lidl
12. Aldi
13. Boots
Provide Brief Introduction for the Report.
Table of Contents
Personality, Perceptions and Management Approaches
– Define the concept of Personality and Perception
– Briefly explain how a person’s personality can influence how individuals in the workplace perceive the person.
– Explain the personality, traits and attributes in the CANOE model (The Big Five Personality Model).
– Identify one or two personality traits in the CANOE model that fits with your own personality.
– After identifying it, discuss the positive and negative impacts/aspect of your selected personality that fits with you.
– Now that you have explained the negative and positive impacts of your own personality traits, explain how this can be connected to the one of the management theories/approached (eg,Contingency Theory of Management; Classical Theory; Scientific Management theory; Human Relations Theory) to enhance your chosen organisations performance.
– Based on your own personality assessment, reflect on how your personality traits can be applied in the workplace to develop good managerial relationship to improve performance.
Motivational Concepts for Improving Employee Morale and Organisational Performance.
Explain Motivation
– Define Content theory of motivation and explain two content theories of motivation (eg, Maslow; Herzberg, McClelland) and provide two advantages and disadvantages of your two selected content theories of motivation as applied to your selected organisation
– Define Process theory of motivation and explain two Process theories of motivation (eg, Adams Equity theory, Goal; setting theory, Vrooms expectancy theory, Reinforcement theory) and provide two advantages and disadvantages of your two selected Process theories of motivation as applied to your selected organisation to show how they can impact on employee morale and performance within the organisation.
– Provide possible suggestions/recommendations for improving employee morale/motivation
Reflection on personal contribution to group behaviour and dynamics in the creation and management of effective teamworking.
(This section will be a Group PowerPoint Presentation with speaker notes). The presentation should be based on Post Covid 19 pandemic strategies to improve teambuilding in an organisation of your choice on one of the topics below:
1. Customer service
2. Sales and Marketing
3. Staff Wellbeing
4. Work-life balance
Whatever topic you select from above, ensure that your presentation slides cover :
– Definition of concepts on Teams and Groups
– Application of either Tuckman or Belbin Theory to explain some of the factors that made the team/group to work effectively on the group presentation
Write a personal reflection by emphasising on your :
– Personal contribution to the teamwork and the role that you played in the teamwork
– Explain what made the team worked effectively.
– Explain some of the problems that you experienced in the team
– Explain how you overcame those problems
– Suggest/recommend what you would do differently, if you were to work in a team again.
Ensure to place the reflection in the appendix of the report.
Power, Politics and Culture and Impact on Employee Behaviour and Organisational Performance/Goals
Organisational culture
– Define the concept of organisational culture.
– Evaluate how organisational culture can have a positive and negative influence on the behaviour of employees to achieve organisational goals (sales target, relationship with customers etc). Ensure to apply one model of culture (eg, Charles Handy Model; Quinn and Cameron Model; Deal and Kennedy Model) to your analysis.
– Provide recommendation on how the management can improve the culture of the organisation to enhance employee behaviour towards the achievement of the organisational goals.
Organisational Power
– Define Organisational power
– Explain how management use of different types of organisational power (eg, Reward power, Expert power and Co-ercive power) can affect employees in the organisation to achieve the organisational goals.
– Explain the negative and positive impacts of the use of reward power, expert power and co-ercive power on employee behaviour and performance. Ensure to provide recommendations for improving employee behaviour resulting from the negative aspects of the use of those powers.
Organisational Politics
– Define Politics/Organisational Politics
– Explain how the existence of organisational politics in an organisation can have a positive and negative influence on employee behaviour towards the achievement of organisational goals.
– Provide recommendation on how management can address organisational politics to enhance employee behaviour towards the achievement of organisational goals.
Conclusion:
Reference lists
– Harvard Referencing both in-text and at the end-of-the report. Your reference list should list should be in alphabetical order by author. You must use Harvard referencing system.
Appendices:
– Under this heading, you should include all the supporting information you have used that is not published. This might include tables, graphs etc., Refer to the appendices in the body of your report