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Assignment : Proposed Focus Project Outline
By the end of the term, each of you is required to complete a Focus Project on a topic in this course. I have provided the instructions for the final Focus Project below that may help you with your outline.
Instructions for assignment #3: Submit your plan outline for your Focus Project by responding to the 6 questions below:
What topic did you choose for your Focus Project (Review the list of possible topics below for ideas that correspond to weekly lesson topics)?
Why did you select this focus topic?
What 3 subtopics will you consider?
How you will present the information: PowerPoint presentation with a written script, write a paper, oral video presentation, etc.? 1 pt.
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What specific outside articles or research studies do you plan to use and reference, along with information in the text? (name at least two) 1 pt.
Here is an example of a Topic Approval Outline
Topic: How Leaders Overcome Challenges in Multi-Cultural Teams. This applies to my work situation since I participate in a diverse work team and we have various challenges that get in the way of meeting our team goals. I will be presenting what a diverse team is along with specific challenges and ways to overcome these challenges. Also, I will be examining the pros and cons of strategies for managing challenges and coming up with a realistic action plan to help our team become more inclusive and productive.
Throughout my project,
Subtopics:
Definition of Multi-Cultural Teams
Specific Challenges of Multi-Cultural Teams
Strategies to overcome these Challenges
Pros and or Cons of using these strategies
Create an action plan
Summarize how to use this plan in the future.
Sources: Common challenges of a multicultural team, 7 Multicultural Team Challenges And Solutions and text chapter 10: "Multicultural Teams"
Make sure to check grammar and spelling. If there are numerous mistakes, you will be marked down accordingly. Also, write your work and save it as .pdf or .docx and "submit" it to the Assignments box by the due date. Thanks!
Here are a few questions to help guide you in finding a topic that you find of interest and want to know more about and apply.
1. How can Intrinsic rewards and Extrinsic rewards be used to effectively motivate employees?
2. What are effective and meaningful employee performance appraisals?
3. Why is the quality of group decision-making beneficial?
6. What can leaders do to effectively manage individual differences in the workplace?
7. What types of challenges occur in multicultural teams and how can the organization or team leader overcome these?
8. What is work conflict and what conflict resolution strategies can be used in groups or an individual employee?
9. How can an organization or team leader overcome barriers to effective communication?
10. How are the different leadership roles that are effective in supporting self-managed work teams?
11. Why organizational change may be necessary and ways to encourage changes?
12. How can leaders increase creative decision-making within their teams?
13. How can an organization minimize stereotypes and hidden biases so employees feel safe and inclusive?
Please be flexible, I may ask you to change your topic if there are several student proposals on the same topic.
(Below are the Instructions for the final Focus Project due in Week 9 to give you a sense of future requirements and expectations.)
Choose a topic that interests you and do research, interviews, observations, etc. to learn strategies or processes that you will be able to use in your work or your life. (You will need to get the topic approved by your instructor). The format can be a paper, PowerPoint presentation with a written script, or video narrative PowerPoint presentation.
Examine the topic from the viewpoint of at least two different resources, plus the text.
Length: minimum 800- 900 words (approximately 3 pages or a minimum of 8 slides for PowerPoint Presentation)