Decision Point: Your First Hires You look around your chic, but empty, converted warehouse. Thanks to a good architect engineer, you're set up to produce copies of the software in a manufacturing area on view to the office floor, which is set up in "pod" arrangements to facilitate employee information-sharing. You decide to first hire some office staff to sell download copies of your games, but you don't want your employees to have designated roles (like salesperson, manager, etc.). In accordance with the job characteristics model, what components of a job would motivate your employees? Select the four best options from the choices below and click Submit The ability to handle customer inquiries, advise software developers on popular game design features, process sales, and order supplies and equipment. The ability to regularly meet with the founders of the business and feel connected to their vision for the organization. The ability to specialize in one function like answering phones or processing orders The ability to determine what to do each day at work.

You are a manager, and your direct report is complaining about not being involved in the planningprocess. How do you respond?

Interview a manager in today’s work environment who has between 15 – 50 people reporting tohim/her. If you would like to interview someone with more or less then this amount, send me a messageand I may approve your request. You may interview a family member, someone from your current orpast employment, a friend or neighbor, anyone who fits the above criteria. If you know an industry orcompany you would like to work in, someone from that company/industry would be an ideal interviewsubject. If you are unable to find someone to interview, please let me know in a reasonable amount oftime and I will introduce you to someone whom you may interview. List of a minimum of 15 questions (not the answers) that you will ask of your subject. Thesequestions should be prepared in advance of the interview. The questions should come from thechapters we’ve read in class

Goal congruence is (CPA Adapted) The desire and the commitment to achieve a specific goal The extent to which individuals have the authority to make decisions O The extent of the attempt to accomplish a specific goal O The sharing of goals by supervisors and subordinates

1) A mechanistic structure is highly suitable for an organization operating in an environment with very high levels of uncertainty  True  False 2) In scenario-based planning, managers focus on various scenarios that present alternative pictures of what the future may look like and how the firm would like to respond to each scenario  True  False 3) An organization's external environment is defined as everything that exists outside the boundary of the organization and has the potential to affect all or part of the organization.    True  False

Use the Customer Interview Plan template to put together a plan for testing those assumptions through a customer interview.

9. Which of the following roles Include a variety of Business Analysis Tasks? A. CEO/CIO B. QA Engineer C. Business System Analyst D.Computer Programmer 1. You are a catering coordinator with the Grand Hotel. Your clients Joe Borden and Patty Smith are being married tomorrow with the reception for 500 people at your hotel. The wedding cake has arrived and it is badly damaged. Your manager asks you to call Patty and notify her of the situation. When you call Patty, there is no answer and you need to leave her a voicemail message.