2,000 words

2,000 words • A manager understands that organizational effectiveness results from team effectiveness. This means selecting people for the job that have the right mix of knowledge and skills, and balancing the teams size and diversity. • The team may also require the manager’s time and energy to coordinate the activities of the team to enable it to perform the task. • The team may also be a virtual team, or a combination of actual and virtual. • The Question of assignment: • “ Is establishing teamwork difficult in organisations?” • Then there are 3 essential considerations to be addressed as part of answer. • Answer these considerations • Do not make up your own! • Is just a statement, is neither true or false • That is for you to determine in your answer • So, your answer can be ‘yes’, or ‘no’ or ‘maybe’ depending on your argument. • You do not have to agree with the proposition. • But you need to argue a position on it Describe the situation surrounding organisational effectiveness and team effectiveness Which management theories can we apply as a manager in order to establish team effectiveness within an organisation? Maybe you can talk about advantages and disadvantages of theorists I will attached the theories as PDF file Topic Construct • Discuss with reference to the theorists you have considered in (theorists list I will attached) and key academic studies in this area. • Minimum of 4 theoretical perspectives should be discussed • You need to know the meaning of at least: What constitutes organisational and team effectiveness; (first define what is team effectiveness) What constitutes a virtual 9and actual team; Culture in organisations; organisations) (first define what is Culture in Competency in organisations/managers ; ( first define what is Competency in organisations/managers) Organisation Structure and Controls; (first define what is Organisation Structure) Human Behaviour in organisations; External environment influences on organisations. Before you can answer the topic question. • A minimum of 4 Theoretical Perspectives should be utilised • This means citing and applying a minimum of 4 appropriate theoretical concepts to the assignment • This means knowing a minimum of 4 management theorists to cite •your answer will be based in Research, Analysis, Understanding • Not general knowledge • You must reference your work And a little bit more... • Avoid using contractions; don’t, won’t, can’t. • Do not use colloquial vocabulary; Colloquial Expression Formal Alternative Above board legitimate reached a happy medium reached an acceptable compromise get through it survive, penetrate past and parcel intrinsic to easier said than done more difficult practice • Do not use rhetorical questions. • Avoid personal language • “I, we, our”, “I believe”, “I disagree” • Avoid emotive language • Makes the paper sound subjective rather than objective. in Structure You should consider the follow as structure for assignment: • Title page. • Table of contents. • Introduction • Body of work (identify what you consider to be important themes drawn from relevant literature and organisational examples you have chosen to consider) • Conclusion • Reference list. • References • Harvard (recommend EndNote) • Should include the required readings • A ‘rule of thumb’: 10 references per 1000 words. So a 2000 word essay would be ~20 references. • Checklist • I have answered the actual assignment topic and questions, not as I would like them to be. • I have identified the major issues of my topic in literature, and the information sources I am using are representative of these issues • I have utilised the work of at least 4 theorists • I have researched other appropriate organisations as part of my argument Checklist • The literature (regarding theorists and organisations) I've chosen is relevant to the focus of my topic • The literature I’ve chosen is scholarly • The literature that I have used has been appropriately cited • My bibliography contains only those reference sources that I have used in my assignment. • Use Passive Voice There is additional Reading: • Pech, R., and Slade, B. (2007) Organisational Sociopaths: Rarely Challenged, Often Promoted, Why? Society and Business Review, 2(3), pp254-­-269. • Pech, R.J. and Slade, B.W. (2006), “Religious fundamentalism and terrorism: Why do they do it and what do they want?” Foresight: Journal of Future Studies, Strategic Thinking and Policy, 8, 1, pp. 8-­-20. • Pech, R.J. and Slade, B.W. (2005), "Employee disengagement: Is there evidence of a growing problem?", 2006 Handbook of Business Strategy, 7, 1, pp. 21-­-25. • Pech, R.J. and Slade, B.W. (2005) Imitative terrorism: A diagnostic framework for identifying catalysts and designing interventions, Foresight: Journal of Future Studies, Strategic Thinking and Policy, 7, 2, pp. 47-­-60. • Pech, R.J. and Slade, B.W. (2004) Business maneuver: Exploiting speed and surprise as key elements for defense and attack, Handbook of Business Strategy 2005, 6(1), 35-­-42. • Pech, R.J. and Slade, B.W. (2004) Memetic engineering: A framework for organisational diagnosis and development, The Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 25(5), 452-­-465. • Pech, R.J. and Slade, B.W. (2004) Manoeuvre theory: Business mission analysis process for high intensity conflict, Management Decision, 42(8), 987-­-1000. Pech, R.J. and Slade, B.W. (2003), "Asymmetric competition: Decision processes shaping the future", Management Decision, 41, 9, pp. 883-­-892.