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Discussion Post 1 D

Discussion Post 1 Due November 25th
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, review the following:
Chapter 4: Motivational Processes: Concepts and Theories Download Chapter 4:
Motivational Processes: Concepts and Theories(pp. 109 to 140) in the course book,
Organizational Behavior,
Maslow’s Need Hierarchy Theory: Applications and Criticisms Links to an external site.,
and the
Compare and contrast three to five sources of motivation identified by scholars. Select
one you find particularly compelling from your experience, and discuss the motivation
source further, sharing your rationale for your choice.
Before starting Week 1’s Discussion you want to read Chapter 4 in the text (we only
have two chapters to read in total) and Kaur’s (2013) article on Maslow’s motivational
theory; its concepts and criticisms.
The description asked you to: “Compare and contrast three to five sources of motivation
identified by scholars. Select one you find particularly compelling from your experience,
and discuss the motivation source further, sharing your rationale for your choice.”
The discussion post should be a minimum of 350 words. However if you feel you need
to max to 400 please do.
Assignment Week 1 Due November 28th
Evaluating Experience Through Motivation Theories
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the following:
● Why Leaders Need to Embrace Employee Motivation
● Links to an external site.
● and
● TedTalks: Dan Pink—The surprising science of motivation
● Links to an external site.
This assignment provides you with an opportunity to evaluate your own experiences in a
current or former workplace using theories of motivation.
In your paper,
● Identify a situation in which you found yourself less than motivated to
cooperate or be productive.
● Analyze the root cause(s) of your lack of motivation.
● Explain what could have been changed to help better motivate you and/or
others.
The Evaluating Experience Through Motivation Theories paper
● Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and
references pages) and formatted according to APA Style
● Must include a separate title page with the following:
○ Title of paper in bold font
■ Space should appear between the title and the rest of
the information on the title page.
○ Student’s name
○ Name of institution (University of Arizona Global Campus)
○ Course name and number
○ Instructor’s name
○ Due date
● Must utilize academic voice.
● Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction
paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the
purpose of your paper.
● Must use at least one scholarly source in addition to the assigned weekly
reading.
● Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA
Style
Discussion Post 2 Due December 1st
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, review the following:
Chapter 5: Motivation in the Workplace: Job Design, Goal-Setting, Involvement, Pay
Structure, and Rewards Systems (pp. 141 to 167)
“We Aren’t Your Reincarnation!” Workplace Motivation Across X, Y and Z Generations.
Pay, Intrinsic Motivation, Extrinsic Motivation, Performance, and Creativity in the
Workplace: Revisiting Long-held Beliefs
What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys.
In this discussion post, complete the following:
Explain the relationship between motivation, behavior, and performance.
Evaluate the role emotions play in motivation, behavior, and performance.
The discussion post should be a minimum of 350 words. However if you feel you need
to max to 400 please do.
Assignment Week 2 Due December 4th
Motivation in Action: Case Study Analysis
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the following:
● The feedback fallacy
● Emotional responses to performance appraisal feedback: Implications
for organizations.
● Motivation in action: Case study examples
● Performance review: Code red—Performance review classics
● Conducting Performance Reviews? Get Out the Tissues
This assignment requires you to watch Motivation in action: Case study examples
. This video presents four workplace cases. In each case, you will see an employee
suffering from a motivation problem in the workplace. It will be your task to identify the
root cause(s) of demotivation for each case. Consider individual motivations, job design,
goals, involvement, pay structure, and rewards systems. While you may readily identify
causes, keep in mind that this is a scholarly analysis. It will be important for you to be
able to explain your analysis in terms of the motivation theories and related materials
that you have covered in class. After watching the cases, you will write your analysis in
a paper.
In your paper,
● Write an introduction that addresses motivation in the workplace.
● Describe each of the four cases.
● Identify the potential root cause(s) for each case.
○ Consider individual motivations, job design, goals, involvement,
pay structure, and rewards systems.
● Discuss how you would use feedback to address the issues.
The Motivation in Action: Case Study Analysis Paper
● Must be six to eight double-spaced pages in length (not including title and
references pages) and formatted according to APA Style
● Must include a separate title page with the following:
○ Title of paper in bold font
■ Space should appear between the title and the rest of
the information on the title page.
○ Student’s name
○ Name of institution (University of Arizona Global Campus)
○ Course name and number
○ Instructor’s name
○ Due date
● Must utilize academic voice.
● Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction
paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the
purpose of your paper.
● Must use at least one scholarly source in addition to the assigned weekly
reading.
● Must document any information used from sources in APA Style
● Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA
Style
Discussion Post 3 Due December 7th
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, review the following resources:
● Why it’s so hard to be fair
● Best Practices for Assessing Employee Engagement
● 4 ways to motivate your team
● What Drives Global Engagement?
● Are Employee Engagement and Employee Motivation the Same Thing?
In this discussion post, explain the relationship between motivation and engagement in
organizations. The discussion post should be a minimum of 300 words. However if you
feel you need to max to 350 please do.
Assignment Week 3 Due December 11th
World’s Best Workplace Analysis
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the following resources:
● TemboSocial Makes Employee Motivation Everyone’s Business
● 20 Simple Employee Engagement Survey Questions You Should Ask
● How #1 World’s Best Workplace Cisco Showed the Courage to Connect in
2020
● World’s Best Workplaces 2020
Select one of the “World’s Best Workplaces from the list, and then write a research
paper that specifically analyzes evidence of how the organization motivates and
engages individuals and teams.
In your paper,
● Select one of the companies selected as “World’s Best Workplaces 2020 ” by
Great Places to Work.
● Identify the company and what it does to motivate and engage individuals and
teams.
● Provide an overview of the organization.
● Describe the different strategies the organization uses to motivate and
engage individuals and teams.
● Provide a scholarly Assessment of how the strategies used align with specific
theories reviewed in this course.
The World’s Best Workplace Analysis paper
● Must be four to six double-spaced pages in length (not including title and
references pages) and formatted according to APA Style
● Must include a separate title page with the following:
○ Title of paper in bold font
○ Student’s name
○ Name of institution (University of Arizona Global Campus)
○ Course name and number
○ Instructor’s name
○ Due date
● Must utilize academic voice..
● Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction
paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the
purpose of your paper.
● Must use at least one scholarly source in addition to the weekly required
reading.
● Must document any information used from sources in APA Style
● Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA
Style
Discussion Post 4 Due December 14th
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, review the following resources:
● Why are we here? If you want employees who are more engaged and
productive, give them a purpose – one concretely tied to your customers and
your strategy
● “I’m not mopping the floors, I’m putting a man on the moon”: How NASA
leaders enhanced the meaningfulness of work by changing the meaning of
work
● 4 reasons good employees lose their motivation
● TEDTalks: How Great Leaders Inspire Action | Simon Sinek
● Daniel Goleman’s Response to Gallup Employee Engagement Survey
In this discussion post, you will
● Evaluate the role leaders play in motivation and performance on their teams.
● Discuss leadership approaches that foster motivation and engagement.
● The discussion post should be a minimum of 350 words. However if you feel you
need to max to 400 please do.
Assignment Week 4 Due December 19th
Motivational Team Talk
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the following resources:
● The science of pep talks: To fire up your team, draw on a research-proven,
three-art formula
● How to build department morale
● Creating a purpose-driven business: Part 2—Developing your positioning
statement
● How to Keep Your Team Motivated
● Self-Efficacy in the Workplace: Implications for Motivation and Performance
For this assignment, you will think about a recent workplace challenge that impacted
team motivation. You’ll then create both a slide presentation (Part 1) and a short
paper (Part 2). The slide presentation will be designed to motivate the team to
overcome the challenge they face. You’ll script the slides as if you are talking directly to
the team. This exercise is useful to prepare you for future situations in which you may
need to motivate a team. The short paper will provide you an opportunity to explain the
rationale and scholarship behind your design for the slide presentation for the team.
Part 1: In your slide presentation, consider a recent workplace challenge that impacted
team motivation, and
● Create a pep talk using the three-step approach in The science of pep talks:
To fire up your team, draw on a research-proven, three-art formula (McGinn,
2017) to address the challenge.
● Present it in a slideshow format using slide notes to fully explain each slide,
as if you were presenting it.
The Part 1: Motivational Team Talk presentation
● Must be a minimum of six slides in length (not including title and references
slides) and formatted according to APA Style
● Must include a separate title slide with the following:
○ Title of presentation in bold font
○ Student’s name
○ Name of institution (University of Arizona Global Campus)
○ Course name and number
○ Instructor’s name
○ Due date
● Must utilize academic voice.
● Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction
paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the
purpose of your paper.
● Must use at least one credible source in addition to the required weekly
readings.
● Must document any information used from sources in APA Style
● Must include a separate reference slide that is formatted according to APA
Style
Motivational Team Talk (Part 2) paper submission page!
Part 2: In your paper,
● Discuss the recent workplace challenge that you are addressing in your slide
presentation.
● Analyze the potential causes for the impact to team motivation.
● Identify how you used the three-step approach to create a pep talk in your
presentation.
● Evaluate three additional research-based strategies you could use to
motivate the team.
● Provide scholarly rationale for your each of your choices.
The Part 2: Motivational Team Talk paper
● Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and
references pages) and formatted according to APA Style
● Must include a separate title page with the following:
○ Title of presentation in bold font
○ Student’s name
○ Name of institution (University of Arizona Global Campus)
○ Course name and number
○ Instructor’s name
○ Due date
● Must utilize academic voice.
● Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction
paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the
purpose of your paper.
● Must use at least one scholarly source in addition to the weekly required
readings.
● Must document any information used from sources in APA Style
● Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA
Style
Discussion Post 5 Due Jan 4th
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, review the following resources:
● How to motivate your problem people
● A Review of Employee Motivation Theories and Their Implications for
Employee Retention Within Organizations
● The overlooked essentials of employee well-being
● 14 Highly Effective Ways to Motivate Employees: Your Employees May Not
Be as Motivated as You Are: Here Are 14 Tips From Entrepreneurs on How
to Better Motivate Your Staff
In this activity, you will complete the following:
● Write five key points that stood out to you in this course, and five useful
strategies you learned to motivate others all in bullet points.
● Post both key points and useful strategies as your initial post in this
discussion forum.
Assignment Week 5 Due Jan 8th
Employee Engagement Strategy
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the following resources:
● Creating an employee engagement strategy for millennials
● What should we do about motivation theory? Six recommendations for the
twenty-first century
● The future of work motivation theory
● Nurturing leadership
● 5 Ways to Develop and Sustain Employee Engagement
● Meet the Team Interactive Activity
This assignment has two parts: the Meet the Team Interactive Activity listed above and
a slide presentation. For both parts, you will assume the role of a manager who has
been put in charge of a new team. You have worked for one month with the team. In
that time, you have noticed that team members do not seem fully motivated and that the
team overall does not seem to be working cohesively.
Part 1:
You will complete the Meet the Team Interactive Activity to “meet” with each individual
on your team. You will discuss each person’s experience, motivations, challenges, and
goals. During the interactive, you will make choices about how you respond to each
person. Each choice has a different outcome. It is your job to identify the choices that
help you understand each person’s motivations. Through these conversations, you will
also learn about some challenges the team has had in working together. This
information will help you evaluate how you will address the overall engagement of the
team.
Part 2:
You will create a presentation that discusses your analysis of the motivations of each
person on your team and the team overall. You will include a multi-point strategy that
you have formulated to address the motivation and engagement issues on the team.
Your strategy should be informed by motivation theories and practices that you learned
about during the course. Slide notes should fully explain each slide, as if you are
presenting it, and should include citations to attribute information to sources and
substantiate your points.
In your presentation,
● Complete the interactive activity to “meet” with each individual on your team.
● Create a presentation.
● Analyze the motivations of each person on your team and the team overall.
● Formulate a multi-point strategy to address the motivation and engagement
issues on the team.
● Outline the motivation theories and practices outlining your strategy.
● Explain each slide fully with slide notes.
The Employee Engagement Strategy final presentation
● Must be 12 to 15 slides in length (not including title and references slides)
and formatted according to APA Style
● Must include a separate title slide with the following:
○ Title of presentation in bold font
○ Student’s name
○ Name of institution (University of Arizona Global Campus)
○ Course name and number
○ Instructor’s name
○ Due date
● Must utilize academic voice.
● Must include a slide that introduces the presentation purpose and key points,
as well as a conclusion slide summarizing key points.
● Must use at least five scholarly sources in addition to the required weekly
readings.
● Must document any information used from sources in APA Style.
● Must include a separate reference slide that is formatted according to APA
Style

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