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HRM Some of the challenges that managers deal with include employee turnover and employee absenteeism

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1. HRM

• Some of the challenges that managers deal with include employee turnover and employee absenteeism. What do you believe causes employee turnover and absenteeism? As you respond to your classmates, discuss the role that you believe managers should play in addressing these issues.

• Option Two: Were you ever involved in a situation in which you were prejudged, stereotyped, or discriminated against? This could be something as a child, adult, or in the workplace. It can be something considered minor such as having a comment made to you about your wearing the wrong type of clothes/sneakers or being the last one picked when selecting teams. Please explain the situation and how it made you feel. If it was a workplace incident explain how it impacted your performance and relationships at work.

1. Principles of Economics

• How are needs and wants different? When deciding on which wants to satisfy soonest, what criteria do you use? Please provide an answer to this question by Saturday and contribute two thoughtful responses to classmates by Tuesday.

• List and describe the factors that determined the aggregate supply curve in the short and long run and what causes it to shift. If you were running your own firm (you may use an example to illustrate), how might its individual supply curve differ from the aggregate curves?

1. Organizational Theory & Behavior

• Within the Unit I Podcast, Chantell, Dayna, and Dr. Rogers discuss how technological improvements have led to an increase in remote workers and ways to connect with remote team members. Do you believe leaders can use the same strategies to connect with remote workers as they would with an onsite team? Why, or why not?

• Within the Unit II Podcast, Chantell, Dayna, and Caroline discuss their experiences with personality tests and the ways they have used them with their teams. Do you believe that personality tests can be used as a bonding tool with employees? Why, or why not? If you have experience with taking personality tests, feel free to include it as a part of your response.

1. Innovative Business Decision

• What do you think is the most important process in an organization for remaining competitive, creative, innovative, or adaptable to change? Explain.

• Think about a change you have experienced in the workplace or in your personal life. Was the leader an effective change agent? If so, what did you admire, or what would you do differently in managing the change process? Explain.

1. Project Management

• Choose an industry with which you are familiar. What are some of the top reasons a project might fail in that industry? What could you do, as a project manager, to help ensure project success?

• The importance of effective requirement gathering is discussed in the unit lesson and in the textbook reading for this unit. The unit lesson also discusses how the requirements may be different for the creation of a line of Adidas shoes versus a line of Gucci shoes. What are some of the requirements that you think would be different for this type of product? What are the needs of the customer, the marketing department, or operations department? What features have to be included so that the customer is happy?