Please check the attachment. Due April 22
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Choose a manager (who supervises multiple employees) with whom you can sit face-to-face for 30 minutes to ask some managerial questions.
Required interview questions:
1. How many employees do you supervise directly? What do they do? (generally, e.g. clerks, technicians, auditors, managers, etc.) What kind of information about them do you keep track of (e.g. their experience, skills, etc.) that is necessary to manage them effectively?
2. Do you manage employees individually or as a whole group?
3. Do you keep track of or measure any workplace attitudes (e.g. job satisfaction, employee engagement, etc.)? Why? How do you measure them?
4. How do you motivate your employees?
5. Can you give me some tips on how to be an effective leader?
6. How do you resolve conflicts in the workplace? Do you need to play politics sometimes?
You can ask additional or follow-up questions as well. After the interview, organize the answers and prepare 4- to 5-page, essay-type report that consists of the following titles/sections:
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. Manager’s Name – Title – Organization – General responsibilities
. Employees Supervised (questions 1-2)
. Workplace Attitudes of Interest (question 3)
. Motivation Methods-Tools (question 4)
. Effective Leadership Tips (question 5)
. Conflict Resolution Methods (question 6)
. Analysis & Recommendations
. Lessons Learned
Under the header “analysis and recommendations,” critically analyze each of the manager’s answers BASED ON CLASS TOPICS/MODELS/THEORIES WE COVERED.
Make recommendations and suggest improvements for the manager.
Under “lessons learned,” report the lessons you learned in this interview and how you can use this new understanding in your own career. Give specific examples of how you will do this in your career (at school, work, sports club, etc.).
Submit this assignment individually via the assignment link on Blackboard on or before the due date. Following is the grading rubric:
Scoring Base
Rating = 7
Rating = 5
Rating = 3
Rating = 1
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Quality — Effort invested in this work
The writing reflects that the student put much effort and attention interviewing the manager, analyzing the answers, and thinking about the main lessons /
recommendations.
The writing reflects that the student put adequate effort and attention interviewing the manager, analyzing the answers, and thinking about the main lessons /
recommendations.
The writing reflects that the student put less than adequate effort and attention interviewing the manager, analyzing the answers, and thinking about the main lessons /
recommendations.
The writing reflects that the student put too little effort and attention interviewing the manager, analyzing the answers, and thinking about the main lessons /
recommendations.
The writing provides
The writing
The writing provides
The writing
Quality of the
in-depth critical
provides sufficient
weak analysis of
provides very poor
analyses, &
analysis of all
critical analysis of
answers. Some
analysis of
recommendations
answers based on
all answers based
answers are not
answers. Some
class topics. Student
on class topics.
analyzed. Student
answers are not
provides detailed
Student provides
provides minimal
analyzed. Student
recommendations/
multiple
recommendations/
provides no
suggestions. Lessons
recommendations/
suggestions. OR
recommendations/
learned are used to
suggestions.
Lessons learned are
suggestions. OR
come up with
Lessons learned are
used only to list
Lessons learned
specific real-life
used to come up
general, vague
section is missing.
goals for the student.
with some real-life
goals.
goals for the
student.
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The writing has all
The writing is
Structure
required
missing some
titles/sections
required
showing all of the
titles/sections.
required topics.
Paragraphing and
Paragraphing and
transitions are
transitions are also
adequate.
clear and very good.
The writing has no
The writing has a
Basic
errors in word
few errors in word
Grammar
selection and use,
selection and use,
sentence structure,
sentence structure,
spelling,
spelling,
punctuation, and
punctuation, and
capitalization.
capitalization.
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