The Shipping Industry Accounting Team: Communication and Team Issues Abstract Goldberg‚ Choo‚ and McKay Associates is a merger with three accounting firms. The accounting department has a division that deals with the shipping industry. After the merger‚ four accountants from different states united as one team. Each team member was new to a long-distance team relationship‚ so they were worried about how the team would function. They had a task to attract new customers
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Personality is an important individual characteristic‚ it is known as the "relatively enduring pattern of thoughts‚ emotions‚ and behaviors that characterize a person‚ along with the psychological processes behind those characteristics" (McShane & Von Glinow 2013‚ p.41). Within an organisation employee personalities can greatly affect team dynamics‚ to ensure these individual characteristics are understood and utilized in the right way‚ management can successfully create teams to produce the best
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Abstract Why do individuals behave the way they do and perform well or poorly in the workplace? This question has been the Holy Grail of much research in organizational behavior (McShane−Von Glinow‚ 2004). A large American city was putting on some seminars for managers‚ and the main topic of the discussion was motivation. During the seminar a problem came to light that a captain of a police station was dealing with some issues with his police officers. When his officers first came to the police
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to Build Collaborative Teams. Harvard Business Review ‚ 85 (11)‚ 100-109. * Max‚ S. (2006‚ April 3). Seagate ’s Morale-athon. Retrieved from Seagate ’s Morale-athon: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_14/b3978085.htm * McShane‚ S. L.‚ & Von Glinow‚ M. A. (2010). Organizational Behavior: emerging knowledge and practice for the real world (5th ed.). New York‚ NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. * Seagate Technology. (2007‚ Sept 26). Eco Seagate 2007: The Bloggers (1‚ 2‚ 3). Retrieved from Eco
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Needs Comprise of five categories of needs. Most critiques have dismissed the hierarchy of needs as a motivational theory (McShane & Von Glinow‚ 2010:136). One of the
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of changing someone’s attitudes or behavior; it is only the potential to do so. You might feel powerful or think you have power over someone else‚ but this is not power unless you truly have the capacity to influence that person (McShane‚ Steven L‚ Mary Ann Von Glinow‚ 2010). One of the hardest lessons of management is that practically everything that has to be done must be done by others. Manager’s duties not only include directing employees but controlling the budget‚ assets‚ and other jobs
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Both films‚ ‘The Magdalene Sisters’ (Peter Mullan‚ 2002) and ‘The Lives of Others’ (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck‚ 2006)‚ perform a public function of enabling their viewers to work through the legacy of traumatic Irish/ German history. Critically discuss the statement. As with much of national cinema and national culture both The Magdalene Sisters and The Lives of Others may act as a means of coming to terms with each respective country’s traumatic past. Ruth Barton’s comment “We may argue
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having “quality hardware‚ customized products‚ excellent delivery times‚ and after-sales service” (McShane &Von Glinow‚ 2013). In six short years‚ X-Stream has grown into a top technology company and was growing fast. “Gil believed that major decisions should be made by consensus and that individuals should then be empowered to implement these decisions in their own way” (McShane & Von Glinow‚ 2013). Initially meeting with his staff and discussing their current job status‚ performance‚ goals
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(page 312). 1A. Power The sources of contingency of power model applies to the situation described in case study 10.2 in McShane & Von Glinow (2010) book through legitimate and coercive sources of power and visibility and discretion contingencies of power. Whether power is used in an ethical (good) or unethical (bad) way power is still power. Power is defined by McShane & Von Glinow as “capacity of a person‚ team‚ or organization to influence others” (2010‚ pg. 290). This ability to influence people
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edu/conflict/full_text_search/AllCRCDocs/deutsch_dup.ht m> Oct. 14‚ 2010. [ 1 ]. McShane‚ Steven L. and Von Glinow‚ Mary Ann. Organizational Behavior. 5th Edition‚ New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. 2010. [ 2 ]. McShane‚ Steven L. and Von Glinow‚ Mary Ann. Organizational Behavior. 5th Edition‚ New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. 2010. [ 3 ]. McShane‚ Steven L. and Von Glinow‚ Mary Ann. Organizational Behavior. 5th Edition‚ New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. 2010. [ 4 ]. McShane‚ Steven L. and Von Glinow‚ Mary Ann. Organizational Behavior. 5th Edition
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