Directions:
Preparation: It is necessary to read the articles listed above as well as those in your classroom materials. This assignment cannot be completed without reviewing required learning materials, in particular the articles on cultural values and Geert Hofstede’s website.
Orientation/perspective: Continuing on with our scenario, you are a newly-hired manager not yet placed into a permanent assignment. Since Week 1, you and Chinn have been talking about your vision for VMI’s future as given in last week’s assignments. Ultimately, you are convinced that the future VMI needs to be cognizant of the changing workplace while embarking upon VMI’s further international expansion, all under the umbrella of developing a learning organization culture to support this.
1. By THURSDAY, complete the following:
The below points are not distinct questions to be answered. Gather your thoughts about the points into a conversation with your reader (Chinn) that convinces him of their importance. Your report should incorporate key concerns and knowledge from our readings this week while also tying in your knowledge gained from past weeks (all cited). In order to accomplish this, your report must be focused on VMI’s situation, the type of work the company performs, and how to carry forward the company’s excellence and familial culture. Do not include ideas that do not apply to VMI’s situation.
- Chinn has a sense of cultural differences between his own heritage and that of VMI. Explain to him your understanding of these differences and how these may be underlying his observations.
- Share with him your knowledge of workplace stress: its effects upon employees, the idea of work and family life balance, differing cultural and generational views on this, and ways that organizations address it.
- Enlighten him as to the difference of an engaged versus happy employee, with that difference expressed in effects upon specific types of performance and commitment. (As we have had readings explaining engagement every week, you need to express your own understanding of this and not paraphrase an article).
- Your explanations should indicate that you understand typical pitfalls, misunderstandings, and misperceptions in cross-cultural communications and age-cohort attitudes.
- Include specific and clear recommendations to address the above at VMI.
- You must use course material to support your report and APA in-text citations with a reference list.
2. THROUGHOUT the week, complete the following:
- Respond to FOUR of your classmates over THREE OR MORE DAYS throughout the week and until MONDAY at 11:59 PM eastern time. Remember that you are trying to develop the best answers to the questions. Your classmates are doing the same, so read the posts carefully looking for the best ideas being presented. The goal is that by the end of the week, the class will come to some consensus as to the best answers giving you the chance to submit the best ideas in the final post.
- You must use course material to support your responses and APA in-text citations with a reference list.
- Participation is worth 2.5 points each week (20% of the final grade). Participation must be reflected in the final post so grades will be affected by the content portion of the post if participation is not shown. Therefore, it is important to get in the class often and with the idea of improving your initial post with the discussion so that the final grade will be the best you can deliver.
3. By MONDAY, complete the FINAL POST:
- Attach it as your final post in the classroom by MONDAY 11:59 PM ET. This post will be a 2-page, single-spaced report (no more than 750 words) for President Chinn that will address the new, modern workplace and how the content you address is important.
- The final post must reflect the brainstorming activities and should be different than the Saturday initial post.
- The final post must include a variety of sources from the class material and scenario or case study facts where appropriate.
- You must use course material to support your report and APA in-text citations with a reference list.
Managing Stress and Emotions
Week Four is meant to be an integrating activity since it pulls together on our many learnings. You will study more about cultural intelligence but will also focus on stress, and how both can influence your relationships and even the jobs you choose.
I also wanted to mention about access to some course materials. Open Educational Resources (OERs) are materials that UMGC and many, many other educational institutions use. They are public domain materials (in digital or other forms) that permit access and use with no or limited restrictions, at no cost. Those with limited restrictions allow access only a certain number of times and one of these resources is Forbes. So, if you are taking two or three classes and each of them has a couple of Forbes articles, at some point you may get a pop-up that prohibits any more viewing. We have a work-around for this! Open a new browser and an incognito window. See the following link to learn how to do this. com/article/3356840/how-to-go-incognito-in-chrome-firefox-safari-and-edge.html” title=”https://www.computerworld.com/article/3356840/how-to-go-incognito-in-chrome-firefox-safari-and-edge.html”>https://www.computerworld.com/article/3356840/how-to-go-incognito-in-chrome-firefox-safari-and-edge.html
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