Module 8: Homework

Book Manager’s Bookshelf

https://reader.yuzu.com/#/books/9780133560251/cfi/…

Username:Dbrinson@troy.edu

Password: Brinson!2

Assigned readings:

From Manager’s Bookshelf

Part 3

• Reading 2: Big Winners and Big Losers, Alfred A. Marcus, summarized by Allen Harmon 71
• Reading 3: How the Mighty Fall, Jim Collins, summarized by Tanya Pietz 78

Part 4

• Reading 2: Responsible Restructuring, Wayne F. Cascio, summarized by Stephen Rubenfeld 90

Part 5

• Reading 1: Coming to a New Awareness of Organizational Culture, Edgar H. Schein 97

Part 7

• Reading 1: Positive Leadership, Kim Cameron, summarized by Jodi Nelson 141
• Reading 2: Bad Leadership, Barbara Kellerman, summarized by Warren Candy 144
• Reading 3: Power, Jeffrey Pfeffer, summarized by Kristie J. Loescher 148

Part 9

• Reading 1: Building the Bridge as You Walk on It, Robert E. Quinn, summarized by Peter Stark 165

Part 11

• Reading 2: Super Crunchers, Ian Ayres, summarized by Brian Russell 199
• Reading 3: Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, Gerd Gigerenzer, summarized by Rebecca M. C. Boll 205

From Helpful Resources

• Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions
• POMS web site
• APICS web site

From The Troy Global Campus Library

https://trojan.troy.edu/library/online/

Username: dbrinson@troy.edu

Password: Evangel2015

Murphy, Jerome T. (March, 2006). An interview with Henry Mintzberg. Phi Delta Kappan,

87(7), 527-528.

and

find articles written 2010 and after that discuss

• Operations management
• cultural and demographic diversity

Complete the following research assignment:

1. Using the assigned readings in the text,
2. Using the assigned readings from the Troy Global Campus Library
3. Using the Helpful Resources web sites, and
4. Using the additional research from the Troy Global Campus Library

Prepare a 3 to 5 page critical essay that addresses all of the following topics:

1. How can managers adapt to a culturally diverse workforce in the US and globally?
2. How can managers adapt to a demographically diverse workforce (including but not limited to age diversity)?
3. Discuss how or if leadership moderates the effects of culture and demographics on operations productivity.

 

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