Asg04 - Due on TUESDAY, 10/25

Individual Blackboard Assignment #4

Due on TUESDAY, 10/25

In the "student edition" of the premium content site, go to the Manager's Hot Seat section and complete Scenario #15: Working in Teams: Cross-Functional Dysfunction. Review the profiles, references, scenario, and dossier before you create your report.

In this case, however, do not just answer the question about what Joe Tanney should do to make the implementation a success. Indicate as well what Joe—and probably Joe’s boss, Jeffrey Dillon (see Dossier exhibit 2)—could have done at the outset to prevent or minimize the challenges Rosa and Simon may present to this project. Feel free to include aspects of team size, motivation, mutual responsibility, “virtuality,” etc.

As in the previous assignment, you must answer the questions posed during the scenario, include them in your report, and paste the resulting text file into a Blackboard discussion entry.

Please post your assignment by CREATING A THREAD titled Asg04-GrpNN, where NN represents your 2-digit group number. If you are in Group 2, for example, the subject heading will include "Asg04-Grp02" with no spaces, and the thread will be created on the group 2 discussion forum.

In addition to the assignment above, each group is invited to SELECT A LIAISON on or before 10/27. There is no set method for selecting this “officer,” though the most common process is for someone to volunteer on the group discussion list and give anyone else who is interested a couple of days to speak up.

The liaison will complete two or three very easy additional tasks in exchange for being excused from completing any two Blackboard assignments. (Nobody has ever [EVER!!!] regretted the decision to volunteer to be their team’s liaison.)

Once liaisons have been chosen, they need to come up before or after class to enter their names on a list. This can also be filled in during office hours in BA324.

Liaisons have no additional task to do for THIS assignment, however. They just complete it the same way as anyone else.