Please answer each discussion with 250 -300 words, APA style. DO NOT FORGET THE CITATION!!!! Then write a response to 2 students for each discussion week with 100 words min, and directed at them in a positive manner not in 3^rd person! The other students discussion posts can also be used as an example on how your initial post should be done. So by the end of this assignment your should have done 1 discussions and 2 responses!!!

Within the Discussion Board area, write 200–300 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Thinking historically, one of the fundamental problems is the notion that man is separate from nature and that nature was put here for man. This places man in a position of control and superiority. Another problem is the notion that there is a divine plan for humanity and, thus, it could not possibly include man’s destruction of the very planet that enables his or her survival. Of course, these 2,000-year-old ideas emerged at a time when there was no understanding of science, the cosmos, ozone layers, and so forth.

Focus your discussion on the following:

• How do these historical perspectives influence the concept of Our Multiple Ethical Selves?
• What levers do managers have to help influence the multiple ethical considerations within the context of the organization?
• How does the manager perform as a “Lens” to filter ethical problems and issues?

Using Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) from Bloom’s Taxonomy, respond to the prompts. Be sure to demonstrate a mastery of the course content through the use of analysis, synthesis, and the application of ideas.

Work Groups and Teams

Often people confuse work groups and work teams. You will discuss the differences to form a better understanding of these terms.

• What is the difference between a work group and a work team?
• If you know nothing else about it, how would you tell if selected employees working together are a work group or work team?
• Provide a simple example of each from your own experience.

Just do response # 1 to 3 only down below.

Posted 1

According to Robbins and Judge (2019), work group is a group of people that communicates to share information, make decision as well as assist group members within his or her area of responsibility. This type of group does not work together and collaborate. Each and everyone has a task that they must complete individually to complete a project. On the other hand a work team is a group of people who comes together to meet and end goal. They communicate, collaborate and everyone has an input on every part of the project.

Work group for example is a group that is assigned to a group has individual responsibility. They are given a task but each individual must complete their own assignment. Work team works together to meet a goal, they collaborate, for example if their task was to come up with a slogan for a product, everyone will have a task to research and bring it to the table and as a team will utilize those information and collaborate to come up with a slogan.

I manage a retail store, I had 2 assistant manager and couple sales people. Everyone had a job role and duties, however at the end of the day we as a team a goal to meet. We need to meet our monthly sales goal and at the same time be profitable. So I had to keep track of our operations part of the business such as inventory, cash handling, and I have tasked my assistants to assist the sales team with making sure we are pushing the right products to help us meet our goal, my sales people made sure they were informing the customers with all the promotions we had and always ask for the sale, at the end of each day we come together and give feedbacks such as success and obstacle then we collaborate on what we can do better to tackle our goals for tomorrow. We as a team had our own duties, but at the same we came together as a team to make sure we meet our goal.

Posted 2

For me there is a clear and obvious delineation between a Work Group and a Work Team. Observe the flow of output and inputs, if they are unidirectional, i.e. one person’s output is another’s persons input, with no additional exchange you have a Work Group. Or as defined in our text, interactions “to share information, make decisions, and help each group member perform within his or her area of responsibility.” (Robbins, 2019, p. 325) This grouping is characteristically seen in corporate culture. For example, a sales director and an engineering director might work closely with each other, but their cooperation is to meet their own specific needs. The Sales director might take design status or product details from the engineering director to prepare sales materials for perspective clients, but that interaction ends there. The direction could be reversed where as the director of engineering is taking input from the sales director as to what the market is looking for, but again that is the extent of the interaction.

Now in comparison, within a Work Team the flow of outputs and inputs are multi directional, with additional exchanges of real time feedback. Instead of just taking an output product and converting it for one need, additional value is added to the product and circulated back out. At each iteration the members of the team use the prior output but at the same time continue to add to it increasing the overall value. Groups like this can be seen most often in problem solving teams. For example, in complicated failure mode investigations work teams are invaluable. Subject matter experts seeing the same problem from different points of view and building upon the knowledge and findings of the others. Building momentum from each until true root cause can be verified.

Posted 3

According to Robbins and Judge(2019) , A work group is a group that interacts primarily to share information, make decisions, and help each group member perform within his or her area of responsibility. A work team, on the other hand, generates positive synergy through coordination. The individual efforts result in a level of performance greater than the sum of the individual inputs. A work group can be a number of individuals working on one thing, but they are all using their own ideas and skills to get to the same goals. A work team is when each person has an assigned task that they have to do in order for the team to be successful. For example, I use to work in as a fast food restaurant manager, and my job was to push out the food as fast as I can while keeping the drive thru time down. While I was in charge of my crew on first shift, there was another manager who handled the night shift. Overall, we as a team had to have combined totals for each day that were above the average required. The only thing I can think of as a work group, was when I was in grade school, and the teacher would break us up in groups in the class, and she would have us work on a project, but each individual would have to go up and present their portion of the project.

This essay needs to be written in formal academic style using APA, MLA, or Turabian guidelines. The essay must contain 1200-1400 words. When you cite from our textbook and your selected source(s), you must cite according to current APA, MLA, or Turabian guidelines.

In a minimum of two pages, answer the following questions:

1.) First Impressions

2.) Essential Message

3.) What challenges did Scott face being a basket baller player and a black student at a predominately white university?

4.) Why was the white press reluctant to report issues of racism and integration after Scott enrolled at UNC?

5.) What was one of the main reasons that Scott chose to enroll at UNC as opposed to Davidson University?

6.) Compare/contrast how the black and white press reported on Scott’s career as a basketball player.

7.) Significance for African American culture through sports.

8.) Points of Agreement/Dissension

9.) Summary/Closing