Employee Morale Research Paper

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Student Name: Blue, Sheila Marie

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1. As leader of your organization, you have recently noticed that employee morale is at an all time low. Your company has undergone several drastic changes in the past few months including new management and equipment along with adjustments in scheduling and production demands, and you feel that these changes have a lot to do with the decline in morale. Use the advice offered in this unit and your own research to explain some of the actions you would take to increase employee morale.

Student Answer: As a leader of my organization, I have notice the moral is very low and

my company has taken some drastic changes.  Therefore, the first thing I would do is write down all the problems that is going on in the organization.  I would also have a talk with the managers to discuss all the issues that I see going on in the company.  I want to hear the managers ideas on how to fix the issues within the organization. According to the Read section, there are a few born leaders.  Leadership is a responsibility (Manning, 2015), that can be learned.  When a company is going through changes, something must be done.  What is morale?  Moral is relating to behavior, honesty, and fair dealing.  As a leader in my organization, I would give out bonuses for good to outstanding performance ratings.  There will be an appreciation day for the entire organization, which will include catered lunches, 2 hours of annual leave, and several prizes given away on that day. I would also check to see what caused some of the problems within the organization and try to fix or change them for the better. On my job, our boss has implemented an outreach program for employees, this program collects donations from employees to purchase cards or flowers for the employee that is going through a difficult time in their family.  If the employee had surgery, death of a family member or animal, marriage, expecting a baby, the organization will give them flowers and a card.  I would also implement this outreach program in my organization to increase the moral.  After researching the web, I found more ways to increase the moral in my company.  I would recognize every employee's birthday, accomplishments, and recognize how great of a job the employee is doing. Bethel University. (2015)Leadership. Retrieved from https://www.betheluniversityonline.net/cps/default.aspx?SectionID=3018&tabid=155#3Conner, C (2014). Forbes. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/cherylsnappconner/2014/09/11/6-ways-to-increase-employee-morale-and-performance-without-giving-a-raise/

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2. You have been appointed as the team leader of a new project in your company. After a few weeks in the position, you start to notice there are distinct positive and negative members on your team. A few of your team members have been listed below along with a description of their group behavior. Decide which positive or negative member role they are displaying and explain how you would deal with each member to either encourage or diminish their behavior.

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3. Suzanne has trouble letting members of the team speak freely. She is constantly interrupting others with her longwinded explanations. She wants every idea to be seen as hers, and sometimes she tricks other members of the team into sharing their ideas with her so she can present them as her own.

Student Answer: After hearing about the team lead Suzanne, I would talk to each team member privately, to get down to the bottom of the issues that were reported.   Everything Suzanne is doing is a negative role play.  It sounds like she is a controlling leader, because she has a problem letting the members speak freely to include the other issues.  The importance of being a good leader is listening to your followers.  As a lead team member, you must get ideas from your followers and give them credit if their idea is being used.  There is no “I” in team, so every member has an important part to play. I would have a meeting with Suzanne regarding every negative role.  In the meeting, I will inform her to allow the members of the team to speak and not to interrupt.  I will also encourage her to continue to get the ideas from the team but acknowledge the entire team whose ideas she is using.  As a team lead, Suzanne should not deceive the members in tricking them to share more of their ideas, so she can get credit.  So I would encourage her to go about her leadership in a different way. Bethel University. (2015)Leadership. Retrieved from https://www.betheluniversityonline.net/cps/default.aspx?SectionID=3018&tabid=155#3

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4.

John does a great job at paying attention to the topics discussed in the meetings and taking notes. Last week, a member of the team, Sally, was sick for a few days, and John was able to catch her up to everything that the group had covered. He is very good at explaining problems in a clear and concise manner and can help team members that are perplexed with anything the group is involved in.

Student Answer: John has a positive outlook on how to be a great team member.  I will encourage him to continue being a great team member by assisting other team members that were out of work , due to sickness.  I consider this to be a positive role that will affect the

group. 

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5. Beth is not fond of the task that the team has been asked to complete. She thinks that the group meetings are a waste of her talents and spends most of the meetings discussing her daughter’s soccer games or how her husband never helps out around the house. When she is not talking, she is busy balancing her checkbook or working on her novel instead of taking notes.

Student Answer: Beth is showing negative energy within the team, which should be diminished.  I do understand if she does not agree with everything the team or lead is saying, however, she still should do her part.  So, I would have a short meeting with her to inform her of her duties and the things she should not be doing while on the job.    

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6. Charlie cannot stand to be wrong and is very expressive when he is frustrated with the group. Last week he presented the group with some financial statistics that were incorrect, but instead of claiming his mistakes, he blamed Beth for distracting him while he was calculating the numbers and then claimed that John must have accidently changed some of the figures when he was printing copies from the electronic spreadsheet.

Student Answer: Charlie is not taking ownership of his mistakes.  This is a negative role play and I would diminish his behavior. I would inform Charlie to go back and check the financial statistics and bring a correct report. I would encourage him to check his attitude and take responsibility for his own mistakes.  It sounds like he can get upset very easily with the team, for his mistakes.  This behavior is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. 

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7. Sally is a member you can really depend on. When you cannot make it to a meeting, you can rely on her to act as team leader. She is very organized and effective at distributing work amongst the group. She knows what needs to be done and can set deadlines for all of the tasks. She encourages new ideas from the team and motivates them to follow through with those ideas.

Student Answer: Sally is a true leader.

She exemplifies every aspect of leadership.  I would encourage this positive behavior and would want more of the team to show this team work.  Sally would be my example of a great leader. If she keep this positive energy up, she maybe the next team lead.

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8. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs is an excellent tool for understanding human behavior. Complete Exercise 12-1 “Characteristics of the Self-Actualized Person.” Where do you stand in terms of progress? Do you agree with the results? If necessary, what are some changes you can make (or changes you are already making) in your life to improve your score?

Student Answer: My score was 103 and I need work. I do agree with the results, I need to come up as a leader.  There are some good advice and so much information in the Read section about leadership.  This lesson has encouraged me to do better as a leader.  The changes I must make is to come up as a leader in every area, to include in my home.

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