Organisational Change

Organisational Change Order Description Task This assignment is connected to assignment 1B. While your task in Assignment 1A is to develop a report outline, Assignment 1B focuses on the full report. Report outline will help you as a group to organise your thoughts and ideas around the relationship between OB theories from topic 2 to topic 5 and motivational issues presented in the TV show ‘The Office’. Both, assignment 1A and 1B, are based on group work, and hence, you are required to form a group of minimum three and maximum four members in week two of the session. Group members need to self- enrol in a group by using Interact2 tool: Groups. Additional instructions on doing this will be provided in week 1 of the session. Your task in this assignment is to develop an outline of a report focusing on analysis of employee motivation in an episode of a TV show ‘The Office’ (American version). You can watch the TV show through the CSU Library, EduTV database. The link is provided below: edutv.informit.com.au.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/browse-search-results.php The structure of the outline, and its sections need to be relevant for the analysis of employee motivation in ‘The Office’. A suggested structure is presented below. Next, the outline needs to discuss and apply the following OB concepts and models in identifying motivational issues at ‘The Office’: Section 1: Background information on employees at ‘The Office’ (Topics 1 and 2) • Employee personality (pp.50-54) • Effective manager: task performance and HR maintenance (pp.10-12) Section 2: Employee motivation: What and how (Topic 3) • Herzberg’s two-factor theory (pp. 93-8) • Vroom’s expectancy theory of motivation (pp.101-4) Section 3: Implications for managers and the psychological contract Section 4: Choice of three Recommendations (Topics 4 and 5) • Extrinsic motivators of your choice (e.g., managing pay, pp.143-147) and/or Intrinsic motivators of your choice (e.g., job characteristics model pp.171-6; goal-setting theory pp.179-183) The outline should be presented as a set of dot-points, rather than paragraphs, summarising the motivational issues encountered at ‘The Office’. These motivational issues need to be identified based on the application of the above identified OB concepts and models. Next, the report outline needs to include key arguments from the literature on employee motivation, and brief definitions of key concepts. The quality of the outline will depend on the group discussions, sharing of information, ideas, and views on employee motivation at ‘The Office’. These need to be evident in logical thinking and conceptual design presented in the outline. Lastly, the outline needs to have a balance between theory (introducing OB concepts and models) and practical application of OB concepts in identifying employee’s motivational issues.