University of Virginia Organizational Behavior Saxet Consulting Case Study

Part 1: Organizational Behavior

Read Chapter 9: Foundations of Group Behavior and Chapter 10: Understanding Work Teams, pick one topic from both the chapters and write a brief summary on it. Then give answers to the below questions.

Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:

1. You have been working at Saxet Consulting for the past year and are expected to complete three client reviews per week. You have been very productive and have been completing two extra reviews per week. At a recent team meeting, you expected to receive praise from the President for this extra work; however, your manager took credit for the extra work and received the praise from the President. What has your manager violated and what is your likely reaction?
2. You are on a team which features individuals high in openness and emotional stability. What is the likely result of task conflict within your team? Why is this?

Part 1 should be 450+ words.

Part 2: Initiating the Project

Read Chapter 12: Project Quality Planning and Project Kick-off., pick a topic and write a brief summary on it. The provide answers to the below questions.

Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:

1. In your own experience, have you seen companies integrate quality within their project planning processes? If so, how and when have they done so? If not, do you think it would have been more beneficial to address quality in one area of the overall project plan or continuously throughout the plan?
2. Give some examples of common and special cause variation that you have witnessed. Which of these causes of variation can be addressed through continuous improvement?

Part 2 should be 450+ words.

Both part 1 and part 2 should be in APA format. I have text books for both of them.