Teamwork Problem Solving
-Read the scenario below, read the attached team conversation (https://kapextmediassl a.akamaihd.net/business/MT302/1803c_m1_m6/mt302m4_team%20assessment.pdf) and source websites provided, and address the checklist items regarding a work team in a 12 slide powerpoint presentation including presenter notes with more detail and additional scholarly sources cited throughout. -Describe the problems based on the scenario. -Describe the overall goal(s) and objectives of your assigned team. -Describe the tasks necessary to realize a successful response to the new CEO, allocating tasks for each member. -Provide a proposed overall salary/benefits solution and provide your team’s reasoning. –Support the solution with a short citation from each of two (2) scholarly* articles (citations and references in APA format). -Be sure to cite both in-text and reference list citations where appropriate and reference all sources. Your sources and content should follow proper APA citation style. Use Standard English with no spelling or punctuation errors, and correct references (on last slide.) -Apply AT LEAST THREE teamwork concepts and AT LEAST (6) team process steps from the Learning Activity (https://kapextmediassl-a.akamaihd.net/business/Media/MT302/MT302M4_1905B/Team_Process_Concepts/story_html5.html) for improving the company project team effectiveness, and motivation at AIM Inc. to address the assigned response to the CEO. -Explain how you, in the role of a team member, contributed to the employees’ team success to address the CEO’s concerns. -Submit the Team PowerPoint presentation in a minimum of 11 slides with additional title and reference slides using 24-point font. -Each slide should have no more than FIVE bulleted points and explanations should be placed below each slide in the notes section for each slide. SCENARIO: Artificial Intelligence Models (i.e., AIM) Inc. is a very profitable new company that although in business just two years, has already doubled in size in terms of the workforce and quadrupled their profits. The CEO/founder has stepped aside recently in favor of a new CEO in the wake of employees’ frustration and social media messages about the benefits inequity and lack of motivation for teams at the company. The new CEO wants to change the way worker salaries are determined and find ways to motivate the project teams. The project teams typically are assigned to create and launch and then maintain an artificial intelligence product such as a robot that performs routine tasks at a plant or in an office environment. Your four-person employee team is tasked by the new CEO with determining a general proposed solution to the inequity in pay at the company and with addressing the current lack of motivation for some of the employees. There are a total of 125 employees which includes 7 executives, 118 service and development personnel (of which 60 are software technicians) that work in project teams of 18 employees each. Each software technician receives $120,000 /yr., the customer service and all other full-time staff including sales and marketing personnel receive a salary of $35,000 per year. The executives, including the CEO and two vice presidents (V.P.s, manufacturing and finance) receive $500,000 per year and stock in the company, and the software engineering manager, sales/marketing manager, customer service manager (your role in this scenario), and an installation services manager, receive $80,000 per year. Your four-person scenario team consists of a software engineer, a salesperson, an installation manager, and you as the customer service manager. TEAM CONVERSATION: https://kapextmediassl-a.akamaihd.net/business/MT302/1803c_m1_m6/mt302m4_team%20assessment.pdf LEARNING ACTIVITIES: https://kapextmediassl-a.akamaihd.net/business/Media/MT302/MT302M4_1905B/Team_Process_Concepts/story_html5.html