1) Watch the video interview or read the closed caption “Organizational Culture and change by Amelia Muniz” at https://youtu.be/99oXHdZcD0g?list=PLvlqE5uHdTbiGpyygxnRQW-kgOyy6Hklz Text transcript of this video

For your first post write a paper of at least 300 words and answer the following questions:

1. When undergoing a process improvement initiative how important is culture, low, medium or high and why?

1. What are the benefits of culture in an improvement initiative and why?
2. Describe the downside of culture in an improvement initiative and why?

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2) Watch the video interview or read the closed caption “Introduction to Process Mapping; by John Wellwood” at https://youtu.be/Rc9ZLRu9EDE

For your first post write a paper of at least 300 words and answer the following questions:

1. 1. When undergoing a process improvement initiative how important is it to use a process map and why?

1. 2. What other ways can you effectively understand a process other than a process map?

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3) Is there one best way? Assuming the responsibility of leadership, a leader also assumes the intellectual qualities that accompany it. Many leaders have made poor process improvement decisions to achieve their goals. For this assignment, use the Internet to find 2 articles that discuss the decision of one leader of an organization that was considered ill-advised by the authors. Your articles should be found online in the popular press or a professional journal. Be sure to apply the material from your text to your discussion.

For your first post, describe the key points of the article and detail why the author of the article found it to be a poor decision. Explain whether you agree that the leader’s decision was questionable, or poor and was the decision positive in anyone’s view point. This discussion will be at least 300 words.

Do not use first person in this writing, and insert at least 2 cites to support your argument.

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4) When someone is examining issues of waste in another person’s area, is there a conflict, what do you think? Do you think that they are dealing with a negative situation? Can Conflict can have both positive and negative influences on an organization. This discussion forum highlights the goal of effective management: how do you eliminate waste or change someone’s job when it is not in your area? Is this type of conflict good for an organization or dysfunctional?

For your first post, write a short paper of at least 300 words as follows:

Head each section of your post to correspond to the numbers below:

1. Explain how eliminating waste can improve the organizations and create conflict. Use examples to support your reasoning.

2 Explain how some conflicts are dysfunctional, and why it is management’s responsibility to keep conflict intensity in some situations low. Use examples to support your reasoning.

Do not use first person in this writing, and insert at least 2 cites to support your argument.

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5) Watch the video interview or read the closed caption “WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson” at https://youtu.be/NugRZGDbPFU Text transcript for this video

For your first post write a paper of at least 300 words and answer the following questions:

1. When is a good idea something you should share with others and when should you keep it to yourself. Is it better to collaborate or to keep things under wraps until you are ready and why?

2. Once you have a new idea how do you get peers to become engaged in your idea? (address one of these aspects: behavioral changes, organizational structure, and management initatives)