{"id":227326,"date":"2018-09-17T08:25:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T08:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/17\/mgt-245-week-5-discussion-questions\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:37:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:37:13","slug":"mgt-245-week-5-discussion-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/mgt-245-week-5-discussion-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"MGT 245 Week 5 Discussion Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion Question 1\tDue Date: Day 2 [Main] forum\tPost your response to one of these questions:\tHow might managers use the grapevine to their benefit? As a manager, how do you think you would use the grapevine to further organizational goals?\tWhat&#8217;s your opinion about Internet gripe sites like those mentioned in OB in the News (p. 311, Organizational Behavior, 11th ed.)? If you were a manager who found out that one of your employees was posting on a gripe site, how would you address this with your employee? How might the gripe site contribute to organizational business?\tDiscussion Question 2\tResource: Appendix J\tDue Date: Day 4 [Main] forum\tRead the scenario in Appendix J.\tPost a list of your three highest conflict-handling scores to the Main forum. Include a brief description of how you would manage the pizzeria scenario using a combination of your best conflict-handling styles. Explain how you would use the conflict to your advantage, thereby making it a functional conflict. Describe how your preferred styles contribute towards the solution.\tComment on your classmates&#8217; posts by suggesting strategies to further their negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion Question 1 Due Date: Day 2 [Main] forum Post your response to one of these questions: How might managers use the grapevine to their benefit? As a manager, how do you think you would use the grapevine to further <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/mgt-245-week-5-discussion-questions\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}