1.

What are some of the key workplace factors that lead to high employee engagement? Indicate at least two of these factors and how a workplace can be structured so that a business can take advantage of them.

2.

Organizational justice is a key concept for creating an ethical workplace and engaged employees. Imagine you are a manager who is tasked with opening up a small new branch of your medical supply company in a new city. What are ways that you could implement the four forms of organizational justice? Give one example for each form.

3.

You are a management consultant. A new client comes to you in order to try and improve the productivity in their team. After talking with your client, it becomes clear that they have a team that consists of several go-getters, a fair amount of fence-sitters, and about an equal amount of adversarial employees as they have fence-sitters. Your client has four team projects that need done.

How would you advise them to structure their teams so that the team projects have the best chance of success?

4.

Why is trust the starting point for an effective team? How does it make the other aspects of an effective team possible, including constructive conflict, personal and group commitment to goals, and a team where members are held accountable?

5.

How is profit sharing connected to an open book management style and employee empowerment?