Question 1 You are now just about the finish your studies at Langara, ready to graduate. As some of your colleagues have started applying for jobs, you decided to do the same. Because of your experiences and grades, you were able to land four interviews and subsequently, two companies have given you an offer. Naturally, you are extremely excited and you decided to share the details of these offer letters with your best friend, Peter. The first offer letter (out of two) mentions they have a benefit where you can "make your own hours\". Upon reading further, it further states employees can set their own hours, as long as they are within the work window (Monday to Friday, from 7am to 6pm) and the required hours (37.5 hours) within the week are met. The offer goes on to say that you will also be paired up with a partner, they will be your backfill, and as long as both you and your partner can cover the timeframe of 7am to 6pm, you and your partner can set your own schedules. Question 1-1. Peter tells that he is excited for you and if he was the one that is choosing, he will totally choose the offer that allows job sharing. Based on the scenario and the information from the offer letter, is Peter right? Does the first offer letter include the benefit ofjob sharing? (/2) Question 1-2. Depending on your answer in part 1-1, if you have answered true (that Peter is right) in part 1-1, please explain why you believe that is the case. If you have answered false (that Peter is wrong) in 1-1, please explain why Peter is wrong. (/4) Question 1-3. After discussing the first offer letter, you and Peter decided to read the second offer letter. One of the benefits of the second offer letter states is that employees are given the ability to rotate to new departments every 6 months, taking on new roles each time to \"get the big picture of how the company operates\". What is the organization _b_e_l1a_\\.;i_q_r term for this type of benefit? Please provide the definition and an real world example. (/4) Question 2 - You are hired as a project coordinator for a large technology company. On your first day, you report to your manager. Your manager, a senior project manager, welcomes you and provides you with an overview of the project that you will be helping. During the discussion of the project, she mentions that team development is very important in any project and if done correctly, the project will progress so smoothly that it "basically runs itself\". She then turns to you and asks what theories on team development have you learned in college. You take a moment to think before responding. 2-1. You respond you have learned the five stage group development model in your OB class. Based on your understanding, please list in order of the five stages, followed by a brief description of each (point forms are okay). (/6) 2-2. Your manager is impressed that you know this model and decided to quiz you. If you were her (the project manager), which stage do you want to your team to be at as quickly as possible to ensure productivity will be high? Why? Please explain. (/4) Question 3 You have been working as an HR analyst in a construction company for the past two years. One day, you are invited to a meeting with some of the construction managers and specialists that work on site. During that meeting, the construction managers are explaining some issues they are having, which is leading to one of the construction projects being delayed. Upon analyzing some of the issues that were explained by the construction managers, you determined many of those issues are related to ineffective communication. 3-1. Based on your understanding of the topic of effective communication, please list and briefly describe the seven barriers to effective communication (point forms are okay). (/6) 3-2. Based on your understanding of a construction site, which two of the seven barriers to effective communication are the most likely to occur? Please list the two that you believe are the most likely to occur and provide an example of each (that is associated with working on a construction site) (/4) *Please note, multiple correct answers are accepted here. Question 4 - You just finished a long day of work and decided to watch some TV and relax for the evening. While you are trying to pick a program to watch, the default channel you are on is playing a sales training program. The trainer in the program is telling the audience that life is \"all about influence" and that the "right influence can get you anything you want in this world\". You chuckle a bit as the trainer in the program sounds incredibly fake. You think back to what you learned in your OB class regarding influence. 4-1. Based on your understanding of Chapter 8, what is influence and how is it related to one's power (or basis of power)? Please explain. (/4) 4-2. When it comes to the topic of influence tactics, given the situation that you are trying to borrow $10,000 from me (which is a lot of money!), please tell me which two influence tactics would you choose to use to ensure the highest probability of success. Please state which tactics and include an example how you will use it to influence me. (/6) *Please note, there are multiple right answers here, depending on the reason one provides