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Unit 6 Team Assignment

Unit 6 Team Assignment

Q Discussion Overview/Directions Unit 6 Team Assignment Scenario: Scenario: Artificial Intelligence Medical (i.e., AIM) Inc. is a very profitable new company, and although it has only been in business for two years it has already doubled the size of its workforce and quadrupled it profits. The CEO/founder 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 executive salaries are determined and find ways to motivate the project teams. The project teams typically are assigned to an artificial intelligence product such as a robot to perform routine surgeries or diagnostic software used by different medical units of a hospital for patient diagnosis. The new CEO tasked your employee team with finding a solution to the inequity in pay at the company and to address the lack of motivation for the 125 technicians and medical staff that work in project teams of 25 employees each. Each technician or staff member receives a salary of $35,000 per year while the CEO and V.P.s receive $500,000 per year (the CEO also holds 10% of the company stock) and the managers receive $50,000 per year. There is a CEO, 2 VPs (Manufacturing and Finance), a Marketing Manager, a Sales/Customer Service Manager, and a Technical Support Manager along with the 125 technology-savvy employees who work for the company. Your team should address these checklist items in your team PowerPoint® presentation due in Unit 6: • 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). • Apply at least two teamwork concepts and at least six (6) team process steps from the Learning Activity for improving the company project team effectiveness and motivation at AIM Inc. to address the assigned response to the CEO. • Explain how each of you, as a team member, contributed to the team success to address the CEO's concerns. • Have the assigned team member submit the Team PowerPoint presentation in a minimum of 10 slides with additional title and reference slides using 24-point font to the Dropbox. The presentation should be titled Team X_Unit 6 Assignment (insert assigned team letter in place of X) and each slide should have no more than five bulleted points and explanations should be placed below each slide in the notes section or provide an audio explanation for each slide. *Scholarly sources have been put through a peer-review by experts to ascertain that the content is original, proves any statements or claims with viable research, etc. Select "Library" under the Academic Tools area. Then select "Peer Reviewed" before doing your search on a topic. Access the rubric for Team Assignment 1 Do not forget each member of the team must submit his/her individual Assignment 2 team member contribution assessment to the Unit 6 Assignment 2 Dropbox.

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? Team work is defined as a process of interaction among members (Schmutz, Meier & Manser, 2019). ? It is done to achieve a common goal and meet task demand. ? Trust and recognition are essential in team building.Clarification regarding the role, honest communication, and goal setting. ? Improve the organization's capability to adapt to changes. ?Frustration of the employees regarding income inequality ?Social media messages about the benefits inequity ?Lack of motivation for teams at the company ?Change of way of executive salary ?Lack of direction for allocating resources equally ? Determine a solution to address unequal benefits at AIM inc. ? Redefine the company’s pay structure in 3 months.