internal consultant with a small local company
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Question 1. Read the following Scenario and identify alternatives for the biased language: Your first job after graduating is an internal consultant with a small local
company. On our first day of work, the vice president who hired you asked you to come to a meeting where he will introduce you to the head of every department in the
company. As you stand up in front of the conference room, the voce president says, "I'd like to introduce the ______ who has been hired to help us". Imagine the blank
was filled in with each of the following terms:
Young lady/Young man
Woman/Man
Gal/Guy
Expert
Consultant
Genius
College Girl/ College Boy
Which term(s) would you prefer the vice president use to introduce you? What are the problems with each of the remaining terms? What kind of bias, if any, do they
represent.
Question 2. Select an appropriate management technique.
You and your teammate are working on a presentation that will be given at a budget meeting on Monday. On Thursday night, you think the project is far from complete.
You'd like the presentation to be as polished as possible, so you suggest to your teammate that you do get together over the weekend to finish it. he says that he
wants to finish the presentation by Friday because he wants to relax over the weekend. You begin to argue. You Know you won't be able to complete the presentation in
one day. What is the cause of this conflict and how would you respond?
In a memo to your instructor, explain how you could use each of the following conflict management techniques:
Avoid: How could you avoid dealing with the conflict?
Accommodate: What would you do to accommodate your teammate?
Compete: What would a competitive approach look like?
Compromise: What would a compromise look like?
Collaborate: what would you do to try to collaborate?
Then identify the approach you would recommend and explain your selection.
Question 3. Analyzing team effectiveness.
Select a recent team experience in which you participated, whether for a sport, organization, or class project. In a few paragraphs describe the team and identify the
goal of the activity. Then outline the pros and cons of the experience. was the team successful? Which benefits of effective team work did your group experience? Did
conflict occur? What changes may have improved the team's effectiveness?

