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If you have a disability (learning, mental, physical) that affects your ability to participate effectively and have access to any program or service at Amarillo College please contact Disability Services at (806) 345-5639 . Our offices are located in the Student Service Center office 112. More information may be found at www.actx.edu/disability.
Disability Services facilitates access to all programs and services according to the ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, as well as other federal and state laws.
Amarillo College is committed to providing equal access to all programs and services, including all working, learning, and service environments that affect equal access for persons with disabilities. This commitment to provide equal access and opportunity for persons with disabilities is in compliance with federal and state law. Amarillo College also strives to provide Electronic and Information Resources (EIR) that are accessible to all authorized users.
If you find you are unable to access material in an accessible format please contact the Disability Services Office at (806) 345-5639 . This office will work in conjunction with other campus resources to address and accommodate your issue in a timely manner.
As a student you may experience a range of issues that can cause barriers to learning, such as strained relationships, increased anxiety, alcohol/drug problems, feeling down, difficulty concentrating and/or lack of motivation. These mental health concerns or stressful events may lead to diminished academic performance or reduce a student's ability to participate in daily activities. Amarillo College offers services to assist you with addressing these and other concerns you may be experiencing. If you or someone you know are suffering from any of the aforementioned conditions, you can learn more about the broad range of confidential mental health services available on campus by calling the AC Counseling Center at 806-371-5900. The AC Counseling Center website is https://www.actx.edu/counseling/ . Also, if you are in need of social services (affordable housing, utilities, transportation, food, clothing, childcare, medical/dental/vision, legal), please call the AC Advocacy & Resource Center at 806-371-5439. The AC Advocacy & Resource Center website is https://www.actx.edu/arc
The Tutoring for Success policy applies to any student whose grade or performance in the course falls below a departmentally determined minimum threshold. In either of those cases, the instructor will direct the student to the appropriate tutoring service, which may be faculty-led, discipline-specific, and/or general. Under this policy, the instructor will follow specific departmental guidelines governing the use, duration, and grade component of the tutoring need.
Students who do not attend class on or prior to the census date will be administratively dropped. Effective Fall, 2016
Students who wish to withdraw from a course must complete all steps indicated on the Academic Withdrawal Request form by the course withdrawal deadline.
NOTE: Students who are attending Texas institutions of higher education, for the first time fall 2007 and later, may not withdraw from more than six courses during their academic career. This withdrawal limitation does not include dual credit or developmental classes (Senate Bill 1231 Rule 4.10.) For more information on Drop and Withdrawal Policies, please visit the Registrar's Office Web site.
The Amarillo College Privacy Policy is found at https://www.actx.edu/-amarillo-college-privacy-notice , and applies to all Amarillo College students. If you have questions about this privacy statement or you believe that your personal information has been released without your consent, send email to humanresources@actx.edu .
BMGT-1307-002 High Performance Work Teams
Basic principles of building and sustaining teams in organizations including team dynamics and process improvement.
Student ResourcesStudent Resources Website
Notice to Students enrolled in an educational program for preparation of issuance of certain occupational licenses:
Students enrolled in an educational program in preparation for obtaining certain occupational licenses are potentially ineligible for such license if the student has been convicted of an offense. For further information, please contact:
Melodie Graves
Justice Involved Advocate
Student Service Center 117
mgraves24@actx.edu
806-371-5995
Make appointment at https://melodiegraves.youcanbook.me
You can also contact the Legal Clinic, or the faculty member in charge of the educational program that you seek to enroll in. The further information you will receive will include notification to you of your right to request a criminal history evaluation letter from the licensing authority in order to clarify your particular situation.
(3 sem hrs; 3 lec)
Hybrid
TEXTBOOK:
Instructors are here to create a learning environment. Whether you learn depends on your willingness to listen, ask appropriate questions, and do the work necessary to pass the course. College courses are rigorous and demanding; you may have to work harder and seek more help in order to succeed.
A career in business is a professional career. Professionalism is not only about how you dress. It is about how you act and interact with others. When in meetings or gatherings, professionals pay attention to one another, listen, and actively engage in discussions. They work towards a goal and avoid being distracted and working off-task. Class sessions and meetings outside of class should be approached in the same way.
Students are expected to act professionally in all courses and in their contact with faculty members, other students, and Amarillo College personnel. Faculty and staff members are dedicated to helping students achieve their professional career goals. To accomplish this, it is essential that students respect each other’s right to pursue their education in the most beneficial atmosphere possible. All students are expected to adhere to the following standards of professional behavior.
In the classroom:
1. Arrive on time to class, prepared to engage in the day’s topics,
2. Keep cell phones and other electronic devices turned off during class,
3. Respect your peers by refraining from disruptive behavior, including leaving class before the end and engaging in non-class related activities during the class session,
4. Participate fully in all in-class activities
5. Foster academic honesty.
Outside the classroom:
1. Treat email correspondence as professional communications
2. Be a responsible group member, attending group meetings and fully contributing to the group’s discussions, work products, and presentations
3. Be respectful and gracious when a working professional takes time to interact with you in or out of class
4. Care for the BYRD Business Building and its technologies
5. Honor appointments with employers, advisors, and faculty
6. Dress appropriately when interacting with professionals
7. Foster academic honesty
The Business Department endorses academic honesty as a pillar of integrity crucial to the academic institution. Academic honesty is an important step towards developing an ethical backbone needed in a professional career.
Failure to practice academic honesty is considered academic misconduct. Academic misconduct will be penalized to the fullest extent.
Plagiarism, Cheating and Individual Work Ethic:
1. Amarillo College policies and Code of Student Conduct is strictly adhered to when dealing with plagiarism, cheating, and duplication of work product. Any evidence of plagiarism, cheating, or duplication of work product will result in a zero on the work in question.
2. It is the students' responsibility to check the assignment preview to make sure the assignment uploaded correctly according to the assignment directions and before the deadline
3. In the event of a discrepancy, the instructor reserves the right to ask for an assignment confirmation number that is generated by BlackBoard, and is sent to the student’s email after the assignment is submitted.
4. If an assignment needs to be resubmitted, it will be reopened up in Blackboard for submission, or the instructor will provide an alternative submission procedure.
5. If an assignment is uploaded as a blank document and appears as a blank document on the submission screen, it will be graded accordingly. It is the student’s responsibility to review the assignment submission.
6. As instructors honor the code of confidentiality in terms of student communication and records, students are also expected to demonstrate confidentiality. Do not share confidential emails, grading feedback, or other communication unless permission is given by the instructor. If there is a concern regarding an instructors behavior, any confidential documents should be shared directly with the Program Coordinator, after discussing concerns directly with the instructor.
7. Assignments (including directions), discussion board topics, exam questions, and course content is considered intellectual property of the instructor, the department, and Amarillo College. Sharing any information outside of the class (including posting assignments to third party websites) is considered theft. Students who choose to post their completed work to a third party website (Course Hero, Quizlet, etc) will face consequences as outlined in the Student Rights and Responsibilities.
8. A complete statement regarding scholastic dishonesty can be found in the Student Code of Conduct in the Student Rights and Responsibilities Handbook at http://catalog.actx.edu/content.php?catoid=12&navoid=426
Electronic Device Policy:
Electronic devices include cell phones (including smartphones/smartwatches), computers (laptops, notebooks, netbooks, and handheld devices), MP3 and other digital audio and video players/recorders.
1. A student may not use an electronic device during a class without the express permission of the teacher. The use of cell phones / smartphones during class hours is strictly prohibited, as is leaving the room to receive or make calls unless there is an emergency. If you have a situation that requires you to be available (children, job, etc.) please express this concern to the instructor, while also being mindful of the impact your phone/texts have on the class.
2. A student with a diagnosed disability must provide the course instructor with relevant documents from Disability Services in order to prepare a precaution for the use of electronic devices that would otherwise be prohibited.
3. In all cases where an instructor has given permission to use an electronic device in the classroom, the student must use that device only in a manner appropriate to course work and avoid distractions or interruptions to peers or the instructor, including leaving the space to use such a device.
4. The instructor reserves the right to revoke the consent previously granted for the use of an electronic device, individually or in bulk, if, in the instructor’s best judgment, the continued use of said device affects the effectiveness of the learning environment in the classroom.
5. Students are expected to remain attentive and engaged in the classroom while operating their devices. Distractions such as texts, social media, and non-academic internet searching are discouraged and prohibited.
Technical support and assistance to log on to the course:
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:
After studying the material presented in the course of study, the student will be able to do the following, as evaluated by the instructor.
1. Understand opportunities and responsibilities in taking roles and sharing leadership in groups and teams. SCANS* Basic Skills, Interpersonal Skills
2. Know the importance of ethics and diversity in groups and teamwork. SCANS* Personal Qualities
3. Develop knowledge and skill in problem-analysis, decision-making task processes in teams. SCANS* Thinking Skills, Interpersonal Skills
4. Develop knowledge and skill in critical and creative thinking in teams’ task processes. SCANS* Basic Skills
5. Develop knowledge and skill in verbal, nonverbal, listening, and questioning communication for teams’ transactional processes. SCANS* Basic Skills
6. Understand and facilitate development of teams in positive communication climates. SCANS* Information
7. Develop knowledge and skill in managing problems with members, leaders, and organizations that groups and teams experience. SCANS* Thinking Skills
8. Develop knowledge and skill in managing problems with deviance, conformity, game playing, groupthink, and conflict in groups and teams. SCANS* Thinking Skills
9. Know methods for planning and implementing small and large group meetings and projects. SCANS* Information, Resources, Interpersonal, Systems
10. Know how to plan and present oral and written team projects. SCANS* Basic Skills
*Meets Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS)
Resources: Identifies, organizes, plans, and allocates resources (time, money, materials and facilities, and human resources).
Information: Acquires and uses information.
Interpersonal: Works with others, serves clients, exercises leadership.
Systems: Understands complex interrelationships (evaluates, monitors, improves social, organizational and technological systems).
Thinking Skills: Thinks creatively, makes decisions, solves problems, visualizes, knows how to learn, and reasons.
Basic Skills: Reads, writes, performs arithmetic and mathematical operations, listens, and speaks.
Personal Qualities: Displays responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, self-management, integrity, and honesty.
In order to receive your AC Connect Email, you must log in through AC Connect at https://acconnect.actx.edu .
If you are an active staff or faculty member according to Human Resources, use "Exchange". All other students, use "AC Connect (Google) Email".
BEST PRACTICES:
For every one credit hour in which you enroll, you will spend approximately two to three hours outside of class studying. Therefore, to help determine the course load most appropriate for you, use the formula: 3 credit hours (1 course) = 3 hours in class per week = 6-9 hours study time per week. (This is an 8 week course, the hours should be multiplied by 2, thus 12-18 hours a week.) 12-18 hours is should be plenty of time to get the coursework in this class done.
DISCUSSION BOARDS:
EXAMINATIONS/QUIZZES:
* Exams/quizzes are to be taken INDIVIDUALLY. * If at student is caught participating in group testing or cheating, he/she will automatically receive a "0" and will be subject to further disciplinary actions as outlines in the AC Students Rights & Responsibilities.
Emailing Instructors:
It is the policy of the Management office to hold the standards of business in the workforce. Therefore, if you need to send an email to your instructor(s):
1. Give a salutation (Good morning Ms. Lindseth....)
2. State the who, what, where, when, why and how (Please don't assume I know the assignment you are working on or the class you are in, etc.)
3. Be respectful. (Snarky emails will result in an unanswered email)
4. Proof your email before you send it. How does it sound? Is it a fact based email? (is it a win-win email?)
5. Signature (Best regards, Sincerely...)
Plagiarism, Cheating and Individual Work Ethic
Amarillo College policies and Code of Student Conduct is strictly adhered to when dealing with plagiarism, cheating, and duplication of work product. Any evidence of plagiarism, cheating, or duplication of work product will result in a zero on the work in question.
**Changes made through the Blackboard app are considered academic tampering and a 0 will be given as well as a possible course fail.**
A complete statement regarding scholastic dishonesty can be found in the Student Code of Conduct in the Student Rights and Responsibilities Handbook at http://catalog.actx.edu/content.php?catoid=12&navoid=426
is included in all assignments, reports and projects. You will have access to the report that the instructor will receive when handing in assignments. If the report shows more than 25% is copied (ie, plagerism, non-MLA cited, misquoted) the student will receive a 0 but will have a chance to justify the report for a docked grade. If no justification is made, the 0 will remain in effect.
GRADING SCALE:
90 - 100% = A Excellent
80 - 89% = B Above Average, Very Good
70 - 79% = C Average, Good
60 - 69% = D Poor, but passing
Below 60% = F Failing
Instructor reserves the right to subjectively influence the final grade relative to class attendance, participation, and attitude.
Weighted Total:
30% Assignments and attendance
25% Project
20% Discussion Boards
15% Peer Evaluation
10% Exams
100% Total Grade
ASSIGNMENTS:
* Extra credit is not available. At times, extra credit may be rewarded for a job well done or extra effort put into a assignment/discussion board, posts, replies, etc. at the associate professors disgression.
EXAMINATIONS/QUIZZES:
*You may view the correct answers to questions to missed questions after the due date.
DISCUSSION BOARDS:
WITHDRAWAL POLICY:
December 8th 2021 is the last date to withdraw.
Paperwork needs to be turned in BY the DROP Date
CENSUS DAY/ADMINISTRATIVE DROP: Students must get on within the first week of class and participate in discussion boards, assignments, etc. If student's do not log in and complete 75% of the first weeks material (Week 1 Discussion board(s), Week 1 Review and Week 1 Assignment) by Census Day - November 1st, 2021 the student will be administratively dropped from the course.
DROPPING BELOW A 70
***If after two weeks of coursework, a student’s grade is under a 70, an academic retention alert will be sent to the advisor and financial aid department.
The instructor will also require a student with a below 70 grade to get tutoring at one of the AC tutoring centers or the online tutoring website:
Please send the tutoring report to the instructor to complete the requirement.
AC Tutoring Centers:
Washington Campus:
Ware Tutoring Center
Writers Corner
Math Outreach Center
Science Tutoring and Success Center
East Campus Success Center
West Campus Tutoring
Moore County Campus Tutoring
Hereford Campus Tutoring
Online:
SmartThinking
For times and locations:
https://www.actx.edu/tutoring/
****The instructor reserves the right to hold grades until the tutoring requirement is done. A report from the tutoring center that was attended for the requirement to be completed.
Accessing Grades Online:
To view your current course grades:
Final grade will be determined by the weighted total of discussion boards, assignments, exams/quizzes, project and peer evaluation. The Instructor reserves the right to subjectively influence the final grade relative to class attendance, participation and attitude.
To view your Final course grades:
Be aware that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (as amended) does not permit instructors to disclose information regarding grades over the phone, via email, or to a third party. Therefore, if you need to discuss your grades, you must do so in person.
ATTENDANCE POLICY:
"90% of success is just showing up." ~ Woody Allen
ATTENDANCE POLICY:
CENSUS DAY/ADMINISTRATIVE DROP: Students must get on within the first week of class and participate in discussion boards, assignments, etc. If student's do not log in and access work for the class by Census Day - November 1st, the student will be administratively dropped from the course.
WITHDRAWAL POLICY:
Steps to drop: (just saying you want to drop, doesn't get you dropped from the class)
EXAMINATIONS/QUIZZES:
DISCUSSION BOARDS:
WITHDRAWAL POLICY:
December 8th 2021 is the last date to withdraw.
Paperwork needs to be turned in BY the DROP Date
CENSUS DAY/ADMINISTRATIVE DROP: Students must get on within the first week of class and participate in discussion boards, assignments, etc. If student's do not log in and complete 75% of the first weeks material (Week 1 Discussion board(s), Week 1 Review and Week 1 Assignment) by Census Day - November 1st, 2021 the student will be administratively dropped from the course.
DROPPING BELOW A 70
***If after two weeks of coursework, a student’s grade is under a 70, an academic retention alert will be sent to the advisor and financial aid department.
The instructor will also require a student with a below 70 grade to get tutoring at one of the AC tutoring centers or the online tutoring website:
Please send the tutoring report to the instructor to complete the requirement.
AC Tutoring Centers:
Washington Campus:
Ware Tutoring Center
Writers Corner
Math Outreach Center
Science Tutoring and Success Center
East Campus Success Center
West Campus Tutoring
Moore County Campus Tutoring
Hereford Campus Tutoring
Online:
SmartThinking
For times and locations:
https://www.actx.edu/tutoring/
****The instructor reserves the right to hold grades until the tutoring requirement is done. A report from the tutoring center that was attended for the requirement to be completed.
Accessing Grades Online:
To view your current course grades:
Final grade will be determined by the weighted total of discussion boards, assignments, exams/quizzes, project and peer evaluation. The Instructor reserves the right to subjectively influence the final grade relative to class attendance, participation and attitude.
To view your Final course grades:
Be aware that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (as amended) does not permit instructors to disclose information regarding grades over the phone, via email, or to a third party. Therefore, if you need to discuss your grades, you must do so in person.
This class contains the following units.
Some of the units will continue over multiple weeks.
The completion dates will vary depending on the speed of team projects.
Discussion One
Your Experiences in Teams
Team Definitions
“Work Teams and the Wizard of Oz”
Discussion Two
Team Member Responsibilities
-Task vs. Transactional Roles
-Ethics
EXAM 1 Group Activity
Discussion Three
“The Five Dysfunctions of a Team”
Discussion Four
Information Gathering and Research
-Mystery Game
Discussion Five
Logical and Critical Thinking
Assigned reading articles
“Twelve Angry Men”
EXAM 2 Group Activity
Discussion Six
Thinking Outside the Box
EXAM 3 - Group Project Presentations
Discussion Seven
Problem Solving
Groupthink
Exam 4 - Problem Solving Group Exercise
Discussion Eight
Communicating Effectively
Discussion Nine
Dealing with Problem Team Members
Conflict Management
Survivor Game
EXAM 5 Group Activity
Important Dates to Remember :
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October 25 |
First Day |
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November 1 |
Census Day |
| November 25-26 |
Thanskgiving - College Closed |
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December 8 December 13-17 |
Last Day to Withdraw Finals |
| December 17 | Graduation |
10/22/21 11:18 PM
10/25/21 1:10 PM