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Found on the WetFeet.com web site, MAAP is a 71 question inventory that reveals a user's natural motivations, interests and talents for work. From a set of three options, participants select the statement with which they agree most and least. A partial profile is provided for the following trait groups: interest in job contents, temperament for the job, aptitude for the job, people, data, and things; reasoning, mathematical capacity, and language capacity. Although this is a commercial site and the ultimate goal is to sell a full analysis, participants do get to identify five jobs for which a career/match profile is provided.

This site has links to a number of articles in the following topics: General Change Management, Communication, Leadership Development, Learning, Organizational Development, Personal/Individual Effectiveness, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Teams, Time & Life Management, and Total Quality. The articles are short, but could be material for classroom discussion.

This site provides a series of notes or information about a variety of topics concerning leadership, including the role of vision, personal character, empowering leaders, etc. The site can provide hints for discussions of leadership in any type of class.

This is a clever graphic that illustrates Herzberg's motivators and hygiene factors. They are illustrated in connection to a rocket ship and launchpad. One might also want to share the data available on the importance of each factor at the following site: http://www.businessballs.com/herzbergmotivationdiagram.pdf

This presentation looks at various styles of management, compares styles in different countries, and addresses the impact of the style of management on organisations. There are also illustrations and links to additional information

This resource provides activities that can be used in class regarding Leadership

This site presents the Tannenbaum and Schmidt Continuum, a simple model which shows the relationship between the level of freedom that a manager chooses to give to a team, and the level of authority used by the manager.

This site has links to articles regarding employee motivation. Specific topics include: It's All About the Managers, Twenty Dumb Things Organizations Do to Mess Up Their Relationships with People, Set Them Free, Trust Rules, Fost Success for People, and Elan at Work. There are also links to other articles.

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter is found on a commercial site that categorizes individuals into four types of temperaments labeled Guardian, Idealist, Rational, and Artisan, each of which has four Characters, based on the Meyers-Briggs typology. These temperaments differ somewhat from the Communication Styles used in most Personal Selling textbooks (Amiable, Expressive, Analytical, and Driver). However, the Keirsey Temperament Sorter allows students to determine their own temperaments through a short forced-choice questionnaire. NOTE: Initially, the site provided information about each type, including well known people for each Temperament and Character, as well as profiles of each for free. However, over the past year, the author has started charging for the complete report and only a simple one is now provided

"Students will read about Robert Maddux's conflict model and complete an exercise to test their understanding of the model. They will also submit a self reflective paper on their style of managing conflict and whether it is the "best" style to use in their particular situation."

Inc.com has gathered some of the best and most interesting motivational techniques used by successful entrepreneurs. This series articles concern Corporate culture, Morlae Boosters, Recognition, Non-Cash Incentives, Motivation by Compensation, and Creating a Fun Workplace.

This presentation looks at various styles of management, compares styles in different countries, and addresses the impact of the style of management on organisations. There are also illustrations and links to additional information.