Task 1 350 wordsprovide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:Some senior executives believe they should rely on written information and computer reports because these yield more accurate data than face-to-face communications do. Do you agree? Discuss.How might leaders use social media to create a sense of community among employees? What do you think are some advantages and disadvantages of a company using social media to communicate with employees?The chapter suggests that very small teams (say, three to six members) perform better, and most people prefer to work in small teams. However, many companies use teams of 100 or more people to perform complex tasks, such as creating and developing a new product. Do you think a unit of that size can truly function as a team? Discuss.If you were the leader of a team developing a new computer game, how might you apply negotiation to resolve a conflict between two strong-willed members related to which features to include in the game?Task 2 350 wordsThe Superintendent’s DirectiveSynopsisIn the Carville City School District, Superintendent Porter sent an e-mail to the principal of each school asking teachers to develop a set of performance objectives for each class they teach. Teachers were upset, and a well-respected teacher accidently sent a negative message to her principal. The principal does not know how to respond.Questions:Evaluate the e-mail communications of Mr. Porter and Mr. Weigand. To what extent are they communicating effectively about the new performance objectives? Explain. If you were a teacher, how would you have felt after receiving the e-mail? Why?If you were Mr. Weigand, how would you respond to the angry teacher? Be specific about how you would communicate with her and what you would say. How could he have communicated differently about the performance objectives to influence the teachers more positively?Identify the mistakes that the teacher made when composing and sending her e-mail message.Devereaux-Dering GroupSynopsisA team just landed a major account. Although their boss thinks the team is cohesive, team members’ discussion reveals that the team has serious flaws regardless of its success.Questions:What factors do you think are affecting this team’s cohesiveness? Explain.If you were the team leader, what could you do to bring Fitzgerald into the team more and foster better relationships among the team members?As a team member, what would you do? Should the three members of the team confront Fitzgerald with their concerns? Should they inform Kurt Lansing? Explain your answers

For this assignment, you are required to complete Problem 64 (p. 593) in Chapter 12 of your textbook. Use the appropriate Excel file templates from www.cengagebrain.com. Once complete, post your Excel Document in Waypoint. Show all work.23-64) Let Yt be the sales during month t (in thousands of dollars) for a photography studio, and let Pt be the price charged for portraits during month t. The data are in the file Week 4 Assignment Chapter 12 Problem 64. Use regression to fit the following model to these data:Yt = a + b1Yt−1 + b2Pt + etThis equation indicates that last month’s sales and the current month’s price are explanatory variables. The last term, et, is an error term.If the price of a portrait during month 21 is $10, what would you predict for sales in month 21?Does there appear to be a problem with autocorrelation of the residual? Explain your answer.