Problem Discovery and Definition: Define and describe the research objectives for a restaurant business, and a nightclub business. Compare and contrast the two.
1) How would you conduct the selection of exploratory research technique for a restaurant.
2) How would you conduct the selection of exploratory research technique for a nightclub.
3) Who is the best communicator you know? Why do you consider that person to be so? Who is the best listener you have ever known? Describe what that person does that makes him or her so good at listening.
4) What methods have these individuals used in overcoming barriers to communication that are physical? Status based? Cultural? Linguistic?
5) How might the characteristics of communication you identified in these individuals be used in the supervisor-subordinate relationship?
6) Do you believe that legal quotas are necessary to increase the diversity of top management teams? How can companies leverage the increasing numbers of women on corporate boards?
7) Discuss how diversity and creativity in top management teams drive group processes.