Your Company Is Replacing the Accounting System in the Purchasing

question 102

Essay

Your company is replacing the accounting system in the purchasing department. As a member of accounting department, you are assigned to the planning committee for the project. Your primary responsibility is to ensure the project does not go over budget. At the first planning meeting you discover the planing committee consists of one IT developer and yourself. Prepare an email to send to your boss requesting increasing the number of people on the planning committee. Specify who you would like to include and why.

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Definitions:

Motivation

The processes that account for an individual's intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal.

Perception

The process by which we receive and interpret information from our environment.

Equity Theory

A theory of motivation that posits employees are motivated to achieve a balance between their inputs and outcomes in relation to the inputs and outcomes of others.

Hierarchy of Needs Theory

A psychological theory proposed by Abraham Maslow that outlines a five-tier model of human needs, from basic physiological needs to self-actualization.