In this course, you are learning Coach Gibbs’s strategies for motivating teams. You will apply that knowledge in this week’s assignment by putting together the first part of a Motivational Game Plan. You will return to the Motivational Game Plan in each course assignment, adding additional components based on your new skills and knowledge. This week’s assignment focuses on investing in your team.

Scenario
Company Profile
Hometown Cars is a small, full-service car dealership. They offer new car sales, used car sales, and a parts and service department. Recently, the general manager left the organization, and all of the departments have been struggling to meet their profit goals. Last week you were hired as the new general manager. You understand that some big changes need to be made to turn around the company’s profits. To do this, you will create a Motivational Game Plan that will help optimize the team’s performance. The first step in this process is to identify how the company can invest in its team members. Coach Gibbs shared this week that the first step to investing in your team is creating the right environment.

Employee Observations
In your new role as general manager, you have talked to the Hometown Cars employees one-on-one to see how they feel about their current work environment. These observations will be provided in the document, Week 3 Assignment: Investing in Your Team.

Instructions
1. Review the Week Three Coach’s Huddle for a refresher on investing in your team. 2. Download the document, Week 3 Assignment: Investing in Your Team [DOCX], which you will use to complete this assignment. 3. In the document, read about these types of investment: growth mindset, job-sculpting, and work flexibility. 4. Assuming the role of General Manager of Hometown Cars, read the employee observations provided in the document. Choose a type of investment for each of the observations, and explain how it will improve the situation at Hometown Cars described in the observation. Explain whether the type of investment recommended leads to intrinsic motivation or extrinsic motivation. Be sure to

Introduction
In this course, you are learning Coach Gibbs’s strategies for motivating teams. You will apply that knowledge in this week’s assignment by putting together the first part of a Motivational Game Plan. You will return to the Motivational Game Plan in each course assignment, adding additional components based on your new skills and knowledge. This week’s assignment focuses on investing in your team.

Scenario
Company Profile
Hometown Cars is a small, full-service car dealership. They offer new car sales, used car sales, and a parts and service department. Recently, the general manager left the organization, and all of the departments have been struggling to meet their profit goals. Last week you were hired as the new general manager. You understand that some big changes need to be made to turn around the company’s profits. To do this, you will create a Motivational Game Plan that will help optimize the team’s performance. The first step in this process is to identify how the company can invest in its team members. Coach Gibbs shared this week that the first step to investing in your team is creating the right environment.

Employee Observations
In your new role as general manager, you have talked to the Hometown Cars employees one-on-one to see how they feel about their current work environment. These observations will be provided in the document, Week 3 Assignment: Investing in Your Team.

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.

God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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