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The terms ‘management’ and ‘leadership’ have been used in various ways: from being equivalent, to holding completely different meanings. Some may say that leadership does not require any managerial position to act as a leader, whilst others believe that a true manager is the one with leadership traits. In the light of your studies so far, and with the support of academic literature as well as your own professional, and personal, experience, discuss the following:

Question 1:
Key similarities and differences between leadership and management. 
Question 2: 
Briefly analyse the culture of the organisation you work for or have worked for previously; you can also select an organisation you know well, in particular: 
2a) How far does the prevailing organisational culture affect the way the organisation interacts with its employees, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders? 
2b) Can you identify any leadership principles that support organisational values in your chosen origination?

A good discussion should evidence excellent academic and practical application, a solid evaluation and critical analysis.

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Phase II: Organizing 

(Chapter 12: Designing)

Overview: An organization’s mission and objectives are established by planning, however, managers must design an organization that is capable of achieving the desired results.  To effectively pursue the HSOs/HSs mission and objectives, managers but develop intentional patterns and relationships between people and other resources.  The resulting structure is called the organizational design, and the efforts and activities are the organizing function of management.  Designing, or organization design is defined according to Longest and Darr (2014) as “the arrangement of responsibilities, authority, and flow of information within an organization (p.583).” How well managers carry out the designing function is critical to how well their organizations perform.

For this phase of the project complete the following:

I.    Identify various individual positions available in the HSO/HS (i.e. GB, CEO, 
    PSO, LIPS, 1st Level Managers, etc)
II.    Identify and Describe the HSOs departments, team (workgroups); cluster of workgroups
III.    Identify and discuss any inter-organizational relationships (i.e. horizontal or vertical integrations, strategic alliances, 
IV.    Describe the functions and responsibilities of the various position and departments
a.    Span of Control
i.    Tall or Flat
V.    Identify and describe the HSO’s/HS’s organization design. Refer Mintzberg’s Five Basic Organization Designs:
a.    Simple Structure
b.    Machine Bureaucracy
c.    Professional Bureaucracy
d.    Divisionalized Form
e.    Adhocracy
Be sure to identify the design accordingly to the five interrelated parts provided Mintzberg: strategic apex, operating core, middle line, technostructure, support staff. 

**Remember the organization design is ubiquitous and continuous**



Grading Rubric:
Criteria    Points
Identify various individual positions    15pts
Described HSOs departments, teams, etc    15pts
Inter-organizational relationships (horizontal/vertical integration; strategic alliances)    20pts
Functions and Responsibilities; Span of Control    20pts
HSO/HS organizational design    20pts
APA format; 
Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling    10pts

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1. Describe the difference between tangible and intangible assets. What are the market and industry conditions where each may be the more important of the two? Explain why and how this occurs.
   
   2. Name one of your personal core competencies. How do you plan to leverage this competency in your professional future? Is it sustainable? Why or why not? What competency will you need to invest in and develop in order for you to ultimately accomplish your vision? Do others need to be able to identify this competency in you for it to be valuable? Why or why not?
   
   Please include at least one reference for each question

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Explain how individual differences influence organizational activities.

Identify processes and methods that can improve the behavior and attitudes of organizational members.



Within the Discussion Board area, write 75 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

As many personalities come together within an organization, the processes and daily work within an organization can be impacted by the attitudes of the organization’s members.  Sally is a clerk at your local gas station. When you enter the gas station, she is smiling and offering to help her co-workers with the long line of customers. Sally’s body language matches her happy tone. You see Sally’s co-workers thanking her for helping out.

For your discussion board assignment, share how you think being
Sally's co-worker would impact your performance. 

How would Sally's personality and attitude impact her performance and decision-making skills?

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Hurricane Sandy Interagency Emergency Management

The objective of the research paper is to conduct an analysis of an emergency operations center at one level of government during a disaster. The research paper consists of a title page, introduction, body, conclusion, and reference page. The paper will consist of six pages, including a title page and reference page.
The paper will analyze, describe, and evaluate three of the following criteria:
. the specific type of disaster (natural or man-made), the affected area, and vulnerable populations within the demographic area;
. the design and location of the emergency operations center (EOC);
. the operations structure (Incident Command System);
. the interface between the federal, state, and local governments;
. how media relations are conducted to disperse disaster information to the public;
. the modes of communication within the EOC and between the public and private sectors;
. how stress management was facilitated;
. the positive and negative performance of the EOC;
. what improvements would you suggest and in what specific areas; and
. whether or not the emergency preparedness plan is effective for the hazard.

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This assignment has three main sections, as follows.

Select an organization that has dealt with significant internal or external ethical issues recently. Examples are listed below. This will be the foundation of your case study. To complete your case study, you will need to conduct research on your selected organization and consider the ethical issues you find to be involved with it. You will also need to locate the organization's own code of ethics, if it has one. Most publish their codes online. There are examples of codes of ethics in our modules this week. If your organization doesn't have an explicit code of ethics, research general codes of ethics for your organization's type (business, legal, journalistic, or medical, for example). Be prepared not only to describe your organization's ethical issues and to furnish specific evidence of them but also to note whether and how these ethical issues have violated the organization's own code. You're going to use the ethics concepts from this course, coupled with your own system of ethics, to analyze these ethical issues by following the outline provided.

Make your own personal system of ethics explicit in order to prepare your reader for your analysis of your selected case (organization and ethical issues). You don't need to write a manifesto; rather, you should lay out your system as simply as you can, with support from our course concepts (lessons and readings) where it's useful. For example, you could say that you believe in moderation, but it's much more interesting to note that like Aristotle, you see virtue in it (good place for a citation!). Find your own balance of the personal and the academic. This is a chance for you to show off who you are and what you've learned here.

Use your own personal system of ethics to analyze your selected case. Provide your own analysis based on your own personal system of ethics of how the organization and its issues are problematic and how a solution, if there is one, might be reached. 

Note: This is an APA paper that uses and cites course material (textbook and lessons) and includes at least three additional high-quality sources as support. For these additional three sources, you might choose further work by philosophers or conflict resolution providers we've covered, work by philosophers or thinkers from outside this course, work by scholars who are thinking about the same issues you are, or commentary from media experts who are looking at the organization and its issues in the press. Whatever you do, do not rely on Google; use the library to find high-quality sources and make sure you understand who and what they are so that you're aware of things like authority and bias.

The paper will include the following sections. Some sections will be one paragraph; others may be more than one.

Introduction/thesis: Provide a strong introductory paragraph with a guiding sentence that lets your reader know what your paper will cover and why.
Facts: Describe the organization, any important events, and the related ethical issues. What has happened, and what is happening now? Has the organization violated its own professional code of ethics? How can you tell?
Personal Ethical Philosophy: You're taking a break from the organization and its ethical issues. Here, you'll explain your own personal system of ethics, both what it was before you took this class and how it has developed via our course concepts and your own research.
Analysis: Use your own personal system of ethics to analyze the organization and its ethical issues. Make sure always to relate your statements about the organization and its ethical issues back to your own standards of behavior as outlined in number 3, above.
Resolution and/or Conclusion: If you see a possible resolution of this organization's ethical issues, present it clearly. Again, relate it back to your own standards of behavior as outlined in number 3, above. If there is no resolution that you can see, that's perfectly fine. You can use a more standard conclusion that restates and adds value.

Your paper should be 4 to 5 full pages of content and written in APA format.

Organizations With Recent Ethical Issues (examples, and you may find your own)
United Airlines (dragged a bloodied passenger off of a flight)
21st Century Fox and Bill O'Reilly (sexual assault/cover-ups)
Facebook (data harvesting and its impact on the 2016 U.S. election)
Uber (alleged use of a software dubbed Greyball to avoid regulators in geographic regions where it was operating illegally)
The Weinstein Company (multiple sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein/cover-ups)
Equifax (data breaches)
Samsung (bribery charges)
Kobe Steel/Mitsubishi Materials (Japan and corporate governance)
Wells Fargo (fake accounts)
Apple (slowed-down phones as a sales tool)
Ohio State University (abuse of students by coaches and staff)
Mylan (EpiPen price gouging)
Samsung (battery recall)

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Milestone Four of your final project is now based on a workplace analysis. You should use your previous milestone submissions regarding the case study to inform your workplace analysis. This milestone considers actual work experience and asks you to conduct a detailed and in-depth version of the root cause analysis applied to your own workplace experience.  

Prompt: This milestone will cover Sections IV, Parts A, B, and C of the final project and should include the following critical elements: 

IV. Workplace Analysis a) Explain actual workplace organizational issues drawing from your own experience. b) Analyze root causes from a human behavior perspective and validate the analysis with supportive research evidence. c) Examine the impact of poorly aligned and administrated human behavior theories and concepts.  

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper should be submitted as a 3–4-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman Font, one-inch margins, and all sources cited in APA format. Use in-text citations beyond Newstrom’s text. Avoid overdependence on direct quotes. 

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value Workplace Analysis: Organizational Issues Explains actual workplace organizational issues Explains actual workplace organizational issues, but the explanation is cursory or irrelevant Does not explain actual workplace issues 30 Workplace Analysis: Root Causes Analyzes root causes of workplace organizational issues from a human behavior perspective and validates analysis with supportive research evidence Analyzes root causes of workplace organizational issues from a human behavior perspective but does not validate analysis with supportive research evidence Does not analyze root causes of workplace organizational issues 30 Workplace Analysis: Impact  Examines the  impact of poorly aligned and administrated human behavior theories and concepts Explains the resulting impact of poorly aligned and administrated theories, but the explanation is cursory or irrelevant Does not explain the resulting impact of poorly aligned and administrated human behavior theories and concepts 30 Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas 10 Earned Total 100%

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Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapters 1 and 2 of your Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow course text.

Leadership is a complex topic. Up until now, the majority of your studies have focused on ethical leadership forms, but ethical leadership is only one part of a much larger leadership picture. There is also a dark side to leadership and to truly understand the ethical side of leadership, you need to understand the dark side.
In your paper,
•    Summarize your impressions of the different dark leadership theories.
•    Discuss why leaders cast shadow instead of light.
•    Describe ethical dilemmas that you have encountered as a leader or a follower.
o    Explain ways that you have resolved these dilemmas.
•    Explain your thoughts about this week’s reading, and what you learned that will transfer to future ethical decisions.
•    Describe your thoughts and observations about the moral choices made by a public figure and how these choices fit the lesson.
The Dark Leadership Theory paper
•    Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages and formatted according to APA 7 Style 
•    Must include a separate title page with the following:
o    Title of paper
o    Student’s name
o    Course name and number
o    Instructor’s name
o    Date submitted
•    Must utilize academic voice.
•    Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
•    Must use at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed, or credible sources in addition to the course text.
•    Must document any information used from sources in APA 7 Style 
•    Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA 7 

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Topic of Discussion: Organizational Assessment Tools Based on Army doctrine, organizational policies and directives, and your personal experiences, how would you engage in the following activities?  At a minimum, incorporate two of the below standards in your discussion. 

Identify gaps between the workforce on hand and the human capital needs of the organization.
Implement strategies to close gaps in areas such as employee engagement, training/retraining, and organizational adaptability.
Develop a plan for contract support, enduring management practices, and improving organizational culture.

Reflection Questions: To incorporate into the Discussion: 

What are the generational differences between Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Gen Y?
List the educational disparities between junior and senior noncommissioned officers in the military? How will that influence the way you lead?
How have technology trends changed human resources processes in the Army?
How does the evolving social contract described in Chapter 3 influence the U.S. Army?
How does corporate social responsibility apply to the Army? What areas can we improve upon with talent management in the U.S. Army?
What is engagement? Why is it so important? What is wrong with current measures that address engagement?
What kind of systems does the Army HR have? Do you think that the systems work? Why or why not?
Why is adaptability important? Who needs to adapt? What happens if you have a Soldier that can’t adapt to military life?
What are some of the strategies to employ in order to get multigenerational workers to respond, create organization adaptability competencies, and manage a highly diverse and global workforce?
How do you see the application of practices for engaging The 21st Century Workforce

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Utilize

Required article readings

Further research you may conduct

Your experience

Compose a paper 3-4 pages of length, not including a cover page and a references page with the title:

Management Specialization

A big question that drives both employees and companies is whether a strategy should be designed and then the required performance of people to implement it should determine the required incentives for that performance, or the other way around?  Based on your required article readings, further research of sources you may conduct, as well as your experience, please compose a paper with the title: 

Should performance incentives for employees be decided before strategy creation or after?

Your paper should address the topic by integrating information from multiple sources. You are definitely allowed to also express your opinions, as long as you support them with references The paper should be 4-5 pages of length, not including a cover page and a references page You should use APA format, Times New Roman font, size 12, double-spaced, with 1-inch page margins You should post it by midnight of Sunday PST of the current week.

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Please download from Library and review in detail the articles denoted with three stars below (***) If you have time, you may review the other two papers.

Caves, R.E. & M.E. Porter. 1977. “From entry barriers to mobility barriers”. Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Cremer, J. (1995), “Arm’s Length Relationships”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 110, pp. 275-96.

*** Ederer, Florian, Gustavo Manso, (2013) Is Pay for Performance Detrimental to Innovation? Management Science 59(7):1496-1513

Frey, B., Felix Oberholzer-Gee, (1997) The Cost of Price Incentives: An Empirical Analysis of Motivation Crowding- Out, American Economic Review 87(4):746-755

Gibbons, R. 2005. Incentives between Firms (and within). Management Science 51(1) 2-17

*** Gneezy U, Meier S, Rey-Biel P (2011) When and why incentives (don’t) work to modify behavior. J. Econom. Perspectives 25(4):191–209

Holmstrom, B. and P. Milgrom (1991), “Multitask Principal–Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 7: 24-52

Holmstrom, B. and P. Milgrom (1994), “The firm as an incentive system,” American Economic Review 84(4): 972-991. .

*** Jensen, M.C., W.H. Meckling. 1976. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure. Journal of Financial Economics 3 305-360.

McGahan, A.M. & M.E. Porter (1997), “How much does industry matter, really?” Strategic Management Journal 18(Summer): 15-30

Porter ME. 1981. The contributions of industrial organization to strategic management. Academy of Management Review 6(4): 609–620.

Porter M.E., “The Five Competitive Forces that Shape Strategy.” Harvard Business Review

View

Compensation Strategies: Finding the right balance between rewarding individuals and spending wisely

An excellent discussion on the economic and motivational effects of incentives systems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQQYhUa3oo4 (Links to an external site.)

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Question 1

Write a 300- to 350-word response to the following:

Think broadly about opportunities for improvement in your department (process, product, historical assumption, etc.). What in your working environment would benefit from a design thinking approach? Why? What are the most significant effects on your organization as related to this particular opportunity? What would change if it were addressed? What would not change?
Include your own experience as well as two citations that align with or contradict your comments as sourced from peer-reviewed academic journals, industry publications, books, and/or other sources. Cite your sources using APA formatting.

Question 2

Pose a question about the material from this week (Design Thinking Approach). The question can be about something that you want more information on or it can be something that takes the conversation in an entirely different direction.
Be sure the question is pertinent to what’s happening this week, and cite appropriate references using APA formatting.

Question 3

Write a 300- to 350-word response to the following:

Sometimes research can feel like an entirely different language. What did you find interesting and useful about the readings for this week? How do you anticipate engaging in research within your department? What continues to confuse you about research and how to execute it?
Include your own experience as well as two citations that align with or contradict your comments as sourced from peer-reviewed academic journals, industry publications, books, and/or other sources. Cite your sources using APA formatting.

Question 4:

Pose a question about Organizational Research. The question can be about something that you want more information on or it can be something that takes the conversation in an entirely different direction.
Cite appropriate references using APA formatting.

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The purpose of this paper is to explain how important the direction on diversity has seen a change to that of inclusion. While diversity is still important, inclusion has moved to the forefront creating a deeper understanding of their meanings and conceptualizations. Perceptions of inclusion are often referential to an assumed mainstream in an organization. Diversity is to the growth and productivity of an organization. This paper explains the mixture of attributes within a workforce that in significant ways affect how people think, feel, and behave at work, and their acceptance, work performance, satisfaction, or progress in the organization. Diversity can provide many potential advantages to organizations. On one level it helps organizations to reach out to diverse customer groups and markets, and on another level by allowing for a variety of perspectives, it promotes innovativeness and superior work outcomes and performance.