Summarize your results of the personality assessment and how you think these elements might help or hinder you as a leader. Explain what elements of your personality assessment results surprised you, if any, and explain how accurate you felt the results were and why.

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Managing/Leading in Business

Overview

To understand the leadership of an organization, it is necessary to understand the individuals in those roles and how they lead. When you are in a leadership role within an organization, you should be familiar with your own leadership style so you know how best to lead others in the organization. Understanding your leadership personality is an important element when it comes to understanding your individual leadership style.

Prompt

After taking the Big Five personality traits assessment, reflect on the results. Consider how the assessment captured your traits and personality and how the results can be incorporated into your leadership style and approach. What strengths do your personality traits bring to your leadership style, and what are some of your opportunities for improvement?

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Results Summary: Summarize your results of the personality assessment and how you think these elements might help or hinder you as a leader.

Describe Results: Explain what elements of your personality assessment results surprised you, if any, and explain how accurate you felt the results were and why.

Leadership Style: Pick two elements of your results and explain how they impact your leadership style.

Importance of Leadership: Describe how leadership impacts organizations and why it is important to understand this impact.

Guidelines for Submission

Your submission should be a 1- to 2-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins.

What is your reaction to Harriet’s suggestion of using the cost of debt only? Is it a good idea or a bad idea? Why? Do you think capital projects should have their own unique cost of capital rates for budgeting purposes, as opposed to using the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) or the cost of equity capital as computed by CAPM?

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The Cost of Capital Dilemma

In your readings this week, you explored how companies compute their cost of capital by computing a weighted average of the three major components of capital: debt, preferred stock, and common equity. The firm’s cost of capital is a key element in capital budgeting decisions and must be understood in order to justify capital projects.

For this Discussion, imagine the following scenario:
You are the director of operations for your company, and your vice president wants to expand production by adding new and more expensive fabrication machines. You are directed to build a business case for implementing this program of capacity expansion. Assume the company’s weighted average cost of capital is 13%, the after-tax cost of debt is 7%, preferred stock is 10.5%, and common equity is 15%. As you work with your staff on the first cut of the business case, you surmise that this is a fairly risky project due to a recent slowing in product sales. As a matter of fact, when using the 13% weighted average cost of capital, you discover that the project is estimated to return about 10%, which is quite a bit less than the company’s weighted average cost of capital. An enterprising young analyst in your department, Harriet, suggests that the project be financed from retained earnings (50%) and bonds (50%). She reasons that using retained earnings does not cost the firm anything, since it is cash you already have in the bank and the after-tax cost of debt is only 7%. That would lower your weighted average cost of capital to 3.5% and make your 10% projected return look great.

What is your reaction to Harriet’s suggestion of using the cost of debt only? Is it a good idea or a bad idea? Why? Do you think capital projects should have their own unique cost of capital rates for budgeting purposes, as opposed to using the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) or the cost of equity capital as computed by CAPM? What about the relatively high risk inherent in this project? How can you factor into the analysis the notion of risk so that all competing projects that have relatively lower or higher risks can be evaluated on a level playing field?

Required Readings

Brigham, E. F., & Houston, J. F. (2022). Fundamentals of financial management (16th ed.). Cengage Learning.
• Chapter 8, “Risk and Rates of Return” (Review Section 8-3, “Risk in a Portfolio Context: CAPM” on pp. 283-285)
• Chapter 10, “The Cost of Capital” (pp. 356-384)

In Chapter 10, the authors explain the concept of weighted average cost of capital (WACC), its components, and how it is used in capital budgeting.
• Chapter 11, “The Basics of Capital Budgeting” (pp. 385-416)

In this chapter, the authors examine various major capital budgeting decision criteria, including pros and cons.

Describe and present information from given data sets. Write a report in fluent, accurate English observing the conventions of grammar, punctuation and spelling and referencing.

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Research

You are required to write a report which presents information on two academic research articles from one of the following topics:

• The use of electric cars in the UK

• The development of PPE policy on health care in the UK

• Crime and its effects on local society

• The impact of major sporting events on the economy

A) You are required to summarise at least 2 main articles on one of the above topics. Your report could consist of the following for section A:

• An introduction to your topic

• A background to the topic

• Presentation of both articles

Learning Outcomes:

After completing the module, you should be able to:

2. Describe and present information from given data sets.

4. Write a report in fluent, accurate English observing the conventions of grammar, punctuation and spelling and referencing.

Is it fair for IKEA to prescribe that its suppliers comply with global standards that are at variance with local market labor practices and conditions?

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Business

Is it fair for IKEA to prescribe that its suppliers comply with global standards that are at variance with local market labor practices and conditions?

Analyze and evaluate the information you have learned in the reading assignments for this Module and state to whom you believe the DO should report in the larger corporate structure, and more importantly, state why you believe that.

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Aviation corporate organizational structure

Director of Flight Operations Reporting Responsibility

Discussion

A sometimes common discussion regarding the organizational structure of a corporate flight department is to whom in the larger corporate organizational structure the Director of Flight Operations (DO) or the Aviation Department Manager (ADM) should report. There are many possible debatable answers to that question, though one is most generally accepted as best.

Analyze and evaluate the information you have learned in the reading assignments for this Module and state to whom you believe the DO should report in the larger corporate structure, and more importantly, state why you believe that.

  • Provide examples to support your contentions.
  • Support your work by citing and referencing a reliable source(s).

 

Course material:

Business and Corporate Aviation Management

Chapter 4 – Running the Business (except pp. 145-155)
Chapter 5 – Flight Department Management

Practical Applications in Business Aviation Management

Chapter 3 – Operational Criteria
Chapter 8 – Human Resource Management: pp. 189–203
Chapter 9 – Team Building and Communications: pp. 219–226

How would you handle a conflict or disagreement with somebody on your team? What would you do in a situation where you are a leader and you make a decision your team doesn’t agree with? What would you do if you disagree with your leader’s decision?

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Job Interview questions

Interview questions
* Tell me about yourself.
* Name 5 things you are not.
* What are traits you think make a successful leader?
* What is the most interesting thing you ever did?
* Are you more of a big picture or details person?
* What would you bring to this job that you feel others may not?
* What is the best advice you would give to yourself five years ago?
* If I spoke with your references, what would they tell me about you?
* Describe your ideal supervisor.
* How much do you participate in meetings percentage wise?
* What is a misconception people have about you?
* What is the most important trait in order to be successful?

About Epic
* Why Epic?
* Where do you see healthcare in the next 20 years?
* If given multiple job offers, what would be the determining factor in your choice?

Work Experience
* Tell us about a situation in which you took charge of a team.
* Think of a time when you were in-charge and the decision you made turned out to be the wrong decision. How did you handle it?
* Describe a time when you may have encountered a difficult situation and the steps you took to ensure resolution.
* What type of projects have you done?
* What was the most difficult project you had to complete?
* Give an example of a time you showed initiative?
* What is an example of a problem you solved?
* Tell me about a time you were criticized. How did you work on this?

Hypothetical Situations
* Scenario: There is a decision to be made for a client in which there are four team members and one team leader. Everyone has the same experience and seniority. All four team members think that one action should be taken, and the team leader wants to do something else. The team members believe that what the leader wants to do will waste time and money for the client.

* Two situations: one where you are the team leader and one where you are one of the four others. What do you do as each in this scenario?

* Scenario: You have a go-live in a week but the physicians are not getting the advanced features they want and are threatening to quit if they do not get these advanced features. How do you solve the problem?

* Scenario: How would you handle a situation where a client is about to Go Live with the product and tells you there is another hospital that the software is not created or tested for and hospital personnel are not trained?

* How would you handle a conflict or disagreement with somebody on your team?
* What would you do in a situation where you are a leader and you make a decision your team doesn’t agree with?
* What would you do if you disagree with your leader’s decision?
* If there was someone on your team who was chronically underperforming, how would you handle it?
* You’re in a group with three other employees, and you think you should solve a problem a certain way, but the three other group members think that the problem should be solved another way. You’re certain you’re correct. How do you proceed?
* What would you do if a customer expressed a problem with one of your team members?
* Would you rather speak in front of 30 strangers, 6 colleagues you know kind of well, or 1 person of authority? Why?
* Which of the following would be the most difficult to present to: the CEO of a company, a group of 5-8 people who are pretty educated on what you’re about to present on, or a group of 50 that have no background knowledge on the information you’re presenting?

Charles is the CEO of a car company. Charles knows that the car has a defect and should be recalled. If Charles recalls the car the company will go bankrupt. Does Charles have a fiduciary duty to tell the car company’s shareholders? Why or why not?

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Unit 2 – Discussion Board Business Law I

This week you will learn about fiduciary duty. Fiduciary duty is the legal obligation of one person or party to act in the best interest of another person or party. A common example of fiduciary duty is when top management of an organization is acting in the best interest of the shareholders who own the organization.

Charles is the CEO of a car company. Charles knows that the car has a defect and should be recalled. If Charles recalls the car the company will go bankrupt. Does Charles have a fiduciary duty to tell the car company’s shareholders? Why or why not?

Identify the four phases of the project life cycle and the 5 phases of the process group life cycle and discuss the difference between both. Identify and explain one of the tools and techniques used in project scheduling.

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Unit 2 – Discussion Board Project Management

Research the project management Process Groups and the project life cycle structure in the PMBOK® Guide, and then respond to the following:

Identify the four phases of the project life cycle and the 5 phases of the process group life cycle and discuss the difference between both.

Identify and explain one of the tools and techniques used in project scheduling, (examples, Gantt chart, Network Diagrams, WBS, PERT, CPM) and explain how it can be used to manage or control the schedule.

Link to the PMBOK Guide:
https://book.akij.net/eBooks/2018/March/5abcc35b666f7/a%20guide%20to%20the%20project%20management%20body%20of%20knowledge%206e.pdf

Discuss how and what technology is used in a researched organization to forecast growth. Discuss the elements that are key indicators of the organization’s growth of its capacity. Discuss how the capacity in the organization can enable the processing of active requests for goods and services.

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OLB-7002 Week 4

For this assignment, you will develop a presentation to deliver to the management team about how to use technology to forecast growth. Create a PowerPoint presentation in which you demonstrate the key indicators you believe provide useful, accurate signs for future growth. Note the technology sources for these indicators.

Within the PowerPoint presentation, including an infographic that demonstrates the relationship between a key element of capacity and organizational ability to create and deliver its product/service. Throughout the presentation, emphasize the importance of technology to forecast organizational growth. Also, it emphasizes how an organization’s ability to fill the active requests for goods and services is dependent upon the quality and quantity of the firm’s capacity.

For this assignment present a PowerPoint containing the following:

Discuss how and what technology is used in a researched organization to forecast growth.

Discuss the elements that are key indicators of the organization’s growth of its capacity.

Discuss how the capacity in the organization can enable the processing of active requests for goods and services.

Visually illustrate with an infographic the relationship between a key element of capacity and organizational ability to produce and deliver orders for the organizational goods and services.

Provide a summary of the attached article How to Value a Company by Analyzing its Customers. Discuss a company that may benefit from using this customer-based corporate valuation.

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Value a company

1) Provide a summary of the attached article How to Value a Company by Analyzing its Customers – HBR 2020.pdf

2)Discuss a company that may benefit from using this customer-based corporate valuation.

3)If you find a piece (e.g., newspaper, magazine article, etc.) relevant to the article selected for the discussion, please provide a URL or a pdf.

Format: word document or pdf. Times New Roman, 12 points, Double spaced, no longer than 2 pages.