Analyze your current leadership skills based on what you have learned in this course. Identify your primary style of leadership. Identify 2 leadership theories/styles that would be beneficial to your current/future leadership role.

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Leadership style

  • Analyze your current leadership skills based on what you have learned in this course.
  • Identify your primary style of leadership.
  • Identify 2 leadership theories/styles that would be beneficial to your current/future leadership role.
    • Summarize your understanding of both.
    • Explain how you would apply both to make you a more effective leader.
    • Illustrate 2 positive outcomes that you would expect to occur from each.
  • Examine your results from the following assessments completed throughout the term: Authentic Leadership and Emotional Intelligence.
    • Summarize each area and identify 2 areas within each assessment you wish to further develop.
    • Identify how you will develop each over the next year and how it will make you a more effective leader.
    • Illustrate 2 positive outcomes that you would expect to occur from each.
  • Develop a personal leadership philosophy and support your ideas with material from this course and outside research.
    • Provide an example where your leadership philosophy can be applied to lead an organizational change.
    • Your leadership philosophy does not have to be any specific leadership model we reviewed. Rather, it should represent your trajectory of leadership as it applies to your career aspirations. Consider your leadership style, personality, career path, and the industry you work (or wish to work in) and determine which leadership skills will be most effective.

Do you think selling products with built-in obsolescence is an ethical way to do business?

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Week 5: Interactive activity

5.1 Learning Outcomes:

  • Monitor and manage the solution
  • Verify the solution
  • Use adaptive techniques
  • Develop ethical solutions

5.2 Action Required:

Read the following statement:

Built-in obsolescence means designing products that will degrade over time or otherwise need to be replaced. Many products depend on built-in obsolescence to ensure sales, such as light bulbs, batteries, and electronic devices.

5.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

Do you think selling products with built-in obsolescence is an ethical way to do business?

5.4 Instructions

  • Answer the question in test your knowledge section.
  • Post your answer in the discussion board using the discussion link below (Week5: Interactive learning Discussion)

Briefly describe the context. In other words, tell me what I need to know to understand your analysis.

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Management Question

Assignment Instructions:

Good writing skills are essential for success in any academic or professional work. This is particularly true for people in a leadership position, where writing is the primary way to communicate ideas to lower-echelon managers or entry-level employees. Good writing is a skill that requires practice to become perfect.

The purpose of the Leadership Experience Paper is to apply the leadership concepts (from the lectures, class notes, book, additional readings,…) to your personal life: to reflect on your strengths and weaknesses as a leader and to recognize which situations align with your style, and which do not.

Task:

Use leadership concepts to systematically evaluate your leadership and your relationship with your followers. Specifically, think about a time when you were in a leadership position and when you had to influence others. For example, you can talk about a situation that happened in school (e.g., group project, school event) or outside of school (e.g., summer jobs, internships, volunteer work). Address and evaluate your leadership behaviors/style and your relationship with your followers. Please arrange your paper in the following way:

• Context. Briefly describe the context. In other words, tell me what I need to know to understand your analysis. Make sure you briefly address the following questions (i.e., one or two sentences for each question):

  • What was the setting (e.g., school, work,…)?
  • What was your main task?
  • Who were your followers?
  • How many followers did you have?
  • Were your followers similar to one another? In what ways were they similar/dissimilar?

• Analysis. After describing the context, you should relate the experience to the leadership literature. Select two leadership theories from the theories listed below.

Skills approach (CH 3)
Situational approach (CH 5)
Path-goal theory (CH 6)
LMX theory (CH 7)
Transformational leadership (CH 8)

For each theory, please do the following:

  • Briefly explain the leadership theory.
  • Apply the theory to the context (explain the connections between the theory and your situation).
    • Skills approach – Which leadership skills did you demonstrate? Explain how you demonstrated these skills. Which leadership skills did you not demonstrate? Explain how you did not demonstrate these skills.
    • Situational approach –Which development level were your followers? Were all your followers at the same development level? Explain why your followers were at this level(s). Which leadership style(s) did you use? Explain how you demonstrated this leadership style(s). Did you use the same leadership style with every follower?
    • Path-goal theory – Which follower/task characteristics were observable in your situation? Did all your followers have the same follower characteristics? Explain these characteristics. Which leadership styles did you use? Explain how you demonstrated these leadership styles.
    • LMX theory – Which of your followers were in the in-group and which were in the out-group? Which phases of leadership making did you go through? Explain how you went through these different phases.
    • Transformational leadership – Which transformational factors did you demonstrate? Explain how you demonstrated these factors. Which transformational factors did you not demonstrate? Explain how you did not demonstrate these factors.
  • Analyze your performance.
    • According to this theory, were you an effective leader? Why/Why not?
    • According to this theory, what could you have done differently to be a more effective leader?

• Conclusion. After analyzing your leadership, provide an overall summary of your leadership.

  • What are your strengths and weaknesses as a leader?
  • Based on your strengths, which situations (tasks/followers) do you think you would excel at leading?
  • Based on your weaknesses, which situations (tasks/followers) do you think you would struggle at leading?
  • What aspects of your leadership are you going to try to work on to become a better leader?
  • How do you plan to improve these aspects of your leadership?

What insights have you gleaned from this analysis? What does the company do well in regards to stakeholder relations? What could be improved?

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Stakeholder Analysis

In this activity, you will conduct a stakeholder analysis for an organization of your choosing, ideally the one you will analyze for your final project. For the data for your analysis, look for information in its annual report, and in other sources such as the company’s website, press releases, sustainability reports, etc.

  1. Begin by reviewing these examples and graphics:
  • Links to an external site.
  • Stakeholder engagement guide 4_stakeholder_engagement_for_Emerging_Markets.pdf Actions
  • 4_StakeholderEngagement(1).jpg
  • Using the Indiana CPA Society chart as a guide, create a stakeholder analysis through the eyes of your organization.
    • Who are the stakeholders? (list at least five groups). Some of your categories might be regulators (e.g., government agencies, oversight bodies like the Security and Exchange Commission); employees; shareholders/investors; supply chain vendors; sales/distribution partners; media; and interorganizational alliances (networks, coalitions, or other firms in that industry).
    • How and why does your organization engage with each group?
    • For each group, describe:
      • the value they bring to your organization
      • the value your organization delivers to them.
  • Close with a summary.
    1. What insights have you gleaned from this analysis?
    2. What does the company do well in regards to stakeholder relations? What could be improved?

What types of incentives did you get as a trainee to be more proactive and productive? Describe what kind of working documents and analysis you did there and what experiences you have gained throughout yourtraining. Provide examples of your work.

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Internship Report

Assume and write this report about the training is being taken in Company named:  NOV (oil and Gas sector) – in HR department.

https://www.nov.com/

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Prepare Power points of 16 slides as summary of this report.

Main points to assume that the training was about and writing the report about these functions:

  • Compensation Analysis
  • Daily HR services and tasks
  • Generating required reports.
  • Working and meeting managers for business strategies
  • Employee relationship

 

 In addition, the report should be approximately 3000 – 3500, single –spaced and consider taking the following format

 

General instructions for writing the final report:

The report must be written in English language.

The word limit is 3000-3500.

 

The font size is 12, Times New Roman, justified, 1.5 space.

Main headings use font size of 16 and bold.

Add page numbers in the middle bottom of the page.

 

Plagiarism or copying from other sources is not allowed.

Your work should be clearly and completely presented.

 

 

A Brief Executive Summary of the Internship

A one-page summary of the company/institution and a short account of the major activities carried out during the internship period.

Acknowledgment

To allow the student to express her/his thankful and gratitude to individuals (such as: field instructor, academic supervisor, colleagues…etc.) who help them in carrying out and completing her/his training journey. This part will aid the students to learn basic elements of academic writing. To express their appreciation in a concise and professional manner.

Table of Contents

Contents of the report with page numbers, list of tables, and list of figures.

 

Introduction

A brief of the report. The Aim of the report.

 

Chapter 1: Description of the company

This section should answer the following questions:

What is the full title of the company/institution?

Give a brief history of the company, full mailing address and relevant weblinks

What is the type of ownership of the company/institution?

State the main shareholders and their shares.

What is the sector that the company/institution operates in?

Specify the products and services produced and offered to its customers/clients.

Who are regarded as the customers/clients of your internship company (consider the end users, retailers, other manufacturers, employees,etc.)?

Provide an organization chart of the company, along with information on the number of employees. Provide a list of functions performed by different departments/divisions in the internship organization. Provide an overview off the production system or service procedure (what are the resources, inputs, outcomes, andconstraints?)

Provide a process chart of a major product and/or service.

The following questions can be classified as your major fit (Finance, Accounting, Ecommerce and Management).

  • What kind accounting/finance/IT//quality/marketing standards and principles are used in the organization?
  • Discuss telecommunication technologies (Database, Instant Messenger, Networking, Ecommerce tools) used in the company.
  • Describe the quality planning and control activities in the internship organization.
  • Describe the quality control activities throughout the life cycle of the product/service groups
  • What kind of financial analysis and decision-making methods are used by corporate treasurers and financial managers in the internship organization?
  • What types of marketing, selling, and human resources analysis are performed (cost system, evaluation of consumers, needs, product strategy, distribution strategy, promotional strategy)?

 

 

Chapter 2: Internship activities

This is the main body of your report. During the internship period, the focus of the training may on the following types of analysis and questions. You do not have to answer all the questions in the list: · Describe your working conditions and functions, such as: Who is your supervisor (include his/her name and his/her position); other team members or co-workers and what their functions are to complement yours.

  • Provide a detailed description about the department(s) that the trainee did her/his training with them. Adding all sub-divisions for this department(s) if it is available. Student can add to this description a supported chart.
  • Detailed descriptions about all tasks and activities that the trainee did them during her/his training period.
  • Gained skills and how they added value to your work
  • Other tasks that are not related to the trainee’s major that done by her/him at the company should be included in this chapter as well.
  • What types of incentives did you get as a trainee to be more proactive and productive?
  • Describe what kind of working documents and analysis you did there and what experiences you have gained throughout yourtraining. Provide examples of your work.
  • A comparison between theory (things you have learned in the classroom) and practice (things you did or observed at the company) must be made and highlighted. In this section the student can add a supported table includes which academic course (s) (course title and code) helped to perform training tasks. For example, two columns; the first one shows the course name and second column shows the tasks performed and related to this course.
  • Show some work samples that you have encountered/conducted at the company through graphs, pictures, data, drawings, or design calculations and include them in your report.
  • Lessons learnt (what the overall benefits gained from the training program)

 

Chapter 3: Recommendations

  • Advantageous that helped the student in completing the training program.
  • Disadvantageous and challenges that faced the student and how he/she did overcome them.
  • Recommendations to improve training program in the college.
  • Recommendation for the training company. Conclusion Sum up and summary of the training experience. Reference If it is needed Appendix (option) This will help the instructor to have a background about the trainee and his/her previous experiences. Also, it helps the students in writing their CVs for future job application especially for fresh graduates who do not have previous practical experiences.
  • Basic information (name, city, contact details…etc.).
  • Job objectives.
  • Academic qualifications.
  • Practical experiences.
  • Skills this will help the instructor to have a background about the trainee and his/her previous experiences

Read the case about the resource-based view in sports and write the conclusion of this case in your words. Create a discussion board thread and upload your answers.

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Discussion ch 1- 8040

2.1 Learning Outcomes:

Chapter- 1 (01-03;01-04)

2.2 Action Required: (Knowledge Application-Apply)

This activity is important because as a manager, you should understand the factors that affect a firm’s profitability and long-term survival. According to the resource-based view, a company can gain a competitive advantage from resources that are inimitable and rare.

The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding of the resource-based view by writing a conclusion in your words after reading a case study.

Case Analysis (The Resource-Based View in Sports)

Strategy and sports met in the movie Moneyball. The Oakland Athletics applied statistical analysis to the evaluation of players and surged in performance. The team’s analysis method, called sabermetrics, was unique in how it applied objective data to predict future player performance. The Athletics were able to recruit players at a lower cost due to their proprietary knowledge. Even after competitors started using statistical analysis, the Athletics benefited from their early knowledge, capable staff, and history of decision-making. All of this, of course, translated into profit for the team owners.

Competitive advantage comes from unlikely places in other sports as well. Researchers found that NCAA football programs benefit from staff diversity. Racial diversity among coaches and varied past experiences predict success. NBA basketball teams are more successful as they gain shared experiences. After years together on a team, just like after years together in a workplace, players/coworkers have a shared understanding of how work is done.

Financial resources are of huge benefit to the few universities with successful sports programs. Paying top coaches, building impressive athletic facilities, and fan support, all contribute to intangible gains such as reputation, stronger shared feelings of winning history, and motivation.

But what happens with a team suddenly loses its competitive advantage? In 1986, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, dealt with what is called the “death penalty” in college sports. After years of paying players and their families, among other serious violations of NCAA rules, the team was punished by canceling its entire 1987 season. This damaged recruiting efforts, fundraising, reputation, and shared experiences among staff and coaches to that point. It was 20 years before SMU was in another bowl game.

2.3 Test your knowledge:(Question)

Read the case about the resource-based view in sports and write the conclusion of this case in your words. Create a discussion board thread and upload your answers. (Min words recommended 100-150)

2.4 Instructions:

Read the case about The Resource-Based View in Sports & demonstrate your understanding.

What is EI and how can managers benefit from understanding EI? What role does “Active Listening” play in communication? How does the way you handle communication impact decision-making and efficiency in the workplace?

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Organization Behavior Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to understand emotions and motivations in yourself and others. Understanding how to recognize the emotions of others in different situations is a big communication tool for the manager. It is not unusual for people to fail to express what they are feeling verbally and thus leave the listener with an impression that may be false. Understanding how to read body language or facial expressions affords the manager additional knowledge as to the speakers’ true stance. It helps to communicate with meaning to the words we choose. Managers that have a good understanding of EI find it especially useful in approaching conflict decision-making and coaching employees.

In your initial post focus on:

  • What is EI and how can managers benefit from understanding EI?
  • What role does “Active Listening” play in communication?
  • How does the way you handle communication impact decision-making and efficiency in the workplace?

According to the author what is Problem Solver Profiles (PSPs). How the five different decision-making archetypes help you in improving decision-making and problem-solving skills? Explain in relation with the text you learnt in the course.

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Problem solving and decision making

Assignment Instructions for Part-I:

  • Log in to Saudi Digital Library (SDL) via University’s website
  • On first page of SDL, choose “English Databases”
  • From the list find and click on EBSCO database.
  • In the search bar of EBSCO find the following article:

Title:        “What Are Your Decision-Making Strengths and Blind Spots?”

Author:                Cheryl Strauss Einhorn

Date of Publication:        August 09, 2022

Published:            Harvard Business Review

 

Assignment Question(s):   (Marks 15)

Part-I

Read the article titled as “What Are Your Decision-Making Strengths and Blind Spots?” by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn published in Harvard Business Review, and answer the following Questions:

  1. Summarize the article and explain the main issues discussed in the article. (In 500-600 words)    (Marks 5)
  2. According to the author what is Problem Solver Profiles (PSPs). How the five different decision-making archetypes help you in improving decision-making and problem-solving skills?  Explain in relation with the text you learnt in the course. Use additional reference to support your argument. (In 400-500 words)     (Marks 5)

 

Part-II- Critical Thinking Question

  1. “Problem-solving is a daily task in any business. But what to do when significant problems keep coming back? Think about the last major problem you encountered. Did you take the time to discover the actual underlying cause or did you implement a quick fix that dealt with the symptoms? Discuss in detail the about the root cause analysis. (Words 400-500)    (Marks 5)

What responsibility should Sara take for her introduction exercise to be inclusive and respect other cultural customs outside the host culture’s practices? What recommendations you have for the student who did not want to shake hands?

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Management question

Part-1:

Ali is a successful financial officer in a banking company. He will take over the recently acquired footprint as the new regional CEO. The newly acquired banking institution has a good market reputation

On Monday morning at 10am, Ali had called a meeting. He reached the office at 9am and saw very few employees in the meeting so he got annoyed but keeping his emotions at side, he started the meeting at sharp 10am .Ali was unhappy due to lack of dedication of employees towards the organization, as most of the employees did not arrived on time.

Later that afternoon Ali met the executive team and outlined the strategic goals, objectives and deadlines. A meeting was held with the senior staff members for reporting progress. In the report it was shown that currently the market growth numbers were up and new business numbers were increasing.

A quarter later Ali had a quarterly report result. The report showed both positive and negative result. Ali reviewed the report with his staff and requested them for their input. However his request was greeted with silence. He sensed an uneasy feeling in the room.

 Questions:

  1. To what extend do you think Ali process Emotional Intelligence. (2.5 Marks)
  2. Do you think the concept of emotional intelligence is important in organizational setting? Briefly justify your answer. (2.5 Marks)

 

                        

Part-2-Case Study

 Sara, a third-year adjunct faculty member at a major university, looked at her course evaluations from students for the term just ending and shook her head in disbelief: What could have prompted the very negative comment one student made? She remembered vividly the day in question. It was the first day of class for a new school year and a new semester. Since this was a freshman-level class, students were also new to campus. New classes routinely require introductions, and Sara tried to have an interesting icebreaker. She had the students do a “mix it up” exercise where they had to stand up, move around the room, shake hands with and greet every other person in the class. The room buzzed with excitement as the new students greeted each other, and it seemed to be quite a success. The rest of the semester went as expected, and students continued to network with each other. Now, at the end of that term, Sara was looking at a student’s comment on the semester end course evaluation and was shocked. The student rated her “D” (the lowest possible) and commented: “The instructor was very insensitive and unaware. She even expected us to shake hands during introductions.” Thinking about that first day of class, Sara did not recall that any of the students participated reluctantly. No one seemed to hesitate, or to avoid the activity, or to ask to be exempt from the introductions. She wondered why the student did not immediately indicate any discomfort. Why did this student not ask for an alternative way to participate? Looking back, Sara tried to think through how students who were reluctant to “touch” anyone else could participate. While she thought of the handshake as a form of friendly interaction, clearly some students did not see things that way. How could she re-design the exercise so that students from outside the main culture could fully participate but not have to do anything that would make the giver or the receiver of the handshake uncomfortable? She also thought about the idea that religious beliefs were not the only reason for a reluctance to touch others. Perhaps students were germphobic, had skin sensitivities, or were adverse to having others touch them for health reasons. She asked herself what other inclusive instructions could have been provided, such as, “If anyone does not want to shake hands, let’s work out an alternative now, before we start.” This would have provided an option before the activity started. Also, in a low-key, positive and friendly way, any concerned student needed to be prepared to suggest an alternative action, such as, “I am not able to shake hands, but I would be very happy to do this [provide alternative].” No big loud “ugh..” no moaning or groaning, but a maturely presented alternative. It was now apparent that, for the entire semester, the student had harbored a grudge about the handshake introductions.

Discussion:

  1. What responsibility should Sara take for her introduction exercise to be inclusive and respect other cultural customs outside the host culture’s practices? (2.5 Marks)
  2. What recommendations you have for the student who did not want to shake hands? (2.5 Marks)

 

Part-3

Think about any difficult situation/conversation, which you might have encountered in your professional life or student life. Based on that conversation, answer the following

  1. Briefly discuss the conversation/situation. (1 mark)
  2. Evaluate your and others’ performance in terms of assuming the best in one another, staying calm, finding common ground, disagreeing diplomatically, avoiding exaggeration.(2 marks)
  3. Describe three ways you would approach the conversation differently if you again encountered the same situation (2marks)

 

 

Explain the three ways (in detail) with which a firm can increase the likelihood of the projects being both technically and commercially successful.

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Management Question

Q1– ‘Technological innovation is thus the creation of new knowledge that is applied to practical problems. Sometimes this knowledge is applied to problems hastily……’. In your own words, explain what can be the possible consequences of hasty application of technological innovation. Explain whether the benefits of technological innovation over power its drawbacks. (5 Marks, Min words 400-500)

 

Q2. Explain the three ways (in detail) with which a firm can increase the likelihood of the projects being both technically and commercially successful.  (6 Marks, Min words 550-600)

 

Q3– On the basis of your own research, map the timeline of the Most Important Technological Innovation in the last 50 years (1982-2022). Select one innovation as per your choice and write a detailed note about its positive as well as negative effects on the society. (4 Marks, Min words 450-500)