...this article should be addressed to David Chasmer, 1310 Morris Street, Union City NJ 07087. Abstract This paper seeks to examine the presidency of Millard Fillmore, in the context of leadership. It is my objective to prove Fillmore to be a ‘bad leader.’ Fillmore’s actions and leadership skill will be analyzed against the five aspects of leadership, specifically shared vision, modeling the way, challenging the process, encouraging the heart, and enabling others to act. Compromising toward Chaos: Failure to Lead results in Civil War Highly divisive times in world history have provided the opportunities for some of our nation’s best leaders to take charge and guide our great nation on a path that leads to success. The particular brand of success sought after could be any, from security from attack, to economic success. The great leaders of history can be measured in any number of quantitative or qualitative standards, but the ultimate issue is whether their actions benefited the nation in the long run. With that being said, I believe that the opposite of a path toward success would be a path toward division and hostility. The Civil War was one of the most horrific events in American history. This was a time where citizens of this great land were pitted against each other, which resulted in death and great financial loss. Granted, strong leadership would eventually steer the nation back toward success as a whole, paving the way toward the current status we enjoy...
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...Current Issues and Case Study in Organizational Management Term paper: MARY PARKER FOLLETT MANAGEMENT THEORIES AND THEIR INFLUENCES ON THE CURRENT LEADERSHIP CONCEPT 2 Contents Introduction: ..................................................................................................................................... 3 What is the Leadership? ................................................................................................................ 4 Mary Parker Follett Theories and their current applications ......................................... 5 The Universal Goal .................................................................................................................................... 5 The Universal Principle ........................................................................................................................... 6 The Law of Situation ................................................................................................................................. 7 The Bel cheese Factory: strategies used and their link with the Mary Parker Follett’s Theories. ............................................................................................................................ 9 Existing...
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...Marketing Management Preparing the literature: * Summarize the paper and discuss its core findings * Explain and define the core concepts (study variables) * Describe the contribution of the study (take away message) * Explain the reasoning/processes underlying the core predictions / hypotheses Analyse the research strategy * How did the authors attempt to answer their research questions? * What are the advantages/disadvantages of these strategies? * Put the respective research into a broader context? * Connect the study to practice – what is the applied value? * What are the conditions under which the study’s results are valid? * How can you transfer the results to other situations/applications? For the exam: Make a summary for every paper and learn this summary * 1 page per article * Answer the points mentioned on the last slide * Try to explain the paper to a third party in easy words * Check the tables: you should be able to find and interpret the core findings You don’t need to be able to: * Remember or describe the concrete statistical analysis methods (But you have to understand the core findings!) * Remember every single detail from the research design (But you should memorize the rough research approach!) * Remember every single construct in the conceptual model of a theoretical paper (But you should memorize some of them to be able to make examples and you should...
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...Impact on Leadership in Organizations Abstract This paper put into perspective the impact of gender on organization leadership. The paper will mainly be looking at the factors that bring about the gender disparities when it comes to leadership in organizations. It also seeks to understand the development of leadership in late 19th century and in the early 20th century. It looks at theories like The great man theory which believes leaders are born and not made and the situational theory which states that leaders are molded in conformity with their environment. All these theories are aimed at understanding how the organization leadership was shaped, and the role played by gender in their formation. The paper also looks at the mitigating factors that inform gender in leadership. The paper also looks at the issue of leadership techniques employed by both genders. It analyzes the effectiveness of both the techniques and how they affect the overall performance of the organization. Some of the difficulties confronted by women in organization leadership include confidence, excessive scrutiny, lack of sponsors and mentors for women. Other include career paths that lack empathy for women needs while in leadership, gender biases, leadership identity and lack of networking ability. The paper is not exhaustive in its mandate to tackle all the issues concerning organizational leadership. Issues like gender-based management can still be explored in future research papers. This paper ensures...
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...this paper I will discuss my primary conflict management style (Collaborator) down to my lesser preferred style (compromiser, controller, accommodator, and avoider). Conflict is an interactive process between two or more parties that requires effective human interaction. The Conflict Management Strategies we can choose from in situations are as follow: • Controlling - using formal authority or other power that you possess to satisfy your concerns without regard to the concerns of the party that you are in conflict with. • Accommodating - allowing the other party to satisfy their concerns while neglecting your own. • Avoiding - not paying attention to the conflict and not taking any action to resolve it. • Compromising - attempting to resolve a conflict by identifying a solution that is partially satisfactory to both parties, but completely satisfactory to neither. • Collaborating - cooperating with the other party to understand their concerns and expressing your own concerns in an effort to find a mutually and completely satisfactory solution (win-win). Research on conflict management styles has found that each of us tends to use one or two of the above five strategies more than the others. For instance, some people predominantly use collaborating when in interpersonal conflict situations. In other words, although there are five different ways to handle conflicts, such a person is more likely to collaborate than they are to force, accommodate, avoid, or compromise (Luecke...
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...Achieving Project Goals Simulation Businesses use projects to focus on the way strategies can be put into action to meet the objectives of a business. Through project management, businesses can establish stated objectives and perform the tasks on the project with the knowledge in completing the strategies that aligned with goals of leadership. Project management is designed to make better use of existing resources by getting work to flow horizontally as well as vertically within the company (Kerzner, 2006, pg. ). As part of project management I had the chance to understand how to apply the proper decision-making techniques by completing this simulation. The simulation provided a variety of different situations that I had to make as the Project Manager for this project. By completing this simulation it allow for me to understand the different methods that are involved in proper decision to perform a task in a project. How did completing this simulation change your perspective of project management? After completing this simulation, it has changed my perspective of project management. Initially I was under the impression a project manager primary job was to manage the process that was established through the job scope and a statement of work. Completing the simulation has proven that even if everyone understands the objectives it takes effective planning, execution, monitoring, and controlling methods to complete a project successfully (University...
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... Ben Busbee Dwight Frazier December 12, 2013 A. Executive Summary: The paper highlights the case analysis on one of the big financial fraud which occurred from 1986-2003. The case of HealthSouth is based on fraud, greed and corporate governance. The HealthSouth case shows that unethical management cannot succeed; sooner or later the truth comes out. The case highlights many key points and the major reason for the fraud was the result of failures of various standard mechanisms of control including the external auditors, the underwriters, and the board of directors, the financial market regulators and the analysts. HealthSouth was one of the country's largest providers of outpatient surgery, diagnostic imaging, and rehabilitation services, operating over 1,800 locations and reporting revenues of $4 billion. The company's management improperly accounted for some $2.7 billion of assets and earnings. Seventeen HealthSouth executives agreed to plead guilty to various charges in connection with this massive accounting fraud. B. Statement of the Problem: Thus, in the HealthSouth case, the research shows that it was close to the real life examples of the people who were “just employed”; however at the same time their transformation from the line of law-abiding citizens towards the law-breaking villains. Apparently the small compromises in morality and ethics led towards the greater compromises and as a result it turned into a full-scale commitment fraud (Johnson, 2005). ...
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...Frontiers in leadership research Spring 2010 Final paper Sofia Nilsson Altafi TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN THE INDIAN MICROFINANCE ORGANIZATION Introduction During the last two decades, microfinance has received considerable public and institutional attention – accumulating in the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 – and is today presented as the “magic bullet” for fighting global poverty. A country with a particularly interesting microfinance sector is India; in 2008, the total outstanding microfinance loans amounted to USD 8 billion, and more than 50% of all low-income households are covered by some form of microfinance product (Srinivasan, 2009). Yet, while Indian MFOs are assumed to help bring the country’s poor out of poverty, and thereby contribute to reaching the Millennium Development Goals, private capital is pouring into the sector and supporters have started to ask for financial returns on their funds. MFOs are hence expected to balance between having a social mission on the one hand, and running a profitable operation on the other. A first natural question is to ask whether the corporatized MFO manages to stay on track and deliver both on the social and on the financial side, if it is “mission drifting” or not. “Mission drift” is related to the performance of the MFO, mainly measured in how well the organization succeeds in reaching poor borrowers who lack access to formal financial institutions (Copestake, 2007). With an increased pressure from...
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...MSOL DEVELOPMENTAL CASE STUDY WRITING TIPS By Kathy Szaj PRE-WRITING: ❖ Make sure that your three selected concepts for your current paper are manageable for your paper. Specify one aspect of a broad concept when necessary. ❖ Brainstorm/diagram the relationships you see among your key course words, i.e., course focus (transformational leadership) and your three specific concepts chosen for this course. Clearly identify the interrelationships before you begin to write. ❖ Create an orderly sequence of your main ideas before you write. ❖ Suggestion: write an entire first draft as quickly as possible, then revise at least two times, followed by a final edit in which you “clean up” any grammatical or punctuation glitches. (Yes, this really works, moving past any anxiety about writing or the DCS. After all, a first rough draft doesn’t have to be good…it just has to be, so you can revise until it becomes good.) USING THE MSOL DCS FORMAT: ❖ Your paper subtitles will be: Statement of Case, (First Concept),** (Second Concept),** (Third Concept),** Action Plan, My Role as a Leader, and Bibliography. Use the sample DCS (uploaded) as a model. (Be consistent with your subtitles in capitalization, bold font, underlining and upper/lower case letters.) ❖ Make sure you incorporate at least one other outside organization that positively incorporates or demonstrates each of your three concepts. ❖ Develop each concept: define, describe...
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...| Final Paper | BMGT 312 Gender in Business | | Antoinette | 12/14/2012 | | A friend of mine was promoted to a managerial position. He assumed the position from a woman of foreign background that allowed her representatives(both male and female) to skip pass their immediate supervisors and come directly to her with any office or personal problems, from office grievances to attendance issues. Instead of “six degrees of separation” she also would invite these employees over for dinner and drinks. This relationship has continued on to her new position, whereas, whenever the representatives are in disagreement with his style of management they tend to confront her with it to insure that their wants/needs are addressed accordingly. Although he and the former manager are on amicable terms, he had to assert himself to his subordinates to make them understand his position and his policies. Communication Hearing Robert talk about the issues he was having with the staff, I reminded him to remember when he encountered a new boss who was trying to make a name for himself and how their initial reactions were - probably don’t bother me with trivial issues - and you felt that you were not getting anywhere, so you revert back to what/who you know. Communicating to your staff with what your expectations are and what’s acceptable and what’s not is one step to correcting the problem. He needed to communicate to his assistant manager’s to what their roles are and how to...
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...General Electric’s Joint Ventures Sarah Henning Marian University - International Business (BUA-310) Abstract This paper will examine GE’s international business and look at their preferred entry modes into foreign countries. It will examine the pros and cons of acquisitions, Greenfield ventures, and joint ventures. The paper will look at GE transition from one entry method to another. General Electric’s Joint Ventures General Electric used to prefer acquisitions or Greenfield venture as an entry mode rather than joint ventures. While joint ventures offer firms the opportunity to share costs and risks it also gives joint control to both partners. Joint ventures have many significant disadvantages. General Electric when entering into a joint venture risks giving control of its technology to its partners. They also would not have as tight of control over their subsidiaries that it might need to realize experience curve or locations economics. Finally shared ownership arrangements can lead to conflicts and battles for control between the investing firms if their goal and objective change over time, or if they take different views to what the venture’s strategy should be. GE has found that as much as it would like majority ownership, or even a 50/50 split, sometimes it has to settle for a minority stake to gain access to a foreign market. (Hill, 2006, p. 441) There are three major benefits to Acquisitions...
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...Developing Negotiation Skills in the Classroom: A Case Simulation Maureen Hannay Troy University ABSTRACT Effective negotiation skills are required in all positions and at all levels of modern organizations. Employees in the human resources department utilize these skills on a daily basis when they deal with such items as new hire packages, salary increases, performance issues, labor contracts, and terminations. Research indicates that by using practical, real-life simulated negotiation scenarios, learners can develop more effective negotiating skills. This paper introduces a case where students can be assigned to a management team or a union team to negotiate a mock collective bargaining agreement. Guidance is provided on how to apply the case in the classroom and facilitate the discussion at the conclusion of the exercise. INTRODUCTION Employees in every organization utilize negotiating skills on a daily basis. From negotiating deadlines and workloads to prices of supplies and contracts with unions, negotiations range from the small and mundane to the large and exceptional. A company with effective negotiating capabilities can gain a competitive advantage, reduce costs, increase profits and improve relationships (Masters, Albright & Irr, 2003). When identifying the ten managerial roles that leaders perform to accomplish organizational objectives, Mintzberg (1973) classified the role of “Negotiator” as one of the essential decisional roles that must be executed by managers...
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...Publishers. Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to Joseph E. Taylor, 67 Nicaragua Street, Parris Island, SC 29902. E-mail: jtaylor354@liberty.edu The fundamental issue at hand is whether or not Benji Watson would compromise his values by accepting a career opportunity by New Gen Health Sciences. Given the knowledge and information discovered I would advise him to decline the offer due to unsound business practices, questionable leadership, and employee exploitation. Benji performed the proper action by researching the background and current activities of his potential employer prior to his meeting with a representative. Armed with some knowledge to engage the corporate recruiter during his “Get to Know Us” event, Benji was able to confirm the information he discovered during his brief research. This information provides several key indicators of the culture, ethical foundation, and leadership of the business and is the basis for the recommendation. The partnership between an employee and employer is a two-way street. It is the employer’s responsibility to select those future employees who will assist them in achieving a successful business endeavor; likewise, it is the employee’s responsibility to ensure they can support such a commitment and align themselves with the desired activity which they will be paid to perform. Decisions regarding a future partnership should not be conducted without adequate research and guidance from both parties involved...
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...Business Research Methods, Part I Nikkei Crowder, Jessica Thompson, Delores Winton QNT/561 Anthony Matias August 13, 2012 Business Research Methods, Part I There are elements needed when conducting research, such as developing a theory and hypothesis, determining an appropriate research design, collecting data, providing analysis of the data, and revising the theory upon results. This paper will develop a research design behind the auto industry bailout and identify a sample design used for collecting data. Organizational Dilemma What was the ultimate cause of the downfall of the auto industry resulting in a bailout? This research question arising from the dilemma in the auto industry is one that many American’s found him or herself asking after the government decided to bail them out of their financial crisis. In 2008, the auto industry found itself in a downward financial spiral. Gas prices reached over $4 a gallon and the credit debacle is only a couple of reasons for the dilemma the auto industry faced. The country was facing a recession and they blame up-and-coming technologies of distracting technologies to validate and continue the old routine and procedure to fill their pockets with money and bonuses to retain the status quo in the industry without any regard to others affected, even if this method compromises their long-term strategy. Roche (2009), “This qualifies as failed management syndrome because they consider themselves royalty and...
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...this paper we’ll discuss the quality improvement systems or processes adopted by Hartman Industries in order to gain and retain more and more customers and success. According to Hartman Industries, LLC (2009) the company is considered to be colossal and a leader in plastic injection molding. To be massive and in top positions Hartman Industries has adopted strategies to manage their accuracy and exactness in regard to plastic injection molding. Hartman Industries succeeded because of their efforts in implementing and improving the ISO 9000 standards. They have come up with their own quality control programs which ensure that the quality delivered is up to the mark and as per the requirements of the present trends. The company is highly renowned for their quality work which they deliver in accordance to their outstanding quality control standards. These standards are set and maintained with the help of Six Sigma, thorough research and pertaining to the advanced technology. Identify a quality management system for process or organizational improvement As per UOP (2009) Hartman Industries can be considered as the leader and on the top position in the field of plastic injection molding. This leadership and renowned position has been attained by the company through the total quality management system which they have adopted to deliver the best quality. According to Goestch (2010) Fredrick Taylor brought the concept of total quality in 1920s. The company does not compromise on quality...
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