...Leadership Journal Report LDR6100 Instructor: Dr.Richard O’bryant Yaoyue Tang Yaoyue Tang Leadership Journal Report Introduction The first reason that I choice this class is because my major is project management, therefor develop my leadership skill is necessary needed for my future career. As a project manager, one could not only manage a project but also will leading a project team which include certain team members from different backgrounds. After six week classes, my leadership skill has a significant improvement. I had comprehend leadership from both practical perspective and conceptual perspective. First, this journal Report will meanly focus on what I had learn from this class, analysis what specific knowledge are impact me most and how I use those knowledge to improve my own leadership skill. Second Journal report would also lists certain events to support the result of analysis and connect ideals from book to my experiments. The journal report will organized by chronological order. Week One This week is the first week of the quarter, we discussed the basics of the leadership and understood leadership from different aspects. I did not familiar with leadership before I took this class, so the word leadership is a vague idea to me. But from the first week’s class and reading, I had understand that leadership is “ a process where by an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal (Northouse, P12) ”. Beside the improvement...
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...Managerial Leadership Report: Effectively Taking the Lead AMBA 620 Section 9040 Professor Schulin August 20, 2013 Abstract Leadership is learned and performed in different ways. There will always be conflicts with one’s viewpoints. This means that certain individuals will see it as a form of power and expertise. Other individuals in managerial positions may see this as a time to shape and assist in raising the lower level staff. However, effectively implementing such characteristics takes patience and planning ahead. The leaders of a company big and small are human too and while those may bite at the chance for authority and command, others will make their environment friendly, yet hardworking. It is critical that anyone given control of their employees be aware the accountability that can ultimately make or break a company’s vision. This report will discuss detailed features of a leader named Ms. Evelyn and analyze her actions in failing to meet expectations. The failures will be highlighted in order to show the negative effects on his subordinates. Introduction The main goal of this paper is to discuss and analyze management practices and their reflection on the organization and myself. Ms. Evelyn was the manager at the on-base department store I worked for. From the beginning I could feel some friction if I were make a mistake. Fresh out of high school I did not have a lot of experience, so I was basically just learning what I could while pursuing my undergraduate...
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...Report on leadership theores 1.0 Introduction A distinction of leadership from management suggested by Gold, Thorpe and Mumford, (2010:26) indicates that Managers plan, set targets, allocate resources and steps to achieving goals while at the same time organising human resources with the aim to delegate responsibilities. The role is control motivated and focuses on completion of tasks. Whereas, Leaders are accountable for envisioning based on direction, communication, support, empowerment to instil strength and unity in the workforce. Leaders encompass motivation and inspiration in subordinates though involvement in the process, recognising and rewarding success while nurturing informal relationships and networks. Early leadership theories focused on the leaders and which qualities distinguished leaders and followers, the notion of Great man theory which Bass suggests (in Northouse: 15) is the notion of heroic leaders that are born not made, like Mohandas Gandhi. Leadership theories evolved from great man though trait theories, behaviourist theories, situational leadership, contingency theory and on to transactional and transformational leadership. The progression of theories highlights a shift in generic characteristics and behaviors of leaders to recognition of the importance of responding to different situations and contexts and the leaders’ role in relation to followers. (Gosling, Marturano, and Dennison. 2003:6) Great man theory developed in the mid-19th century was...
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...Impact Report to Senior Leadership Mary J Farmer Organizational and Systems Management for Quality Outcomes March, 2016 The Nursing Challenge Hospital readmissions and emergency room visits are on the rise particularly for patients with low socioeconomic status, limited resources, or who live in rural areas. Post-operative infections, asthma attacks, heart failure exacerbations and other conditions that could have been prevented seem to be driving this pattern. This has caused a downstream impact on patient safety and poor patient outcomes. The System/Organization A major health insurer in the Midwest completed a market analysis across their book of business and discovered a common theme. Patients were being discharged from the hospital without getting the post discharge care they required. In determining the root cause, a gap was discovered in the follow through for discharge planning. Patients would be sent home with instructions from the discharge planner and orders from their physician, but no arrangements had been made for home health care, durable medical equipment or follow-up appointments with their physician. According to Senge’s five disciplines, the shared vision discipline, defined “This collective discipline establishes a focus on mutual purpose. People learn to nourish a sense of commitment in a group or organization by developing shared images of the future they seek to create, and the principles and guiding practices by which they hope to get there”...
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...BOOK REPORT: Leadership for everyone: how to apply the seven essential skills to become a great motivator, influence, and leader. Name of Student Name of Learning Institution Abstract The following is a report/analysis of the book: Leadership for everyone: how to apply the seven essential skills to become a great motivator, influencer, and leader, by Peter J. Dean. The book demonstrates the seven key skills that enhance leadership. This document is a surmise of the main ideas of the said reading, looking at the implications the book themes has for leadership in health and humans sciences and an overview of the books personal impact. Leadership for everyone: how to apply the seven essential skills to become a great motivator, influence, and leader. Dr. Peter J. Dean's seven necessary skills to become a great leader illustrates this by an acronym L.E.A.D.E.R.S. This acronym stands for: listen to learn, emphasize with emotions, attend to aspirations, diagnose and detail, engage for good ends, respond with respectfulness and speak with specificity. Listen to learn: According to Dr. Peter, it is important that more attention in a business setting or organization is being paid for listening. Listening is the most important component of any communication and key to productive conversations. A leader who understands by listening to learn employs these tactics for effective communication: eye contact consistently, distraction avoidance, facing the speaker...
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...Authentic Leadership Development (ALD) is composed of self-awareness, balanced processing, internalized moral perspective, and relational transparency. A critical component to ALD, self-awareness is the outcome of fully accepting and understanding one’s self as a leader. Related to learning about one’s self and self-reflection, Cerne et al. (2014) states authentic leaders observe and analyze their own mental state through introspection. Related to learning about one’s self and self-reflection, Cerne et al. (2014) states authentic leaders observe and analyze their own mental state through introspection. Referring to the demonstrated understanding of one’s strengths, weakness, and the way one makes sense of the world (Avolio et al. 2009),...
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...The 4th ABCT was once one of the best brigades in FORSCOM. The 4th ABCT will once again be one of the best brigades. This brigade will be known for generating outstanding leaders and will attract quality leaders through strong and positive leadership development and an enduring climate and culture that lives and breathes leadership development. As an organization moving towards improving, key leaders within the brigade will have the opportunity to discuss leadership development during OPD/NCOPD sessions, officer calls, and with me or the brigade Command Sergeant Major personally using the open door policy. Leaders will have the opportunity to take charge of and put their mark on the leadership development of their subordinates. Over the...
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...Executive Summary Leadership is a highly researched topic and is differentiated from the term management. Both are necessary for success. Effective leadership is vital in ensuring an organisation is run cohesively and coherently. Effective management ensures a degree of order and consistency to technical dimensions (Bennis 1989). Management differs from leadership as it is about coping with complexity (Dembrowski 2007). Dembrowski (2007) builds on this by arguing that leadership, by contrast, is about relationships. ‘It is about being able to influence people to behave in a desired manner and is fundamental to change. Leadership then becomes one of the roles that managers need to be able to play’ (Dembrowski 2007 p.2). The most successful organisations will combine strong leadership with effective management and will seek to develop the potential of their people in both areas (Dembrowski 2007). Employee engagement is crucial to the effectiveness of organisations and the success of engaging employees is measured by the processes developed to allow employees perform their duties effectively (McShane, Olekalns, Traviglione 2013). This report provides an evaluation of the effectiveness of the management and leadership practices at the City of South Perth local Council and provides recommendations for improving the effectiveness of leadership. Contents Executive Summary 2 1.0 Introduction 4 2.0 City of South Perth Organisational Structure 4 3.0 Leadership the City of South...
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...ACKNOWLEDGMENT All praises and thanks are for Almighty Allah who is the source of all knowledge and wisdom endowed to mankind and to the humanity as a whole. I would particularly like to thank my Course Instructor Dr.Nadeem Syed for many insights he provided us. Discussions in the class has also proven most helpful when I was formulating my interview questions In the end, I express my deep appreciation to all the people who share their experience and knowledge with me. List of Questions: • What is leadership for u? • What traits do u think are essential for effective leadership • How do you delegate your decisions? • What are your essentials for your planning activities? • How do you manage your time? • What leadership behaviors are essential for u? • Do you use directive leadership? If yes then how its mechanism is is regulated by you? • How do you evaluate your decisions? If yes, what were the findings? • Do you think are there any performance deficiencies? If yes how do u manage them? • Which Decision procedure do you use mostly and how do you implement it • Which type of power does exercise mostly by u? • What are your future planning’s regarding your employees? The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is the central bank of Pakistan. While its constitution, as originally laid down in the State Bank of Pakistan Order 1948, remained basically unchanged until January 1, 1974, when the bank...
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...Leadership Assessment Report Scores range from 1 to 6, with 1 indicating that you rated yourself low on that competency and 6 indicating that you rated yourself high. Leadership Strengths and Weaknesses1 Ten Leadership Weaknesses: Active Listening Adaptability Analytic Thinking Analyzing Data Assessing Others Attention to Detail Benchmarking Coaching, Developing, Instructing Collaborating Communicating Outside the Organization Ten Leadership Strengths: 5 Knowledge of Organizational Justice Principles 5 Knowledge of Philosophy and Theology 5 Providing a Good Example 5 Responsibility for Others 6 Being Accountable 6 Ensuring Ethical Behavior of Subordinates 6 Financial Ethics 6 Honesty and Integrity 6 Knowledge of Sociology and Anthropology 6 Work-Place Ethics Broad Compentency Dimensions and Facet Scores2 Self Management - 0.04 Work Habits: 0 Work Attitudes: 0 Stress Management: 0 Self Insight: 0.2 Learning: 0 Leading Others - 0 Communicating: 0 Interpersonal Awareness: 0 Motivating Others: 0 Developing Others: 0 Influencing: 0 Task Management - 0 Executing Tasks: 0 Solving Problems: 0 Managing Information and Material Resources: 0 Managing Human Resources: 0 Enhancing Performance: 0 Innovation - 0.55 Creativity: 0 Enterprising: 0 ...
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...SUSTAINABLE LEADERSHIP: AN ANALYSIS ON BMW Akhil Menon Srikumar # 3936612 Submitted to Dr.Valerie Lindsay TBS 923 University Of Wollongong in Dubai TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 03 INTRODUCTION 04 COMPANY PROFILE- BMW 05 TECHNIQUES FOR SURVIVAL 05 BUSINESS MODEL 06 CREATIVE INITIATIVENESS 06 SUSTAINABLE LEADERSHIP 07 THINGS TO LEARN 09 CONCLUSION 10 REFERENCE 11 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report is basically a case analysis on the sustainable leadership excellence showcased by BMW. It describes their booming stages in their ventures through sustainable leadership. The report contains many concepts of locust form of enterprises as well as honeybee form of enterprises discussed and comparing in between which one is more preferred for better working of the enterprise. It mainly discuss on how the company works during the global financial crisis of 2008-09 and how they stood apart in front of its competitors when General Motors and Chrysler were in the stage of bankruptcy and the US government had to bail them out and Fiat bought Chrysler. INTRODUCTION The global financial crisis of 2008-09 has been a key thing for testing the efficiency and sustainability of many organizations around the globe. Most of the organizations could not survive GFC and the government had to come for the rescue of these companies. The report explains about how these...
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...Leadership Assessment Report Scores range from 1 to 6, with 1 indicating that you rated yourself low on that competency and 6 indicating that you rated yourself high. Leadership Strengths and Weaknesses1 Ten Leadership Weaknesses: Active Listening Adaptability Analytic Thinking Analyzing Data Assessing Others Attention to Detail Benchmarking Coaching, Developing, Instructing Collaborating Communicating Outside the Organization Ten Leadership Strengths: 5 Knowledge of Organizational Justice Principles 5 Knowledge of Philosophy and Theology 5 Providing a Good Example 5 Responsibility for Others 6 Being Accountable 6 Ensuring Ethical Behavior of Subordinates 6 Financial Ethics 6 Honesty and Integrity 6 Knowledge of Sociology and Anthropology 6 Work-Place Ethics Broad Compentency Dimensions and Facet Scores2 Self Management - 0.04 Work Habits: 0 Work Attitudes: 0 Stress Management: 0 Self Insight: 0.2 Learning: 0 Leading Others - 0 Communicating: 0 Interpersonal Awareness: 0 Motivating Others: 0 Developing Others: 0 Influencing: 0 Task Management - 0 Executing Tasks: 0 Solving Problems: 0 Managing Information and Material Resources: 0 Managing Human Resources: 0 Enhancing Performance: 0 Innovation - 0.55 Creativity: 0 Enterprising: 0 ...
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...Works within its Midwestern Steel Division was hit by the decline in the business in the US steel industry despite its good performance in the past. Consequently, it downsized and incurred significant losses in most of the 1980s. This entity produces two primary products including grinding media and carbon wire rod, one being recognized in the industry for its durability while the later being non profitable and only covering some of its fixed costs through volume. 2.0 What’s wrong with the old system? (a) Inconsistency with organization’s strategy The Objective of Armco Inc. is maximizing profits and sustaining its position among the leaders in the US manufacturing steel industry. To achieve this objective, Armco has adopted a cost leadership strategy with a broad appeal and has managed to grow bigger through joint ventures and expansion of its product lines in implementing its strategy. However, the strategy adopted by the Kansas City Works is based on differentiation due to its cost disadvantages such as union labor costs and inefficient plant infrastructure.Union labor costs in Kansas City were higher than those of some of its nonunion competitors, particularly those located in the Southeastern U.S. and non-U.S. locations. The Works had an inefficient plant infrastructure because the plant was designed to accommodate five times as many employees as were currently working there. (b) Subjective performance evaluation Performance evaluation was made by immediate superior...
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...Assignment layout 2 1.4 Cover page 2 2 Writing objectively 4 3 Reports 6 3.1 Purpose of reports 6 3.2 Report Format 6 3.3 Table of Contents 7 3.4 Executive summary 7 3.5 Headings and series 7 3.6 References 8 3.7 Appendices 8 4 Essays 9 4.1 Essential features 9 4.2 Essay format 9 4.2.1 Title page 10 4.2.2 Synopsis or abstract 10 4.2.3 Reference list and appendices. 10 5 Plagiarism 11 6 Referencing within the body of your work 13 6.1 Paraphrased References. 13 6.2 Short quotes 13 6.3 Long quotes 14 6.4 Same author, same year, different work 14 6.5 Documenting tables/charts 14 6.6 The Reference List 16 6.7 Examples of referencing 1 7. References 1 Introduction Good writing takes practice and there are many ways that students can enhance and support their writing to achieve sound academic results. This guide has been designed to help students meet the requirements of academic writing. In essence, this is a style guide. There are rules to follow to correctly present the original author and avoid plagiarism, and there are suggestions to follow to communicate clearly and concisely. This guide will not replace the generally accepted academic practices of using a spell checker or proof reading your work for grammar errors. Rather, this style guide is designed to support you in your writing process. You will still need to determine whether you are required to write an essay or a report, whether the work is formal or informal. Before consulting this...
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...Evaluating Business Communication Kathy Waggoner BCOM/230 March 23, 2015 Christa Deeden Evaluating Business Communication The assignment for this week was to write a report on the types of business communication to use based on the accounting scenario. Since there was no collaboration by the learning team, this report is based solely on the opinion of one student. There are various factors that need to be considered when writing a business communique. The purpose, audience and leadership style are important considerations to be made when deciding on which type of communication to when reporting on the acquisition of a company. The first line of communication would need to be between the staff accountant and her accounting peers. The type of communication that would need to be used would be an interoffice memo. A memo would be an appropriate form of communication to advise the accounting department of the due diligence investigation. The memo can also be used to share with her peers the assignment and what needs to be done to complete the assignment. The interoffice memo is an ethical form of communication for this audience. The second line of communication would be between the staff accountant and the sales manager. The staff accountant is advising the sales manager of the results of the review of JJJ’s financial condition. An appropriate and ethical form of communication to use for this situation would be an email. The next line of communication would be...
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