Author: chris

Due Week 8 and worth 300 points

Organizational leaders are expected to create realistic visions for their companies and the employees they guide, but these visions often have characteristics or properties that differ. There is, therefore, the realization that there is no one best leadership style to guide employees toward accomplishing organizational goals.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
1.Analyze the leadership style(s) of a senior executive (CEO, CFO, COO, Director, etc.) in your current or previous organization who made a positive or negative impact on you.
2.Analyze the organizational structure and culture of the company for which you work (or would like to work) to determine its approach to team development, and whether that approach helped to enhance your relationship skills in the workplace.
3.Evaluate the performance of your selected leader based on his or her ethical conduct and effective communication to determine if this leader was successful in motivating and empowering you to improve on your work performance. Explain your answer.
4.Determine three (3) best practices organizational leaders can use to motivate employees and discuss their potential benefits.
5.Discuss some of the challenges leaders encounter when managing diversity and how diversity helps business organizations better compete in global markets.
6.Develop an effective business strategy to address the challenges and issues you have identified above.
7.Use at least five (5) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
•Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.•Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
•Explain the principal theories of leadership and motivation, and describe the fundamental considerations in managing and motivating individual and group behavior.•Explain the multiple aspects of the managerial planning process and the application of various business and corporate-level strategies.•Assess how various leadership styles fit cultural differences and effectively operate in global markets.•Analyze the importance of ethical behavior to an organization’s culture and the new ethical dilemmas created by globalization•Describe actions to improve communications, manage conflict, develop strong organizational culture, and improve the ethical behavior in organizations.•Use technology and information resources to research issues in management concepts.•Write clearly and concisely about management concepts using proper writing mechanics

Locate an article concerning a recent trend in psychological research methods (e.g., use of fMRI or Internet to collect data, multicultural studies, genetics, etc.).
Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word analysis of your selected article in which you address the following items:

·        Summarize your selected article.
·        Explain the impact of the trend discussed in your selected article on research in the field of psychology.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

•    a brief outline of the law which you outlined in your presentation
•    the strengths and weaknesses of the workings of your group
•    the strengths and weaknesses of your presentation
•    how any weaknesses can be overcome in the future
•    what you learnt about teamwork and oral presentation skills

CRITICAL THINKING ESSAY ASSIGNMENT

 As I explained earlier in class, the purpose of this essay assignment is analyze a paradigm shift (fundamental changes in your interpretive framework) in your own life, that is to say, to evaluate critically the ways that your underlying beliefs, assumptions, values, attitudes, and attitudes were transformed as a result of an experience.

Be sure to provide an analysis rather than a narrative or description of your shift.  The following questions will help you formulate your thoughts as you work on your paper:

 

• What were your fundamental assumptions, beliefs, values, etc. before and after your shift?
• In what ways did these beliefs, assumptions, values and attitudes shape or influence your actions and views prior to your shift?  How did their failure to guide you lead to your shift (what contradictions or inconsistencies surfaced)?
• How did you initially attempt to rationalize these contradictions or inconsistencies?  What insights emerged from these failed rationalizations?
• How did your paradigm crisis emerge?  How and why did you realize that your framework had reached a crossroads?
• How did you move beyond your previous framework?
• How did your shift accommodate your new beliefs, assumptions, attitudes and values as well as some of your previous ones?  In other words, what changed and did not change in your shift?

 

 

Your essay will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

 

• The clarity of your ideas and thoughts.
• The extent to which the organization of your essay promotes an understanding of your points.
• The clearness of your writing, including its attention to grammar, and quality of your presentation (the avoidance of typographical, spelling, pagination, or other types of errors).
• The use of illustrations, examples, specifics, and details of your analytical points.
• The clarity of the segmentation and analysis of your shift, that is, the clearness in the identification and evaluation of the various aspects or features of your paradigm shift.
• The development of your points and the cohesiveness of your analysis (the connections between and among your points should be clear).

several character in the novel believe that their  society is Utopian; however there are a select few that disagree and think the society is dystopian. Examine the World State and argue whether the society is Utopian or Dystopian.

Selection A: A Tale of Two Cities Revolution Essay
A Tale of Two Cities describes the impact of a revolution across all aspects of
civilization. The novel recounts the response to the fall of the elite by all levels of society
during the French Revolution as represented by specific characters. Your job is to
create a hypothetical revolution of your own in a current country.
Unlike A Tale of Two Cities, your selected country need not have unequal wealth
distribution. Your chosen country’s imbalance may be based on gender, culture, religion, appearance, etc. You will need to research the current structure of the selected
country’s government and society so that you are able to clearly explain the inequalities
and their impact.
Since you are proposing a hypothetical revolution, it will not be possible to
provide exact numbers regarding the casualties and details regarding the resulting
government but you can easily make predictions based on similar historical uprisings.
Your revolution must follow the socioeconomic skeleton of most revolutions:
• There must be a large gap between the available opportunities for two distinct groups
• There must be a disparity in freedoms, either forced or voluntary, between two distinct groups
• There must be a perceived injustice
• There must be an uprising
• There must be casualties
• There must be a resolution
• There must be a working government prior to the revolution and a working
government after the revolution
Your revolution must be realistic. You must provide enough data/information to
support your assertions and predictions. You must provide enough information about the day-to-day lives of both your groups prior to the revolution and after the revolution.
Since the goal of your resolution is a stable ruling body, your new government must be
one that would be welcomed in the country you selected by the inhabitants

Design a selection procedure (interview, job sample performance test(s), cognitive ability test(s), personality inventory, a polygraph, reference checks, a physical exam if appropriate, etc.—whatever approaches you think might be appropriate) for your organization (or one that you are familiar with) for an entrance level managerial job. Be sure to build your selection procedures around the job analysis results that you obtained from the previous assignment; specifying where you are tapping what tasks with what selection procedures.  Be sure to discuss the nature of the managerial job first, and then build a procedure that has multiple parts, being sure to discuss what is known about the reliability, validity, utility and the legal concerns you might have with each part of the procedure. Finally, be sure to discuss the strategic importance of each part of the procedure for the organization (why you might be recommending each part). This document should be approximately 8 pages long, double spaced, with appropriately formatted (APA) citations and bibliography. You might need to do some research on this outside of your text.

1)The Epic of Gilgamesh – W.W. Norton – ISBN 0-393-97516-9
2)Oxford Study Bible –  Oxford University Press – ISBN  0195290003
3)The Iliad (Homer)- Penguin – ISBN  0140275363
4)Oresteia (Aeschylus) – Penguin – ISBN  0140443339
5)Enuma Elish.doc .I HAVE THIS 1
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF U HAVE THESE BOOKS OR U CAN GET IT FROM SOMEWHERE,HAS TO BE SAME ISBN.
Choose 3 of the 7 questions and write an essay for each (Do NOT do both 1 and 2). . You may use your books. If you quote directly from the book, use “” and in () state which book/page it’s from (for the Bible use standard biblical notation Gen 12:10). Use the full essay form and please write clearly. Each essay should have an introduction including a thesis statement, a body and a conclusion. The essays MUST be more than 2  pages long, double spaced 12″ font.

1)    Compare the Flood stories in the Bible and in the Epic of Gilgamesh. How are they similar? Different? Try to think beyond the plot – what are the moral/social differences portrayed. Use at least three full examples.

2)    Compare the Creation stories in the Bible and in the Babylonian Mythology. How are they similar? Different? Try to think beyond the plot – what are the moral/social differences portrayed.  Use at least three full examples.

3)    Compare two or three characters relationship to the god(s). Are they similar or different? Why? Look at multiple books (such as Gilgamesh, and in the Bible – JE, P, Etc) If you are going to discuss only two please make sure that they aren’t from the same book/author.

4)    This semester we have observed multiple male-male relationships in the Ancient texts. We identified these as Homo-social. What do these relationships represent? What purpose do they serve? Identify and discuss at least two.

5)    Gilgamesh is a hero on a journey. He evolves throughout the epic. Are the heroes of the Bible like Gilgamesh? Yes or no? Prove your point – discuss at least three Biblical Heroes.

6)    Discuss the Role of Women in the Ancient Literature we have read so far. What are the challenges women face is these societies? How do they succeed, or rather how is their success measured?

7)    The idea of life and death seems to vary from one culture to another in the ancient world. Discuss the ancient hero’s view on death. Use at least two different texts.

U CAN CHOOSE ANY 3 Q’S FROM ABOVE 7 AND WRITE A 2 PAGE ESSAY FOR EACH Q

1. Choose a country whose information is listed on the site. Read through them and see which resonates most with you. Summarize their current situation from the standpoint of water.  Use these questions as guidelines (not all may apply).

a. Is this a developed or developing nation in need of international loans?

b. What corporations are attempting to control its water supply and why?

c. Is this a infrastructure problem (poorly funded/too few pipelines or treatment plants) or a funding problem (too few taxes to develop and a maintain water delivery system)?

d. Is this a water-wealthy or water-impoverished country?  Is anyone buying land to “own” the rights to the groundwater?

 

You’ll need to do some research to determine the country’s current situation regarding their water. Your summary of the situation should be limited to about 750 words.

 

1. Compare this country’s situation to our water systems in Canada. What similarities or differences do you see?
2. Finally, research whether or not you think Canada has, or at some point should, privatize some of its municipal water supplies (water filtration, sewage treatment or both).  Try to balance the pros and cons of this against efficiency, safety, conservation.