Assignment 3 Part I: Leadership Style: How Are Leaders Leading in the 21st Century?

Due Week 10 and worth 200 points

Choose the CEO of one of the following organizations for this assignment: Google, Zappos, Southwest Airlines, Hewlett Packard, Xerox, W.L. Gore, DuPont, or Procter & Gamble. Use the Internet to investigate the leadership style and effectiveness of the selected CEO.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Describe the leadership style of the CEO.
2. Analyze the CEO’s leadership style and philosophy, and how the CEO’s leadership style aligns with the culture.
3. Examine the CEO’s personal and organizational values.
4. Evaluate how the values of the CEO are likely to influence ethical behavior within the organization.
5. Determine the CEO’s three (3) greatest strengths and three (3) greatest weaknesses as a leader. Provide a rationale to support your response.
6. Recommend changes the CEO should consider to improve as a leader in the 21st Century. Provide a rationale to support your response.
7. Assess how communication and collaboration, and power and politics influence group (i.e., the organization’s) dynamics for the selected organization.
8. Use at least six (6) quality academic resources in this assignment. 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; citations and 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 assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze the formation and dynamics of group behavior and work teams, including the application of power in groups.
• Outline various individual and group decision-making processes and key factors affecting these processes, including ethical considerations.
• Examine the communication process, the primary conflict levels, and the process for negotiating resolutions within organizations.
• Examine how power and influence empower and affect office politics, political interpretations, and political behavior.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in organizational behavior.
• Write clearly and concisely about organizational behavior using proper writing mechanics. 

 

 

Assignment 3 Part II: PowerPoint Presentation

Due Week 10 and worth 100 points

Create a twelve (12) to fifteen (15) slide PowerPoint in which you:

1. Illustrate the concepts from your written report in Part I of this assignment.
2. Create bulleted speaking notes for your presentation in the Notes section of the PowerPoint.
3. Use a professional technically written style to graphically convey the information.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Include a cover slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover slide and the reference slide are not included in the required assignment page length. Each slide should contain no more than five (5) bullets per slide. Speaker notes for each slide must be included. Speaker notes should be at least 150 words.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

• Analyze the formation and dynamics of group behavior and work teams, including the application of power in groups.
• Outline various individual and group decision-making processes and key factors affecting these processes, including ethical considerations.
• Examine the communication process, the primary conflict levels, and the process for negotiating resolutions within organizations.
• Examine how power and influence empower and affect office politics, political interpretations, and political behavior.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in organizational behavior.
• Write clearly and concisely about organizational behavior using proper writing mechanics.

Essay number 1

What issue in society today absolutely ticks you off? What issue are you passionate about? Is it pollution? Minority rights? The war? The draft? GMOs? Deforestation? The Green movement? Overdevelopment? Landfills? Genetic engineering? Cloning?

Now, you get a chance to make your voice heard. In this project, you will write a five-paragraph PSA (public service announcement) to draw attention to an important issue we covered in Unit Five.

A PSA is an advertisement featured on television, radio, or print. It is intended to benefit the public interest, by raising awareness of an issue, altering attitudes, and potentially stimulating people to take action.

While the most common PSAs are about health or safety, we will be limiting ourselves to topics we covered in Unit Five.

Choose one issue from the list below and write a PSA about it.

pollution
land conservation
minority rights
the war
genetically modified foods
deforestation
the Green movement
the Women’s Movement
overdevelopment
sustainable development

Your PSA should be suitable to be broadcast on radio or television, so use language that is upbeat and appropriate for the general public.

Follow these general guidelines:

Use short upbeat sentences and a conversational tone.
Tell how your information can help the listener.
Call the listener to action.
Tell the listener exactly where to go or what to do to meet the call to action.
Tell the listener to contact you for more information.
Include your contact information but don’t give your personal contact information; make up a phone number or mailing address.

Your PSA must be five paragraphs long. Most PSAs are much shorter since they must be broadcast and airtime is costly, but for this project, we will stick with the standard five-paragraph essay. When you have finished writing, try your PSA out on an audience. Read it to your family, friends, or your teacher.

essay number 2

Imagine you are a young person living in the United States during the 1930s. The Depression is raging in your state and you and your family, which is a large one, is in crisis. Your parents cannot pay the rent, let alone feed you and your three brothers and sisters as well as your widowed aunt who has newly come to live with you. To make matters worse, your little sister has asthma and her medication costs a lot.

You are young and strong and have always had a good head on your shoulders. You desperately want to help your family in any way possible but the situation is very bad. What do you do?

Write a five-paragraph personal narrative describing your situation and how you choose to deal with it. Your paper must have an introduction, a three-paragraph body, and a concluding paragraph. It will be much easier to write a good paper if you follow the process of writing outlined in the writing activities rather than waiting until the last day of the unit to write the entire paper.

Here are some questions to help you brainstorm ideas:
• In what part of the United States do you live?
• What was life like prior to the Depression? After?
• What did your father/mother do for a living? Are they unemployed now?
• How are your siblings reacting to the circumstances? Your community?
• Has the government done anything to help your situation? Are they doing enough?
• Whom do you blame for the Depression? Why?

Although your narrative is fictional, you must support what you write with facts about the Depression. You may use material from the textbook, the Internet, or the library. Please avoid using Wikipedia as a source of information. The History Channel, PBS, and HistoryNet are examples of good websites to use for your history class projects. If you know someone who lived during the Depression, she/he might also be a good source. In any case, be sure to cite every source you use to write your paper. Follow the citation style your teacher prefers and list your sources at the end of your paper.

You may want to do a Google search using these key words or think of some of your own: Great Depression, hoboes, Hoovervilles, shantytown, Okies, or Dust Bowl.

The events of September 11th, 2001, add to the potential threat of powerful technologies and increase the importance of police participation in future technological developments and anti-terrorism. Weapons of Mass Destruction events, and bio-terrorism scenarios carried out by terrorists or criminals can often be prevented with local police intervention.

 

Discussion Thread Question:

What are some important aspects of being sure that local law enforcement are prepared to deal with these possible terrorist attacks in the future?  What are your thoughts?

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