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 Review the example of John James and the Minnesota Department of Revenue in Chapter 3 in the Public Value Scorecard textbook. Identify best practices and vulnerabilities in the work of John James from the Department of Revenue of Minnesota and offer a rationale for these conclusions. 

  Respond to the following in a minimum of 225 words:  

• The age for full social security benefits is 67 today, with more than one third of people working past the age of 70.  The ADEA was enacted to prevent discrimination against older workers.  Discuss some of the underlying situations that contribute to discrimination by age and what companies can do to avoid decisions based on age alone. Is there such a thing as reverse ageism?

                                                                       Discussion 1

 Based upon a review of the article presented by Kotter International titled The Key to Changing Organizational Culture (Links to an external site.), how is organizational culture usually formed? Who’s ultimately responsible for how or if it changes? Why do change attempts typically fail? Use and cite the course textbook in your initial post. At least 250 words.

                                                                      Discussion 2

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read The Personal Strategic Plan: A Tool for Career Planning and Advancement article.

Describe how career planning is useful throughout one’s career and is not just carried out during initial entry. Use and cite the course textbook in your initial post. At least 250 words.

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/09/27/the-key-to-changing-organizational-culture/#5adf01ae5509 

Unit VI Journal

Instructions

As a human resource manager, how would you deal constructively with complaints and anger from fellow employees, management, and customers within an organization? Are these methods effective to resolve the issues? Explain and discuss. Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.

Unit VI Reflection Paper

Instructions

As discussed in the unit lesson, resolving conflict in the workplace requires using interpersonal skills, management skills, and techniques. Interpersonal skills can consist of understanding individual differences, self-esteem, self-confidence, communication, teamwork skills, problem-solving skills, cultural relations skills, motivation skills, customer service skills, ethical behavior skills, and stress management skills. Management skills focus on the type of management skill applied such as collaborating, accommodating, forcing, avoiding, and compromising. As a member of the workforce, you must be able to effectively resolve conflict, either with the use of interpersonal skills, management skills, or by applying the recommended ways of responding to tension in the workplace (e.g., overcoming defensiveness, accepting of the tension, and resolving the tension). 

For your Unit VI Assignment, please reflect on your knowledge of resolving conflict that you have experienced or observed in the workplace. Please analyze what you have learned. Describe how your learned knowledge can be used. Also, identify how this information can be used to resolve conflict in the workplace in your current job or from a past incident you have experienced. What steps/methods were used in resolving the conflict? 

Your reflection paper should be at least three pages in length, including an introduction, a body that supports your reflection, and a conclusion. Be sure to include a title page. The title page does not count toward the total page requirement.

Unit VII Journal

Instructions

As a leader, you are expected to perform and conduct day-to-day business and networking opportunities in the best interest of the organization; however, if proper etiquettes are not followed when interacting with others, it can be costly to the organization. As the leader, evaluate how you would deal with an individual who could possibly jeopardize the strategic platform of the organization? Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.

Unit VII Article Critique

Instructions

As a leader, it is expected for you to be able to identify with the workers within the organization. This process can take place during basic observation, performance evaluations, attendance, interaction with others, and basic characteristics or behaviors. The leader must identify different personality types or behaviors and apply the suggested tactics for properly handling each type. 

Research the CSU Online Library or another external source for an article(s) that addresses different personality types or behaviors in the work place and how to apply tactics for properly handling of each type. 

Provide your opinion on the article as it applies to the following questions: 

• What is the author’s main point? 
• Who is the author’s intended audience? 
• Do the author’s arguments support his or her main point? Explain different personality types or behaviors and how to apply the suggested tactics for properly handling of each type. 
• What evidence supports the main point? 
• What is your opinion of the article? (Do not simply summarize the article.)
• What evidence, either from the textbook or additional sources, supports your opinion? 

Your article critique should be at least two pages in content length, including an introduction, a body of supportive material (paragraphs), and a conclusion. Be sure to include a title page and a reference page and follow all other APA formatting requirements. The title page and reference page do not count toward the total page requirement.

The following resource(s) may help you with this assignment.

• Citation Guide
• CSU Online Library Research Guide

please! please! read the question and please search based on the USA school based health care.

Your school district is interested in opening up a school based health center, but the superintendent needs more data to help sell the idea to the school board. Using a search engine on the internet (ie. Google, Foxfire, Bing), enter “school-based health centers”. Recommend 5 websites to the superintendent that would be useful. For each website, include a paragraph summary of how it is different from other sites.

• What types of programs should HRM put in place to promote ethical behavior and practices in the workplace?
• Why is Ethical behavior at all levels of the company important?  In making products, treatment of employees and customers, protecting company assets and employee information, etc.
• Describe unethical behavior in a company regarding practices such as hiring, recruitment, discrimination, harassment, promotions, bookkeeping, etc. that either you or someone you know experienced.
• If you know, how did HRM address it?  How effective do you feel that was?
• If you don’t know how the issue was resolved, how should HRM handle the issue?

Read the article How to Handle Difficult Conversations at Work. In your small group, you will be assigned one of the two case studies at the end of the article.

Each member of your small group will answer the following questions:

1. How could the situation or conversation have been handled differently so that expectations and concerns were communicated clearly?
2. What is your recommendation in this case? Would you conduct a formal or informal conversation, and why?

Step 1: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Take a look at the Organization Chart provided by the company.

·  Based on your knowledge of hierarchies, would you say that this team has tall structure or flat structure?

Underline your selection:

·  Tall Structure

·  Flat Structure

Step 2: HUMAN RESOURCES

The company would like to improve the culture of its team and the quality of its work. Its leadership has provided you with a Process Chart detailing how it currently applies Human Resources best practices.

 What step of the Human Resources Cycle is missing? Explain why it is important to include this part of the process.

Step 3: You have been asked to help improve the leadership style of the team leader in order to meet the team’s performance goals. The team leader has given you a description of what is most comfortable in terms of leading others.

·  Identify this leader’s style of leadership. Underline your selection:

·  Pacesetting

·  Visionary

·  Affiliative

·  Coaching

·  Coercive

·  Democratic
Explain your reasoning and list two benefits and two drawbacks to the style of leadership you identified as it relates to the performance of the team. 
*Provide advice to the team leader on how to overcome the drawbacks of this leadership style

Step 4. REAL-WORLD APPLICATION

Apply the thinking in Steps 1-3 as if you were a Leadership Consultant hired by the company where you work or for a previous employer.

• Review the organization chart for your company. Based on your knowledge of hierarchies, would you say that your company’s team has a tall structure or flat structure? How does this affect the way your team works? Explain your answer.
• Consider the work conducted by the Human Resources team at your company. What steps of the Human Resources Cycle do they implement well? What steps of the Human Resources Cycle might be missing from your company or are not implemented as well as they could be? What is the effect of this on you and your team? Explain your answer.
• Lastly, reflect on the leadership style of either yourself or your supervisor. What leadership style do you have, or what leadership style does your supervisor have? What are the benefits and drawbacks of this style for your team? What might you or your supervisor do to improve leadership? Explain your answer.

BU450 Leadership Skills

Directions: Be sure to make an electronic copy of your answer before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. Unless otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English spelling and grammar.  Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be a minimum of one (1) single-spaced page to a maximum of two (2) pages in length; refer to the “Assignment Format” page for specific format requirements.

Part A: What is charismatic leadership? 

Part B: Explain what is meant by the statement that charismatic leaders use active impression management with their followers to support their image. Provide and elaborate on one example. 

Part C: Why is charismatic leadership considered a double-edged sword that requires careful monitoring to avert abuse?

“Environmental Awareness and Organizational Sustainability”  Please respond to the following:

• Use the Internet to research one (1) environmentally aware organization and its actions. Next, examine the selected organization’s relationship between sustainability, ethical decision making, and social responsibility. Provide one (1) example of this organization demonstrating environmental awareness.
• Determine the major effects that an organization’s environmental awareness has on its sustainability. Recommend one (1) approach that HR can take to use an organization’s environmental awareness in order to attract and retain top talent.