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Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 350–500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Part 1

The style approach (also called behavior theory) asserts that effective leaders behave in certain ways. You can become an effective leader by watching and replicating how effective leaders behave and act. The two classifications of behaviors associated with the style approach are task behaviors and relationship behaviors.

Discuss the following for this assignment:

• Do you  feel your leadership style is more task or relationship-oriented? Explain.      
• Think of a  recent negative or positive experience where you were required to lead an individual or group of people (school, home, work, community, etc.).  Describe where do you think you would plot on Blake and Mouton’s  managerial leadership grid?

Part 2

Find resources on the great man theory, trait theory, and skills theory. Respond to the following questions: 

• Which theory do you think best describes Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela? Justify your answer. 
• Do you think some leaders are born leaders? Justify your answer.

In addition to addressing all requirements of the assignments, model answer includes the following:

• Decisions      of who fits which theory will vary; however, your justification should align to the following facts about each theory:
  • Great Man theory: This theory posits that some individuals are born with the destiny to be a great leader. It is like a  divine purpose. Leaders are destined from birth.
  • Trait theory: This theory considers that some individuals are born with specific traits that are consistently found in great leaders. The theory believes that there are a group of traits or       characteristics that leaders are born with that are not found in  non-leaders. It is the theory that leaders are made.
  • Skills  theory: This theory postulates that there are specific skills (knowledge and abilities) that non-leaders can  learn or develop to become effective leaders.
• Opinions of whether leaders are born or made will vary, but you should be able to justify your opinions using the leadership theories or scholarly research on  theories.
• Recognize that situations open the opportunities for leaders to lead, or  environmental frustrations create the impetus to lead to relieve a pain or  to right a wrong. However, anyone who is compelled to address a situation  cannot be a leader. Sometimes they are the followers in the background      supporting the efforts on the front line.
• Properly cite the required reading materials

discuss how you might use a simulator like this in real-life if, for example, you were running a business like this. 

5. Refer to chapter 2 of the book: If you were setting up a new business like this, what kind of systems would you use? MIS, DSS, EIS, ERP, Cloud? 

6. Refer to chapter 3 of the book: How might you use Data Analytics, BI, etc. in this business. 7. Any closing comments 

from the youtubevideo below:

  From the discussion preparation, evaluate the fairness of the compensation packages for two CEOs for a specific period, based on their organizations’ performance during that period. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNKofRvDO8#t=59 

MUST BE IN APA FORMAT

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This week’s interactive lecture and Chapter 3 of the course text (Hill, 2013) discussed the importance and use of PMO project management standards and metrics.

• Describe the distinction between PMO project management standards and metrics.

Additionally, respond to one of the following options:

• Identify an organization that has a PMO (which may be based on your work experience). Give an example of a project management standard and an example of a project management metric. Describe how each advances the organization’s project management effectiveness.

– or –

• Identify an organization that could use a PMO. Recommend an example of a project management standard and an example of a project management metric. Describe how each would advance the organization’s project management effectiveness.

In the roles of social change agent, leader, and advocate, human services professionals have many responsibilities. At the regional level, multiple or missing standards, guidelines, laws, and regulations may pose challenges to human services professions. As a human services professional, you should be aware not only of your responsibilities, but also of any regional-level challenges you may encounter when attempting to fulfill your responsibilities.

To prepare:

• Select a regional-level challenge related to human and social services professions and/or the roles and responsibilities of human and social services professionals. This should be a challenge you or the human services profession might face when attempting to address issues at the regional level, such as funding or available resources. Regional may include but is not limited to your local community, geographical zone, county, state/province, or surrounding locality.
• Then, think about why addressing the challenge is important to the profession, as well as what difference the challenge’s resolution or improvement might make.

With these thoughts in mind:

By Day 4

Post the name of your region, as well as a brief description of the challenge you selected. Explain why addressing this challenge is important to the profession and what difference its resolution or improvement might make. Explain how you might apply change, leadership, and/or advocacy theories and processes to address the challenge. Describe the ethical challenges that might come into play when attempting to address the challenges. Be specific, and provide examples to illustrate your points.

Discussion Board 2

Library Research Assignment

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write one page that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Research the project management Process Groups and the project life cycle structure in the PMBOK^® Guide, and then respond to the following:

When starting a project, why would a project charter—as described in the PMBOK^® Guide’s Develop Project Charter Process of the Initiating Process Group—be important?

What is the purpose of the scope statement produced during the Define Scope process of planning the project?

Explain how the project management Process Group phases are similar to, yet different from, the project life cycle phases.

Health Literacy and Marketing

Janet is the health care administrator at a major hospital who is tasked with addressing an issue with recent prescription requests of a particular drug and complaints of overdoses in patients seen in the last three months. This issue is a top priority, not only for patient safety, but also because this prescription drug has received extensive marketing and promotion in the hospital over the past three months. Patients are now complaining that the marketing that promotes the prescription drug as being extremely safe is a direct lie. After speaking with several of the patients and providers of care, Janet has requested copies of each prescription ordered for the patients who have been screened.
After poring over hundreds of prescription orders, Janet has arrived at three conclusions. All overdoses occurred in one department with four providers who primarily see and treat patients that are non-native English speakers and who do not have family members or relatives at home to assist with providing care. Specifically, Janet notices that the issue is linked with the directions on the quantity of medication administered and that this quantity has been misinterpreted by the patients who have suffered an overdose. With a solution in mind, Janet is calling the department and pharmacy to implement a fix to avoid potential overdoses within the next few hours.

In what ways might health literacy account for the issues described in the scenario? What considerations should you keep in mind as a health care administrator to ensure that marketing of programs or services are consistent with the health literacy levels of your target population?

For this Discussion, review the resources for this week. Reflect on potential consequences that health care administrators might face when developing communications that do not account for health literacy in target audiences. Then, consider how health literacy might influence decisions that health care administrators might make when proposing services or programs for health care delivery.

By Day 3

Post a brief explanation of the consequences health care administrators might face when developing communications that do not account for health literacy in target audiences. Explain how health literacy might influence the decisions health care administrators make when proposing services and programs for health care delivery. Be specific and provide examples.

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Analyze at least two roles that human resources management plays in selecting necessary employee benefits. Next, determine the degree to which employee feedback has impacted the selection of these benefits.

Assignment 4 Suggested Length: 1400 to 2000 words Ethical Theories to Apply: Utilitarianism, Universal Ethics, Golden Rule, Virtue Ethics Task You work in the Ethics Department for ABC Company (ABC). Your department is dedicated to advising its employees about their ethical obligations in the corporate setting. You are an internal consultant who provides advice and most importantly, recommendations for action to employees of the firm. All communications you receive in this capacity are confidential. Luke, an employee of ABC, comes to you with the following scenario and asks for your advice. He wants to fully consider the situation. Your task is to advise and recommend a course of action based on the specified ethical lenses and facts as given. Below are the facts that Luke provides to you. ***** Luke has been asked to work on a project that involves developing land recently purchased by ABC to build an adult entertainment retail store. According to the plan, the land is located on the corner of the neighborhood where Owen, Luke’s brother, lives. Luke knows that as soon as the plans for the store are made public, property values for the surrounding neighborhood will decrease significantly. ABC plans to publicly announce the project one month from today. Luke is concerned about his obligations of confidentiality to his company. However, Luke is also very close to Owen, who recently told Luke that he received an offer to sell his house at an “okay” price given the current real estate market. Owen is considering selling but hasn’t made any final decision yet. He wonders if he might get a better offer a few years from now when the real estate market improves. What is the ethical issue, why is this an issue, and what should Luke do about it? ***** For assignment 4, prepare a memo, setting out your analysis and recommendations, that considers ONLY the following ethical lenses: Utilitarianism, Universal Ethics (i.e., Kant’s categorical imperative), The Golden Rule and Virtue Ethics. Remember that Assignments 2 and 3 are considered “drafts” for Assignment 4. In other words, you may revise and reuse parts of Assignments 2 and 3 (facts, issues, description of the ethical lenses) for Assignment 4, but please make sure that you make improvements where indicated. 

Work as a team to complete a Lean Six Sigma implementation case.  EVERYONE will interview two different person(s) who have experienced or associated with the Lean, Six Sigma, or Lean Six Sigma implementation project.  The interviews can be via phone, f2f meeting, or video conference and focus on the following topics:

–  The project’s objectives and outcomes (successful/failure), brief explaining methodology

–  The roles of this person in the project

–  Any forces and factors enabling the implementation process

–  Any barriers or obstacles that limited or constrained the process

–  Any techniques/tools and relevant metrics used by the organization

Section 1 – brief description of all interviews following the above topics

–  Section 2 – drawing tables/figures finding similarities and differences of these interviews focusing on forces and factors enabling the implementation, as well as the barriers or obstacles that limited or constrained the process. Any other useful information on Lean Six Sigma implementation process should be presented.

A list of reference noting the interviews conducted (names of individuals and organizations can be masked), data utilized, and additional source materials cited or consulted.

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