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: 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. Focus on the following questions:
 

Part 1

• What is an ethical leader? Provide your own brief definition. 
• Do you think an ethical leader is always a good leader? Justify your answer. 
• How do your own moral beliefs influence your leadership decisions? Have you ever made an ineffective leadership decision by following your moral beliefs? 

Part 2

Conduct a multi-source review of the literature on servant leadership. Use high-level synthesis thinking to respond to the following questions:

• Is it      possible to lead and serve at the same time? Do you think followers would  respect a leader who is serving them? Please justify your answers. 
• Review the 10 characteristics of a servant leader (see the link in your Resource      section). 
  • Do you  think it is possible for anyone to have all of these characteristics? 
  • Do you  think a servant leader has to be a moral leader? Explain your responses.

Class – Answers will vary on this DB! In addition to addressing all requirements of the assignments, model answer includes the following:

Part 1

• Recognize that ethics are based on one’s personal morals, and therefore an ethical leader is not always a good leader because his or her morals may not align to the most effective leadership      decisions.
• Ethics and leadership are more about the leader’s set of moral beliefs being a priority. 

Part 2

• The goal of serving and leading is to understand that by serving the followers, you build trust and loyalty, and they will in turn follow you. You can serve and lead because by serving and listening to your followers, you understand their needs and are able to build them and develop them. When you      develop them, you make them better leaders, so you are serving their needs  to become better.
• Although responses will vary, the servant leader will generally move in and out of these characteristics. They will use a combination of  these characteristics at different times. These      characteristics show the overall heart and focus of the servant leader. The characteristics of a servant leader are moral behaviors.

Additional Resources

· Spears, L. (2010). Character and Servant Leadership: Ten Characteristics of Effective, Caring Leaders. The Journal of Virtues & Leadership, Vol. 1, 25-30.

• Based on the scenario, assess key roles of the lecture/discussion training method as it applies to today’s virtual era. Provide examples from the scenario and the textbook to support your rationale.
• Analyze 2–3 specific benefits that students can derive from the addition of audiovisual enhancements to traditional training methods.

Due Wednesday. See attached

Describe at least six (6) recommendations that you would make to improve the effectiveness of today’s boards of directors. Explain your rationale for the recommendations by discussing how your recommendations would improve the performance of the boards and the companies they oversee. Then give your opinion as to which of these would be the most important recommendation and justify your opinion. (APA Format/Reference) (A 2-page response is required.)

This is another discussion forum, I need 300 words and please follow the instructions in the files. please submit on time. chapter 3 text is added

Step 4: Completing the Job Announcement

To complete the job announcement: 

• Define the term ‘leader’ that fits Biotech. You are not taking an existing definition and applying it to Biotech. You must create an original definition.
• Identify the leadership competencies the new leaders at Biotech will possess to accomplish its vision.
• Identify the leadership style(s) encouraged by Biotech’s definition.

The job announcement must have a narrative and is not a compilation of bullets for the leadership aspect of the project.  The job announcement must comply with the requirements set out by Indeed.com. Remember that this job announcement relates to leadership.

Imagine a scenario where you are a senior HR leader and have been asked to present to the executive team on human resource management, talent management and its connection to strategy.

Purpose

· Apply the models and theories of Human Resource Management at both the strategic and operational level to improve overall organizational competitiveness.

· Synthesize business competencies to align the human resource functions to support the organization competitiveness and strategic initiatives.

· Apply human resource theory by creating the need for Human Resources Management inside an organization.

· Show how HRM practices contribute to HR models.

Description

· This assignment requires you to create a PowerPoint slide deck of 20 slides with narration (approximately 30-45 minute presentation).

· Your presentation should advocate for the need for HRM. The first two chapters of Slitzer and Dowell (2009) should assist in the creation of this presentation.

You should also include reference to the models within the textbook (specifically Figure 1.2) and explain how the different HRM practices contribute to the model. 

Instructions

For this assignment, prepare a PowerPoint presentation to train mid-level managers in your organization. The focus is to help the managers design an effective training process for employees in their department. 

This presentation should simulate an actual presentation that will be delivered to the managers. You must utilize the slide notes function in PowerPoint to add speaker notes to each slide; these notes should be used in order to explain or expand on slide content as if you were actually presenting this to your audience. Alternatively, you may add audio to the slides, but if you do so, you will need to provide a transcript of your audio in a separate Word document and upload it in Blackboard in addition to the PowerPoint file.

Include (at a minimum) the points below in your training delivery.

• Include an overview of the training.
• In conducting a needs analysis, what are the steps?
• What is the content of the training?
• How are trainer(s) selected?
• Identify two organizational objectives.
• Identify two training objectives.
• Identify who is the target audience for the training. What are their learning styles?
• Evaluate training models. Which one would you select, and why?
• Compare and contrast different training methods.
• Connect the training methods to learning styles.
• How will the effectiveness of the training be evaluated, and why is evaluation critical?
• How should managers ensure transfer of training? 

At the end of the PowerPoint presentation, you must have one slide with five evaluation questions to determine the effectiveness of your training. 

Your PowerPoint presentation must be a minimum of 15 slides in length, not counting the title or reference slides. As aforementioned, you must add slide notes or audio to the slides.

Imagine that you have just been hired by a new company as the director of the HR department. You have been tasked to hire a new secretary for the department and to develop an employee compensation and benefits package that will be used for that position upon hire. Develop a PowerPoint presentation to present this information to your Vice President. Go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Website, located at www.bls.gov, for information regarding organizations and pay in your geographical area.  

Section 1: NarrativeWrite a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Choose the type of organization for which you are designing the package.
2. Develop an employee compensation and benefits package for this new position. Support your ideas for the compensation/benefits package.
3. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Section 1 of 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.

Section 2: PresentationCreate a twenty (20) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

4.  Provide an overview of the employee compensation and benefits package that you developed in the narrative portion of this assignment.5.  Determine if the employee will be exempt or nonexempt and discuss how overtime will be handled.6.  Suggest other benefits that might be considered within the next few months to enhance employee performance and provide job motivation.7.  Provide information on how government regulations will influence the compensation.8.  Examine data from two (2) organizations listed in the BLS Website with packages similar to yours, focusing on salary, compensation, and benefits in order to convince upper management that your package should be accepted and implemented.9.  Describe how the competitive compensation and benefits package will align with the HRM strategy.

Choose three sentences from the essay by Leo Marx that struck you as important for our understanding of technology, and describe what they mean in relation to Marx’s argument and to your own understanding of technology in general and writing in particular.

Leo Marx – Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept on JSTOR