Discuss similar examples you have seen in the workplace. Discuss why some were effective leaders and some were not.

This text discusses numerous examples of both good and bad leadership styles. Discuss similar examples you have seen in the workplace. Discuss why some were effective leaders and some were not.

Do use terminology from the assigned readings, cite the textbook with at least an in-text citation, and bring in current events to add to the conversation and to support your points.

Discuss how power and conformity have lead to bad decisions for organizations you have been affiliated with. Use personal examples where possible. How might these situations have been avoided?

Discuss how power and conformity have lead to bad decisions for organizations you have been affiliated with. Use personal examples where possible. How might these situations have been avoided?

Do use terminology from the assigned readings and bring in current events to add to the conversation and to support your points.

Determine the effectiveness of the leadership style/s and whether an alternative style/s would be more impactful. Assess how to determine effective leadership. What makes a leader effective or ineffective?

Competency 2 Assessment Managing in a Changing Environment

As a recent hire, you’d like to become familiar with the current organizational structure in your company. This organizational chart has not yet been created, so you decide to make your own.

Create an org chart of your company. This high-level information is typically found on the company’s website or other websites about the organization. The org chart should include key leadership and level of responsibility. If the information is not public, base your decisions on a similar organization and research. You may use any Microsoft® program or web-based program.

Aligning Operations Needs with Business Strategies
Review sources on your company. Analyze the company using Porter’s Five Forces.

Write a 1000- to 1200- word proposal to the company of your plan to align the operational needs with business strategies based on your analysis. Complete the following in your proposal:

Explain in 350-words the structure of your org chart.
Discuss the type of hierarchy and related details of each role.
Assess how each role in the organizational chart is related to the other areas within the organization.
Analyze the company based on Porter’s Five Forces.
Analyze the effectiveness of the leadership model the company is currently using.
Consider the current leadership style or styles in place at the company.
Determine the effectiveness of the leadership style/s and whether an alternative style/s would be more impactful.
Assess how to determine effective leadership. What makes a leader effective or ineffective?
Consider sources of managerial power when leaders are effective.
Provide a recommendation for the following actions:
Leadership model changes not reflected in the current organizational chart (Part 1)

Describe how your leadership style will be instrumental in launching your new idea. . Explain the control points of your new idea: Explain how the company will evaluate the product or service?

Controlling and Leading

Using the previous work I’ve already done for the project, please add onto the project using the following outline. Also,  fix reference page to follow proper APA guidelines.

Continue adding to your previous parts of the project per your template and write an essay of at least 300 words. In your essay, include two (2) new scholarly resources not previously used and address the following:

Describe how your leadership style will be instrumental in launching your new idea. .
Explain the control points of your new idea:
Explain how the company will evaluate the product or service?
Describe how the company will receive feedback about the product or service?
Define how the company will address either a poor product or service?

In general, what have you learned from these personality tests about organizational behavior that will help you be a better employee, coworker, and/or manager?

The personality test will reveal your 4-letter type and your 2-letter temperament. In this step, you will discuss the validity of each letter of your type and temperament. Provide your statistical/percentage results for comparison of letters within your discussion. Any adverse personal opinions on the assessment tools must be respectful and scholarly with supportive research.
Apply the Type Talk at Work textbook, which focuses on how various personality types relate at work. The book must be evident within the discussion, not simply cited, with specific, applied topics.
Using the Type Talk at Work textbook as your guide, discuss the things you have learned about yourself that will help you understand your organization and your role within it. In a new section in your paper , answer the following questions with specific correlation to the book:
In general, what have you learned from these personality tests about organizational behavior that will help you be a better employee, coworker, and/or manager?
In particular, what have you learned about yourself from this personality test that will help you be a better employee, coworker, and/or manager? Provide specific examples.

 Summarize what you have read, boiling the book down into 400 600 words . Prove you comprehend the readings by writing a no-nonsense summary.

Typically a book review serves the purpose of helping others to decide if they should or want to read a particular book or not. This is done by reading and evaluating a given book, and summing it up in terms of how well it has been written and/or how well the author has handled the subject matter.

Summarize what you have read, boiling the book down into 400 600 words . Prove you comprehend the readings by writing a no-nonsense summary. The abstract is not a commentary or listing of topics but rather an objective summary from the reader’s viewpoint.

How do employees differ between a Walmart retail location and an Amazon order fulfillment center? How many white-collar or skilled jobs does Amazon have compared to Walmart?

Business Management

You need to respond to at least three classmates’ initial posts to provide comments, insights, or questions that further the discussion. Your responses need to be substantive and should move the discussions forward. Respond to each below and use 2nd person point of view.

A 2015 New York Times article described Amazon as “a soulless, dystopian workplace where no fun is had and no laughter heard”. Employees themselves came to the company’s defense . Does this reputation continue to haunt Amazon, or has it been addressed?
In the New York Times there is an article concerning the heartless details about the Amazon workplace. Many employees complained about the working conditions in 2015. Amazon also decided to position themselves in the mental health arena during this time. They did this to ensure their workers that they cared for their well-being. According to Fortune, “Workers at Amazon warehouses across the nation have long complained about grueling working conditions” . Some of the complaints were that there are not enough bathrooms and unobtainable quotas and most importantly, unsafe working environments. There is very little to no fun knowing that your life is always on the line.
How do employees differ between a Walmart retail location and an Amazon order fulfillment center? How many white-collar or skilled jobs does Amazon have compared to Walmart?