...Managing and Leading a well-functioning team Melanie Brenengen American Public University Managing and Leading a well-functioning Team Managers play a vital role in healthcare, having multiple resources within their reach to arm them with the tools needed to manage and lead others. The title of the journal article more than fits the focus of this study. By accessing the role of the manager, we can see how this leadership position manages and leads a team of individuals. Variations in performance with regards to leadership were the focus of this research article, which primarily focused on the quality of direction and staff unity. An attempt to break down performance in relationship to leadership is stated multiple times throughout the article. The significance of good leadership is crucial with regards to managers and how they influence and lead others. Additional factors that play into real leadership include performance, productivity, and achieving a team dynamic. A review of literature was performed using manager’s roles and their working relationships with external mangers (Hicks, 2009). This additional research helped develop a better understanding of what factors are necessary for supporting the manager both individually and within an organization. They discovered that managers needed self-management skills, credibility within the organization and sufficient development opportunities. Quantitative research methods were used to perform the analysis in this...
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...A background to change An education that privileges one child over another is giving the privileged child a corrupted education, even as it gives him or her, a social or economic advantage. (Connell 1993, p15) This assignment will be a critical and analytical report on the educational provision for traveller children in my setting and how as part of my role I am involved in developing links with the traveller community. Reflecting on my practice I will show how my values of social justice and equality compels me to engage in social and educational practices that ensure that no child is privileged at the expense of minority or marginalised groups. My setting has an ethos of equality of respect for all; a practice of inclusion that is grounded in an intercultural ethos. What does this mean in reality, well as a faith school we have at the heart of our vision the desire to nurture and love all children regardless of their background, ethnicity or faith. Striving all the time to reach out to all areas of our school community, this can be seen in the way we are building bridges of friendship with the families of our children encouraging them all to become engaged with the school in the development of their children. A passionate belief in the right to social justice and equality for all people, irrespective of social class, race, gender or ethnicity drives me to strive for equal opportunities in the area of educational provision. The rationale behind this aspiration is reflected...
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...MNGO3217 Leading and Managing People: Unit Assessments Your grade for the unit will be based upon the following assessments, as well as based upon the completion of weekly activities and assignments (in person where applicable or online) that will account for 10 percent of your final grade. Assessment 1: This will account for 30 percent of your total grade and will be due in stages throughout the unit. Each team member will be graded separately. You will be rereading the Leadership Moment section at the beginning of 3 different chapters in the unit text book, “Practicing Leadership: Principles and Applications.” Then you will answer the questions posed after the Leadership Moments. You will complete this activity during topics 2, 4, and 6 (please note that topics do not always match up with text book chapters). So, students will complete this assignment for week 2/chapter 10 (Leadership 2.0: Virtual Leadership), week 4/chapter 3 (Leadership in a Global and Multicultural Society), and week 6/chapter 6 (Psychology II: Motivation and Communication). Your answers should be no more than a 100 words per question—answer all the questions listed in the Leadership Moment. Share your responses to the questions with each of your teammates and instructor through the unit learning site (you must have one to three teammates to complete this assignment). Then respond to one of your teammate’s answers in no more than 200 words total, sharing whether you agree or disagree with what they...
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...LEADING AND MANAGING CHANGE INDIVIDUAL WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT (100% of the module assessment) Introduction Understanding change and its underpinning and emerging dynamics are crucial areas for the success and sustainability of organisations. This module aims to encourage critical analysis and evaluation of emerging issues, situations, threats and opportunities when change unfolds within organisations, and aims to examine and assess how the influence of organisational dynamics may shape perceptions, interventions and responses. Assignment Given the ideas introduced in the paragraphs above, you are required to research, plan and write an individual 3000 word essay which critically evaluates an aspect of organisational dynamics that influences leading and managing of change within organisations. Your experience/observations of change should be used to support your critical evaluation and commentary. Given the word limit and the requirement for depth of discussion it is crucial to establish a defined focus for your paper. You are not required to try and work with all of the Module themes, that are introduced in class sessions but to be selective in line with the requirement for critical evaluation of the influence/ impact of organisational dynamics. Previously the assignments achieving the higher marks have been from those students who have been able to consider ideas introduced within the Module but also evidence increasing initiative and independent thinking...
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...COURSE .MSc in HRM (P/T), 20015 MODULE: Leading, Managing and Developing People TUTOR: DR JOANNE COLLIER Critically evaluate, in your organisation, the impact of two HR interventions of your choice on engagement, commitment, motivation or job satisfaction. WRITER. MR Muhammad Ahmed RAJA ST.ID:100018073 Introduction Diversity and Empowerment have been selected for this critical evaluation reporting in the Kandore Pvt Ltd. The reason these interventions have been selected is that these are the most important issues of modern times along with other important HR issues of employee’s motivation and commitment. Due to the global migration of population from developing countries to more Developed Countries of Europe, America and Middle East dealing with issues like diversity and empowerment is present time an important role of HR professional not only in national SME & Large organisation but also in global multinational 0rganization as well. Keeping in mind the nature of the issues and purpose of the report. Kandore Pvt Ltd has been selected, where the write has worked for more than 7 years and felt that these were the most important issues being ignore by the top management of the Kandore . During this employment with the organisation, the writer has felt that Kandore continuously ignored these elements of human resources, which if dealt professionally would have, not only benefitted the organisation in managing its human resource more efficiently but...
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...Managing and Leading Teams in Offender Services a Reflective Paper Introduction As part of the foundation degree in offender management a team project was participated in by the author of this paper titled Managing & Leading Teams in Offender Services aimed at giving a 20 minute presentation on the title as a team. There was a requirement then to produce a reflective paper on the part played by the author showing an understanding of managing teams, identifying key factors in team building, and discussing potential for conflict in a team and strategies to resolve them. How the author currently employs an approach to leadership in the work environment It is the author’s belief that at present he employs a rather rigid military style leadership model in his working environment, consisting of dictatorial decision making but showing some flexibility by allowing his team to take some responsibilities and decisions under close guidance from himself. This is in part due to a military background and a lack of any other real training in the past, on how to be a team leader and how to manage a team outside a military environment. Incompetence is not tolerated and all the team under the author’s supervision are expected to show they are able confident and reach the standard he requires, any short falls are dealt with swiftly. Outside agencies or departments are expected to comply with the goal of the author and anyone failing to meet that requirement is excluded from the team and...
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...S2, the High Support and High Direction Style S2 leadership style consists of directions from managers based on ideas that are solicited from members of the managers’ team. S2 leaders actively seek team member’s involvement in the process by encouraging them to speak their concerns and creating an environment that members feel they are able to voice their concerns and opinions involving organizational problems and active participants in the solutions. S2 leaders like to share problems with team members, listen to their points of view regarding problems before deciding on a course of action to correct the issue. S2 leaders meet only with the individuals that need to be involved, run effective meetings when required and are excellent at using input acquired from members to make decisions that will speed up the decision making process. S2 leaders typically use a systematic approach that can include the following. * Identifying problems * Clarifying goals * Generating alternatives * Choosing the best solution * Building an action plan * Monitoring implementation Strengths of the S2 leadership style: The S2 leadership style can benefit team members and an organization in many ways such as a positive work environment, successful initiatives or projects, increased creative thinking, and can reduce friction and office politics within the group. * Positive work environment: S2 leaders create a positive work environment by allowing team members...
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...Module Assessment “Reflections on my approach to management and leadership, now and for the future” Interpretation of results: The McPhee Andrewartha Influence Dimensions (ID) survey results would suggest I belong to the CREATOR style group. This would infer I am a dynamic, charismatic and enthusiastic team leader, who seeks to bring a fresh approach, harnesses new ideas and adapts to change easily. All of the above aspects are those which I identify well with at work. However the CREATOR style also states that creators are rather spontaneous and somewhat erratic at home, or outside of work, which is not a characteristic I relate well to. All of my scores are in the ID results are very close together ranging between 92 and 95 (mean= 93.25 and a standard deviation of 1.299038 refer Appendix 1). This may explain my tendency to relate to various aspects of all four styles; and not relate to others. The BELBIN Team Roles Profile identifies me as a primary DRIVER style, followed by an equal COORDINATOR and RESOURCE INVESTIGATOR second and third preference (refer Appendix 2). I relate well to the majority of the style indicators of the DRIVER style including providing leadership by directing and controlling team members, holding strong influence on team operations and objectives and enjoying goal setting. However, once again the primary DRIVER style includes characteristics which I do not relate to, or consider present in my leadership style. For example; I consider myself to...
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...Leading and managing change in organizations: Importance of human resource capacity building Term Paper (Individual Assignment) MCP 2135 – Leading and Managing Change in Organizations MBA in Human Resource Management Semester II – 2010/2012 Course Director : Prof. Sudatta Ranasinghe Professor of Management Name of the Student : Gamini Hettiarachchi Student Registration No. : 110046980 Date Submitted :16.05.2011 Word Count : 1662 words, 5 single side A4 pages Leading and managing change in organizations: Importance of human resource capacity building Term Paper (Individual Assignment) Abstract This term paper addresses human resource capacity building as a strategic instrument in leading and managing change in organizations. After describing the process and the basic steps in leading and managing change, the article has taken an effort to identify the role of leaders and the managers to derive a conceptual frame of reference to develop arguments in strategic importance of human resource capacity building in the process of leading and managing change in organization. To meet the challenges, negative as well as positive, HR capacity building is needed in most of the steps and stages in the process of leading and managing change in organizations. Further, developing human capacities has highlighted as one of the major roles and core functionalities of leaders and managers. Viewing human resources as human capital and beyond, the term paper argues that without...
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...Relationship between Leading and Managing : Introduction : Leadership is all about creating a vision and strategy to achieve it keeping eye on the end results by employing shared values and culture. More inclined towards facilitating and motivating people by playing role of a mentor or a coach more on personal power. Need to be open-minded, possess good listening skills and emotional connectives. In other terms leadership could be defined as influencing a group of people towards achievement of a vision or certain objectives. It’s not that leaders are those who are being formally appointed they can even emerge from within groups in an organization. On the other hand management is all about drawing formal plans, designing organizational structures, monitoring results against plans and taking corrective actions to bring consistency and order. Managers are more focused towards accomplishment of objectives by involving themselves in Organizing, Staffing, Directing and Controlling. Leadership is more inclined towards risk mitigation, change management and ensuring commitment from the stakeholders of the organization on the other side management is all about order, predictability and compliance from others involved. While leaders challenge the system and look for a change, managers always try to defend and preserve the system. Leadership is all about long term vision but whereas management involves being logical, rational, having short term priorities and measurable goals. Leaders empower...
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...Managing Organizations and Leading People, C200 Task 1 Managing Organizations and Leading People Evangeline Klingbeil 262608 WGU C200 Task 1 Emerson is a global technology and engineering solutions company that has been providing diversified and innovative solutions to customers for the last 125 years , as of 2015, employ more than 111,000 people . They are solution providers for industrial, commercial and consumer markets through its 5 business units. Those business units are: Emerson Process Management Companies are under constant pressure to cut cost, increase output all with fewer and less experienced workers. Emerson Process Management is relied upon by companies across the globe to aid in solving their process problems. Emerson is experienced in taking their customers toughest challenges and bringing predictable success. Emerson Industrial Automation There is a power in optimizing every facet of operations, greater energy efficiency, lower design costs and improved quality, to name a few. Emerson Industrial Automation helps speed your time to market, wherever you are located and whatever your line of business, from automotive to solar and wind, with reliable industrial automation solutions. Emerson Network Power Emerson Network Power is a hardware, software and service solutions technology business unit of Emerson. They are there to help protect and optimize the infrastructure for companies voice, data or multimedia content...
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...C200 Managing Organizations and Leading People Hermisecier Broussard C200 October 20, 2015 C200 Managing Organizations and Leading People In today’s society, if a company or organization wants to get ahead and progress ahead of the game, quality leadership practices must be set into place in that organization in order to have a blueprint of knowledge of where they are heading and trying to go business-wise. Although, there can be major role differences in the way that organizations implement their leadership practices, all of the approaches tend to be unified with the desired outcome of improving the organizations efficiency practices and growth in helping the organization to move forward in the direction that they want it to go. A1. Description of the Organization The ACS or Army Community Service center is a one stop family center that focuses on serving military communities all over the world. It was implemented and put into place to offer an array of services that include but is not limited to information and referral systems, relocation assistance programs, orientations and briefings, financial readiness, family advocacy, employment readiness programs, army family team building classes, army family action plans, army volunteer corps, swap and assist shops, food pantries and Christmas shops. These programs in some way shape or form are very important to the military, their families and communities in which they were designed to serve as a helping agent to assist...
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...Leading and Managing Nursing Care Introduction This assignment will examine and reflect upon a critical incident that occurred whilst on placement. The incident will be analysed using relevant management concepts and an action plan formulated, which will propose a change in practice. Minghella and Benson (1995) cited by Ghyae, T and Lillyman, S (1997) identifies that ‘critical incident analysis has been espoused as a valuable method of promoting reflective practice in nursing and it can be used as a tool in developing curriculum content’ (p770). The Reflective Cycle of Gibb’s (1988) (appendix 1) will be used as a framework to conduct this assignment. My reasoning for choosing Gibb’s can be explained by [anon] (2006) ‘Gibb’s reflective cycle is fairly straight forward and encourages a clear description of the situation, analysis of feelings, evaluation of the experience, and analysis to make sense of the experience’. The assignment will also be organised into sections based on the reflective cycle. Pseudonyms will be used to maintain anonymity and confidentiality in accordance with clause five of the NMC (2004). The critical incident which I have chosen is an inappropriate assessment and application of mouth care in a pre-operative patient. ‘Oral assessment is required in planning effective care, and that the incidence of oral complications was reduced by the frequency of care’ Ginsberg (1961) cited by Mallett, J and Dougherty, L (2000 p361). I have chosen...
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...Table of Contents MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS & LEADING PEOPLE-BIP2 Task 2 2 Evaluation of my Personal Leadership Style 2 Reflection on the Results of my Seven Habits Profile 2 Self-Leadership Evaluation 4 Strengths and weaknesses identified 6 Recommendations. 7 Goals to improve my leadership practice. 8 References 9 MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS & LEADING PEOPLE-BIP2 Task 2 Evaluation of my Personal Leadership Style Reflection on the Results of my Seven Habits Profile The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (1989) is a business and self-help book bestseller. The work brings up that success comes from developing personal leadership, from which leadership of others can follow. I had the opportunity to participate in a one day seminar with Mr. Covey, sponsored by my employer in 2010. At the time I took the seminar, I was an experienced software developer but I wanted to transition to the role of project manager. Covey’s work helped me to identify and work on some of my behaviors, which in turn helped me to take on the project manager role successfully to date. I executed a particular approach, I applied Covey’s teachings to my transition to project management, and then to a personal level. One of the good consequences at a personal level was obtaining my bachelor’s degree at Western Governors University, in 2014. Covey’s work proposes that just changing outward behaviors or attitudes is not the way to succeed. First, our principles, the way we perceive the...
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...Managing Organizations & Leading People C200 Tuwanna McDaniel WGU Student 000555757 Managing Organizations & Leading People Task 1 Managing Organizations & Leading People C200 A1. Organization Description Describe the organization and its objectives Youth Villages is a residential mental health treatment facility for children founded in 1986. The owner Patrick Lawler, combined two residential campuses at that time to create one Youth Villages. The company's main goal then and now is to build strong families. Over the past 30 years the company has grown tremendously and is nationally known for its great work. While it is known for its residential treatment, Youth Villages encompasses many areas. Youth Villages is made up of five residential campuses in Memphis, TN and one residential campus in Linden, TN. There are two residential campuses in Georgia and one residential campus in Massachusetts. Youth Villages also has two wonderful intense in home treatment programs using multi systemic therapy. The company has an adoption and foster care program that began in 1999. The company also has implemented a Specialized Crisis Services in 2003 with trained counselors that are available 24 hours a day. They implemented a mentoring program and MYPAC (Mississippi Youth Programs Around the Clock). Finally, there is YVLifeSet, a transition to adulthood program. Patrick Lawler and Youth Villages has served more than 23,000 families across thirteen states. U.S. News & World Report recognized...
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