...Assignment 2: LASA 2—Conflict Management Report The workplace can be an especially stressful environment. Personal conflicts between coworkers, fear of layoffs, and heavy workloads can be causes of negative stress. This stress can be carried to our homes and after-work activities, impacting personal health. Allowing these stressors to build and intensify will only further impair the work environment. For this assignment, you are required to review a scenario regarding a woman (Kate) who has experienced negative stress stemming from her work environment. Then, you will compare your own conflict management skills and experiences against Kate’s experiences. Follow the directions below to write an 8–10-page report on conflict management. Review the following scenario: Kate has been employed by a well-known manufacturing company for 12 years. She is the only female on her line and the fastest worker. She has been promoted several times through mergers and acquisitions, but has always been looked over for a senior management position. Kate believes she is qualified for advancement but thinks her manager has a problem with her personally. To top it off, Kate did not receive a semiannual or annual review, which would have resulted in a raise. Her coworkers (all males) have urged her to go to management and report what she believes to be discriminatory behavior from her immediate manager. Now, complete the following tasks: 1. Discuss a situation you have been in where you felt...
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...B6027 - Perspectives in Change Leadership | The Leader as a Strategist Report | LASA 1: Assignment 2 | | Crystal Watkins | 5/26/2012 | This Paper will consist of an analysis of the strategic cascade of Microsoft. It will also include a SWOT analysis that will answer some primer questions. And a synthesis of the information evaluating the ability of the organization to implement the strategy using Kouzes and Posner’s Five Practices as a framework. | Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Microsoft is one of the largest software corporations in the world that has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. [ (Microsoft, 2012) ] Primarily in the 1990s, critics contend Microsoft used monopolistic business practices and anti-competitive strategies including refusal to deal and tying, put unreasonable restrictions in...
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...Project Management in IT Final Paper I'm working as a management consultant for a travel agency. This travel agency has 12 branches which keeps its customer details which include: • Customer names • Addresses of the customers • The purchases of the type of travel they will be choosing for their travels. • The date on they will be travelling Even the staffs of each branch should have the details of any sales which includes the names of customers and their address. These data will get transmitted to the central account department. The printed documents of the travel details and customer details will be handed over to the head office at the end of each day as a result by using the confirmation of the details given by the head office will be used to type out the customer’s name and address onto a stencil on a small manual type writer. This stencil can be used to be put in a small hard machine which will stamp the name and address on an envelope. By using the stencil method there will be a communication between the branches and their customers and also can be used for mailing of brochure which describes the services of the company. For the purposes of gathering the statistics from the customer’s information the director had an idea of automating this details and the mailing lists. By looking at the mail merge facility in the word processing package on his secretary’s machine and thought of using that system which will be a cheap and a quick job and also...
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