...Building a Coalition It is evident after reading this scenario that the Washington D.C school district is facing problems with student performance, crimes and a high turnover rate of teachers, just like many schools today. Teachers are often faced with harsh realities when they start fresh at a school, because of the dysfunctional system in place and then they burn out, and quit. Our textbook talk about the five stages: Forming-Stage, Storming Stage, Norming Stage, performing stage and adjourning Stage. It seems the group is stuck in the forming and storming stage. The group has no sense of direction, structure or leadership and everyone has their own opinions of how the groups should be run. There are already strong opinions on how the problems should be solved regarding truancy, low performance, crimes rate and creating an effective after school program. Referring back to the stages and understanding of the stages would have assisted the Woodson Foundation tremendously. First the forming stage was not completed, the groups should have met and established roles, structure and the purpose and it’s clear that was not established. You have the principal and the superintendent thinking the school should have more power, and not involving the parents, and other members with their opinions as well, which is a clear example that a purpose was not established. Second, the members did not hash out who was going to be doing what, and this stage was not completed because there was...
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...HBM CASE STUDY Building Coalition GROUP MEMBERS: Tçâá{ f|Çz{ ;DFU`ICCIH< f{|á{|Ü ftåxÇt ;DFU`ICCGH< ZtztÇ WxxÑ ftztÜ ;DFU`ICCIC< fÉâÜtä U|~tá{ etÇt ;DFU`ICCLD< Building a Coalition “After-school program to improve performance of students” Introduction: Woodson Foundation, a large non-profit social service agency, is teaming up with the public school system in Washington, D.C., to improve student outcome by starting an after-school program. To achieve the set target, Woodson Foundation and the school system have to work in collaboration by integrating their organizations effectively. Problems faced by the school: • • Truancy, low student performance and crime Burn out of staff and high turnover among new teachers Solution suggested by Woodson Foundation: • • Conducting an after-school program Integrate organizations effectively How Groups and teams typically operate: A team is a group of people holding themselves collectively accountable for using complementary skills to achieve a common purpose. Thus teamwork occurs when team members live up to their collective accountability for goal accomplishment. For defining the teams in an organization and their functions the first thing is to recognize that they do many things and make many types of performance contributions. Thus teams can be described as that • Recommend things: Teams that study specific problems and recommend solutions for them. These teams have a deadline for target completion and often disband...
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...Tiffany Bush MGMT 591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Barbara Vallera August 1, 2015 Case Study In this case study, The Woodson Foundation is a large nonprofit social service agency that is looking to work with the public schools in Washington D.C. to try and improve the outcome of their students. The schools have problems such as: truancy, low student performance, and crime. The staff that start out new to their school become burn out in a short time frame due to the harsh working conditions. The two parties are attempting to develop a group with will be able to create an after school program for the students. There are many factors that the parties will have to take into account in order for them to be successful. The group members will have to have to become informed about one another and understand what it takes for a group to operate. Each member will have to be motivated and get along with one another. This group has completed the forming stage. There are five stages of group development which are; forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. With this group and from my understanding of where they are from reading the case, I would conclude that they are in the storming stage. The reason I came to the conclusion is because from the textbook’s definition of forming which is when “great deal of uncertainty about the group’s purpose, structure, and leadership” and from the case study it shows that all the parties do understand...
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...Building a Coalition Case Study In building a cohesive coalition, there is a five stage model that is a useful guide in understanding group development. The five stage development model consists of forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. The forming stage in the five stage development model consists of a lot of uncertainty about the groups, purpose, structure, and leadership. The storming stage of the five stage development model deals with conflict and identifying who will lead the group. The norming stage of the five stage development model gives the group structure, with guidelines set for the behavior of each member. The performing stage is the fourth stage in the development model. In this stage, the group is completely structured and each member is performing their task at hand. The adjourning stage is the final stage in the development model, in which short term committees and other staff complete unfinished activities of the group as they prepare to dismiss. The Woodson Foundation is now in the storming stage. The school district is concerned about Woodson Foundation having too much control. The school system is concerned about jeopardizing their procedures and protocols of the faculty and staff for the procedures of Woodson Foundation. In order for Woodson Foundation to create a coalition with the school system I think following the five stage model would be very beneficial. The Woodson Foundation have to reassure the school system they are not trying...
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...MGMT 591 11/9/2014 Case Study: Building a Coalition Dr. Anne Hallcom Case Study: Building a Coalition for Woodson Foundation The Woodson Foundation, a large nonprofit social service agency, is teaming up with the public school system in Washington, D.C, to improve student outcomes. It appears the schools have problems with truancy, low student performance and crime. The teachers are discouraged to help students due to the disrespect and behavioral issues in the classroom. The turnover rate for the best teachers is high, they tend to leave and go to schools that aren’t as troubled (629). Part 1: Group Development The organization has five stages of group development. In the forming stage they have identified that there is a problem, now the plan is how to drive results. The first stage is bringing the plan forward and forming an executive development team. The team will consist of an HR representative from Woodson, the schools, and the NCPIE. This team’s responsibility is developing an operating plan for improving school performance. It is expected that representatives from both teams participate. Once this stage is finalized they can move on to the storming stage. The storming stage will consist of conflicts. This is an aggressive way to get to know each other a little better. Once the team has gotten over differences they start the norming stage. In this stage they realized although they have differences they still share things in common. The cohesiveness is...
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...Keller Graduate School of Management DeVry University Case Study 2 xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Situations and Solutions a.Williams Oil Services b. Scott Sales Services c. Craig’s List III. Assessment IV. References I. INTRODUCTION Internal Control is one of the most vital issues that every company has to have inorder to have a better chance of success. Inorder to protect company’s assets and prevent from theft, fraud or unauthorized use of company property, one of the best preventive process is to teach all employees of how Internal Control exist in the company, in the company’s environment, and how employees need to abide to it, and also in its process and overall in the entirety of the company. Statistics indicate that companies with 100 or less employees is prone to fraud or misappropriate use of company’s property; which almost 32% of fraud occurred. While bigger companies with more than 1,000 employees have bigger losses; and have threatened some companies into deep trouble. Enron, a huge company is one example where some of their management team members and employees committed fraud or embezzlement. With the various corporate or business scandals happened in Corporate America, Congress had introduced and passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Under SOX, all publicly traded companies were required to maintain an adequate system of internal control. Under Section 404 of the SOX, states that...
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...Building A Coalition Group Development According to Bruce Tuckman's model of group development, the stages include forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. A group starts in the forming position where the ground rules are established and the team members hardly know each other. As it moves to the storming stage, the members of the group are still individualized and resist any form of leadership. The storming stage is where it is likely for the group to get stuck. With the help of a good boss, the norming stage will come next in which the concept of teamwork is accepted. Once that is mastered, the performing stage comes into play in which the team continues to work in a good trusting atmosphere to complete their task. Finally, a reflection is made over the team's accomplishments and that is to be known as the adjourning stage. In the case study Building a Coalition, the members of the group are currently in the forming stage of their group development. This being because they have yet to identify exactly what three members are going to be included in the final team. Once their team members are set that will get the ball rolling to proceed to the next stage, storming. The Woodson Foundation could have benefited from understanding the stages of group development in that it could have acted as an effective resource that has proper guidelines in place to know what it takes to form a highly functioning team. From the information presented in the article, it is...
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...Introduction: Case Study Analysis on Building a Coalition In order for a project to be successful in an organization it should form a diverse team to head it up. Incorporating diversity within the team will encourage creativity and innovation into the formation of the processes and solutions that result in the outcome of the project. Each team member will be able to change and grow by drawing from the different experiences, backgrounds and skills from each individual. The team needs to have a process in place to communicate and collaborate openly and listen to all member’s views, ideas and goals. Diverse work teams will almost always have a level of conflict within them. Respecting each other’s different views and experiences and recognizing that they have been brought together because of a common goal can result in a more effective resolution process.” Regardless of the composition of the group, differences can be leveraged to achieve superior performance.” (Robbins & Judge, 2012 p.58). Part 1: Group Development The Woodson Foundation and Washington D.C. public schools are teaming together to form a new after school program to improve their student outcomes within the community. The NCPIE (National Coalition for Parental involvement in Education) is also going to have a role in this program to represent the parents on behalf of the PTA. (Robbins & Judge, 2012 p.629). When forming a group there is usually five different stages that take place. This group development...
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...Case Study for Building a Coalition for Woodson Foundation. The Woodson Foundation, a large nonprofit social service agency is teaming up with the public school system in Washington D.C. to improve student outcomes. There’s ample room for improvement. The schools have problems with truancy, low student performance, and crime. New staff quickly burn out as their initial enthusiasm for helping students is blunted by the harsh realities they encounter in the classroom. Turnover among new teachers is very high, and many of the best and brightest are the most likely to leave for schools that aren’t as troubled. The Stags of Group Development for the Woodsom foundation in building a cohesive coalition The First Stage is bringing the new plan in development is forming an executive development committee or team with the help of Human Resource to choose the right candidates for the jobs. The Second Stage will be Storming which gives conflict towards each and individual group and creates doubts also each group have its own interests and some cases they can directly opposed to one another. For this stage they have to be work as a team and leave all the intensive and doubtful behavior outside of the team. Then only this stage work The Third Stage will be Norming in this for the achieving the certain purpose the goals have set up to start the performance and the team has learn how to set aside your doubts and how to learn work productively together. Who will do what work and...
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...Case Study 3: Building a Coalition Keller Graduate School of Management MGMT 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior March 22, 2015 Part 1: Group Development The five-stage group-development model consists of: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. (Robbins 275) Forming stage. In this first stage, the team is getting to know each other, their backgrounds, work experience, and learning about their strengths and weaknesses. Informal leaders may start to emerge during this stage, and it’s important for management to recognize them. They are getting oriented with their surroundings as well as details about the task at hand. Management should be setting the stage for success by setting roles and responsibilities, providing instruction, guidance, expectations and structure. (Gervais 2014) Storming stage. At this stage, personalities start to come out (good and bad), group norms and/or cliques begin to form, and conflict between one or more of the members occurs. Management must address deviant behavior(s), misunderstandings, gossip/backtalk, etc and encourage communication, trust, and respect for each other. Norming stage. At this point, team members are conforming, getting along, supporting each other, and behaving in line with accepted and established group norms (such as showing up on time, contributing to the group effort, not speaking over each other, etc). Performing stage. At this stage, the team members’ efforts should be synchronized...
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...As such, the case study answers the following questions: 1) What are the characteristics of the collaborative relationship that have led to the HKC partnership?; 2) What are the barriers and facilitators of working collectively?; and 3) What are the roles of the HKC lead agency, steering committee members, funders, and community members in building collaborative relationships to support a community health intervention? The first research question for the case study examines the coalition formation process, activities, and ways in which this collaboration manifested. The two additional questions directly explore the coalition formation process and management, such as the planning and organizing of the HKC coalition, its history and how it came to selecting a priority activity as part of a community-based health initiative. This discovery-oriented process helped the researcher to further develop and refine questions as a basis for a more rigorous and reflexive inquiry (Agee, 2009; Maxwell,...
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...2.How will government policies affect Morgan Sindall? You should explore the UK coalition government’s current policies that could affect Morgan Sindall. You should outline your views and opinions on the policies which you believe has a greater effect on the business 3.You must explain the “multiplier effect” of government spending for this business by exploring the local, national and international implications. What is the potential outcome at a local, national and international level when there are changes in government spending? Explore the effect of government policies on demand for Morgan Sindall’s business and the impact on its revenue, profits and employment. I have been asked to create a report in order to explain and analyse how government policies affect and impact Morgan Sindall. Therefore I had to do some research to find the new policies due to the coalition between the conservative and the liberal parties. For the first time since the Second World War, the liberal and the conservative party have made an agreement. This newly coalition between both parties has the aim of forming a full coalition comprising MPs (members of parliament) from the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democracy. The fact that a coalition takes place in United Kingdom's government, we find a series of disagreements and compromises in different topics and fields such as; Spending review, deficit reduction, tax measures, banking reform, immigration... Because Morgan and Sindall is mainly...
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...Wal-Mart and Its Urban Expansion Strategy Herbert Reliza Drummond Columbia Southern University Course Title DBA 7035 4 October, 2011 Abstract Wal-Mart’s presence in the retail market industry has been extensive and profitable; resulting with Wal-Mart grossing sales of 256 billion, $9 billion profit, and employing 1.3 million associates (employees) within the United States. “With attractive sights becoming scarce, Wal-Mart pursued an urban expansion strategy and in 2004 negotiations commenced to open new stores in the Chicago metropolitan area, but none in the city itself” (Baron, 2010, p. 217). Furthermore, of its 3,000 plus stores Wal-Mart management altered its strategy and focused on two major areas primarily located on the Southside and Westside of urban African-American areas located in Chicago Illinois- Ryerson Tull and Helene Curtis facilities. However, in this case study we will closely analyze several factors dealing with Wal-Mart’s perils that have not only tarnished its reputation but also has questioned the probability of gaining the trust of Chicago’s social and political agencies to enter into the Chicago retail industry to compete with rivals: Target, K-Mart, as well as many others. Entering Chicago Retail Market Background According to Baron (2010), “Wal-Mart’s market strategy emphasized low prices, low costs, helpful sales...
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...ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR PROJECT CASE STUDY BUILDING A COALITION Group-3 [Organizational Behavior Assignment] Case Study Building a Coalition 1. Background. Asha Foundation a nonprofit social organization collaborating with municipal school system in Chattisgarh in order to improve the educational ambiance and school organization as a whole. The improvements need to be mainly concentrated on improving upon teacher’s absenteeism, student’s performance and irregular attendance of the children. Towards this municipal school system is contributing by providing classrooms and program staff. Asha Foundations, founded by entrepreneur A.B. Khaitan around 2. Executing agency profile. 1910. Working policies include “efficiency and experimentation”. Won many awards for low cost with excellent service. 3. Challenges and Objectives. Grey Areas (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) Objectives (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) Create an experimental after school program which is financially self-sufficient. Develop a new agency which will draw resources from both organizations. New program to operate with current educational policies. An operating handbook with overriding principal for the new program. An inspirational message for the new program. Absenteeism among teachers. Low student performance Variable attendance among children Physical condition of schools very poor with no basic amenities Illiteracy among parents Absence of motivation among teachers Possible Conflicts (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) Conflict...
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...1080/10538720903332578 Advocacy Coalitions and Punctuated Equilibrium in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate: Learning from Pro-LGBT Policy Changes in Minneapolis and Minnesota LAKE DZIENGEL St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota Policy change to actualize same-sex marriage requires planning and practices that can be most effective to advance marriage equality. This case study examines how building and maintaining strong coalitions aided in attainment and preservation of civil rights and protections for same-sex couples in Minnesota. As a historical policy analysis, it dissects collaborative strategies and events that led to a municipal domestic partner ordinance and state civil rights protections for sexual minorities in Minnesota during 1983–1995. Viewed through the lens of Advocacy Coalition Framework and Punctuated Equilibrium theory, findings support and highlight the importance of strategic planning of developing capable leaders, building strong coalitions, and capitalizing on events to garner public support and advance public policy toward civil rights protections and legal recognition for same-sex couples. KEYWORDS advocacy coalitions, punctuated equilibrium, policy, lesbian, gay, domestic partner benefits INTRODUCTION The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a large urban community, passed a Domestic Partner Ordinance in 1991 as the result of intensive lobby efforts by community organizers and private citizens and liaison building with the city government. The ordinance...
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