...that involves several organizational development initiatives. However, due to the harshness of Best Snack’s situation, the company is forced to evaluate the likes and dislikes of their constituents in order to compete with success. This paper will address Best Snack’s circumstance in a manner of resolving issues and realizing future opportunities, engaging stakeholders throughout the process to ensure success, and implementing a strategic plan involving new innovative ways and creativity as a vital part of the company’s culture. Describe the Situation Issue and Opportunity Identification Elizabeth Fairchild announced in a Memo to all employees – do to the rapid changes in the world; in order for Best Snacks to continue being successful the company will have to keep up with the changes. The company’s success with depend on if the company leads the way in creativity and innovation. (University of Phoenix, 2010, pg 2) The company has an opportunity to reorganize the organization to put the company on track with innovative and creative changes. “The individual level managers need to do all they can to facilitate the learning of new skills, norms and values so that individuals can increase their own personal skills and abilities and help build the organization’s core competences.” (Jones, 2004, pg 377) “The CEO of Best Snacks has several goals for...
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...Leadership Supporting Innovation in Organizations Introduction Leaders come in all shapes and sizes; this is evident from the many varieties of leaders in many different organizations. Whenever there is a crisis, all leaders have to step up and become innovative thinkers in order to successfully achieve the goals set forth. But there are some leadership practices that support and foster innovation within organizations. “Among the factors that influence employees’ creative behaviors and performance, leadership has been identified by many researchers as being one of the most, if not the most important” (Jung, Chow, & Wu, 2003, p. 526). Leaders have the ability to affect an employees’ creativity by catering to their needs and motivation, and by setting up an organizational culture and environment that will allow for employees to attempt different methods of thinking and speaking up with ideas or concepts without fear of being punished. (Jung, Chow, & Wu, 2003, p. 526) Leadership Practices Supporting Innovation A few key practices particular, in my opinion, spurs innovation, including leading people, strategic planning, participative management, and change management. A final leadership practice – transformational leadership – is an essential practice in supporting innovation in organizations. Leaders who can effectively lead their members ensures that members are motivated and develops an environment that supports innovation. “Leaders who have good skills...
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...Solution Stephanie Vickers MMPBL/550 March 23, 2012 Best Snacks Problem Solution For the past 100 years, Best Snacks, Inc. has been in the top two leading positions in the snack industry, making them an ideal investment for stockholders. Recently, in the last couple of years Best Snacks sales have declined, resulting in decreased stock prices, market share, and in second place in the industry. Contributing to these issues in the company is the lack of strong leadership, capable managers, and innovative work environment. Employee morale has suffered because staff does not feel encouraged to be creative or that their opinions are valued. By benchmarking other companies, Best Snacks can determine which strategies they can implement to continue their previous successful history. Best Snacks has the opportunity to reorganize their structure to promote innovative ideas, improve management skills, and realign the vision with a new organizational culture. There have been no product or service innovations in the past 5 years; instead, previously successful marketing methods have been improved or extended. For example, the most recent product information had new package sizes. Best snacks needs to remain competitive and an industry leader by researching, analyzing, and surveying today’s consumers in order to develop new products. The previous corporate security of sustainable market strength based on a track record of quality...
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...Introduction to Corporate Entrepreneurship Executive Summary Entrepreneurship is the process or application that drives creation and development of creative and innovative ideas (Frederick and Kuratko 2010). It involves market changes through systematic process to assist in the identification and address of new business opportunities (Alizadeh 2012). Corporate entrepreneurship is about the total process whereby organisations act in an innovative, risk-taking and proactive (Bouchard 2010) ways to help organisations, similar to entrepreneurship of creative and innovative thinking, however, the keyword for corporate entrepreneurship is ‘Organisation’. The aim of this manual was to describe and give an overview of corporate entrepreneurship to senior management and provide the necessary information and updates for an organisation to implement entrepreneurial thinking with its’ internal resources within its organisation. The manual will provides insightful information through the principle types and various dimensions of corporate entrepreneurship. The manual also included the journey through the various generations of innovation process models from simple to full integration models. To promote corporate entrepreneurship within organisation, a framework serving as best practices was discussed in the manual to support smooth adoption and implementation of corporate entrepreneurship. The manual will put emphasis on the different focal areas of corporate entrepreneurship...
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...the thinking and reflective skills required for leadership in a turbulent world. Drawing on complexity science, the course applies a multiple perspectives framework to challenge embedded assumptions and advance students’ ability to think creatively, analytically and strategically. Students learn to identify and reframe complex problems more effectively, and to develop and communicate actionable solutions compellingly. This course will introduce MBA students to some of the new mindsets needed for success in today’s turbulent and complex global environment. For example, today’s leaders must have the capacity to accept and deal with unpredictability and be adept at recognizing and integrating multiple perspectives and priorities. They must be able to spot and anticipate emerging trends and patterns; ask and explore provocative questions about their organizations and the world at large; deal with challenging ethical issues; and generally think both “inside” and “outside the box” in a deep and probing way. LEARNING OUTCOMES The course develops and enhances students’ ability to deliver compelling and coherent presentations; to apply analytic, critical and strategic thinking to complex business problems and to reflect and identify underlying assumptions and reframe them in order to drive to actionable outcomes. By the end of the course, you will have enhanced your critical awareness and skills in three areas: 1. Leadership Thinking to develop mindsets and thinking skills...
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...7 SWOT Analysis 9 Organizational Strengths 9 Technical Skills 9 Strategic Thinking 10 Organizational Weaknesses 11 Under-developed Leadership 11 Failing to deliver quality results 11 Organizational Opportunities 12 Political Forces - Obamacare 12 Economic Forces - Cloud Computing 13 Organizational Threats 14 Leadership Evaluation 16 Leadership Strengths 17 Innovative Thinking 17 Future-Facing 17 Managing Relationships 18 Leadership Weaknesses 19 Lack of formal higher education in executive staff 19 Weakness of Human Skills 19 Lack of Systems Thinking 20 Recommendations for Leadership Development 21 Lead with Humility (Level 5 Leadership) 21 Engage in Interactive Leadership 22 Practice Authentic Leadership 22 References 23 Organization Overview The focus of this section is to provide a description of the Software Engineering and Development (SEAD) organization at MCG, the leadership practices of the company’s CEO, and the link between the CEO’s leadership practices and the SEAD organizational culture. This department and leader were chosen for two reasons. First, the SEAD organization underwent many changes over the past 3 years due primarily to the CEO’s leadership decisions, including a complete reorganization to align to Agile methodologies, and an acquisition to Hearst. Second, political forces governing healthcare and innovations in IT management due to cloud computing, in the same timeframe, had tremendous impact to the healthcare...
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...Group Innovation Case and Presentation Overview Students will work in groups to select, research, prepare a report and present a case study on a selected innovative business organization. The principle objective of this assignment is twofold: 1. To identify what a real world company did to become a successful innovative organization; and 2. To assess the challenges and net benefits to the organization on doing so. This case is worth 30% of the final grade and with presentations on Week Thirteen and Fourteen. In weeks eleven and twelve there will be reviews based on the progress to date that will be worth 5% each. Students must be in class to achieve their grade out of 5% for each class. The final report and presentation will be worth 20%. Critical and Creative Thinking The following sub heading “The Required Areas of Work” outlines the focus that your report and presentation should take. However, I am looking for your team to apply critical and creative thinking in your research and analysis. This means that your responses to the questions will be clear, concise and simple (and not a copy and paste of patches of content). Business requires that you provide direct and relevant answers to questions in as little time as possible. I want you to summarize your answers to the questions below as follows: 1. Give a one word or max one short sentence responses that you can speak to (i.e. provide the more detailed backup). For example, for “Why is your company...
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...organizational innovation for competitive advantage. Policies Faculty and students will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Rowe, A. J. (2004). Creative intelligence: Discovering the innovative potential in ourselves and others. Upper Saddle River, NJ:...
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...Course Project Week 7 By Christina Johnson and Kenna Grace and Tonnet Slan Presented to Dr. Glenn Palmer Compensation and Benefits |Bank of America: |April 20, 2014 | What is Compensation? “Compensation represents both the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards employees receive for performing their jobs.” Martocchio, J.J. (2013) A Human Resource Management Approach. Compensation as most know is the hourly or annually paid. Compensation consist more of just hourly or annually pay. Organizations create monetary compensation process to reward their employees for their job performance. Monetary compensation is the core of compensation. A nonmonetary reward includes benefits such as medical insurance, paid time off and other services. Employees receive a base pay for performing their jobs. Base pay is recurring based on the company pay schedule. Companies distribute base pay to their employees in one of two forms: hourly pay or as salary. Employees earn hourly pay for every hour worked and salaries regardless of the number of hours worked. Understanding compensation’s goal in an organization takes understanding the role of HR and how compensation function fits into HR. Compensation Philosophy A compensation philosophy is a formal statement providing information on the company’s position about employee compensation. Compensation philosophies are usually created...
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...Abstract As far as I am concerned, Managerial Organization Behavior provides me with the most enlightenment and also requires most interaction, in my self-learning. This course covers almost all problems that we encounter in daily management. Although we have reflected on similar questions, few people can systematically summarize and analyze these problems. This course gives us a lot of inspiration, from the case studies to concrete problems encountered in actual work, which are shared with classmates in the classroom. This is indeed a very memorable and valuable experience. I believe this course will have a positive impact on students’ career in the coming decades. In this paper, an analysis is made of my inadequacies in management behaviors from the perspective of Emotional Intelligence, Creativity and Innovation, Communication Style, Gaining power and influence, Effective Empowerment and Delegation, Building effective team, Leading positive change, Building effective several parts team, and other aspects. I feel really appreciated that the school has provided this course for me and invited an experience scholar to teach us. Thank you, Bruce. I really look forward to attending your class. Wish you a happy and healthy life. 1. Emotional Intelligence analysis Some people say that emotional intelligence can be further divided into two aspects: self-awareness and interaction with others. I agree with this view. On the one hand, Human development should not only pay...
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...Reflective portfolio Module: Creative thinking Task: Final assignment Campus: ESE Rome Tutor: John Wyse, MBA, MA Student: Nadezhda Novikova Deadline: 12-12-2012 Amount of words: 4 470 Table of contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………..3 1. The important role of creativity and innovation in the entrepreneurial process………...4 2. Creativity and marketing strategy……………………………………………………….6 3. Development of creative skills…………………………………………………………..8 4. Creative thinking and solving problem…………………………………………………11 5. Companies which foster creative processes……………………………………………..12 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….13 References…………………………………………………………………………………….....14 Introduction Creative thinking is the significant part of humans’ characters. Creative people are more balanced and tolerant of others, because they know that everyone sees the world differently. Using of creative skills means not only to develop new and interesting ideas (for a better life or some of its aspects), but also for the improvement and development of the whole person. Any creative activity helps us to find personal meaning and to comprehend the own values. And this is the most important spiritual need of man, which distinguishes it from other living creatures. By studying the biographies and stories of successful people, David Galenson (economist, researcher) concluded that the peak of creative abilities can be achieved at any age. Galenson identified...
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...Who’s Really in Charge This paper will examine the leadership styles and qualities used by the Google Company and the management styles of Christophe Bisciglia as well as analyze situational leadership. This paper will also explore Google’s 20 percent time program and how effective it is. In reviewing this paper it will be determined what type of leadership style Google is using and the impact the style has on their organizational performance. Leadership Styles and Qualities of Google Management and Christophe Bisciglia The leadership style of Google management appears to be more participative leadership. The leadership style empowers and encourages employees to have innovative ideas and to implement those ideas. Google has a way recruiting the best employees and giving them the freedom to exercise their creativity. Baldwin, H. (2012). Bisciglia on the other hand uses more an autocratic style of leadership. Bisciglia had a large amount of students and he would use his entrepreneurial skills to get a team of volunteers together to work with college interns and develop the curriculum. Basciglia asked several colleagues to use their 20% time to help him teach the curriculum to the interns. This idea was so popular students couldn’t wait to sign up. Basciglia, know how to get the right people to help him get the job done, but it appears he maintained most of the authority as the lead teacher incorporating his ideas. More Effective Leadership ...
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...past two years the sales have been slipping (Scenario, 2006). Due to the increase of businesses in the same snack market Best Snacks must figure out a way to increase the sales and to be in the number one spot again. With Best Snacks having comfort of being success the past few years they have now discovered that they must find creative and innovative ways to sell the snacks that the business has been built on. The areas that Best Snacks will need to focus on are sales, marketing new ideas and management support. With over 100 years of notoriety they need to focus on how to be creative by involving the staff and employees thoughts and ideas that can be used for innovative change within the company and the customers that they serve. This paper will attempt to discuss and create a problem statement that Best Snacks, Inc. and its team players are facing and needs to resolve. The resolution will need to implement a strategic plan that will be able to identify, define, and have a purpose and display what the priorities are needed to ensure a successful outcome. The problem solution will begin with realizing what the creative and innovative plan will need to have in order for the implementation to begin the process. The order of business has been brought forth by Elizabeth Fairchild who is the Chief Executive Officer and believes that Sabrina McKay, Vice President of Organizational Development will be able to implement some fresh and new ideas (Scenario, 2006). Sabrina’s area of...
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...Noe A Munoz Mgmt 364 Columbia College Professor Douglas 28 April 2015 Tanglewood Case 6 (Interview) 1.) Although having a resume and validating all of the potential applicants KSAO’s are an important step in the hiring and candidate selection process, I feel that the most important part of the hiring process would have to be the actual job interview. According to Bianca Audra she claims that standardized interview procedures yield in hiring a better quality of candidates than performing unstructured interviews. I think that by increasing the number of test or the number of forms that candidates have to take or fill out for the position of store managers will not suffice nor yield better results. The method that Tanglewood currently uses to hire managers is similar to the method that is used to hire store associates. I feel that a change is required when it comes to the selection plan if Tanglewood expects to hire the best employees out there. The department manager position requires that the potential employees take on a greater responsibility, and perform their work more intelligently. So in order to accomplish that, and hire employees that will perform those types of duties, Tanglewood must tailor our selection methods to match the specific KSAO’s that are required for the position. The more closely we measure the applicants KSAO’s to match to what is required for the position at hand the better results we would produce. We cannot accomplish that if we continue...
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...highlight the skills and behaviors of this leader and others and how they prepare their organizations to be more innovative. Not only will this paper highlight the global trends that influenced Nayar to create a new, innovative organization, but also will use the model of assessment that will be used is based on the five discovery skills from the “DNA Disruptive Innovators” of Dyer, J. H., Gregersen, H. B., & Christensen, C. M. (2011) Innovator’s DNA, how did Nayar use these discovery skills to create an innovative organization and what recommendations that Nayar can use to support and encourage an innovative organization. When one thinks of innovation, it is a term used to described new ideas and new beginnings. One who introduced this concept to a failing organization, was an innovative leader named Vineet Nayar. In 2007, Nayar was named CEO of IT Services and Outsourcing Firm HLC Technologies. With his strategic vision and global outlook, he catapulted the then dismal firm into the leader of the organizational pack in a short amount of time. First, this analysis will take a deep look into the strategic vision and global outlook that Nayar used to catapult HLC Technologies. Also, the analysis will introduce the five discovery skills and how Nayar used these skills to create this organization and what steps he needs to take to continue shaping HLC into a more innovative company. In the beginning of Nayar's 2010 article "A Maverick CEO Explains How He Persuaded His Team to Leap...
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