...Week Five: The Strategy Process, Organizational Behavior, and Leadership in Organizations Shavonne Herriot July 2, 2012 Barry Foster PhD The company that I work for, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is going through expansion and restructuring. Because of this I was given the opportunity to determine the position that best suits me. They are allowing me to define my role within the company so that I will most benefit the company and be most successful. This is going to be an exceptional experience for me. This will allow me utilize the skills that I have learned through my schooling to benefit the company. Instead of choosing one leadership model to follow, I believe it would be most beneficial to combine two different ones. The leadership models I decided to use were the Affiliative Leadership Model and the Coaching Leadership Model. By definition “the affiliative leader was one of six leadership types documented. The affiliative leader promotes harmony among followers, and helps to solve conflict. By making sure followers feel connected to each other, this leader is adept at building teams” ("Money-Zine", 2004-2012). Affiliative leaders revolve around people. They pride themselves in their ability to keep their employees happy and create a harmonious working environment. They build strong emotional bonds with their employees and foster loyalty. People work at their best when they are satisfied. If they are in an environment that fosters great relationships...
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...An Evaluation of Leadership Style, Process and Procedure of Simon Cowell The Founder and CEO of SYCO Student Name Instructor’s Name Course Date INTRODUCTION The concept of leadership is a relevant subject in 20th century and the early years of the 21st century (Northouse, 2004). Leadership can be described as a way of social control that sees a person getting the support and aid of others on completing a specific task (Adair, 2005). Thus, effective leadership is the ability to effectively incorporate and exploit existing resources within an organization for the accomplishment of the goals and objectives of such organization (Northouse, 2004). The issue of leadership continues to be a famous concept. Despite the fact that lots has been written about leadership, the importance of leadership has not diminished. According to Cohen (2009), “leadership always matters and continues to be more matter as time goes on”. This report considers the leadership style of Simon Cowell, the CEO and founder of SYCO, as a transformational leader that has tremendous impact on organisational change of the company. The report reviews leadership theories and concepts such as traits, styles and skills. The report clearly follows the chronological development of leadership theories and focus on Simon Cowell as a leader, the leadership environment and the leadership relationship. This report also explores possible links between theories and Simon Cowell’s leadership. It takes a holistic...
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...Leadership Development at 3M: New Process, New Techniques, New Growth Margaret Alldredge, Cindy Johnson, Jack Stoltzfus, 3M; Al Vicere, Smeal Coiiege of Business,The Pennsylvania State University; and the 3M ALDP Design Team rom the moment she first shook his hand in a receiving line after his arrival at 3M, Margaret Alldredge, staff vice president, Leadership Development and Learning, knew Jim McNemey was passionate about developing leaders. McNemey was fresh from an enormously successful career at GE. He talked of implementing Six Sigma (a rigorous process designed to improve productivity, increase profits, and enhance customer service) and shared his view that Six Sigma was not only about process improvement but aiso a way to develop leaders rapidly. He also suggested that 3M might be ripe for the establishment of its own "Crotonville," GE's vaunted center for cultivating leadership talent. That first meeting set into motion the creation of a new, intense, and exciting approach to developing 3M's leaders. F HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING 45 One of Jim McNemey's first questions after arriving at 3M Company as its new CEO was, "What are we doing here to develop leaders?" The response from the 3M leadership development team convinced him ihe company could do more to develop high-potential talent. Almost immediately, he challenged the team to craft an intensive leadership development strategy that would rival that of his prior employer, GE. This article chronicles our...
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...opportunity based on my leadership abilities to define the position that best suits my qualifications and that will most benefit the company as we undergo expansion and restructuring. Based on the basic personality assessment I scored high on being goal and task-oriented. This means that I am very responsible, reliable, and achievement oriented. The task-oriented leadership style includes aspects of task management and leadership. This style includes coordinating work activities, paying attention to details, monitoring progress of assignments. The leadership style suggests that I take responsibility for decisions and setting strategic goals to perform my assigned tasks. In addition to being goal oriented, I am also very cautious. The cautious styles’ strengths include an eye for detail and accuracy, dependability, persistence, follow-through, and organization. The cautious styles behavior indicates that I like to gather all the facts before I begin to offer my opinion. People with a cautious behavioral style are comfortable when others communicate logical messages. They tend to carefully listen to others so they can sort the trivial messages from those with substance. They tend to be methodical and systematic. The cautious leader usually has high expectations of themselves and others, which can make them over-critical; however their tendency is toward perfectionism. This could be seen as a weakness; however since the goal is organization accuracy, process correctness and...
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...Leadership and Communication/Writing Process Leadership and Communication/Writing Process A key aspect in leadership involves influencing people. To effectively influence others demands exceptional communication skills. With different generations of leaders, come different communication skills and views towards the use of technology in communication. Additionally, the technology and Information age requires that more communication be executed through the use writing. In this regard, being an adept writer has become a requirement as compared to a skill on a resume. First-rate leaders in today’s workforce should possess both exemplary oral and written communication skills regardless of the generation they originate from. Leadership and Communication Without question, the way a leader communicates differs based on generation. From the Traditionalist, whose time in the workforce is fading, to the Millennials (Gen Yers), who have just begun to enter the workforce, there brings a generation gap of over six decades. I think it is impossible to conclude that communication would remain constant over this timespan. The values, ethics and economic situations of the time period a person hails from all influence how a person communicates as a leader. According to (Houck, 2011), in regards to communication across generations, he states: * Baby Boomers – are considered politically correct, love meetings * Gen Xers – are informal, abrupt, prefer structured meetings that...
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...Performance at Precision/Case Study #1 Jackson Smith has his work cut out for him in his task to implement a merit pay program that would tie to Precision’s performance appraisal process. According to Martocchio, a merit pay program assumes that employee’s compensation over time should be determined by differences in job performance. In other words, employees earn permanent merit increases based on their performance. The overarching challenge to overcome is that merit pay is considered an entitlement by the employees at Precision since everyone has received the same percentage increase across the board regardless of performance. Jackson is likely to experience strong resistance to the change, especially by those who are low performers. Additionally, the supervisors clearly are not trained in giving effective performance appraisals as most employees are rated as average and employees are only provided feedback one time per year. Another big hurdle is the lack of job descriptions. Without having a job description that clearly states expectations, a merit program cannot be established that would tie to the performance appraisal process as pay increases would continue to be based on the subjectivity of the supervisor. I believe that Precision wants to make a commitment to develop a pay plan that will motivate and reward group behavior. Gaining acceptance of the program will be crucial in creating a unified organizational culture. Precision clearly realizes that they need...
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...Who is the creater of CP/M? [Kildall] Who is the head of the Multics project. [Carbato] Which OS’s process scheduler reduces priority and increases quantum. [CTSS] Which one is the difference between a semaphore and monitor. [Last choice] If a system has 16 drives and each process can have 4 drives. What is the maximum number of n that the system is deadlock free. [5] Given the sequence below which processes will cause a page fault. (for FIFO – LRU) Write a loop that would create 10 child processes. (No more than 10). If a file is shared by two processes, can have read-only and the other read-write access. If yes how, if not what prevent it. What are some of the security features in UNIX or NT. How does NTFS directory system work. How does UNIX directory system work. Pick a Unix UNIX process scheduler and explain how (not why or when) it favors I/O bound processes to CPU bound processes. Explain and compare I/O software (programmed, interrupt, DMA). What is the problem with RAID4 and explain how RAID5 solves the problem. Disk arm scheduling algorithms readuce read time but what does Linux additionally do. How does Workingset Clock algorithm work. If seektime is 8msec and each track is 160KB. What is the access time to read 4KB. Couffman listed four requirements for a deadlock. Describe fourth one and how to prevent it. What are the advantages of inverted page tables. What is a soft link. Implement soft link and hard links...
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...Fall 2011 COMP 3511 Homework Assignment #1 Solution Handout Date: Sept. 22, 2011 Due Date: Oct. 6, 2011 Name: ______________ ID: ___________________ E-Mail: _____________ COMP 3511 L __ Please read the following instructions carefully before answering the questions: You should finish the homework assignment individually. There are a total of 4 questions. When you write your answers, please try to be precise and concise. Fill in your name, student ID, email and Section number at the top of each page. Submissions without this information will be discarded. Please fill in your answers in the space provided, or you can type your answers in a Word file. Homework Collection: the hardcopy is required and the homework is collected at the collection box (#6, #7) or in class. (22 points) Please answer the following question in 2-3 sentences 1) (8 points) What is the benefit of Direct Memory Access (DMA)? Is interrupt still needed when a DMA is used? Can DMA operations possibly interfere with CPU operations? 1. Answer: This frees up the CPU during I/O operation, so the CPU can be better used; Or to improve the CPU utilization (3 points). Interrupt is still needed when the DMA operation is completed in order to inform the CPU (2 points). If a DMA and CPU access memory at the same time, it can interfere with each other (3 points). 2) (4 points) Why is it necessary to separate user mode and kernel mode? Answer: This provides some level of protection so that user programs...
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...Chapter 2 OPERATING SYSTEM CONCEPTS SYS-ED/ Computer Education Techniques, Inc. Solaris System Administration: Introduction Operating System Concepts Objectives You will learn: • Operating system components. • Solaris usage of processes. • File management and file systems. • Use of the Solaris Management Console. SYS-ED/COMPUTER EDUCATION TECHNIQUES, INC. (Solaris – System Admin: Intro - 6.5) Ch 2: Page i Solaris System Administration: Introduction 1 Operating System Concepts Operating System: Definition An operating system is the set of programs that controls a computer. The core of the operating system is the kernel. The kernel is a control program that functions in privileged state that allows all hardware instructions to be executed. It reacts to interrupts from external devices and to service requests and traps from processes. The kernel creates and terminates processes and responds to requests for service. Operating systems are resource managers. The main resource is computer hardware in the form of processors, storage, input/output devices, communication devices, and data. Operating system functions include: • Implementing the user interface. • Sharing hardware among users. • Allowing users to share data among themselves. • Preventing users from interfering with one another. • Scheduling resources among users. • Facilitating input/output. • Recovering from errors...
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...UNDERSTANDING THREADS Simply put, a thread is a program's path of execution. Most programs written today run as a single thread, causing problems when multiple events or actions need to occur at the same time. Let's say, for example, a program is not capable of drawing pictures while reading keystrokes. The program must give its full attention to the keyboard input lacking the ability to handle more than one event at a time. The ideal solution to this problem is the seamless execution of two or more sections of a program at the same time. Threads allow us to do this. A process is essentially a "heavy" unit of multitasking: as an approximation, think of it as an "application" (though it can include 'background' or 'system' processes such as your battery monitor, mouse and keyboard server, PDA synchronization tool etc). A thread, on the other hand, is a more "lightweight" unit. Threads are can be seen essentially sub processes. Informally, we can think of them as tasks that belong to a program and that can run "simultaneously". For them to run simultaneously, each of these two tasks will run in a separate thread. Depending on the number of CPUs available and the number of competing threads, some of those threads actually will run in parallel on different CPUs, whilst in other cases the illusion of simultaneous execution will be achieved by "juggling" threads in and out of the available CPUs. A part of the OS called the thread scheduler takes care of deciding...
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...Chris and Pat Smith, and Martin and Miller decided it was best to have a termination contact set in place to secure all partakers in their final decisions. They noted it was best for all to have precise, clear explanations all of all essential fundamentals for the termination of their business partnership. An acknowledgement of the effective termination date would need to be set, and all potential risks, if any, should be stated for all parties. The owners and the chefs would meet for a period of 30 minutes and try to dissolve their partnership. The owners and the chefs blame each other for the failure of At Your Service; however, all partakers should act as responsible, mature adults during the meeting. It would speed up the termination process; especially if all partakers can...
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...Case Study Tresa Jellison HCS/483 November 12, 2012 Dr. Kaderie Case Study The basic IT implementation process is the whole process of setting up and running an IT based program for a company. It starts from the beginning to the end of the process and throughout the whole process even after the last step has been taken. You have the planning stage, and this will include what exactly what you are looking for and what you want the program to do and how it will operate. Who will be using this program and who will it be beneficial to. You will have to go and get bids or quotes from companies that can provide this type of service. Depending on what is being implemented you have to do weeks, months and even years of research to ensure that the program will benefit everyone involved and that time and money is not being wasted. A lot of the things that were done are this analysis did not follow the fundamentals of implementation. During the execution of the program there where many bugs that had to be fixed that could have been prevented if the right questions and queries where ran before going live. There should have been a trial or practice run before the whole system went live. And they should have not done it at all of the sites. Only a couple of the sites should have had the program and should have been using it to get the bugs out. There were way off budget and there were a lot of hidden details that should have been reported. At least this way there would have...
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...Labs Lab 4.1: Using Linux Command-Line Basics What is the purpose? This lab demonstrates how to redirect data from a process and how to identify and kill a process. What are the steps? • Task 1: Redirecting and piping standard output Procedure 1. Obtain a list of files from the home directory, including the hidden files. Redirect the output to a file named Listing by using the ls -a > listing command. 2. Obtain a long list of files, including the hidden files, and append the output to the same file. 3. Use the cat listing | less command to view the file and pipe the output to less. 4. Use the cat command to view the file again. However, this time, pipe the output to lpr to print the file. 5. Redirect the output of ls to the special file /dev/null. What happens? It’s redirected to dev/null Why? It’s null. • Task 2: Putting tasks in the background and terminating the job Procedure 1. Use the tail –f command to view your listing file from the previous task. The –f option tells tail to follow changes; therefore, the file will continue to run this command until you cancel the command by pressing Ctrl+C. Put the file in the background using the tail -f listing & command. You may need to press Enter again to view the command prompt. 2. Put the process in the background and display the prompt again. Run the top command in the foreground. This will provide you a list of your top 20 processes by CPU usage. Put this list in the background and stop it by pressing...
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...are compared. Process Management, File Management, Memory Management, and Security are going to be compared between Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Mac operating systems. Every operating system is different and is interesting to see how every piece of software has the same outcome but has different procedures in between. Process management is defined as how the OS manages multiple programs running at the same time. A thread is a feature of an OS that enables parallel processing within a single process. UNIX, Windows, and Mach are all multitasking systems that support both processes and threads. They can be compared in several respects with regard to the process management features. When executing a program on UNIX, the system creates an environment for that program. In this setting there is everything needed to execute that program. The OS tracks processes though a five digit number Recognized as the Process ID. Each process has its own unique PID. PID’s ultimately repeat because all the probable numbers are used, and the next PID repeats the system again. At any time, no two Processes with the same PID occur in the system, because it is the PID that UNIX uses to track its processes. Each UNIX process has two ID numbers. The PID or process ID, and PPID or Parent process ID. Each user process in the system has a PPID. Normally, when a child process is killed, the parent process is told by a SIGCHLD signal. Then the parent can do another task, or restart a new process as needed. When...
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...When being ask a question in today’s society, the automatic answer or reaction in order find a solution would be through the use of technology. We as the people have grown dependent on the world of the Internet, the accessibility of our phones and uses of clocks. A thought that we find hard to comprehend is that just about thirty years ago some of these tools did not exist. How has technology affected our minds and the way we think or even process information? Can we say we have turned our brains into a living computer, or are so dependent on outside answers that we have stopped thinking for ourselves? Now and days we have entered a state of obliviousness on how little knowledge and wisdom we truly have. It is very interesting to think about on how technology especially the television could affect our attention span and the information that is being given to us. In Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” he states a precise point “the average length of a shot on network television is only 3.5 seconds, so that the eye never rests, always has something to see” (86). This statement alone shows and proves on how peoples attention span is constantly shifting and changing focus to see what else is there is to see or what is next to come. As the Internet becoming more useful to people, written stories or narratives are becoming more extinct. In the article “The Transition to Digital Journalism” the author Paul Grabowicz’s stated, “Younger people in particular are said...
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