...Please Note: Please use this as a study guide only. This is simply my perspective on the problem and its alternative solutions. You will need to write your own essay from your own perspective and in your own words. You can summarize, and paraphrase the information to fit your needs but I would advise that you do not turn it in word for word as your own work or you risk plagiarism. Also please note that my tables are within the text of the paper for better understanding of the concepts. Your instructor may require that you put them at the end of the paper. Good luck with your studies! Problem Solution: Foundation Schools The challenges of today’s business management arena are legion. Effective managers must carefully and accurately analyze each situation, diagnose the correct problem and proceed to apply the correct solution to help their organizations grow. In today’s challenge-wrought environment managers and the business organizations under their leadership have to devise and execute complex critical organizational strategies. Executing these strategies is essential to the healthy growth of all organizations, and program management is the essential tool that can ensure the proper execution of the critical strategies that achieve organizational growth. Successful program management involves choosing projects that support the organization’s strategic intents in order of their importance to these strategic intents. Effective implementation of projects/programs...
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...Problem Solution: Foundation Schools The Foundation School is the leading special education school positioned in three different communities in the state of California. The board of directors is attracted to the idea of expanding the school system throughout many communities in the United States. To accomplish this they must first devise a strategic plan to increase their revenues and funding, and second increase their student enrollment 5% each year. Their strategic objectives are to ensure they identify any potential problems that can hinder their success as well as recognize any areas of opportunity for their organization. They are currently analyzing ways to increase the student to teacher ratio by implementing a new computer software program to aid in the students learning. The board of directors is interested in benchmarking other companies to increase their knowledge and improve their chance to meet their strategic objectives. Describe the Situation Issue and Opportunity Identification There does not appear to be a framework for project management or operations with the Foundation Schools project team. Confusion and identification with the project is compounded due to the lack of a project manager. The end state vision is not clear and can be very broad and does not lead to a conclusive success of the project. The teachers of Foundation Schools do not feel compelled to change their teaching styles to incorporate the Life Skills software. Stakeholder...
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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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...Problem Solution: Foundation Schools MMPBL/510 Problem Solution: Foundation Schools Foundations Schools is the largest provider of special needs education in the United States (UOP scenario, p. 1). There are three campuses, serving about 1000 students, increasing about 5% a year, but the board believes that number could be higher and has “adopted a new strategy that uses business development as the model to increase funding sources and revenue” (UOP, scenario, p. 1). They have outlined a three year program plan, with several new projects; however, they have developed some issues with formulating some aspects of the plan, because of the lack of strategic planning. The Foundation Schools wants to implement successfully the projects outlined in the business plan over the next two years. The implementation and process will need to satisfy the school’s mission and strategic plan for growth in both student population and revenue. The school’s faculty, board of directors and administration must be open to change and have the talent and resources to put these changes in motion. Successful program management creates both the structure and practices to: A. Guide the program and provide senior-level leadership, oversight, and control. B. Strategically, it encompasses the relationship between the oversight effort and the organization’s business direction. C. Foundation Schools will need to encompass the decision-making roles and responsibilities involved...
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...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 apparent that the Woodson Foundation is reluctant in working together with the other organizations in order to create a successful program. Seeing that each of the groups have their specific areas of strong concern, like the Woodson foundation's focus on hard data, NCPIE's focus on the parents, and the school's consistency with the school board and unionization with new jobs, the development...
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...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 once the target is achieved. Run things: These teams consist...
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...the Woodson Foundation is a large nonprofit social service agency, which is teaming up with the public school system is Washington, D.C., to improve student outcomes. According to the textbook, I identify the stage of Woodson Foundation is in the norming stage, which is having close relationship develop and the group demonstrates cohesiveness. Team cohesion refers to the mutual attraction attractiveness of the team members, members of the team cohesion, and team members, team cohesion is not only a necessary condition for the existence of maintaining the team, but the team has the potential to play a very important role. If a team loses cohesion, it is impossible to complete the task entrusted to the organization itself will lose the conditions exist. A social psychologist has said that what the cohesion do is to enable members of the group to stay together in groups, which is a kind of interpersonal attraction, attraction it had some similarities mechanics, such as a personal in the play "meteor ball", the meteor ball turn around with center. The primary question that the Woodson Foundation is facing is to figure out the conflict in the development team. Because each group has its own interests, and in some cases these are directly opposed to one another. The second problem is that how to distribute the job for different candidates. In the scenario, the development team is consisted of three individuals- HR representatives from the Woodson Foundation, the schools, and the NCPIE...
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...Woodson Foundation Team Development Kevin Hornsby Hornsbyk@cboe.com MGMT-591-20624 Professor Kenneth Steinkruger January 24, 2015 Abstract During the course of conducting business, often times organization seek information from case studies. Case studies present an account of things that have happened in organizations and how things turned around. Today we will look at a case study involving the Woodson Foundation offering recommendations in a role of a consultant. Introduction We have been hired as a consultant for the Woodson Foundation, an organization that specializes in the management of teams, advising those whom have hired them, best courses of action through analysis. The Washington D.C. School district has hired the Woodson Foundation to analyze and offer solutions to correct the problems that are currently plaguing the school system. As a consultant working with the Woodson Foundation, we have been tasked with recommending a process that will be used to decide who should be on the team working with the D.C. school system. The Woodson Foundation will develop an Executive Development Team, whom will actually implement the changes that will be needed in the D.C. school system, our job as consultant is to advise on the process of selecting team members which will best suit the needs of the client. Type of Team In the selection of persons whom will operate on the team working with the D.C. public schools puts the firm in the preliminary...
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...Course: MGMT591 Professor: Robert Paschke Part 1: Group Development The Woodson Foundation and the Washington DC public school system are teaming up to create an experimental after school program to tackle certain ongoing issue with the school system. The ongoing issues include rapid staff turnover and truancy, low performance and crime amongst students. The plan, after months of negotiation is to create an agency that will integrate both the Woodson Foundation and the DC Schools organization and be financially self-sufficient. To make this possible, the first step is to create an executive development team that will establish the operating plan for improving school performance. From what we have read in the case study and the text book material, this group can be considered to be in two stages simultaneously. This is a group that is still in the “forming” stage – there is a great deal of uncertainty, members have not yet been identified and none of the group properties (roles, norms, status, size, cohesiveness and diversity) have been clearly defined (with one exception, that of the group size). While the group is still in the forming stage there is also conflict brewing. Each of the group members have their interests at heart. The school district representatives want to ensure that the new jobs are unionized and that current policies and procedures are applicable. Woodson Foundation is focused on performance measurement using hard data, which is not consistent with the existing...
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...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 to control but intervene in making some changes for the enhancement of the school. Since the school system and the Woodson Foundation have agreed to form a separate agency, one of the major issues is who is going to lead the executive development team. The secondary issue is deciding on a process for choosing members. It is important to choose team members based on preference,...
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...Case Study 3 Challenge Summary The public school system in Washington, D.C. is suffering from problems with truancy, low student performance and crime. To make significant changes to the current state, a proposal to develop a new after school program to target these three problem areas. The Woodson Foundation has extensive skills in raising private funds and coordinating community efforts with that of educational professionals. Utilizing the strengths of the Woodson Foundation will be paramount to creating a successful after-school program. Assets to Successful Implementation: * All Parties have the common goal and benefit of student success. * The Woodson Foundation has a proven track record of raising funds to create a program that is self-reliant and not dependent on revues from the school board. Additionally, they have won several awards for minimizing costs and still proving excellent service. * National Coalition for Parental Involvement (NCPIE) is able to encourage parental involvement via the PTA by educating parents in constructive ways to assist the program. * Teaching staff is motivated by better student performance as it will result in a more positive working environment * Enhancing student performance will in turn help resolve truancy and crime Hindrances to Successful Implementation: * Bureaucratic School Board wants to limit practices within existing policies and procedures with strict hiring guidelines. * Racial imbalance...
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...MGMT 591 Leadership and Org Behavior Case Study! Part 1: Group Development The Woodson Foundation, the Washington D.C. public school system and The National Coalition for Parental Involvement in Education (NCPIE) have decided to combat a problem within the school district together. The schools have problems with students skipping class, low grades, and crime. Turnover rates for newly hired teachers are high as their enthusiasm for reaching students gets discouraged when they encounter the harsh reality of the classrooms. Woodson Foundation’s was sought due to their ability to raise funds, The district’s ability to garner help from community leaders, coupled with the NPCIE’s ability to get parents involved. (Robbins 629) We find the organization at the Storming Stage. This stage is one of intra-group conflict. Members accept the existence of the group but resist the constraints it imposes on individuality. There is conflict over who will control the group and what path the organization will take to meet its mission. (Robbins 275). Every organization needs to understand that although they will all go through these challenges, the each group needs to contribute in order to meet mission .The internal process is brought about within each group’s individual strengths: 1. The School District has the teaching ability and the backing of the union. 2. The Woodson Group operating as a fundraising and networking powerhouse. 3. The NCPIE knows what the parents of the community...
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... September 7, 2014 Each day children attend school to receive an education. But although school is necessary and beneficial for becoming productive citizens, there are experiences such as bullying and racism that make them not want to go. These experiences end up marking youth for the rest of their lives. Some children find an outlet to their problems by bulling others. Over the years bullying has grown tremendously affecting our schools and communities and as a result our future generations and their lively hood are at stake. Historically, bullying took place in the mid 1970s. Dan Olweus, a research professor of psychology, was the first to conduct an intensive study on bullying among students using his own systematic researching methods (Voo, 2007, p. 112). He created the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP), which had significant results in reducing school bullying (Hazelden Foundation, 2007). Olweus’s efforts and solutions contributed greatly to the fight against bullying increasing awareness, initiating other professionals to conduct more research, and expanding the knowledge of bullying (Voo, 2007). Because of Olweus’s efforts researchers suggest that there have been a positive impact on decreasing school violence and bringing safety awareness to schools. Bullying and racism are problems that have been a part of America’s history for many years. Bullying can be verbal, physical, I chose to discuss...
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...team from two different companies and a school board trying to come together to help the children of Washington, DC but they all have different reasons and approaches to the matter, they will try to come together and get this gone as one powerful team the school board, Woodson Foundation and NCPIE. The executive development team is past the forming stage they know who will be working towards this common goal and what they bring to the table, so that means they are in the storming stage because they all their own plans on how to go about change the culture of the young children of DC. They all oppose to some of the ideas of the other parties have because it does create so kind of conflict of interest not everyone goes about doing business the same way. The executive team could go a long way and could an easier time navigating the concerns of the other groups in they knew how to form a group and the stages that it takes to become a functionally group that works well together, in the mist of them storming to fit the right fit amongst each other if the Woodson Foundation had a clear understanding of the process then know this is the hard part letting NCPIE and the school board do what they do well and just focusing on what aspect they are strong at which would be normalizing the group to full power setting the standards and goals the meet the expectations of the community as well as the school board but putting forth the best after school program that would maximize the educational...
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...Running head: GENERIC BENCHMARKING WORKSHEET The Foundations Schools Generic Benchmarking Worksheet Deanna Fields, Kicia Gaines, Edward Thaxton University of Phoenix MMPBL/510 Implementing Organizational Initiatives Professor Joel Maier September 20, 2010 Task A: Problem/Opportunity Statement – Edward Thaxton The objective of our research study is to employ a team-based approach to identifying problem opportunity statements, effectively conduct generic benchmarking research, identify successful and unsuccessful generic benchmarking companies and recognize potential solutions to our problem opportunity statement and end-state goals. The design of the study includes peer-reviewed references, and utilization of a generic benchmarking worksheet. The team's approach to the research methods was to research the generic benchmarking information individually and incorporate our findings into one manuscript. Furthermore, the team-based research approach will provide enhanced solutions from three different perspectives and allow us to be more successful in our research, generic benchmarking methodologies and solution identification for California School Districts and Princeton Review. Task B1: Benchmarking - California School Districts – Kicia California’s 978 school districts receive the majority of their funding through a formula known as “revenue limits.” Revenue limit funds can be used by school districts for general purposes, unlike funds received through categorical...
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