...26) is of growing importance to Australia’s economic prosperity and security (Shen 2009, 110). But as relative power begins to shift, the latest defence White Paper released last Friday May 3, stated “the relationship between the United States and China, the region’s and the globe’s two most powerful states, will more than any other single factor determine our strategic environment over coming decades” (Probyn and Wright 2013). Drawing upon the Research Thesis of Yi Shen at the University of NSW, the aim of this essay is to examine the repercussions of the US-China strategic rivalry over Taiwan. In the event of conflict, Australia would be forced to side with the US which “has kept Asia peaceful and Australia secure for many decades” (White 2011, 81). Maintaining a military alliance with the US as well as ongoing economic opportunities with China requires stable relations amongst Asian powers by adopting “the logic of concert” (White 2011, 90). As China becomes an ongoing threat to US primacy in Asia, it is in the best interest of Australia to maintain dual relations by the establishment of a new order that ensures regional stability and security throughout Asia. Clash over Taiwan Australia’s ability to maintain dual relations with the United States and China in the long-term remain uncertain due to the US-China strategic rivalry over Taiwan (Shen 2009). Political and military tensions in the Taiwan Strait are a result of China seeking to “re-gain its glory and influence...
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...White Paper The Strategic Management of Projects The concept of Managing projects describes the organisation’s ability to select, nurture and deliver projects and programs effectively. The strategic capability to manage projects1 expands this general concept to include the direction of the organisation’s overall Project Delivery Capability (PDC) towards the achievement of its strategic objectives. The strategic management of projects includes all of the aspects of project delivery discussed in our white paper PDC Taxonomy2 (outlined below) focused on realising strategic value for the organisation. In many organisations, implementing an effective and rigorous PDC structure will require a major organisational change effort and will challenge existing cultures, particularly the tendency of executives to focus on project failure rather than organisational failure when their organisation fails to adequately support the management of its projects. 2 The PDC Architecture outlined in WP1074 – PDC Taxonomy 1 Strategic project management has many different terms for the same general set of management capabilities required to support the efficient delivery of the ‘right’ projects and programs. Some options include: - The Management of Projects: Prof. Peter Morris’ concept - Enterprize Project Management: tends to be used for the supporting software tools - Enterprise Project Governance: (used in a book by Paul Dinsmore & Luiz Rocha) focused on How to Manage Projects...
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...3.2. Behavioural 5 3.3. Structural 5 4. Leadership at Top Management and functional management levels of the Organisation 7 4.1. Initiation Structures 8 4.2. Dysfunctional roles of Functional Manager 8 4.3. Lack of Senior Management Support 8 4.4. Reactionary Management style 10 4.5. Implementation strategy 10 4.6. Lack of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 11 4.7. Internal Processes perspectives 11 4.8. Lack of Innovation and Learning (Learning and Growth) Perspective 11 5. Reichart’s Leadership and Managerial Abilities 12 5.1. Planning 12 5.2. Organizing 12 5.3. Staffing 12 5.4. Leading 13 5.5. Controlling 13 5.6. Major Skills lacking in Reichart’s leadership 14 6. Recommendations 14 6.1. Implementing a Strategic Transformation and Change Management Programme 15 6.1.1. Strategic transformation planning 15 6.1.2. Creating a Climate for Change 17 6.1.3. Continuous Organisational Improvement 17 6.1.4. Risk Management 18 6.1.5. Control 18 6.1.6. Stage–Gate Model 18 6.1.7. Balanced Scorecard 19 7. Conclusion 19 8. References 20 9. Annexure 22 9.1. Planning, Control, organising, & leading 22 9.2. BS – PM Learning Organisation Value Chain Schematic 23 9.3. Kotter’s 8-Step Process for Leading Change 23 9.4. Strategic transformation process 24 9.5. Continuous Organisational Improvement 25 9.6. The Stage-Gate Process 25 9.7. Control 26 9.8. Balanced Score Card 27 1. Executive Summary This paper looks at the Trophy Project case study where...
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...organizations like Apple, Amazon, or Google, their innovative successes has allowed them to achieve global reign in their individual business areas. The success gained by these companies cannot be credited to only the vision of their CEO/leader but the credit for the success goes to everyone involved in the design, production and management of all the projects within the company. In The Innovator's DNA, innovative leaders have obtained and held onto three prominent skills that these innovative organizations have which generally help contribute to the successes of the respective companies. Along with the DNA of disruptive leaders and organizations, Doyle & Smith (2001) told of what they named “Classical Models of Managerial Leadership”. With having a strong leadership model with the DNA of the disruptive leaders and organizations, organizational leaders have the capability to takeover a global market by creating what will be considered to be a truly innovative product and/or service. One of these great innovative organizations in the medical world is Intuitive Surgical. This robot-aided surgical company created the “da Vinci Surgical System”. This is the companies most innovative and profitable product yet. The dynamic company industrialized a groundbreaking product and reached market supremacy worldwide! While their competitors have started to surface, Intuitive Surgical doesn’t face ant real threats from any of the new companies. The Leaders of Intuitive Surgical, and its entire company...
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...Competitor analysis: Website & Thought leadership Report by Rashmi Singh (PGDM No: 10098) Work carried out at Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, Karnataka Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement of Summer Internship Programme Under the Supervision of Mr. Ashish Shetty, Marketing Lead, Insurance ISU, TCS, Bangalore SDM Institute for Management Development Mysore, Karnataka, India (June 2011) SDM IMD INSTITUTE CERTIFICATE This is to certify that Ms. Rashmi Singh, undergoing PGDM program 2010-12 at this institute has successfully completed the Summer Internship Programme on the project titled ―Competitor Analysis: Website and Thought Leadership‖ at TCS, Bangalore, from April 01, 2011 to May 31, 2011 as a partial requirement for completion of his PGDM curriculum. Prof. Govinda Sharma Internal Faculty Guide SDM IMD, Mysore. Date: 24/06/2011 Place: Mysore Summer Internship Project Page 2 SDM IMD Acknowledgement I take this opportunity to extend my sincere gratitude to our guides at Tata Consultancy Services, Mr. Ashish Shetty and Ms. Varsha Nair who spent a lot of time mentoring and guiding us. The insurance ISU was a completely new arena for us. We stumbled a few times, yet they have been very patient and supportive with us, always encouraging us to give our best. I also thank the Academic relationship manager, TCS, Mr. Chandra Koduru, for helping us with the joining formalities and induction program. I would also like to thank Prof. N. R. Govinda Sharma...
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...economic activities of the state.The skilled manpower turned into economic resourses of the state.The unskilled people are considered as the burden of of the state.the skilled people are called human resource .such type of people can acquire or produce resources.This is the productivity of man.The more personal productity is increased,the more the country wioll be productive. Pre conditon Creating skilled Manpower(Humam Resource): Leadership Leadership means vision, cheerleading, enthusiasm, love, trust, verve, passion, obsession, consistency, the use of symbols, paying attention as illustrated by the content of one's calendar, out-and-out drama (and the management thereof), creating heroes at all levels, coaching, effectively wandering around, and numerous other things. Leadership must be present at all levels of the organization. It depends on a million little things done with obsession, consistency, and care, but all of those million little things add up to nothing if the trust, vision, and basic belief are not there. (Haapaniemi, 2006) Leadership is more than just being confident that you can manage a number of people and make them follow your lead. Each one of us influences at least ten thousand other people during our lifetime. Hence, the question is not whether we can influence these people, but in what manner shall we influence them.[1] 2. Background of The study A Leader is a person who rules or guides or inspires others. In past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders...
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...0 Discussion 3 3.1 Strategic leadership 4 3.2 Transformational leadership 4 3.3 Transactional leadership 5 4.0 Issues 5 4.0.1 Corporate vision and mission 5 4.0.2 Cultural diversity 6 4.0.3 Nurturing and delegation 6 4.0.4 Teamwork 6 5.0 Impacts 7 5.0.1 Unity of working teams 7 5.0.2 Setting organizational tone, strategy and right culture 8 5.0.3 Improved individual employee personal performance 8 6. 0 Conclusion 9 REFERENCES..................................................................................................... 10 1.0 Executive summary The hospitality industry has had great evolution over ages especially so in the aspect of leadership and management. It is one of the most dynamic industries across the globe in the modern day context with so much differentiation of products and embracing varying leadership styles in order to cope with the ever-increasing pressure in competition. It is in this understanding that this paper intends to critically analyze the leadership style upheld by the Hilton global hotel with special attention to the leadership of the serving CEO, Christopher J Nassetta. 2.0 Introduction Leadership is the art of imparting influence to people and making them willingly cooperate towards realizing an organizations purpose. In our analysis, Christopher, the CEO to Hilton Hotels exhibits great aspects of a leader and practices a range of leadership styles. In particular, he practices strategic leadership styles which entails...
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...America believes successful global leadership development is a mix of three essentials: global consistencies, cultural distinctive and individual ownership. Aligning, teaching and developing key leaders from across the enterprise are main facts of their consistent approach. According tone of the articles of Carter (founder and CEO of Best Practice Institute and the author of several books, including Best Practices in Leadership Development) at Talent Management’s web site, “Participants of their Accelerated Development Program include 80 to 100 high-potential leaders identified from a pool of 5,000 nominees as the bank’s next generation of senior leaders”. The author Carter adds that “The curriculum is a blend of self-paced, Web-enabled content, instructor-led classroom learning, assessment, coaching and ongoing, virtual instructor-led learning”. Carter asserts that, program participants are assigned to coaches from Bank of America’s HR community who know the company culture and live and work in the same region or business unit as those they are coaching (Carter, 2012). Bank of America's overall philosophy of talent management and development is determined by seven base doctrines that create a mindset which penetrate across the company’s executive line. This company has always kept the leadership in talent management in the banking industry. Knighton &Krupp have juxtaposed these doctrines in their article (Next-Generation Leadership at Bank of America) as follows: ...
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...Abstract This paper explores the case “Frank won’t accept ‘We can’t’ for an answer” in detail discussing Frank’s interpersonal leadership skills. This paper evaluates Frank’s efficiency as a manager identifying his strengths and weaknesses as a leader. It also suggests Frank to adopt a couple of interpersonal leadership skills in order to make the most out of his subordinates. Frank should inculcate some task related and relationship related leadership skills if he wants to avoid the company’s crisis situation. Adopting skills such as adaptability to situations, taking risks and strategic planning, openness to management, and by being a servant leader he could achieve higher goals. This paper answers questions regarding the kind of leadership style Frank has, what behavior and attitude he is displaying and in what ways he can improve upon his approaches towards his team members. Keywords: openness to management, servant leader, adaptability to situations Frank had an authoritarian leadership style. He was autocratic in his decision making, task-oriented and had an individual control over the decisions. When Frank said, “The time for excuses is over. We need at least $1 million worth of new contracts to stay afloat.”-this showed that he took little or no inputs from his team members and made choices based on his own ideas and judgment. He practiced dictatorship where he set the rules of work methods and processes. Frank displayed fewer instances of leadership behaviors and...
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...Running head: RISK MANAGEMENT AND THEIR INFLUENCES Risk Management and Their Influences on Corporate Governance University of Maryland University College Graduate School of Management& technology Executive Summary Implementing a risk management process in line with organizational or business goals and objectives is vital for successfully managing or mitigating risk. Risk identification, analysis, handling, and monitoring should be addressed by all stakeholders. The process should be implemented in accordance with a pre constructed Risk management plan. A well developed risk assessment will make use of the considerable number of assessments, planning, and formal risk identification performed to provide a picture of the composite or overall risk associated with an organization. Also an effective risk mitigation strategy will provide a significant increase in the confidence level that a business or organization will meet its cost, schedule, and performance requirements. Introduction Risk is an important concept that plays a major role in the success of a business and organization. Risk is defined as the exposure to injury or loss. Every decision that we make as human beings contain some form of risk and most of the time the weight of the risk determine whether we will follow through with an action or not. Risk Management is a systematic way to keep those risks in check and a way to limit those risks in impacting the...
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................................................................................23 Literature Review ....................................................................................................................24 Acknowledgements.................................................................................................................26 Executive Summary is aging at a rapid rate; health care reform is expected to bring millions more patients into the system; and there are anticipated shortages in numbers of trained health care professionals to care for these patients. Therefore, the need to start now to develop more effective and efficient workforce planning models (WPMs) for health care organizations is critical. This white paper contains both important data and insights as well as an assessment tool that will help organizations develop effective WPMs—and support excellent patient care and strengthen the U.S. health care system. By reading through this document in its entirety and completing the assessment in full,...
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...Joint Command and Staff Programme 38 Distance Learning Rank & Name: Major Lynne Chaloux Syndicate No: 1 Directing Staff: BGen Gagnon Course: JCSP 38 DL Assignment Code: D1/DS 541/EFF/LN-2 Assignment Name: Leadership Research Paper Convergence of Errors: Leadership Failures Contributing to Abu Ghraib Abuses ASSESSMENT Assessor: Marc Imbeault Mark: Comments: Convergence of Errors: Leadership Failures Contributing to Abu Ghraib Abuses Introduction The purpose of this persuasive essay is to reveal the key leadership factors contributing to events that occurred during Operation Iraqi Freedom at Abu Ghraib Confinement Facility in Iraq between October and December 2003. “The abuses at Abu Ghraib primarily fall into two categories: a) intentional violent or sexual abuse [against detainees], and b) abusive actions taken based on misinterpretations or confusion regarding law or policy.”[1] From the standpoint of “Leading the Institution,” it will be argued that authorities failed to develop of a coherent body of policy or procedures[2] regarding detainee operations, which would have served to appropriately and consistently guide actions in the field and thus enable success. Instead, policy was inconsistent, ambiguous and changing – resulting in confusion regarding morally and legally acceptable standards for interrogation and detention. These lapses in policy contributed...
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...■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■I —^ The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Defense or any of its agencies. This document may not be released for open publication until it has been cleared by the appropriate military service or government agency. STRATEGY RESEARCH PROJECT •» BE THE REAGAN WAY: USING LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR STRATEGIC SUCCESS BY LIEUTENANT COLONEL WILLIAM E. COBURN United States Air Force Reserve DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A: Approved for Public Release. Distribution is Unlimited. USAWC CLASS OF 2000 U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE, CARLISLE BARRACKS, PA 17013-5050 " ■ "■"" "" 20000320 086 USAWC STRATEGY RESEARCH PROJECT THE REAGAN WAY: USING LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR STRATEGIC SUCCESS by Lieutenant Colonel William E. Coburn U. S. Air Force Reserve Dr. Robert Murphy Project Advisor The views expressed in this academic research paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the U.S. Government, the Department of Defense, or any of its agencies. U.S. Army War College CARLISLE BARRACKS, PENNSYLVANIA 17013 DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A: Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited. ABSTRACT AUTHOR: TITLE: FORMAT: DATE: William E. Coburn The Reagan Way: Using Leadership Skills for Strategic Success Strategy Research Project 10 April 2000 PAGES: 22 CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified In spite of many critics who belittled...
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...Running head: Corporate Culture/Leadership Actions for Strategy Implementation Corporate Culture/Leadership Actions for Strategy Implementation Assignment #5 Southwest Airlines Strayer University BUS599016VA016-1116-001 Strategic Management September 4, 2011 Abstract This paper examines the corporate culture at Southwest Airlines. The paper will also evaluate the company’s financial performance. Strategic decisions Southwest management should take in order to sustain their cultural strength will also be discussed. Corporate Culture/Leadership Actions for Strategy Implementation Assignment #5 Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines is a major domestic airline. They provide short-haul, high-frequency, point-to-point, and low-fare service. Southwest has one of the best overall customer service records and they are among the lowest cost structures in the domestic airline industry. Discuss the corporate culture at Southwest Airlines and how it leverages its culture to achieve a competitive advantage. Corporate culture is defined as being created by corporate vision, values, principles, and rules (p. 92). The corporate culture at Southwest Airlines believes their employees are the company’s greatest asset. Most companies say customers come first, but at Southwest Airlines their operative principle is , “employees come first and customers come second.” They believe happy employees will keep customers happy (C-419). Southwest employees come first...
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...Human Resources 1. Role of HR 2. HR Competencies 3. Future challenges for HR 4. Transforming process and critical success factors Introduction There has been some very important changes in the economy and business in the past two decades. The economies are merging creating a global market. The role of the Human Resource Manager is evolving with the change in competitive market environment and the realization that Human Resource Management must play a more strategic role in the success of an organization. Organizations that do not put their emphasis on attracting and retaining talents may find themselves in dire consequences, as their competitors may be outplaying them in the strategic employment of their human resources. The role of HR has become more vital and important for each organization. It has a broader range of responsibilities and influence on the business path of an organization. Human Resources is switching from administrative and operational role to a strategic role, which makes a bigger impact on the economical well being of a company. HR should not be defined by what it does but by what it delivers – results that enrich the organization’s value to customers, investors, employees. David Ulrich 1. Traditionally HR is viewed that it performs basic functions or roles for an organizations: - Administrative role has been heavily oriented to processing and record keeping. This role has given HR management low...
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