Organizational Diagnosis Paper – Commander Support Staff By M. April Fargher I have chosen to write my organizational diagnosis paper on the organization I am currently working for. The National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), with headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the primary Defense Department producer of foreign aerospace intelligence. NASIC develops its products by analyzing all available data on foreign aerospace forces and weapons systems to determine performance
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Management and Leadership Stephanie Stokes MGT/330 Mary Loggins-Davis June 27, 2010 Management and Leadership A leader is someone who inspires others to achieve certain goals. A leader goes above and beyond the call of duty to see that a task is completed. Some people are just natural born leaders while others acquire leadership through life learned lessons. Outstanding leaders are the ones that allow people to grow and to become exceptional contributors. Outstanding leaders
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Since its inception in the early 1990s, the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) project has investigated the complex relationship between societal culture and organizational behavior. The focus of this paper is on leadership, specifically what we know and have learned from the GLOBE project so far. Among other findings, we demonstrate that national culture indirectly influences leadership behaviors through the leadership expectations of societies. In other words, executives
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and Douglas (2011) discuss the “Blueprint for Nursing Leadership” developed by nurse leaders at Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) in New Jersey. HUMC received Magnet designation in 1995, they were the second hospital in the country, and the first in New Jersey. The authors discuss the challenges and the difficulty maintaining the momentum of a high functioning organization. In 2006, nursing leadership was reorganized and a leadership retreat developed a blueprint for creating a culture
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A1. Leadership Style: My leadership style evolved from an autocratic style while serving in the military to a situational style in my current career as a therapy supervisor. My staff consists of sixteen occupational therapists, three occupational therapy assistants, one speech-language pathologist, and ten physical therapists. The staff members are unique individuals with high level of education and various skill levels. Together, they are a highly engaged team. The most senior staff member has
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leadership skills are: * Describe a time when you had to lead a group to achieve an objective. * Describe a work based situation where you had to lead by example to achieve an objective. * Describe a situation where you inspired others to meet a common goal. * How do you motivate team members to do something they decide they do not want to do? Examples of decision making competency based questions are: * What is the toughest decision you have ever made? Why was this so difficult
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Capella University Leadership Skills and Innovation According to Leslie, “For organizations to build leadership strength, they first need to know what elements of leadership are needed and valued in the organization and for what roles (pg. 4).” I believe this is important to realize for any organization, because the focus may be different when choosing a leadership skill to focus on. In my current position, I would choose strategic planning and managing change as leadership skills that will provide
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explores entering the fundamental state of leadership. The author, Robert Quinn, discusses how individuals can strive to always lead at their best. It doesn’t come from traditional training methods which believe leadership comes from studying behavior of others. Quinn concluded that when leaders are at their best they don’t copy anyone. They draw on their own values and frame a reaction appropriate to their personality. This is at the core of fundamental leadership. Quinn believes that everyone can function
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the execution of the company’s mission throughout all levels. While the company has had issues of internal conflicts and ineffective leadership; nevertheless, the organizational structure of good sport has not been a stumbling block impeding upon progress. As a result, Good Sport can be considered a stable and thriving company—even in the midst of leadership and/or organizational change. This paper will further describe the organizational structure of Good Sport and examine its cultural environment—to
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disadvantaged and socially excluded communities and the establishment of partnership with community and statutory agencies to enhance their recruitment efforts as well as to support local/regional social and economic development goals (Situational Leadership, by Bahadin). It is important for managers to ask themselves if they are pursuing the right people? How successful is it in attracting the right candidates? Tools such as e-recruitment or onsite application kiosks are a start. The results can be
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