Kerrie's Case Study: Managing An Organization

Remember the Titans is based on a true story, the film is about American sports. In 1971, at the T.C. Williams high school, under the racial integration policy, a black football coach – Herman Boone, is hired to coaching an all white institution’s football team and he replaces the current white coach Yoast to be the new head coach. Yoast felt he was offended by ask him work with a black coach. Boone offered an assistant coaching position to Yoast. At the beginning, Yoast refused Boone’s offer, but reconsidered after the white players said they will leave with him if he does not coaching them. In order to help his players achieve their goals, Yoast changed his mind and accepted the position of assistant coach.

Based on the principles of path-goal theory, describe why Art and Bob appear to be less effective than Carol. Carol leadership style of Participative matches up well with the task characteristics of the followers on her team. Unfortunately, Art and Bob leadership skills are not matching well with the needs of their team. Art is currently being Directive but his team needs Supportive and Bob is Supportive but needs to be more Achievement Oriented. This shift would aid in the overall success of their teams.

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After doing research for this assignment, it helped me to understand that, first various teams and organizations run and do things differently from one another. It showed the variety of positions and the responsibilities that each one holds. It gave me a more defined insight of the corporate structure of the

Also, good planning and effective leadership keeps a team of people motivated and intact. Empowering the team to do what they think is right for the project is the plan because this will keep the members motivated and in line. By allowing the team to manage their own decisions, helps on completing tasks based on their knowledge while motivated to do so. Also, the key to resolve any team conflicts and to keep all members intact is an effective team communication. This includes issues and concerns saved for discussions in our daily morning roundup as well as discussions of what the plan is for each

October 12th, 2014. That was the day I had my Eagle Scout Court of Honor. That was the day that I stood in front of my Boy Scouts troop (Troop 470), my friends, and my family to celebrate my achievement of reaching the highest rank in Boy Scouts.

Throughout this essay, I will be presenting detailed information regarding my position on Bethel University: College of Professional Studies’ organizational structure and the function it has within the higher education industry. Additionally, I will provide historical background information, as well as, compare Bethel University’s current organizational structure to modern management theory and applicable frameworks. With the assistance of Bolman and Deal’s (2017) “Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership (6th ed.), I will have the opportunity to present and identify current structural strengths and weaknesses, in comparison to Bethel University’s overall mission and productivity. Moreover, with the additional support of Gareth Morgan’s (2006) “Images of Organization,” I will be able to utilize metaphorical terminology to increase my overall perspective on organizational life and the need for multi-dimensional management mentalities. Over the course of this essay, I will utilize these theories of management to gain a more well-rounded perspective of Bethel University’s organizational structure, as well as, the importance of metaphors to gauge institutional effectiveness.

There is no guarantee that there will not be problems in an organization. As you said, changes bring about issues especially the unknown. However, as the CEO and leader of an organization, he or she should be able to educate and keep everyone aware of why the change is important (Burns, Bradley, & Weiner, 2011). The key to quality care is to take all necessary measurements to impact all areas in the health care field.

Michel Baldrige award is an award that is “given by the President of the United States to businesses and to education, health care, and nonprofit organizations that apply and are judged to be outstanding in seven areas of performance excellence.” The mission of the Baldrige Foundation is to ensure the long-term financial growth and viability of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, and to support organizational performance excellence in the United States and throughout the world.” (Baldrige.org). Some of the Baldrige award winners are St. David’s Healthcare and Hill Country Memorial Hospital in Texas. These organizations pointed out an organizational situation that existed within their facilities. Once this was pointed out, the leadership

Organizational Behavior is the field of study which investigates the impact that individuals, group and structures have on behavior within the organization. We are born in an organization, we live, we work and most probably we will die in an organization. Yet most of us do not understand how people function, behave and interact between each other within these organizations. We also do not understand if people shape an organization or an organization shapes people. Different people work differently in different situations. Organizational behavior helps to understand and predict behavior of the people and helps to improve relations between management and employees.

To organise for project management requires an understanding of the organisation’s architecture which includes the organisational hierarchy - the grouping of internal business units, the authority lines and interaction with one another. Each of these aspects should be designed to support project management within the organisation. Structure should follow strategy or else it may impede communication, coordination and decision making which are all key to success (Brevis, 2014, p. 224). Hence, an important function of upper management is to support project teams by either redesigning the organisation to emphasize projects or integrating projects into the current organisation (Graham & Englund, 2004).

Before I attend to this class, I think Organizational Behavior (OB) is a concept how behavior affects the management, leadership and relationship among people in an organization resulting from the meaning of OB word by word. Nevertheless, this assumption was changed after I attend the Organizational Behavior class, which has the subject code BUS 314 thanks to my lecturer- Mr. Nguyen Dinh Hoang, who put huge efforts to inspire me to learn this subject. At the beginning of this course, he drew an overview of Organizational Behavior, is a field of study that explores the impact of three determinants: individual, groups and structure of an organization. Furthermore, OB investigates the study of what people do in an organization as well as help them to recognize how their behaviors impact on the organization performance (Judge & Robbins, 2013). That the reasons why OB plays a significant role in business. More importantly, Mr. Hoang also instructs me how to apply the knowledge gained through this course for enhancing my personal development. The first valuable knowledge is that how to communicate with other people effectively. The second precious lesson is how to create a positive organizational culture. The final lesson is created positive emotions and moods are extremely crucial to improve the general performance. Thus, this essay will go deep into 03 specific knowledge and what they help me to enhance my personal development.

There are several approaches to improve job satisfaction and employee engagement, first of all our recommendations to Kris Jenkins to develop job satisfaction and employee engagement of Salon Manager are, at the first stage, increasing the opportunity of promotion for the managers because fulfillment theory in order to make the employees happy you have to satisfy their wishes and demand and the more the employees earn the more satisfy they will be as (Çelik, 2011), stated. The second one is, the supervisors have to establish a strong connections with the subordinates, and the owner also need to establish a strong relationship with the managers “determination theory also proposes that in addition to being driven by a need for autonomy, people seek ways to achieve competence and positive connections to others” (Robbins & Judge, 2013 pp 208 ). The third one is managers should make decisions independently, at the same time the managers should know the organization 's goals and objectives properly. Secondly, our suggestions to Kris Jenkins to improve job satisfaction and employee engagement of Hair Stylist, firstly promotion opportunity has to be raised. Secondly, the relationship should be positive with the supervisors according to Harter and Schmidt and Killham in 2003 an effective manager is always listen to his subordinators and fulfill their needs and the managers have to find a relationship between the needs of individuals and the organization. The owner of the firm

Frequently referred to as a managerial approach to leadership, the transactional leadership style is centered on improving efficiencies within an organization or team (McShane & Von Glinow, 2015). Leaders practicing the transactional approach focus on the details of the step by step processes and workflows using a reward and punishment system to encourage workgroup production (Dartey-Baah, 2015). As errors and inconsistent results are part of the expected norm, transactional leaders succumb to the belief that employees require ongoing monitoring and supervision to ensure compliance with the expected work practices. When used with an experienced high performing staff, the constant supervision and punitive nature of the transactional leadership style can be counterproductive, causing a decrease in production and satisfaction among some groups. In contrast, when used with newly formed production units, the transactional style has been known to improve employee engagement and response (Breevaart et al., 2014).

Initiates action – A leader is a person who starts the work by communicating the plans and policies to the other team members.