Strategic Management
December 15, 2019
Influencing Skills
December 15, 2019

Management Strategy

Management Strategy

Description

Answer in 7-10 sentences. For each website you visit to find information, if you use that information be sure to put it in your own words and include that website as a reference in APA format.

Leadership Behaviors
Bill Gates – Directive Leadership – https://www.resourcefulmanager.com/guides/successful-leaders/
a. Research a leader that you believe uses either directive leadership, supportive leadership, participative leadership, or achievement-oriented leadership (page 396). Describe the leader, and explain why you think the leader uses either directive leadership, supportive leadership, participative leadership, or achievement-oriented leadership by describing the leader’s history of behavior and decision-making. Use chapter concepts and terms to defend your position. Answer in 7-10 sentences. For each website you visit to find information, if you use that information be sure to put it in your own words and include that website as a reference in APA format.

SMART Goals
Receptionist – https://work.chron.com/career-goals-receptionists-23952.html
a. Research a job description that you would like to have (it cannot be a job description you have used for previous exercises). Evaluate the job description based on Goal Expectancy Theory (pages 413-414). Describe the job description, and explain how the individual who accepts that position could be motivated by Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Results-Based, and Time Specific (SMART) goals, using chapter concepts and terms to defend your position. Answer in 7-10 sentences. For each website you visit to find information, if you use that information be sure to put it in your own words and include that website as a reference in APA format.

Self-Managed Teams

a. How might self-managed teams operate differently in different cultures? What are the advantages, disadvantages, and implications of homogeneous versus highly self-managed teams? Answer in 7-10 sentences. For each website you visit to find information, if you use that information be sure to put it in your own words and include that website as a reference in APA format.

Conflict Styles
Chick-fil-A – https://www.businessinsider.com/chick-fil-a-reinvents-itself-liberal-conservative-2017-5
a. Research an organization of your choice. Create specific examples of how a manager in that organization could use each of the Conflict Management Strategies of avoiding, competing, compromising, collaborating, and accommodating. Describe the company, and explain how a manager could use each of those strategies, using chapter concepts and terms to defend your position. Answer in 7-10 sentences. For each website you visit to find information, if you use that information be sure to put it in your own words and include that website as a reference in APA format.

Management Strategy Assessment:
Bank of America – https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1b0w6kd8xs6tv/This-Wall-Street-Firm-Is-Betting-Big-on-Main-Street-Why

Review the section on Organizational Communication (pages 484-490). Pick a publicly-traded company of your choice (meaning that its stock is traded on a stock market), and research how that company communicates with Wall Street and the media, and how analysts in the media communicate with viewers. What concepts from the chapter apply, and how can a university student become a more astute consumer of such information? Describe the company, and explain your answer using chapter concepts and terms to defend your position. Answer in 7-10 sentences. For each website, you visit to find information if you use that information be sure to put it in your own words and include that website as a reference in APA format.