Leadership Theories Essay:

1.    Research two of the Leadership Theories.

2.    Based on those theories, evaluate how you would like to improve your own leadership skills.

Guidelines to the Essay:

a.    The essay should begin with an introduction to the topic.
b.    Organization should be logical, clear, and appropriate.
c.    You should provide strong evidence of critical thinking.
d.    Essay should end with a conclusion statement to support your essay.

** Need two (2) peer-reviewed, academic sources no more than 5 years old minimum**

General Collin Powell Essay:

You were introduced to the psychological foundations of leadership along with several different models of leadership.

1.    Choose a successful leader (General Collin Powell) and write an essay that addresses the major psychological foundations affecting your chosen leader.

Make sure to address the following topics in your essay:

A.    Explain the foundational leadership traits your chosen leader exhibits. Use specific examples to illustrate your points.

B.    Your chosen leader most likely does not exemplify just one model of leadership but may exhibit a mixture of many to create an individualized style. Based on your observations, what are the models he or she exhibits the most?

C.    Why do you think it is important to correlate leadership traits and models? How are these two concepts connected?

Guidelines to the Essay:

a.    The essay should begin with an introduction to the topic.
b.    Organization should be logical, clear, and appropriate.
c.    You should provide strong evidence of critical thinking.
d.    Essay should end with a conclusion statement to support your essay.

** The format of the submission should be in essay format using subheadings.

** Need three (3) peer-reviewed, academic sources no more than 5 years old minimum**

** The Essay should be 2 Full pages minimum not including Title page and Reference page**

General Collin Powell Essay:

You were introduced to the psychological foundations of leadership along with several different models of leadership.

1.    Choose a successful leader (General Collin Powell) and write an essay that addresses the major psychological foundations affecting your chosen leader.

Make sure to address the following topics in your essay:

A.    Explain the foundational leadership traits your chosen leader exhibits. Use specific examples to illustrate your points.

B.    Your chosen leader most likely does not exemplify just one model of leadership but may exhibit a mixture of many to create an individualized style. Based on your observations, what are the models he or she exhibits the most?

C.    Why do you think it is important to correlate leadership traits and models? How are these two concepts connected?

Guidelines to the Essay:

a.    The essay should begin with an introduction to the topic.
b.    Organization should be logical, clear, and appropriate.
c.    You should provide strong evidence of critical thinking.
d.    Essay should end with a conclusion statement to support your essay.

** The format of the submission should be in essay format using subheadings.

** Need three (3) peer-reviewed, academic sources no more than 5 years old minimum**

** The Essay should be 2 Full pages minimum not including Title page and Reference page**

Leading a Productive Team Power Point Presentation

You have been selected by your boss to present to a group of up-and-coming leaders on the topic of leading a productive team. Your boss has asked you to create a PowerPoint presentation for these new leaders in order to help them gather the knowledge and skills necessary to produce positive results while working with their teams.

The topics your boss has asked you to cover are below:

1.    Provide your audience with the overall value of teams within an organization.

2.    Give examples of how effective teams can assist an organization in achieving its goals.

3.    Explain what you believe are the most important (top three) characteristics a leader should possess to help the team meet its objectives.

4.    Describe the specific strategies team leaders could use to facilitate team development through each of the team development stages.

5.    Examine the methods team leaders can utilize to handle conflict that might arise in the team.

Guidelines to the Power Point Presentation:

a.    Two slide per Topic (1-5) Provide logical supporting concepts
b.    Provide Introduction Slide
c.    In the notes tab, you will provide what you would say if you were actually giving the presentation to an audience.
d.    Please write your notes in complete sentences and adhere to typical grammar, punctuation, and citation rules.
e.    Provide Conclusion Slide

** Need four (4) peer-reviewed, academic sources no more than 5 years old minimum**

** The Power Point Presentation should be 10 Full pages minimum not including Title page and Reference page**

Management Concepts BUS 302 WEEK

Assignment 2

Part 2 of Part 1

The responses must have LOTS OF EXPLANATION AND DETAIL. Thoroughly respond to all aspects of the questions so that it’s clear so that all of your views have been thoroughly provided. Elaborate more, add more information, and write in complete sentence form, using correct grammar, make sure to proofread, support your position, check the punctuations in the paragraph response and fully explain answers

Assignment 2: Complementary Partners

Due Week 6 and worth 200 points

Imagine you are working with a partner to plan and host a workshop on leadership. There will be 100 people attending. Within this assignment you will be creating a document that discusses the main components of leadership and corporate culture.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:
1.    Address a key leadership trait that can assist in managing conflict.
2.    Discuss a tool or strategy a leader can adopt for improving communication within the organization.
3.    Describe some methods for motivating employees and improving behaviors within the workplace.
4.    Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
a.    This course requires use of new Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
    Describe the primary functions of management (planning, organizing, leading, controlling) and the associated skills, tools, and theoretical approaches that can be used to accomplish these functions.
    Explain the principal theories of leadership and motivation, and describe the fundamental considerations in managing and motivating individual and group behavior.
    Describe actions to improve communications, manage conflict, develop strong organizational culture, and improve the ethical behavior in organizations.
    Use technology and information resources to research issues in management concepts.
    Write clearly and concisely about management concepts using proper writing mechanics.

The following resources may be helpful when completing this assignment.

– Dearden, A. (2008). User-Centered Design Considered Harmful

– Norman, D. (20072010). Activity-Centered Design: Why I like my Harmony Remote Control

Computer applications that run on desktop and laptop computers have, for a long time, been designed to be driven by dragging and clicking a mouse. With the introduction of tablet personal computers, the trend has shifted toward using touch-based screens. We now have access to touch-based TVs, touch-based monitors, touch-based laptops and touch-based tablets. Touch and multi-touch devices provide end users with the ability to interact physically with an application much more naturally.

Imagine that you are the Information Technology Director of a major chain restaurant, and you have been assigned to design a menu ordering application that can run on all devices. Examine whether using a touch-screen monitor, a tablet, or using a mouse to select menu items to place an order would be most efficient. Speculate how employees would interact with these devices and the type of emotional reaction that customers and employees will experience while placing a beverage, appetizer or entre order.

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

Differentiate between the interaction types and styles that apply to multi-touch screens and applications running on them.
Determine the conceptual model that you would use when designing a product for your restaurant.
Describe the key analogies and concepts these monitors expose to users, including the task-domain objects users manipulate on the screen.
Determine one (1) utility / tool in an application for touch-based and mouse-drive screens that should be designed with memory retention / recall. Provide a rationale for your response.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources. You may use the resources above or others of your choosing.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
This course requires use of new Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different from other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
Typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the students name, the professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required assignment page length.
Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow SWS format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Describe the relationship between the cognitive principles and their application to interfaces and products.
Explain the conceptual terms for analyzing human interaction with affordance, conceptual models, and feedback.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in human-computer interaction.
Write clearly and concisely about human-computer interaction topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Formatting Your Assignment

Consider your audience you are writing in the role of an MTC business analyst and your audience is MTC and your boss, the CIO.  Dont discuss MTC as if the reader has no knowledge of the organization.  Also do not reference stage # or case study these are class terms and would not be in a business report. Use third person consistently throughout the report.  In third person, the writer avoids the pronouns I, we, my, and ours. The third person is used to make the writing more objective by taking the individual, the self, out of the writing. This method is very helpful for effective business writing, a form in which facts, not opinion, drive the tone of the text. Writing in the third person allows the writer to come across as unbiased and thus more informed.

    Create a title page that includes:  The company name, title of report, your name, Course and Section number and date.
    In Stage 1, you are preparing the first part of a 4-stage report.  Use the structure, headings, and outline format provided here for your report.  Use the numbering/lettering in the assignment instructions as shown below.
Introduction
I.    Strategic Use of Technology
A.    Business Strategy
B.    Competitive Advantage
C.    Strategic Objectives
D.    Decision Making   
    Write a short concise paper:  Use the recommendations provided in each area for length of response.  Its important to value quality over quantity.  Assignment should not exceed 4 pages excluding title and reference pages.
    Content areas should be double spaced; table entries should be single-spaced.
    To copy a table:  Move your cursor to the table, then click on the small box that appears at the upper left corner of the table to highlight the table; right click and COPY the table; put the cursor in your paper where you want the table and right click and PASTE the table.
    Ensure that each of the tables is preceded by an introductory sentence that explains what is contained in the table, so the reader understands why the table has been included.
    Use at least two resources with APA formatted citation and reference.  Use at least one external reference and one from the course content. Course content should be from the class reading content, not the assignment instructions or case study itself.  For information on APA format, refer to Content>Course Resources>Writing Resources.
    Begin a Reference Page for resources required for this assignment.  Additional research in the next stages will be added to this as you build the report.  The final document should contain all references from all stages appropriately formatted and alphabetized. Use APA format for your reference page.
    Running headers are not required for this report.
    Compare your work to the Grading Rubric below to be sure you have met content and quality criteria. 
    Submit your paper as a Word document, or a document that can be read in Word.  Keep tables in Word format do not paste in graphics.
    Your submission should include your last name first in the filename:    Lastname_firstname_Stage_1

1. Read case Ultimate Office Products on pp. 135-136 and answer questions at the end.

a. Why did Kelly fail in his first attempt to implement change?

b. Identify subsequent actions by Kelly that were more effective for implementing change in the organization.

c. Evaluate the change leadership provided by the CEO.

2. Read case The New Dean on p. 170 and answer questions at the end.

a. What influence tactics were used by the Acting Dean to get promoted?

b. How much of each type of power did the new Dean possess over the Business School faculty?

c. What power bases and influence tactics were used to get the new Dean dismissed?

Four peer-reviewed sources minimum for the whole assignment.

Identify a company with a lowest cost strategy. Why do you think they have this strategy?
What jumps out you with respect to their compensation plan?

Repeat the above for a company with a  differentiation strategy and a third company with an  innovation strategy.

Do not use company Walmart.

Criminal Acts

Criminal acts refer to actions leading to violation of laws, which is punishable by the government (USLEGAL, 2019). Misdemeanors are offenses of less aggravated than felonies, and therefore they are punishable by imprisonment and fine. A felony, on the other hand, is a crime of grave (Flight & Pardew, 2018). Felonies are punishable by death or imprisonment of more than one year.

Criminal acts include Robbery, which refers to a theft involving physical harm of a victim or inflicting fear and threat of bodily injury. Murder is defined as an act of killing with intention. Attempted murder can only be proven if the defendant had the intention to commit a crime or the defendant’s action did not result in a crime or the defendant unconcealed from committing the crime.

Euthanasia, which is also known as mercy killing, is a criminal act of putting a person with an incurable disease into a painless death. A manslaughter is an act of killing a person without cruelty. A conspiracy is an act of two people coming together to commit a criminal act. Larceny, which is also stealing, can only be proven if, without reason, the perpetrator took and carried away the assets; the culprit did not own the goods: the offender took the assets intending to hold it permanently. Abuse is the mental or physical harm of a person.  Sexual assault is an act of sexual contact or behavior without the consent of the recipient.
References
Flight, M., & Pardew M. Wendy (2018). Law, Liability, & Ethics for Medical Office Professionals Sixth Edition: Chapter 4 Criminal Acts and Intentional Torts
USLEGAL (2019). Criminal Act Law and Legal Definition. Retrieved from https://definitions.uslegal.com/c/criminal-act/

***From the paragraph  provide an example (i.e. create a “story” that applies the concept).
For example, if a student discussed the rules of searching a vehicle trunk, you are to provide an example (i.e. a little story) of a police officer conducting either an illegal or a legal search of a vehicle trunk. This learning process is called “application” and will enhance your critical thinking skills. This forces you to “think”, not just to memorize and regurgitate material, which any circus-trained monkey can do. The goal is to prepare you for the real world, which will expect you to think independently. If you are ready to submit your second post, but there are insufficient initial posts for you to choose one,