Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® Model (Links to an external site.), read the Transformational Leadership Can Improve Workforce Competencies article and watch the Week 5 Assignment video above with Dr. Williams G. Woods of Forbes School of Business and Technology.

As a leader, it is beneficial to have a core set of practices that can be effective in routine times and also during difficult or very challenging times. The leadership practices by Kouzes and Posner are based upon the transformational leadership model. Organizational leaders must plan to continually improve as leaders while also seeking to improve the performance of other leadership team members and of the rest of the organization. Adopting guiding principles or practices can help in the planning phases for leading when hard times occur.

In your paper,

• Analyze a difficult leadership situation in the business world that has impacted a company or companies.
• Develop a plan for positively increasing the performance of the organization, the leadership, and the teams within the organization using the five practices of exemplary leadership as developed by Kouzes and Posner.

The Leadership in Hard Times paper

• Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource.
• Must include a separate title page with the following: 
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).
• Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper. 
  • For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
• Must use at least three scholarly sources in addition to the course text. 
  • The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) guide.

Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

 

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Please answer these questions in your own words.

1-During election years, we are inundated with statistics.

Here are a couple from recent years:

Unemployment rate has dropped from 8% to less than 6%;

The number of Americans with Health Care has improved by 10%.

Find examples of others, and discuss whether or not you think they are valid.

2-Think of some data that comes into your business or personal life on a daily basis. How do you translate that data into information and action?

3-One of the things I remember most from my days in aerospace is the tendency to reach a point of “Paralysis by Analysis.”

In the constant warfare among Finance, Manufacturing and Quality, some managers and directors very cleverly would ask for more data when they wanted to stifle a potential new project.

How might you address this maneuvering in the real world?

Do you have any examples of “Paralysis by analysis”?

4-What do you think is a good Confidence Level for the following:

Determining how many employees to hire for the Christmas rush in retail?

Deciding whether parts coming in from a supplier can be used on a new model car?

Budgeting for unexpected personal finance impacts in the coming year?

Explain your answers.

5-How about the issue of “timing”?

There must be a motivator to present statistical data and analysis that shows change is needed.

One reasons management (especially mid level management) questions all data is that the perception is out there that someone is doing something wrong and turf has to be protected.

The best time to present such data and analysis is if a problem in cost, scheduling or quality has occurred.

 

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Attacks on our national infrastructure are already happening. And the expectation is that they will continue to increase at an accelerated rate. For this week’s discussion, we’ll cover threats to our nation’s pipelines. To get started, read this article:

https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060054924

After reading the article, start a discussion thread and discuss how the types of threats discussed in the article could impact our economy, and how implementing Diversity and Commonality (as discussed in chapters 4 and 5) could help mitigate these threats. 

You must do this following:

1) Create a new thread. As indicated above, discuss how the types of threats discussed in the article referenced above could impact our economy, and how implementing Diversity and Commonality (as discussed in chapters 4 and 5) could help mitigate these threats.

 

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In 1-2 pages, please describe the following types of evidence:  Compare and contrast murder and manslaughter, including the different classifications of each and the different elements that must be proven.   The paper should include:    •Written communication: Written communication is free of grammatical/writing errors. •APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to contemporary APA style and formatting. Include reference page. •Number of resources: Use at least 2-3 academic sources (wikipedia is not permitted) •Length of paper: Approximately 1-2- typed, double-spaced pages.

 

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In this assignment, you are the professor and you will be creating a PPT presentation for students that outlines the differences between the following:

• Peer-reviewed journals
• A primary source
• A secondary source

Include in the notes section of the PowerPoint at least 200 words covering how you would explain the use and purpose of each item. For example, use who, what, when, where, and how to approach and explain each item as it applies to the peer-reviewed journals, the primary sources, and a secondary source.

 Assignment: Part 2

Include a problem statement with a maximum of 250 words, including the points below that are from the dissertation template, for a topic that interests you.

Begin with “The problem to be addressed by this study is…” This statement should logically flow from the introduction and clearly identify the problem to be addressed by the study.

• Succinctly discuss the problem and provide evidence of its existence.
• Identify who is impacted by the problem (e.g., individuals, organizations, industries, or society),
• Explain what is not known that should be known about it
• Explain what the potential negative consequences could be if the problem is not addressed in this study
• Remember to source the information and source assertions with citations of current, scholarly works from the literature

Length:  5 slides with a minimum of 200 words in the notes of the PPT

References:  Include a minimum of five (5) scholarly resources.

Your presentation should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards

 

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