Assignment:
MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS & LEADING PEOPLE
Competency 3018.1.1: Practice of Management - The graduate explains the theoretical bases, current knowledge, best practices, and trends related to the practice of management.
Competency 3018.1.3: Sustaining Business Performance - The graduate applies management and leadership theories for long-term global-business success.
Competency 3018.1.4: Organizational Performance Methods - The graduate analyzes appropriate methods to improve organizational performance.
Introduction:
Create a 10-16 page paper on an existing organization with which you have had personal experience. The organization can be a business or a nonprofit, and you may represent any level of the organization (e.g., team, division, whole) in your analysis. Your description of the organization should convey personal experience, rather than information gained from secondhand sources or media coverage. For this task, you will first describe the chosen organization and will then perform a SWOT analysis on that organization. You will then analyze that organization's leadership.
Requirements:
A. Describe your chosen organization by doing the following:
The organization must be an existing organization; one that is currently in operation.
1. Describe an existing organization (Smith's Food and Drug) and its objective(s) (To be the number one grocery chain in the Kroger family)
2. Describe three leadership practices of the current primary leader of the existing organization. (these varied so use any three)
3. Discuss how the current leadership has affected organizational culture. (the styles affected the organization in both a positive and negative way so write about both)
B. Conduct a SWOT analysis evaluating the chosen organization by doing the following:
In your evaluation, consider the effects that communication practices, technology, ethics, and globalization have on your organization.(the following can be hypothetical but they need to relate to the grocery industry)
1. Evaluate two of the organization's strengths.
2. Evaluate two of the organization's weaknesses.
3. Evaluate two of the organization's opportunities.
4. Evaluate two of the organization's threats.
C. Conduct a leadership evaluation of the current primary leader described by doing the following(again this will be hypothetical but make it relatable to what a grocery manager would/could be like as a leader)
1. Evaluate three strengths of the current primary leader's leadership practices using a scholarly leadership theory.
2. Evaluate three weaknesses of the current primary leader's leadership practices using the same scholarly leadership theory you used
3. Recommend three theory-based practices to maximize the future success of the current leader and the organization, using the same scholarly leadership theory you used in part C1.
4. Include at least three scholarly sources to support your analysis of the primary leader's practices.
D. When you use sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format.