Please answer the following questions in a minimum of 175 words for each question.
Textbook
Manning, G., & Curtis, K. (2022). The art of leadership (7th ed.). McGraw-Hill.
Question 1 – (must be answered in a minimum of 175 words):
The best managers are also good leaders, but not every manager is both. How do the best ones impact their teams and shape organizational culture?
Discuss a leader you know, preferably from an organization you work in now, in the past, or are familiar with. Consider their actions and impact on people. How is their leadership style reflected in their organization’s culture? What do you think is the relationship between the most effective leaders and a positive organizational culture?
Question 2 – (must be answered in a minimum of 175 words):
How a manager and their team succeed and perform at their best is when their purpose and their organizational culture connects with who they are.
Discuss the importance of an organization’s mission, vision, values, and strategies. How should these elements shape the organizational culture and develop culture for change? Support your response with a specific example to illustrate your explanation.
Question 3 – (must be answered in a minimum of 175 words):
An effective manager relies on their relationships with people and recognizes that each individual is unique and needs different things from them.
Recall an experience with an innovation leadership style. What innovation leadership qualities did the person possess? How did these qualities impact the leader’s interactions with others? How does it compare with other leadership styles you’ve discussed?
Question 4 – (must be answered in a minimum of 175 words):
What kind of leader are you? As a manager, your team will look to you during times of change. What innovative leadership strategies and tactics can you use to support organizational change?
Discuss the leadership theory that applies to your leadership style. Which leadership theory do you admire the most? Share a scenario when a manager, you, or someone else, used unhelpful or incorrect leadership strategies or tactics during an organizational change. What was the result? What strategies or tactics could you have used as a leader to support that change?
Question 5 – (must be answered in a minimum of 175 words):
Change is a difficult thing to navigate for many people and many organizations, but change is needed to grow. Employees and employers alike need managers to support change and go beyond accepting it to normalize change.
Discuss strategies managers can use for creating positive, organizational change with their teams. How does collaboration influence positive organizational change? Provide an example scenario to illustrate the implementation of one strategy.
Question 6 – (must be answered in a minimum of 175 words):
Global competition is fierce, and any competitive advantage is vital for global success. Making a global shift might mean you’ll be acting as a manager to product teams in multiple countries or ramp up production to have the components to break into a new market. However, the changes look for your organization, effective change management is an important factor for acquiring and keeping any competitive advantage.
Discuss the relationship between organizational change and the organization’s need to stay competitive in a global market. How much does this relationship drive change? What other factors drive organizational change?
