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LDR 531 Week 1 Personal Leadership Evaluation
LDR 531 Week 2 Assignment Comparing Leadership Models 1
LDR 531 Week 3 Individual Assignment Communications Challenges
and Strategies
LDR 531 Week 3 Team communication Challenges Conversation (Mc
Donalds)
LDR 531 Week 4 Signature Assignment Outer Game and Inner Game 2
LDR 531 Week 5 Individual Assignment Strategic Change Case Study
Essay
LDR 531 Week 5 Team Creative Organizations and Strategic Change
LDR 531 Week 6 Individual Assignment Leading Organizational
Change

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LDR 531 Assignment Comparing Leadership Models (2
PPT)
This Tutorial contains 2 Presentations
Product Description
Purpose of Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to provide the student with an
opportunity to understand and analyze the Universal Model of
Leadership in the text, and compare it to one other model to see the
similarities and differences.
Assignment Steps
Create a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint® presentation to compare the
Universal Model of Leadership in Mastering Leadership to one other
leadership model.
Include the following:

Include a graphic to compare and contrast those two models, noting
similarities and differences.
Develop your conclusions regarding the significance of those models in
business. How might they apply?
Include detailed speaker notes, supporting citations, and references.
Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.
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LDR 531 Assignment Individual Change Implementation
The ADKAR Model
LDR 531 Assignment Individual Change Implementation The ADKAR
Model
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LDR 531 Entire Course (UOP Course)

LDR 531 Week 1 Quiz
LDR 531 Week 1 Discussion Question 1
LDR 531 Week 2 Mentorship Agreement Form
LDR 531 Week 2 Mentorship Meeting Worksheet
LDR 531 Week 2 Individual Assignment Professional Development
Plan
LDR 531 Week 2 LT Reflection
LDR 531 Week 2 Quiz

LDR 531 Week 3 Individual Assignment Leadership Style Paper
LDR 531 Week 3 Quiz
LDR 531 Week 4 Team Assignment Conflict Resolution
LDR 531 Week 4 Quiz

LDR 531 Week 5 Individual Assignment Motivation Plan Paper
LDR 531 Week 5 Quiz
LDR 531 Week 6 Team Assignment Failure Analysis and Change
Strategy

LDR 531 Week 6 Quiz
LDR 531 Final Exam Guide
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LDR 531 Final Exam Guide (March, 2019) (Score 29/30)
All leaders can accelerate their progress toward effectiveness by:
 Asking
 Learning
 Managing expectations
 All of the above

“Fiscal responsibility, accountability, strategy, and execution.” These
leadership expectations are:
 Useful
 Required
 Implicit
 Explicit
Which of these statements defines the strength of Reactive Leadership?
 This is the ability to take up membership, to work and live co-
relationally with others and within organizations.
 This is the minimum level required to create lean, engaged,
innovative, visionary, agile, high-involvement, high-fulfillment
organizations and to evolve adaptive organizational designs that can
thrive.
 Leaders at this level function as global visionaries and enact world
service for the universal good.
 At this stage of leadership, we can defer impulse gratification long
enough to plan and organize to meet our needs.
 This interior evolution is what enables leaders to see the whole system
in a way that honors huge diversity, with many opposites in tension, and
to engage it in a way that moves toward creative resolution.

Which of the following statements describes “Caring Connection?”
 Take interest in and form warm, caring relationships.
 Engage others in a manner that allows the parties involved to discover
common ground.
 Foster high-performance teamwork among team members who report
to him/her.
Which of the following statements describes the Leadership Practice 2:
Distilling Vision?
 It requires attention to the trail, to the minute, subtle, and detailed
clues our life is leaving as we live it (or as it lives us).
 It is the practice of opening to a deeper knowing, a higher perception,
a calling, an inner voice that says, “Stay with this,” or, “Do this now,”
or, “This is who you are, what you stand for, what you need to move
toward in your leadership.”
 It requires that we distill and refine a collective sense of purpose and
through honest dialogue.
 It is the willingness to be authentic, to speak and act in ways that
express and embody our vision of greatness.
 It takes courage to engage in the authentic dialogue needed to forward
the vision, find leverage, and implement fundamental structural change.
 It is to continue to give ourselves over to the pull of purpose, distill it
into vision, and then deal with the anxieties that inevitably arise.

Which of the following is NOT one of the six systems of organizational
effectiveness?
 Leadership.
 Metrics.
 Training and Education.
 Delivery.
 Communication.
Which of the following is NOT a Promise of Leadership?
 Ensure that business performance is improved.
 Set the right direction and create meaningful work.
 Set the right direction and create meaningful work.
 Ensure that processes and systems facilitate focus and execution.
 Engage all stakeholders and hold them accountable.
Which of these statements defines the strength of Egocentric
Leadership?

 This is the minimum level required to create lean, engaged,
innovative, visionary, agile, high-involvement, high-fulfillment
organizations and to evolve adaptive organizational designs that can
thrive.
The best metaphor the authors created for describing our relationship to
Unity is that we are like waves on the ocean, not separate from the
ocean. Which of the following statements best supports this metaphor?
 We realize that we were always one with the Ocean, that we were
never separate, and that all waves are one; we are all each other.
 Some waves appear friendly; other waves may appear to threaten our
ability to get what we want, and so we fear them.
 We are separate waves and we experience ourselves on a journey
across the ocean.
 As separate waves, we experience the ups and downs of wave life.
Developing leadership effectiveness is…
 An important task for the training staff.
 Rarely a leadership priority.

 The most important priority of executive leadership.
 Less important than recruiting leaders.
Which of the following statements describes the Creative Mind”?
 It creates an oscillating pattern of performance over time, the natural
tendency of which is to seek equilibrium and return to normal.
 It is about forming an organization that we believe in, accomplishing
outcomes that matter most, and enhancing our collective capacity to
achieve a desired future.
 It is about establishing hierarchical, patriarchal structures, dynamics,
and cultures.
Which of the following statements describes the Internal Operating
System of the Creative Mind?
 We develop new assumptions that are structured from the inside-out,
not dependent on outside validation.
 We believe that “my future is in your hands.”
 Our beliefs depend on outside validation.
Which of the following statements is true about a company’s Leadership
System?
 The training staff must work very hard to help the leadership system
to be effective. They must work hard to get leaders into leadership
training programs to improve their leadership competencies.

 The leadership system is the central organizing system and the
collective effectiveness of the leaders in the system is critical to the
organization’s health and success.
 The CEO must be able to control and direct individual leaders and the
leadership system for them to succeed.
Which of the following statements describes the Leadership Practice 1:
Discerning Purpose?
 It is to continue to give ourselves over to the pull of purpose, distill it
into vision, and then deal with the anxieties that inevitably arise.
 It is the practice of opening to a deeper knowing, a higher perception,
a calling, an inner voice that says, “Stay with this,” or, “Do this now,”
or, “This is who you are, what you stand for, what you need to move
toward in your leadership.”
 It takes courage to engage in the authentic dialogue needed to forward
the vision, find leverage, and implement fundamental structural change.
 It requires attention to the trail, to the minute, subtle, and detailed
clues our life is leaving as we live it (or as it lives us).
 It requires that we distill and refine a collective sense of purpose and
through honest dialogue.
 It is the willingness to be authentic, to speak and act in ways that
express and embody our vision of greatness.
Which of the following statements about “Playing on Purpose or Playing
Not to Lose” is true?

 There is no safe way to be great, and there is no great way to be safe.
 The safe paths have all been taken.
 The paths left to us require risk.
 Leadership is inherently risky.
 All of the above.
Which of the following is NOT included in the stages of the Universal
Model of Leadership?
 Pathogenic.
 Unitive.
 Reactive.
 Creative.
 Integral.
Which of the following items is NOT on the path from Patriarchy to
Partnership?
 CEO creating whole systems.
 Participative management.
 Engagement.
 Total quality management.
Self-managed teams

Which of the following statements best describes the relationship of
structure to higher leadership performance?
 To attain higher effectiveness, you must reach higher performance.
 When we see extraordinary leadership, we see well-honed capability
arising on a higher-order platform of competence.
 Since performance determines structure, if you want to evolve to a
higher order structure, you must reach higher performance.
 To perform more masterfully, your Inner Operating System (IOS)
must evolve to a higher order mental-emotional structure.
When you see extraordinary leadership, what’s the best question to ask
to understand what makes the leader extraordinary?
 What are they doing that makes them extraordinary?
 What operating system is that leader running to achieve such mastery?
 Is this leader practicing competency, or consciousness?
 Is this leader best at the inner game or the outer game?
Which of the following is the best method for a leader to manage
unproductive conflict?
 Send team members to conflict resolution training.
 Hold a team building off-site to help the team work better together.

 Ask each team member the question, “What would you do to resolve
this conflict if you had freedom to act?” Then facilitate a discussion to
resolve the conflict.
 Ignore the conflict and give direction to the team.
Which of the following statements describes “Collaborator?”
 Foster high-performance teamwork among team members who report
to him/her.
 Engage others in a manner that allows the parties involved to discover
common ground.
 Take interest in and form warm, caring relationships.
“Competence, fair treatment, commitment, engagement, listening,
acting on suggestions, and providing inspiration, meaning, and
direction.” These leadership expectations are
 Implicit
 Useful
 Explicit
 Required
Which of these statements defines the strength of Creative Leadership?

This is the minimum level required to create lean, engaged, innovative,
visionary, agile, high-involvement, high-fulfillment organizations and to
evolve adaptive organizational designs that can thrive.
Which of the following is one of the three core reactive types?
 Body.
 Soul
 Heart.
Which of the following is the formula for the Leadership Quotient?
 LQ = LE/LI
 LQ = L1/L2
 LQ = L2/L1
 LQ = LI/LE

Which of the following statements best describes the relevance of the
inner game and outer game to leadership behavior?
 In high-pressure leadership roles, the outer game is the only game.
 The inner game runs the outer game.
 Most efforts at developing leaders only target the inner game, or
consciousness.
 The outer game (competence) is all that is essential to leadership.
Which of the following statements accurately describes Reactive Mind?
 Reactive Leadership is well-equipped to lead transformation into
high-performing cultures and structures.
 Reactive mind is correlated to Leadership effectiveness.
 To evolve beyond Reactive Leadership, we must first see it and know
it deeply.
 Reactive mind was formed to separate from the prevailing culture.
To fulfill the Leadership Imperative, which of the following ideas will
make us LESS likely to succeed?
 We need to work individually and collectively.
 We need to work on specific skills and do so whenever we have the
time.
 Our efforts need to be long-term and systemic.

 We need to integrate the inner and outer game of leadership.
 We need to rethink how we develop leaders.
Which of the following statements accurately describes Integral
Leaders?
 It is built for complexity, designed for leading change within complex
systems amid volatile, ambiguous, and rapidly changing environments.
 The leader is capable of working effectively with people of all types
and with people at every stage of Leadership Development.
 The Leader has the ability to hold large conflicts, opposite visions,
and redundant polarities in tension without reacting to them, trying to
problem-solve them, or turning them into win-lose battles.
 The Leader is in full possession of the entire array of gifts, strengths,
and competencies that are required to lead effectively.
 All of the above.
How do we describe the Leadership System?
 It is the central organizing system.
 It is one of the eight core systems within organizations.
 It only consists of the CEO and the Board of Directors.

 To achieve high performance, leaders must achieve high scores on
their competency evaluations.
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LDR 531 Final Exam Guide (New)
1. Job dissatisfaction and antagonistic relationships with coworkers
predict a variety of behaviors organizations find undesirable, including
unionization attempts, substance abuse, undue socializing, and tardiness.
These behaviors are indicators of a broader syndrome called
2. Organizational momentum ________________.
3. Some studies indicate the best approach for transformational change
may have the chief executive officer create an atmosphere for change

4. Which of the following actions best represents Kelly’s high job
involvement?
5. The concept that some leadership attributes will work in some
situations but not in others can be described by the
6. You manage a department of four employees. You have identified that
Joe has a high need for achievement. Mary has a high need for power,
and Tim has a high need for affiliation. Sarah scored high on the need
for power and low on the need for affiliation.
Which of these four employees is most suitable for handling your
responsibilities when you are on vacation?
7. In order to make their firm a learning organization, managers should
8. Which of the following statements is true with regard to the
effectiveness of tactics?
9. Central to managing a successful organizational strategy
implementation are/is
10. Which of the following is the first step in the negotiation process?

11. ________ occurs when people within organizations use whatever
influence they can to taint the facts to support their goals and interests.
12. The ultimate source of an organization’s culture is
13. Which of the following statements is most likely to be true about
differences between men and women in relation to emotional reactions?
14. Which of the following is a desirable strategy for managers aiming
to reduce the negative consequences of rumors?
15. Adoration of a charismatic leader by followers can lead to
16. A leadership theory that describes leadership functions applicable to
some situations but not others is called
17. Dortix is a manufacturing company. At the end of every quarter, the
total production of each department is calculated, compared with the
predetermined targets, and the rewards for each set of divisional
employees is determined this way. Dortix uses a ________ plan to
incentivize its employees.

18. The degree to which a turbulent environment impacts operations
within an organization is known as
19. Determining if a strategy will be effective within its respective
business environment and still be competitive could be determined by
completing a(n) ________ test.
20. According to the job characteristics model, autonomy is defined as
the degree to which
21. Which of the following represents the acceptable standards of
behavior within a group that are shared by the group’s members?
22. During an annual review, Michel Godfrey made the following
assertion: “When I look at myself and my performance, I see that what I
have achieved is outstanding and something no one in the organization
has the capacity to undertake. Surprisingly, it has not won me the
admiration of my colleagues like it should have. I also believe that I do
not just deserve a raise, but need one, since without me, let’s face it, the
place would simply fall apart.” Which of the following personality traits
best describes Michel’s personality?

23. Which of the following dimensions of the Big Five Model indicates
a person’s ability to withstand stress?
24. The best leadership theories to describe and explain effective
leadership in teams with interactive members are
25. Which of the following is true of the baby boomer generation?
26. Low-context cultures primarily rely on ________ in communicating
with others.
27. Pragmatic leaders
28. ________ refers to an individual’s belief that he or she is capable of
performing a task.
29. Which of the following statements is true regarding a matrix
structure?
30. Which of the following steps can be taken by a manager to minimize
groupthink?
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LDR 531 Final Exam Guide (UOP Course)
1) Which of the following is best defined as a consciously coordinated
social unit, composed of two or more people, which functions on a
relatively continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals?
A. Party
B. Unit
C. Community
D. Organization
2) Over the past 2 decades, business schools have added required
courses on organizational design to many of their curricula. Why have
they done this?
A. Managers no longer need technical skills in subjects such as
economics and accounting to succeed.
B. Managers need to understand human behavior if they are to be
effective.

C. These skills enable managers to effectively lead human resources
departments.
D. A manager with good interpersonal skills can help create a pleasant
workplace.
3) Robert Katz identified three essential skills that managers must have
to reach their goals. What are these skills?
A. Technical, decisional, and interpersonal
B. Technical, human, and conceptual
C. Interpersonal, informational, and decisional
D. Human, informational, and communication
4) __________ is a field of study that investigates the effect that
individuals, groups, and structures have on behavior within
organizations for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward
improving an organization’s effectiveness.
A. Corporate tactics
B. Human resources management
C. Organizational behavior
D. Corporate strategy
5) What do the fundamental consistencies underlying the behavior of all
individuals enable researchers to do?

A. Observe human behavior.
B. Research human behavior.
C. Predict human behavior.
D. Detect human behavior.
6) Which of the following is a generic term that covers a broad range of
feelings that people experience?
A. Affect
B. Emotions
C. Moods
D. Emotional labor
7) What term is used for intense feelings that are directed at someone or
something?
A. Affect
B. Cognition
C. Thoughts
D. Emotions
8) If personality characteristics were completely dictated by
__________,they would be fixed at birth and no amount of experience
could alter them.

A. job satisfaction
B. heredity
C. environment
D. situational factors
9) Which of the following are classifications on the Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator?
A. Extroverted, intuitive, judging, independent
B. Extroverted, sensing, judging, thinking
C. Extroverted, judging, independent, feeling
D. Sensing, perceiving, dependent, feeling
10) Maria is dissatisfied with the way that her manager treats her. She
has quit her job and found a new position with another firm. How has
she expressed her dissatisfaction?
A. Exit
B. Voice
C. Neglect
D. Loyalty
11) You quietly continue to do your work when you know things will
not improve. This is what type of response to dissatisfaction?

A. Exit
B. Voice
C. Loyalty
D. Neglect
12) A group
A. generates positive synergy through coordinated effort
B. generates greater outputs with no increase in inputs
C. is two or more individuals interacting and interdependent
D. engages in collective work that requires joint effort
13) __________ results in a level of performance that is greater than the
sum of the individual input.
A. Synergy
B. Enthusiasm
C. Energy
D. Initiative
14) What happens in the second stage of Tuckman's five stage model of
group development?
A. Close relationships are developed.

B. The group demonstrates cohesiveness.
C. Intragroup conflict often occurs.
D. Groups disband.
15) Zach is devout and very active in his church. He is also a very
dedicated employee. His manager offers him a promotion, but the new
role will require him to work Sundays. Zach would like the promotion,
but realizes that it would force him to miss some church activities. It is
likely that Zach is experiencing which of the following:
A. Role conflict
B. Role expectation
C. Role perception
D. Role identity
16) Which role focuses on bringing about order and consistency by
drawing up formal plans?
A. Leadership
B. Management
C. Task structure
D. Initiating structure
17) Which statement regarding leadership is true?

A. Formal rights enable managers to lead effectively.
B. All managers are leaders.
C. All leaders are hierarchically superior to followers.
D. Nonsanctioned leadership is as important as or more important than
formal influence.
18) What are three situational criteria identified in the Fiedler model?
A. Charisma, influence, and leader-member relations
B. Leader-member relations, task structure, and position power
C. Task structure, leadership ability, and group conflict
D. Emotional intelligence, group orientation, and employee status
19) The reconceptualization of the contingency model by Garcia and
Fiedler is called __________ theory.
A. situational
B. cognitive resource
C. evaluative
D. cognitive dissonance
20) Which path-goal leadership style leads to greater satisfaction when
tasks are ambiguous or stressful?
A. Directive

B. Supportive
C. Participative
D. Reactive
21) According the Path-Goal Theory, what leader is friendly and shows
concern for the needs of followers?
A. Achievement-oriented leader
B. Laissez-faire leader
C. Participative leader
D. Supportive leader
22) Phrases such as “more cultural diversity,” “many new entrants with
inadequate skills,” and “increase in aging workers” are all examples of
what force for change?
A. Technology
B. World politics
C. Nature of the work force
D. Competition
23) What is a goal of planned change?
A. To change the forces of change
B. To alter the agents of change

C. To change employees’ responsibilities
D. To improve the ability to adapt to the environment
24) Using covert influence to overcome resistance to change is called
what?
A. negotiation
B. education
C. coercion
D. manipulation
25) If individuals resisting change are included in making change
decisions in an attempt to gain their support, what is this approach is
called?
A. cooptation
B. exploitation
C. manipulation
D. education
26) Which of the following is a characteristic of organizational control?
A. Formality orientation
B. Decision orientation
C. Team orientation

D. Managerial orientation
27) What term describes the key characteristic of organizational control
that addresses the degree to which employees are expected to exhibit
precision?
A. accountability
B. attention to detail
C. stability
D. reactivity
28) Power is
A. a means for leaders to achieve goals
B. defined by leaders' hopes and aspirations
C. a goal in and of itself
D. not an influence on leaders' goals
29) Leaders achieve goals, and power is
A. defined by leaders’ hopes and aspirations
B. a means of achieving goals
C. a goal in and of itself
D. a strong influence on leaders’ goal

30) The most important aspect of power is probably that it _____.
A. is needed to get things done in an organization
B. is a function of dependency
C. tends to corrupt people
D. is counterproductive
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LDR 531 Individual Assignment Communications
Challenges and Strategies (2 Papers)
This Tutorial contains 2 Papers

The purpose of this assignment is to provide
students with an opportunity to apply
communications theories, research, and
conversation with class colleagues to actual
business situations, through the development of
applicable strategies.
Assignment Steps
Read Case 2: Global Shared Services,
McDonald's Corporation located in Mastering
Leadership.
Analyze in 1,050 to 1,225 words the
communications and group behavioral issues
that might arise in an organization hiring
employees for their first job based on the
discussion from your learning team.

Include a strategy to address these challenges.
Format your assignment consistent with APA
guidelines.
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LDR 531 Individual Assignment Leading Organizational
Change
The purpose of this assignment is to provide an
opportunity for the student to integrate and
apply the individual and organizational
leadership learning from this course by
developing a plan for organizational change.

Assignment Steps
Review course assignments for Weeks 1-5,
including the results of the Mastering
Leadership Self-Assessment taken in Week 1.
Select an organizational change in your
company or one you know.
Develop a 1,050-word analysis designing the
action plan for you, as a leader, to address the
organizational change.
Include the following, in any sequence you
choose:
1. Identify the organizational change process
steps you would take and prioritize the order in
which you would take them.
2. Include both individual and organizational
leadership actions.
3. Scholarly citations must be given to support
your rationale and proposed actions.

guidelines.
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LDR 531 Individual Assignment Strategic Change Case
Study Essay (2 Papers)
This Tutorial contains 2 Papers
The purpose of this assignment is to provide a
chance for the student to examine an existing

organization and apply research to identify
opportunities for strategic change.
Assignment Steps
Develop a 1,050-word essay to identify one
global creative organization, as defined in Ch.
10 and 11 of Mastering Leadership.
Analyze the opportunities for strategic change
that are evident, citing evidence.
Include considerations of culture and structure
in addressing those opportunities.

· Identify one organization that could be
considered creative, based on definitions in
Mastering Leadership.
· Determine whether or not you believe the
organization meets those criteria. Explain why.
· Discuss the impact of organizational
culture and structure on that opportunity for
strategic change.
· Formulate conclusions including personal
learning on your analysis.
guidelines

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LDR 531 Signature Assignment Outer Game and Inner
Game (2 PPT)
This Tutorial contains 2 Presentation
About Your Signature Assignment
This signature assignment is designed to align
with specific program student learning
outcome(s) in your program. Program Student
Learning Outcomes are broad statements that

describe what students should know and be able
to do upon completion of their degree. The
signature assignments may be graded with an
automated rubric that allows the University to
collect data that can be aggregated across a
location or college/school and used for program
improvements.
students an opportunity to apply research on
motivation and satisfaction to the analysis of
their individual behavior and environment.
Assignment Steps

Create an 8- to 10-slide PowerPoint®
presentation describing your Outer Game and
Inner Game. See Ch. 3 of Mastering Leadership
for these concepts.
· Your leadership role and environment.
· The leadership process in your Outer
Game.
· The leadership competencies in your
Outer Game.
· The leadership consciousness in your
Inner Game.

· Insights from this analysis.
· Two actions you will take for growth and
development.
· Include detailed speaker notes, supporting
citations, and references.
guidelines.
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LDR 531 Week 1 Quiz (New)

1) Those with a ________ personality
identity opportunities, show initiative, take
action, and preserver until meaningful change
occurs, compared to others who passively react
to situations
2) _______ is an extrinsic means of
motivation.
3) Which dimension of the Big Five Model is
a measure of reliability?
4) Which of the following is Theory X
consistent with?
5) Which of the following is an instrumental
value according to the Rokeach value survey?

6) Which of the following refers to the
tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense
of self-importance, require excessive
admiration, and have a sense of entitlement?
7) With reference to the Hofstede’s
Framework for assessing cultures,______
emphasizes a tight social framework in which
people except others in groups of which they are
a part to look after them and protect them
8) The______ pay plan has long been
popular as a means of compensating production
workers by paying a fixed sum for each unit of
production completed

9) With reference to the job characteristics
model, which of the following defines skill
variety?
10) The_____ is a personality assessment
model that taps basic dimensions which
encompass most of the significant variation in
human personality, namely extraversion,
agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional
stability and openness to experience
11) Supportive leadership is most likely to
result in what outcome for subordinates?
12) Adam Sears is an assembly-line employee
with Swenson Motors. Though Adam is popular
among his supervisors and colleagues. Adam
experiences low morale and lack of motivation.
He feels frustrated that his job is restricted to

fixing nuts and bolts on the car parts. He fears
that he has no chances of advancing in his
career as he cannot completely assemble a car.
Which of the following is true with regards to
Adam?
13) Which of the following guidelines for
recognizing an employee’s performance was
recommended?
14) Which of the following terms describes
basic convicts that “a specific mode of conduct
or end state of existence is personally or socially
preferable to an opposite mode of conduct?
15) Which of the following personality traits
indicates the degree to which a person is
unemotional and pragmatic and believes that
ends can justify means?

16) Which of the following refers to bottom-
line conclusions individuals have about their
capabilities, competence and worth as a person?
17) Alex was send to Beijing to help local
managers solve the problem of growing worker
dissatisfaction at their manufacturing facility
located in the city. As a part of his visit, he
decided to have a town hall meeting with the
workers to understand the problems that they
were facing and the reasons for their discontent.
The turnout at the meeting was substantial;
however, when asked for their opinions and
suggestions, the crowd fell silent. As a result,
Alex was unable to determine the reason for
employee dissatisfaction. Which of the
following, if true, best explains this situation?

18) According to Blake and Mouton, effective
leaders are most likely to facilitates subordinate
growth and development by having
19) Milton Rokeach created the Rokeach Value
Survey (RVS) which consisted of two sets of
values, namely _______ values and
_______values
20) With reference to john Holland’s
personality-job fir theory, people belonging to
the investigate type prefer
21) Which of the following statement is true
regarding a merit-based pay plan?
22) Which of the following is the least
desirable approach for developing subordinates?

23) Which of the following is most lilkely to be
a drawback of highly conscientious people
according to the Big Five Model?
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LDR 531 Week 2 Discussion Question 1 (UOP Course)
What are the differences between people
oriented and task oriented leadership styles?
Explain the similarities and differences in the
leadership styles of women and men. Be sure to
support your reasons.
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What are the benefits of minimizing organizational politics? Give two
examples of how your organization could minimize organizational
politics.
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LDR 531 Week 2 Individual Assignment Professional
Development Plan (New)
Assume you are the manager of your learning
team and need to develop a plan that will
address the characteristics of your group and
yourself as the leader. This plan can be used to
determine the needs of the learning team and is
a tool for members to assess their skills,
strengths, areas needing improvement, and the

resources needed to help them reach their career
goals.
Use each Learning Team member’s DiSC
assessment results completed in Week One.
Develop a combined DiSC chart of your
Learning Team members for use in developing
this paper. Based on the individual assessments,
what are the characteristics of your team?
Create a professional development plan to
address the characteristics of the Learning Team
members both individually and as a group and
your ability to lead them:
Required Elements:

No more than 1400 words
Formatyour paper consistent with APA
guidelines
Evaluate the individuals, including yourself, and
the group based on the DiSC assessment.
Clickthe Assignment Files tab to submit your
assignment.
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LDR 531 Week 2 LT Reflection (New)
Discuss this week’s objectives with your team.
Your discussion should include the topics you
feel comfortable with, any topics you struggled
with, and how the weekly topics relate to
application in your field.

Prepare a 350- to 1,050-word paper detailing the
findings of your discussion.
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your
assignment.
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LDR 531 Week 2 Mentorship Agreement Form (New)
Complete the UniversityMaterial: Mentorship
Agreement Form.
assignment.

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LDR 531 Week 2 Mentorship Meeting Worksheet (New)
Complete the University Material: Week 2
Mentorship Meeting Worksheet.
assignment.
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1) The leadership process that describes how
a group operates in an open system with other
groups is called
2) Ideological leaders will develop when the
leader
3) Effective transformational leaders
4) Transformational behavior can include
5) The concept that some people are natural
(born) leaders is an attribute of which leadership
approach?
6) Distant charismatic’s are often described
in terms of their effect on follower

7) Which statement about transformational
and charismatic leadership is most accurate?
8) One unique characteristic of followers in
leadership theory is
9) CEOs who exhibit charismatic
characteristics were noted to
10) Which statement comparing
transformational and charismatic leadership is
most accurate?
11) At theory that emphasizes leader traits and
skills as determinants of leadership behavior is
best categorized at what level?

12) Which characteristic of negative
charismatic leadership is more likely to lead to
failure?
13) A leadership contingency theory that
stresses the intelligence and experience of the
leader is
14) Most of the leadership theory and research
explaining the actions of leaders and why those
actions occurred has described
15) A theory that explains the most effective
pattern of leadership behavior in a specified
situation is best classified as

16) A contingency theory of leadership that
depends on specific procedure for leader
behaviors and has strong support is
17) Which of the following is a characteristic of
a positive charismatic?
18) Charismatic leaders add followers by
19) What level of leadership process is
emphasized in most theories of effective
leadership?
20) Contingency theories may be difficult to
implement because

21) A Contingency theory that contains
mediating variables is
22) Most leadership theories emphasize
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How would you modify your communication
style to better accommodate team or group
members with contrasting communication
styles? Be sure to provide specific examples.
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Evaluate how a company structures or uses
groups or teams. Do you feel the organization
would be a good fit for you based on what you
learned through the Williams assessment? Why
or why not?
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Discuss and choose, as a Learning Team, the
most important barrier that you think creates a

communication challenge within groups and
teams, as highlighted in the “Barriers to
Effective Communication” section in Ch. 11 of
Organizational Behavior. Why did your team
choose this particular barrier and how does it
create a communication challenge? Provide
real-life examples you may have experienced
regarding this particular barrier.
assignment.
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Discuss and choose, as a Learning Team, the
most important barrier that you think creates a
communication challenge within groups and
teams, as highlighted in the “Barriers to
Effective Communication” section in Ch. 11 of
Organizational Behavior. Why did your team
choose this particular barrier and how does it
create a communication challenge? Provide
real-life examples you may have experienced
regarding this particular barrier.
assignment.
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assignment.
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1) Which of the following terms best
describes that occurs when two or more parties
decided how to allocate scarce resource?
2) Shirley Shands is a hard worker but
Debra, her manger, is irritated with her. While
Debra concedes that Shirley’s work gives her no
cause for complaint, Debra is toured of the
interruptions in her work because of Shirley
asking for repeated clarifications over what
exactly she has to say in e-mails or phone calls.
She often requests Debra to proofread her e-
mails before sending them, and Debra feels she
sends too many e-mails instead of just speaking
to the person concerned. From the scenario, we
can conclude that_____
3) The two general approaches to negotiation
are_______ bargaining and _____ bargaining

4) Which of the following forms of
communication is characterized by the use of
only body movements, intonations, facial
expressions, and physical distance to
communicate?
5) Synergy Inc. has recently assigned some
of its best employees to form a cross-functional
team and complete a project from a new client.
Many of the employees on his team are
apprehensive about the structure and dynamics
of how they will function as a group and
accomplish this goal. To energize the employee,
their immediate manager is holding a meeting
with them next week where he will provide
them some additional training in strategies and
methods that may work well for the team. The
manager’s initiative to holds this meeting fulfills
the _______ function of communication

6) _______ teams are defined as groups of
employees who perform highly related or
interdependent jobs and take on many of
responsibilities of their former supervisors.
7) Bonnie Patterson has been a manager for
seven years at Wayne and Watson, a legal
consultancy firm. A good part of her workday
involves holding meetings and she likes to do
work on a time bound schedule. For this reason,
members of her team receive the agenda at the
beginning of the meeting, followed by some
time to contemplate over the issue at hand
individually, subsequently, the team members
present their ideas one after the other, the group
discusses them together, and lastly, a ranking is
done to choose the most favored idea this
represents the ________ approach of group
decision making

8) As a consequence of the information
circulated by the grapevine in an organization,
employees experience
9) To retain its edge in the organic health
food market, Natura has established a high-
priority team comprised of senior executives
from the company’s production, marketing, and
research divisions. These employees work
together closely to study consumer attitudes
about organic health foods and come up with
closely monitored development and marketing
strategy for new products, this ensure that each
division is informed of the specific needs,
timelines, and expected outcomes of the
strategy. It also makes Natura a company that
adapts to changes in market trends swiftly. The
team Natura uses here is of the _______ type
10) Jordan is a sales officer who has been
underperforming over the last three month. At

the last monthly operations cycle meeting, he
was given a warning. As the time for the next
meeting draws close. Jordan fears his boss
reprimanding him. Two days before the
meeting, Jordan informs his manger that he has
confirmed six deals in the last few days, one of
which involves multiple orders for their
machines, he, however, skips the detail that
these are the only six orders he has been able to
obtain in the whole month, which one of the
barriers to effective communication is depicted
here?
11) A collectivist Chinese manager is most
likely to use which of the following techniques
for conflict management?
12) Most people assume that a police officer
should behave in a lawful manner, refrain from
demonstrating favoritism to any particular
group, and do his or her best to uphold the law.

Which of the following terms best represents
these beliefs?
13) When ______ is of importance in decision
making, group decisions are preferred to
individual decision.
14) Peter is working on a project. He feels that
the parameters need to be changed to meet client
specifications. First, he must talk to his
immediate supervisor, who will then discuss the
issue with her department director before any
change can be implemented. Peter is most likely
to be a part of the ________ type of small-group
communication networks.
15) When _______ the result is role conflict.

16) Genepacorporation manufacture home
appliances and other electronic products.
Genepa is planning to introduce a new
refrigerator model. The marketing manager at
genepa has developed a marketing plan for this
new product and wants to communicate this
plan to all the employees in the marketing
department. Which of the following is most
likely to be the best form of communication for
communicating this plan?
17) With reference to the team effectiveness
model, which of the following is one of the key
components of an effective team, included
under category of contextual factors?
18) The time attendance system in the
production division, at MM, an automobile
manufacturing company, was malfunctioning.
Consequently, grey hill, one of the front-level
managers sent it for repair. In the meantime, he

placed a register where all workers of the
production division had to provide their time of
entry and exit from the office. At the end of the
week, when looking through the time logs, he
had certain concerns about group of employees.
In the next week, he personally tracked the time
logs, he had certain concerns about group of
employees spent working and realized that they
were reporting a greater number of working
hours than they actually worked. This group
engaged in a barrier to communication called
19) Janica cooper has recently joined a hospital
as a part of the internship program prescribed by
the nursing school she attends. Janica, who was
inspired to take up this profession by the story
of Florence nightingale, had very strong ideals
about how she should behave as a nurse, she
must be gentle, pleasant, and caring at all times
so she could serve her patients well, and she
often went to great lengths as an intern by

putting in extra hours at the hospital ans so on.
The scenario, reflects Janice’s
20) The ________ view of conflict focuses on
productive resolution of conflicts.
21) When one person seeks to satisfy his or her
own interests regardless of the impact on other
parties to the conflict, that person is using the
conflict-handling intention of
22) Matt works as a sales representative at
Tandem industries, which manufactures and
sells bicycle, he is the best salesperson on the
floor, but he also receives the highest number of
customer complaints for late deliveries. Which
of the following, if true, best explains this
situation?

23) _______is defined as a phenomenon in
which the norm for consensus overrides the
realistic appraisal of alternatives courses of
action.
24) Which of the following is a unique
advantage of lateral communication?
25) Which of the following is desirable when a
crucial project is delegated to a virtual team?
26) Which of the following statements is true
regarding conflict?
27) The informal communication network in an
organization is
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LDR 531 Week 3 Team communication Challenges
Conversation (Mc Donalds)
students an opportunity to apply communication
theories and research to actual business
situations. The discussion with other learning
team members is designed to identify and
consider different perspectives.
Assignment Steps
Read Case 2: Global Shared Services,
McDonald's Corporation, located in Mastering
Leadership.
Discuss in your learning team the
communications and group behavioral issues
that might arise in an organization that hires

employees for their first job. Each member must
post at least two substantive comments
(minimum 350 words each) to the learning team
discussion area.
Note: Grades are awarded based upon individual
contributions to the Learning Team assignment.
Each Learning Team member receives a grade
based upon his/her contributions to the team
assignment. Not all students may receive the
same grade for the team assignment.
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How does goal setting motivate an employee to
increase job performance? Give an example.
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In what type of organization do you think your
leadership style would be most effective, and in
what organization would it be least effective?
Compare and contrast these two types of
organizations.
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assignment.
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1) Why is Maslow’s theory criticized?
2) ________ are caused by a specific event,
are very brief, and accompanied by distinct
facial expressions.
regarding goal-setting theory?

4) Tiffany Crowe works as a showroom
executive at a clothing boutique in London.
Today, she is in a positive mood and instantly
greets and smiles at a customer who walks into
the store. The customer feels welcomed by her
response. While browsing the store, Crowe
helps the customer with product and passes on
her positive mood to the customer. The
customer leaves the store feeling content with a
smile on her face. Which of the following best
describes this situation?
5) Charles, Anna, Elle, and Adam are college
friends and work in New York City.
Comfortable living in New York occurs at about
$40,000 a year. Charles makes $24,000 a year;
Anna makes $30,000 a year. Elle makes
$50,000 a year, and Adam makes $75,000 a
year. Which of the following is most likely to be

true with reference to correlation between pay
and job satisfaction?
6) If Alberta is categorized as a Theory X
manager, which of the following behaviors is
she most likely to exhibit?
7) ________ refers to evaluative statements
or judgments concerning objects , people, or
events.
8) The church you go to every Sunday is
made up of people who have very different
lifestyles and are at different stages in their life.
Joanna is a 23-year-old, single parent who
works for minimum wage and shifts from motel
to motel for accommodation. Josephine is a
single, 45-year-old woman who earns a decent
salary and has few interests and friends outside

her office. Jonathan is 60 years old , extremely
wealthy, has a loving family and enjoys his
work. You have decided o apply Maslow’s
hierarchy of needs to determine what motivates
each of these individuals. Which of the
following needs would most likely motivate
Joanna?
9) Which of the following statements
represents the cognitive component of attitude?
10) Employees with positive core self-
evaluations believe in their inner worth and
basic competence, and are more satisfied with
their jobs than those with negative core self-
evaluations. The concept of positive core self
evaluations indicates that

11) Susan Daniels works for an event
management company and is discontent with
her job because she was passed over for a
promotion. She has now composed a list of
concerns and plans to discuss the issue with her
supervisor. Daniels’ response to the problem is
referred to as
regarding the effects of moods and emotions on
decision making?
13) Which of the following is an example of
deviant workplace behavior?
14) Which of the following does cognitive
dissonance indicates between two or more
attitudes or between behavior and attitudes?

15) MBO provides individual employees with
16) Gerard Yoder believes that every time he
picks up his daughter. Penny, from school, it
brings him good luck. The last time he picked
up from school, he won a lottery ticket. Today,
after he received her from school, he reached his
office and found out that he has been promoted.
Which of the following concepts best describes
Yoder’s belief?
17) Emotions such as relaxation, serenity and
calmness comprises the ______ mood
dimension
regarding negotiations?

19) Self-determination theory proposes that in
addition to being driven by an need for
autonomy, people seek ways to achieve
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LDR 531 Week 4 Team Assignment Conflict Resolution
(New)
As you continue to develop in your career, you
will find that your responsibilities as a leader
will increase. You will be tasked with many
different jobs, such as managing conflict,
handling communication challenges among your
team members, or addressing organizational
communication needs. As you know, no
employee likes to speak up only to have his or
her ideas not taken seriously, or to confront

others about their working styles, or to face
uncomfortable gossip among coworkers.
View the LDR/531 Storybooks.
Develop a summary of no more than 1,050
words that includes multiple ways to handle the
three situations shown in the Storybooks.
Discuss communication styles and barriers and
the conflict and negotiation process involved in
handling the three situations. For each
storybook, describe the strategy or strategies
you would apply in these situations.
Consider the following as you complete the
assignment:

Storybook #1:
How would you react when a team member is
being vague and trying to spin bad news to
sound more positive, thereby making it harder
for the team to actually approach and resolve the
issue?
How could you encourage someone to continue
to voice his or her opinion or to share an idea
when you know she is hesitant to do so?
Storybook #2:
As a manager, how would you relay an
important negative message with as little impact
on your team as possible? Why would you
choose this method?
What is the best way to handle gossip before it
spreads?

How might you handle your team's feelings
after a negative situation has occurred that does
not directly affect your team but affects others
around them?
Storybook #3:
What strategies would you use to help your
team alleviate stress caused by deadlines before
any conflict arises?
General question for all three storybooks:
Think about a personal situation from your work
experience that is similar to each storybook
scenario. How would you approach the situation
differently based on the principles you learned
in the storybooks? How might the results
change?
Format your paper consistent with APA
guidelines.

assignment.
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How could leaders increase learning and
innovation in the workplace? Give an example.
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Complete the 360 assessment.
Discuss the benefits of using this assessment as a tool.
Prepare a 350- to 1,050-word paper detailing the findings of the 360
assessment.
Clickthe Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
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1) Which of the following is an example of an individual source of
resistance to change?
2) Strategy of differentiation consists of which of the following?

3) Culture is most likely to be a liability when
4) Which of the following is the last step in Kotter’s eight-step plan
for implementing change?
5) A(n) ______ strategy emphasizes the introduction of major new
products and services.
6) _______ are persons who act as catalysts and assume the
responsibility for managing refinement activities.
7) Which of the following is typically a characteristic of the
mechanistic model of organization?
8) Which of the following statements is true regarding the functions
of culture in an organization?
9) A(n) _______ organization is an organization that takes on a life of
its own. Apart from its founders and members, and is valued for itself
and not for the goods or services it produces.

10) Sometimes, business finds it necessary to reconceive their core
business. Which of the following would be the less effective strategy for
doing so?
11) Which of the following is least likely to lend to a simply
organizational structure?
12) The deemphasizing of hierarchical authority and control in
organizational development is referred to as
13) It is easiest for management to deal with resistance when it is
14) Which of the following is least likely to realize a competitive
advantage for an organization?
15) Which of the following actions can extinguish risk taking and
innovation?
16) ________ is a collection of change methods that seek to improve
organizational effectiveness and employee well-being.

17) Idea champions display characteristics associated with ________
leadership.
18) Confusion in who reports to whom is a weakness of Which one of
the following organizational structures?
19) The focus of a single segmentation within a scope strategy is known
as a ______ strategy
20) Which of the following resistances to change is implicit?
21) Decision making within which one of the following organizational
structures follows a strict chain of command?
22) Which of the following factors is least likely to have an impact on
23) Which of the following is the first step in Kotter’s eight-step plan

24) Entering into various types of business ventures outside of the realm
of an organization’s usual type of business is an example of a ________
strategy.
25) Which of the following statements is true regarding innovation?
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1) Which of the following is an example of an individual source of
resistance to change?
2) Strategy of differentiation consists of which of the following?
3) Culture is most likely to be a liability when
4) Which of the following is the last step in Kotter’s eight-step plan

5) A(n) ______ strategy emphasizes the introduction of major new
products and services.
6) _______ are persons who act as catalysts and assume the
responsibility for managing refinement activities.
7) Which of the following is typically a characteristic of the
mechanistic model of organization?
8) Which of the following statements is true regarding the functions
of culture in an organization?
9) A(n) _______ organization is an organization that takes on a life of
its own. Apart from its founders and members, and is valued for itself
and not for the goods or services it produces.
10) Sometimes, business finds it necessary to reconceive their core
business. Which of the following would be the less effective strategy for
doing so?
11) Which of the following is least likely to lend to a simply

12) The deemphasizing of hierarchical authority and control in
organizational development is referred to as
13) It is easiest for management to deal with resistance when it is
14) Which of the following is least likely to realize a competitive
advantage for an organization?
15) Which of the following actions can extinguish risk taking and
innovation?
16) ________ is a collection of change methods that seek to improve
organizational effectiveness and employee well-being.
17) Idea champions display characteristics associated with ________
leadership.
18) Confusion in who reports to whom is a weakness of Which one of
the following organizational structures?

19) The focus of a single segmentation within a scope strategy is known
as a ______ strategy
20) Which of the following resistances to change is implicit?
21) Decision making within which one of the following organizational
structures follows a strict chain of command?
22) Which of the following factors is least likely to have an impact on
23) Which of the following is the first step in Kotter’s eight-step plan
24) Entering into various types of business ventures outside of the realm
of an organization’s usual type of business is an example of a ________
strategy.
25) Which of the following statements is true regarding innovation?
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LDR 531 Week 5 Team Creative Organizations and
Strategic Change
The purpose of this assignment is to provide students an opportunity to
apply research definitions of a creative organization to real life
examples.
Assignment Steps
Identify and discuss several global creative organizations using the
criteria and descriptions in Ch. 10 and 11 of Mastering Leadership.
Include the strategic opportunities for change the organizations have.
Each member must post at least two substantive comments (minimum
350 words each) to the learning team discussion area:
• Discuss why those organizations could be considered as creative.
• Explore alternative views.
• Post two substantive comments from each team member in this
discussion.
Note: Grades are awarded based upon individual contributions to the
Learning Team assignment. Each Learning Team member receives a
grade based upon his/her contributions to the team assignment. Not all
students may receive the same grade for the team assignment.

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How has the structure of today’s archetypal, large organization changed
from the typical organization of the past? What is the most significant
event in the evolution of organizational structure? Be sure to support
your answer.
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How could socialization be compared to brainwashing and how can
socialization be used ethically within an organization? Give an example.

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Complete the University Material: Week 6 Mentorship Meeting
Worksheet.
Clickthe Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
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1) Transformational change in an organization

2) Political behavior in the work place
3) Hard power tactics best influence those with which following
characteristic?
4) A person likely to participate in political behavior
5) Buck passing and scapegoating when politics is seen as a threat are
forms of
6) Politicking is less likely in organizations that have
7) Central to managing a successful organizational strategy
implements are/is
8) With downward influence, power tactics preferred by U.S
managers include
9) A primary goal of politics in the work place is to

10) Periods of convergence are those in which an organization
11) The validity of a strategy for organizational change lies in its
12) The formulation and implementation of a strategy
13) Surveys of seasoned managers reveal they believe politics in the
workplace is
14) Organizational momentum relates to
15) An influence tactics that relies on rank and enforcement of group
goals is
16) In convergent periods, the role of executive managements is to
17) During organizational change, employee-management interfaces
such as workshops and retreats

18) Impression management sends_______ messages that may be
______ under other circumstances
19) Organizational change relies on a balance of change and
20) To keep a strategy in focus, effective managers employ
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LDR 531 Week 6 Team Assignment Failure Analysis and
Change Strategy (New)
While there is no blueprint or checklist that one can follow to guarantee
the success of a business, much can be learned from analyzing those that
have failed and those that have flourished during the same time period
and under similar circumstances.
Write a paper of no more than 2,000 words.

Part 1: Business Failure Analysis
Select a business that failed and one that succeeded within the last 5
years.
Identify each organization’s objectives, vision, and mission.
Determine the indicators of the business failure and success from
research. These may include aspects of the leadership style,
communication, structure, and so forth.
Describe how specific organizational behavior theories could have
predicted or explained the company’s failure or success.
Describe the role of leadership, management, organizational structure,
and the culture of the organization and its departments in the failure and
success of the businesses.
Part 2: Leading Organizational Change

Imagine that you are the CEO of the failed organization before the
business failure took place. You now have the opportunity to lead the
organization in a change process to prevent the impending failure.
Identify the most vital areas for change.
Identify the potential barriers you will face during the change process.
Evaluate the power and political issues within the organization and
describe how you will address these issues.
Describe the steps you will follow to implement the organizational
change based on John Kotter’s 8-step plan for implementing change.
Include at least two peer-reviewed articles from the University Library.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment
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