1: Sustaining Capacity

This week, your focus will shift from understanding the nature and management of organizational capacity through the growth cycle to the role of the leader and capacity. What can and should the leader do to ensure that the capacity of a firm is healthy and vibrant so that the promises to customers can be fulfilled effectively?

In seeking an answer to this significant question, you will focus on the influence of leadership styles on the growth and sustenance of capacity. You will review the recent research on how given styles of leadership influence the health and vitality of a firm’s capacity including the two leadership styles in the figures below.

Figure 2: Traditional Leadership vs Servant Leadership

This assignment will involve active and precise use of word searches with the Library databases, so as to benefit from studies completed in the last five years. Your findings should add a significant component to your research of capacity, as well as contribute to the knowledge of the leadership of an organization with growing healthy capacity. The assignment will provide significant insight into the leadership’s impact on organizations.

For assignment 1, you will develop a tri-fold brochure about the influence of leadership in the development of quality capacity.  Your brochure will also focus on what leaders do to enhance the development of quality and sustaining capacity.  Search the peer-reviewed databases for current studies of how leadership style relates to growing and sustaining quality capacity. You will develop the brochure for upper management.

Design a tri-fold brochure that includes the following:

• A discussion to illustrate the relationship between the leadership style of a leader, such as transformational leadership, and the growth and sustainability of an organization’s capacity.
• A description that explains how and why leadership style provides influence upon capacity.
• Examples of how leaders can enhance the development of quality and sustaining capacity.

Length: 1 tri-fold brochure

References: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly resources.

2: Improving Organizational Capacity

Week 6 focuses on improvement, taking a step beyond current, acceptable performance to improve the performance of capacity in an organization by raising the quality and time performance of individuals in the capacity department, thus improving the department as shown in the figure below.

Figure  3: Improving Organizational Capacity

Ideally, as the ability of the department to develop and deliver more and better quality goods and services, the organization will gain the capability to provide additional products and services to offer in the markets served. The leaders and managers of the organization will thus have the opportunity to increase the product/service span of the organization, thus improving organizational productivity. Among New England brewers, expanding product has had an interesting influence on market power. Within the brewing industry, a proliferation of products has shown an important impact on the market power of a brewing organization.  Berning and McCullough (2017) studied New England brewers and determined that expanding product line reduced excess capacity and raised market power. With this discovery, relatively small firms were able to compete with larger organizations.

For this week’s assignment, you are asked to research means to measure capacity in your organization. Given the evaluation of capacity in the firm, what could you do as a manager to raise the quality and time performance of personnel in the department, seeking to improve capacity?

References

Berning, J., & McCullough, M. (2017). Product line extension among New England craft breweries. Agricultural & Resource Economics Review, 46(1), 73.

Assignment 2: Determine Methods to Measure and Improve Capacity

Instructions

For this assignment, consider that you are the manager of an organization of your choice and you want to know how the organization’s capacity is prepared for a likely change in marketing conditions. You plan to research the means to measure the organization’s capacity to provide goods and services.  If you notice that capacity appears low in the advent of rising orders, what will you do? Will you attempt to raise the quality and time performance of individuals in the department, increase the supply of materials, or introduce other measures to improve capacity?

For this assignment, write a paper that addresses the following:

• Indicate the measurements organizations use to measure capacity.
• Discuss what you could do as a manager to improve the level of quality and timely service to improve capacity.
• Determine how these improvements contribute to improvements in the quality of goods and services provided to customers.
• Consider increasing customer follow-ups after purchases regarding satisfaction of goods and service, as an indicator of the quality of capacity.
• Develop a brief survey 2 weeks after purchase to inquire about suggested improvements that could be made in products and services.
• In your paper, utilize the theory of constraints, the theory of capacity utilization, or another theory directly pertinent to the development or use of capacity.

Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pages

References: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly resources.

Assignment 3

The Influence of Leadership Theories and Principles

Understanding the history of organizations and the impact of their leaders is instrumental in providing a foundation for current leaders in these organizations. As the business world changes, so do the understanding of organizational leadership, and thus the critical need for it to be effective at a multitude of levels. In essence, this process must be positively managed throughout an organization at every level.

Leaders value experience and stakeholders who possess an understanding of the organization’s history. They understand the importance of history and realize that it possesses a vital truth: A comprehensive understanding of the past. This combined with theory can be leveraged as powerful tools leaders can utilize to shape the future. By utilizing these tools, leaders have complete insight into where an organization has been, where it currently is, and where it must go to remain competitive.

The overall goal is to ensure the roles within an organization continue to work productively in a uniformed system. This week’s assignment focuses on key historical events relating to organizational leadership, which will serve in providing key information and insight into theory. By better understanding the origins of organizational leadership, you will be able to step back and better understand how this critical business process has evolved. It will also provide the necessary framework to synthesize knowledge to the point of theory application and model these ideas in more modern themes. This week, you will explore the leadership theories, principles, and impact that affects organizational leadership.

Be sure to review this week’s resources carefully. You are expected to apply the information from these resources when you prepare your assignments.

Heads-Up to the Signature Assignment

Your culminating Signature Assignment (due in Week 8) will be an application of all that you have learned within the course, and it may require that you complete some work ahead of time. To ensure you are prepared and have adequate time to complete this assignment, please review the instructions by looking ahead to Week 8. You can contact your professor if you have questions.

Interpret Leadership Theory and Principles

Instructions

For this task, create a timeline of key historical events relating to organizational leadership to better understand how they shape organizations and their success. Determine which foundational theories help to support organizational success. You may also include theorists in your timeline.

You will utilize this information in future assignments for this course. You may create your timeline in Word, Excel, or with another software program, you are familiar with.

References: Include a minimum of 3 scholarly resources.

Length: one timeline, not including title and reference pages

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

Assignment 4

Leadership Styles, Traits, and Theories Necessary for a Global Organization

As business evolves and expands without the restraints of brick and mortar, it is becoming critical for leaders to understand the wants and needs of stakeholders. This awareness enables leaders to possess the needed skills and tools to develop the culture of a global organization. This must include a solid understanding of the involved cultures. This plays a huge role in the capacities of an organization to find long-term success.

Leaders must have a cultural intelligence that enables them to be strategic in aligning their organizations with the people who make them up. Having the ability to develop a culturally diverse organizational leadership strategy that effectively responds to internal and external factors is essential. This includes being able to proactively handle and attune to culture shifts. For example, think of how Hyatt had to be cognizant of these shifts as they introduced their brand in China. They opted for a slow integration that ensured there was a more holistic approach than just offering Chinese elements within the hotel (Hamdi, 2019). These abilities require leaders to assume a transparent role in driving the different values and ensuring that they are aligned with the business. It is critical that these processes include all stakeholders of an organization, as it is the most effective way of promoting the necessary diversity to find success.

Leaders realize that rather than driving one style, which may be detrimental to a global organization; it is critical to gain insight into a diverse model of leadership. It is important in a global organization to examine the nature of leadership traits combining the influences and environments in which they operate. While there are several forms of leadership, it has been said the future of organizational leadership belongs to cross-cultural transformational leadership (Bonsu & Twum-Danso, 2018). This leadership style entails a leader utilizing stakeholders and tools to identify necessary changes (Cherry, 2019). In all, this is a best practice in fostering a positive organization.

This week, you will research and analyze leadership styles, traits, and theories needed in a global organization.

Be sure to review this week’s resources carefully. You are expected to apply the information from these resources when you prepare your assignments.

References

Bonsu, S., & Twum-Danso, E. (2018). Leadership style in the global economy: A focus on cross-cultural and transformational leadership. Journal of Marketing & Management, 9(2), 37–52.

Cherry, K. (2019, May 06). How do transformational leaders inspire and motivate followers? Retrieved from Verywellmind.com.

Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. (2016). Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. Retrieved from

Hamdi, R. (2019, July 25). Hyatt and Hilton are taking different branding approaches inside China. Retrieved from Skift.com.

In this assignment, you will examine a global, diverse business environment and explore the many approaches that can be considered by a leader depending on where, who, and how that person is leading.

For this task, you will prepare a research paper. First, choose a leader in a global organization and analyze the key leadership traits this leader utilizes to successfully conduct business in a global environment. Focus on theoretical and practical approaches to leadership in organizations, using this leader as an example to highlight your findings. Then, determine any areas in need of improvement for this leader. Based on theory and best practices, recommend at least two practical approaches to successful leadership this leader could implement to improve the organization’s culture and performance.

Length: 5-7 pages, not including title or reference pages

References: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly resources.

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