What is your leadership philosophy?

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What is your leadership philosophy? In this Assignment, you will explore what guides your own leadership.

To Prepare:

  • Identify two to three scholarly resources, in addition to this Module’s readings, that evaluate the impact of leadership behaviors in creating healthy work environments.
  • Reflect on the leadership behaviors presented in the three resources that you selected for review.
  • Reflect on your results of the CliftonStrengths Assessment, and consider how the results relate to your leadership traits.

The Assignment (2-3 pages):

Personal Leadership Philosophies

Develop and submit a personal leadership philosophy that reflects what you think are characteristics of a good leader. Use the scholarly resources on leadership you selected to support your philosophy statement. Your personal leadership philosophy should include the following:

  • A description of your core values
  • A personal mission/vision statement
  • An analysis of your CliftonStrengths Assessment summarizing the results of your profile
  • A description of two key behaviors that you wish to strengthen
  • A development plan that explains how you plan to improve upon the two key behaviors you selected and an explanation of how you plan to achieve your personal vision. Be specific and provide examples.
  • Be sure to incorporate your colleagues’ feedback on your CliftonStrengths Assessment from this Module’s Discussion 2.

Risk Management Planning Exercise

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  • Schedule Compression and Resource Leveling (100 points)
  • This assignment consists of 3 parts: questions about resourcing projects, schedule development and compression, and resource leveling.
  • Part 1 Questions (20 points)
  • Provide responses to the following questions
  • 1.    What is the purpose of a staffing management plan?  What does it address?
  • 2.    Whom should the project manager consult when performing resource leveling?
  • 3.    Describe the two primary techniques for compressing a schedule?
  • 4.    When crashing a project schedule, describe the two criteria that are considered when considering which activities will be sped up.
  • Part 2 Project network/schedule -scheduling and compressing a schedule (30 points)
  • You’ve been asked to manage a project that includes conducting a two-week (10 working days) computer training class. Using the information in Table below, complete the following:
  • Activity
  • Immediate Predecessor
  • Normal Time (days)
  • Normal Cost
  • Crashed Time (days)
  • Crashed Cost
  • A – Obtain Instructor
  • None
  • 7
  • $500
  • 4
  • $800
  • B – Locate Room
  • A
  • 3
  • $200
  • 2
  • $350
  • C – Check Coats
  • None
  • 6
  • $500
  • 4
  • $900
  • D – Room Open?
  • C
  • 3
  • $200
  • 1
  • $500
  • E – Schedule Class
  • B and D
  • 2
  • $300
  • 1
  • $350
  • Prepare a network schedule showing:
  • Early Starts (ES) for all activities
  • Late Starts (LS) for all activities
  • Slacks for all activities
  • Critical path and its length
  • Non-critical paths and their length
  • Schedule Compression:
  • What is the crash cost per day for each activity?
  • Which activities should be crashed to meet a project deadline of 10 days with a minimum cost? You may assume that you can partially crash an activity.
  • What is the new cost after crashing the project?
  • Fully crash the project to its minimum duration.  Prepare a table that shows (for each day the project length is reduced) the project duration, the activities that are crashed, the incremental crash cost, and the total crash cost.
  • Part 3 Resource Leveling (40 points)
  • Using the data below
  • Activity ID
  • Activity
  • Immediate Predecessor
  • Duration in days
  • Resource
  • Work Hours per Day
  • A
  • Evaluate freezers
  • 2
  • Alcides
  • 6
  • B
  • Chart temperatures
  • 6
  • Joan
  • 4
  • C
  • Review service record
  • 2
  • Alcides
  • D
  • Consult with HVAC engineer
  • A, B, C
  • 3
  • Alcides
  • E
  • Develop construction plan
  • D
  • 10
  • Joan
  • F
  • Complete IC assignment
  • E
  • 2
  • Alcides
  • G
  • Complete ROI analysis
  • E
  • 5
  • Joan
  • H
  • Conduct regulatory review
  • E
  • 4
  • Joan
  • I
  • Obtain construction approval
  • F, G, H
  • 2
  • Alcides
  • a.    Create a project schedule in MS Excel ensuring that it reflects the predecessor/successor relationships identified in the table.
  • b.    How long will it take to complete the project?
  • c.    Joan and Alcides are not fully dedicated to the project.  Joan is only available for 4 hours each day, and Alcides is available for 6 hours per day.  The original estimated duration (in 8-hour days) results in over-allocation of Joan and Alcides.  Prepare a resource-leveled project schedule in MS Excel.  How long will it take to complete the project in a resource-leveled environment?

Code of Ethics

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Unit VII Course Project

Instructions

Code of Ethics

Begin by preparing a Code of Ethics for a fictional company which should include at minimum ten elements. Include an introductory paragraph to present your company’s code of ethics. You may use bullet points or headings for your ten elements, but be sure to use complete sentences, and provide citations as necessary. Be sure each element clearly addresses employee behavior and what the company expects.

Once you have compiled the Code of Ethics, respond to the following questions:

1.       Why did you include each of the ten elements?

2.       Why is a Code of Ethics an important part of every business from an employer standpoint?

3.       Why is a Code of Ethics an important part of every business from an employee standpoint?

4.       Once you have written the Code of Ethics, how would you implement to ensure compliance?

Your completed assignment should be a minimum of three double-spaced pages (one page for the Code of Ethics and one page for question responses).

Please use a minimum of two credible sources from the  Online Library to support your reasoning. Referenced sources must have accompanying citations complying with APA guidelines.

Discuss the differences between a leader and a manager. What characteristics, activities, and/or responsibilities are associated with each?

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Part 1. Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Discuss the differences between a leader and a manager. What characteristics, activities, and/or responsibilities are associated with each?

Share an example of a leader and a manager from your own work experience or from research and explain whether you think the role of a leader or manager can or should overlap.

Part 2. Reply to the following thread in a minimum of 100 words:

‘The differences between a leader and a manager is that a leader is a person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country. A manager is a person responsible for controlling or administering all or part of a company or similar organization. There are many characteristics of a leader such as

Accountability

Confidence

Inspire Others

Commitment and Passion

The characteristics of a manager are many as well to give some examples

They are assertive

They handle pressure well

They are assertive

They do not micromanage

The responsibilities of a leader is

Build trust

Communicate

Build Self-efficacy

Conduct routine debriefings

The responsibilities of a manager are different types such as

Setting goals

Administrative tasks.

Training and development

Team and individual organization

Leaders and managers do have overlapping functions when it comes to each other roles in an organization. For you to become a leader you must have the skill set and quality to manage. If you are a manager, you must have leadership skills to manage a company or organization. As for myself when I was in high school, I played a lot of sports when I was the caption. I had to make some difficult decisions as a leader for my team. The qualities that I possessed were

Character-driven

Goal-oriented

Fearless

Decisive

Humble

Stern

These qualities I took with me as I started as a adult working towards my career. As of now I just applied to become a project manager for my place of employment. I feel that I will do great if I was to be chosen for the position. I would take my leadership skills and apply it to becoming a great manager. Wish me luck.” – Essence H.

Part 3. Respond to the following post in a minimum of 100 words:

“Class, My opinion on a leader and manager is that of what I have formed over years of experience as a SNCO in the military and as a senior level leader in the aerospace industry. I feel leaders are integral to any well function group and often lead by example. are not scared to get their hands dirty and have an intimate connection with their subordinates. Whilst managers on the other hand manage to a strict process and procedural code. Manager can be groomed and made to be effective while leaders are molded by the experience of being put in difficult situations. Managers can lead groups to complete a task effectively but will never really engage the workforce on a personal level. leaders have the charisma and ability to engage from within so the work force is fully vested in the overall goal. In my opinion a leader is the optimal type of management a company wants as they often blur the line between work and life which makes the work environment parts of the employees life” – Danny V.