Employee training and development class
Employee Training and Development Class)
Discuss why it is important to evaluate training. Which evaluation is more important: summative or formative? Explain why you chose that evaluation type using specific examples to support your answer.
Your response should be at least 500 words in length
Effectiveness of the team environment
Directions:
Conduct an interview with an employee (preferably a supervisor or manager) at your current job or a previous job. If you have no prior work experience, you may interview a family member or friend who is currently employed. You have just been promoted to the manager of your department and have been asked to review the following:
Prepare a 4-6 page report that includes an overall assessment of how each of the above is currently being handled and how you would change the system. Be sure to provide examples and be specific in your reasoning behind your suggested changes. Utilize at least three scholarly resources in your report (one of which may be your text book). This report must include:
The paper must be well organized using headings and subheadings.
The written report must be in APA format, have proper punctuation and grammar, as well as free of typographical error.
All materials used must be cited correctly and listed on a reference page.
Creative leadership-future trends in leadership development
Based on the CCL article and Kegan videos, post reactions to the four conditions for vertical development and the three-stage development process described by McGuire and Rhodes (CCL article). Keep your response to less than 100 words
Center for Creative Leadership “Future Trends in Leadership Development” Article quotes:
“A new leadership paradigm seems to be emerging with an inexorable shift away from one-way, hierarchical, organization-centric communication toward two-way, network-centric, participatory, and collaborative leadership styles. Most of all a new mindset seems necessary, apart from new skills and knowledge. All the tools in the world will not change anything if the mindset does not allow and support change.”
“Organizations and those who would exercise leadership have no choice about whether to accept a new world that differs fundamentally from the old. Welcomed or not, it is the inevitable future and is becoming the present in many organizations at a breathtaking pace. At the same time, there is a choice about whether to deny and react to these cultural and economic shifts or instead acknowledge and embrace them. And there is a choice as well—for both organizations and individuals—about whether and to what extent to cultivate the culture, mindsets, skills, and knowledge that make it possible to leverage the enormous potential of the tools of the evolving Web to better realize their purposes.”
Types of conflict management
Several different conflict management styles include: forcing conflict management, avoiding conflict management, accommodating conflict management, compromising conflict management, and collaborating conflict management. Explain the difference between each type of management style. Which style do you favor the most? Which one would be most likely associated with an experience you have encountered at work?
Create analysis to include fixed costs and step-fixed costs
1. Provide the overview of City of Decatur’s budget 2013-2014 addressing financial summary(include revenue and expenditures), department budgets, funding, capital projects and debt administration.
2. Carry out the cost analysis to include fixed costs, step-fixed costs and variable costs. Write down the challenges in managing budget?
3. Suggest 2-3 strategies regarding new initiatives and budget cuts over next 5 years.
Deontological ethics in business
Explore the means by which deontological ethics may be used as a useful theoretical lens through which an organization’s sense of business ethics may be critically assessed.
1) Briefly describe the Adelphia Communications scandal.
2) Identify and discuss two (2) key ethical problems raised by the Adelphia Communications case.
3) Describe what is meant by “deontological ethics” generally (e.g., duty and rights), and by Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative more specifically.
Potential impacts of the economic partnership agreement
Make an argument about the potential impacts of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and African nations: What will the economic impact of the agreement be in Africa? What will the political and social impacts of the agreement be in Africa? What impact will the agreement have on the sovereignty of the African nations involved? Make a coherent and well-supported argument about this topic. 1200 words.
technological innovation which has been a benefit to society as a whole
Topic: “Believe it or not, technology is not always about making money. Sometimes the initiative which drives technological invention is predicated on helping people or bettering society. Using virtual reality technology to work with the autistic would be a prime example. Sometimes profit is a bi-product.
Pick a technological innovation which has been a benefit to society as a whole, or some societal subgroup, where profit does not exist, or is at best a bi-product. Discuss the technology, its benefits, which it helps, explain how it came to be, also its future. You cannot use the Internet itself.”
Today, Japan supports a successful democracy. The first of its kind in East Asia. It has seen rapid economic growth into the 1980s before stalling in the 1990s. However, Japan is ethnically homogeneous and highly nationalistic. 1) discuss why Japan was able to build a successful democracy, 2) identify key differences between Japanese democracy and British & US democracy and 3) discuss whether you believe Japan’s economic success led to increased democracy or whether an increase in democratic capacity led to increased economic performance.
Analysis of the mission-vision-values and goals
Select one organization of the Virtual Organizations from the student website.
Write a 1,400- to 2,100-word paper in which you complete the following:
State the primary reasons for the organization’s existence from an analysis of the mission, vision, values, and goals.
Analyze the reason for the type of organizational structure employed by the organization, and identify the key positions that support that organizational structure.
Identify and explain the steps of the collaboration process among the functional areas that must be employed to achieve organizational goals, and prepare an action plan to implement the collaboration process.
Identify and provide an example of the use of lateral collaboration and vertical collaboration within the organization, and prepare an action plan to use lateral and vertical collaboration.
Identify the key stakeholders and their roles needed to achieve the organizational goals, and recommend the collaborative interactions among the key stakeholders to facilitate the organization’s success.