Leaders
Essays

Diabetes is a health condition which impacts numerous Americans; certain manifestations of diabetes can be prevented and can be thwarted using caution and intelligent diet and lifestyle choices. This memo looks at two websites geared for different audiences and how they deal with the issue of diabetes and the differing needs of the website visitor.

Leadership Traits, Skills, and Motivation

The DiSC is one of the most effective methods of analyzing different personality types in the workplace. This DiSC assessment provides a motivational plan for balancing the needs of dominant, influence, steady, and conscientious types. There is also discussion of different 'subtypes' within the major D,i,S,C categories. Particular emphasis is given to Ds and Is types.

Abstract MNCs operate across countries, and are deemed to face challenges brought about by cultural differences. Appreciating these cultural differences, and designing organizational cultures that respond to the demands of the different cultures is the only way to respond to these challenges. A host country’s culture influences the operations of MNCs in a variety of ways. This text explores how the organizational culture of an MNC headquartered in France, but with branches in India, Australia and German, is influenced by the cultures of the host countries.

Ethics is important in almost every walk of life; in business, industry, education and politics. Trust is built by adhering to and displaying ethical behavior. When that behavior is thwarted, then damage can be felt in any number of ways. Business can be lost, politicians voted out of office, and trust, once extended, can be withheld. This report shows the importance of good ethical behavior in both business and politics and how the lack of ethics is not something of a positive nature.

Situational leadership has become a popular tool used to explain leadership styles, and to train leaders. The paper presents an assessment of this theory, starting with the next relation of the theory before looking at the advantages and disadvantages associated with its use. The conclusion argues that although the theory is attractive, it is flawed, and focuses on the arguments against the theory.

The paper creates an understanding of how BCS approach works in technology organizations. It provides a summary of the balanced scorecard process. The paper compares and contrasts BAA’s approach to balanced scorecard as well as other approaches. The paper provides information on the application of balanced scorecard in technology organizations.

The role of performance management systems continues to accelerate in enterprises today. The two dominant approaches managing performance are the Unitarist and Pluralist views of managing. This paper shows how Google is successfully combining each of these areas and creating an exceptionally high level of productivity and performance in the areas of patents and innovations as a result.

This paper explains the process of strategic mapping and how it relates to performance management and establishing value propositions. The first section discusses this process and how it helps in enhancing the development of value propositions while promoting the performance management process. The second part provides an evaluation of BAA’s approach to the Balanced Scorecard in light of how it is similar and different to more traditional approaches.

This paper provides a critical review of Dr. John P. Kotter's text, Leading Change (1996). Dr. Kotter, a professor of leadership at Harvard Business School, describes the challenges involved in effecting organizational change and outlines eight steps that should be followed to help guide the process. These eight steps are described and a summary of the research is presented in the conclusion.