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What is the role of a communications team in an organization?
Leadership in Flux

Scenario (fictional):

Measures and Weights Inc. (MW) is a manufacturing company that produces all types of weighing and measuring instruments for a host of different industries worldwide. One hundred employees are divided between manufacturing and sales representatives, with about 20 staff assigned to managerial/administrative positions in the various departments. About 2 months ago, the head of production, Tom (in his job for the last 3 years), was in a meeting with several members of his staff when the following conversation occurred:

Production manager Tom says at the end of a half-hour meeting to review the last month’s production schedule results: “Does anyone have anything to add concerning operations today?”

Production employee Helena: “Well, we are starting to have some real problems in production because some of our vendors are late in supplying us with essential materials, and as a result, many of our orders have been late in getting to clients. Someone needs to speak with our vendors right away!”

Production manager Tom: “Anyone else have that problem?” (He waits for 3 seconds for any response and then continues.) “Thanks everyone, I guess that wraps up this meeting. Now back to work!”

After a week, the production manager began to receive reports from the database system. Many final products were being held off the assembly line due to late vendor materials delivery. Customer complaints now had gotten to the critical point, and executive management had been alerted.

The production manager had a special meeting of his department that same day and admonished the production team, saying: “It is your responsibility to see that these products are produced based on order due dates. If there is a problem, you are to contact me. I hold you all responsible for this lapse in reporting this problem. Soon, I will decide who is responsible and who will be working with me to resolve this issue.”[order_button_b]

Production employee Helena just looked at her colleagues and said: “But boss, I did bring this up at the last meeting.”

Production manager Tom responded: “Well if there was a problem as important as this one, you should have sent a follow-up memo to everyone. Someone will have a report submitted to their personnel file and a bad quarterly performance review as well for this oversight!” Then he adjourned the meeting.

Production employee Helena speaking to another employee, Zara, after the meeting: “I absolutely should not be blamed for this; I told him there was a problem. I am going to lodge a complaint with the human resources department right away and consider whether I will stay with the company.”

Quality control specialist Zara responded: “I might be joining you. Who can work for a boss like this?”

Checklist: Respond to the following items regarding the scenario:

Analyze the problems at this company as portrayed in the scenario.
Describe the leadership style demonstrated by the manager.
Name the leadership style.
Define the leadership style.
Explain why this leadership style was chosen.
Explain the aspects of the leadership process that the manager neglected.
provide an alternative leadership style that would be more effective and explain why.
Describe the steps in the communication process.
Describe the steps of the communication process that were not addressed or completed.
Explain how the communication steps were not completed or addressed.
Examine and explain how the manager could have used the communication and leadership process to (1) build a better relationship with the employees in his department and (2) make employees more effective on the job.
Provide an example from the scenario using the preferred communication and leadership process demonstrating how the preferred processes would have helped in the scenario.

Course Textbook: Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2018). Organizational Behavior (18th ed.). Pearson Education (US).[order_button_c]

Based on the Foundation of Nursing Leadership
1. What is your transformational leadership style?
2.
How
does transformational leadership style impact your decision-making in nursing
care?
3.
How
will you further develop your leadership skills?
Requirement
· 1-inch margins
· Double spaced
· 12-point Times New Roman font
· Title page
· Book: Leadership and Management for
Nurses: Core Competencies for Quality Care (4th ed.)

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Scenario
Your nurse manager at the community care center is well-connected and frequently speaks to a variety of community organizations and groups. She has noticed the good work you are doing in your new care coordination role and respects your speaking and presentation skills. Consequently, she thought that an opportunity to speak publicly about contemporary issues in care coordination would be beneficial for your career and has suggested reaching out to a community organization or support group to gauge their interest in hearing from you, as a care center representative, on a topic of interest to both you and your prospective audience.

You have agreed that this is a good idea and have decided to research a community organization or support group that might be interested in learning about ethical and policy issues related to the coordination of care. Your manager has suggested the following community organizations and support groups, but acknowledges that the choice is yours.

Homeless shelters.
Local religious groups.
Nursing homes.
Local community organizations (Rotary Club or Kiwanis Club).
Instructions
Complete the following:

Choose the community organization or support group that you plan to address.
Develop a PowerPoint presentation and record a presentation, with typed speaker notes (the scriipt for your voice recording) and audio voice-over recording, intended for that audience. Video is not required.
Note: For this assignment, develop your presentation slides and audio scriipt, then record your presentation.

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Paper 1: Story analysis (1,500 – 1,750
words)
First paragraph and thesis: February 15
First draft and workshop: February 22
Final: Feb 28th
1. Choose Story: Story chosen by student : The Tell Tale Heart by Edgard Allen Poe
2.
Read the story carefully and attentively. What are the parts of this narrative’s system
(plot, character, setting, conflict, narrative point of view, etc)? What do you
think is the most interesting thing about this story? Why?
a. Note: when scholars analyze texts,
they tend to focus either on structural elements or individual and
social problems (imbalances of power, conflicts of race, class, gender,
sexuality, politics, values). If these possible topics don’t really attract
you, you might be more interested in how historical context affects the
text—what was going on in the author’s world (politics, society, art,
science/medicine) that might have influenced the author in creating the story?
The audience at that time? You as a reader now?
3.
After
carefully considering your story, offer your own interpretation about some
aspect of the text in the form of a thesis. In other words, you must make a
claim at the end of your first paragraph that you then spend the duration of
the essay proving by way of textual evidence and close analysis. Integral to
your thesis should be the question: So what? Why does your
interpretation of the story matter? How does it affect our understanding
of it?
4. You should incorporate at least 3
literary
elements into your analysis, and avoid
summary whenever possible.
5.
Do
some research and find at least 2
secondary sources that help you develop your ideas more fully. Your sources
must be scholarly in nature—I will not accept Wikipedia, CliffNotes,
Sparknotes, or other similar websites. Your 2 sources should be explicitly about
to your story/author. Should you include more than 2 secondary sources,
additional references can be about related topics/concerns (e.g.: a history of
hysteria as a diagnosis, Puritan influences in early America, etc.). To find
sources, consult our library’s research guide. If you are still having
difficulty finding appropriate sources, chat with a librarian or go to the Writing Center.
6.
The
sources can’t take the place of your own analysis, but they can provide you
with evidence to support your own ideas.
a. Another option: you can summarize
the source’s main point and then respond to it—agree, disagree, modify or
modify it, using both the short story and the source as evidence and example.
7. You must use MLA to document your
sources—and use a guide to check that you’ve done your citations correctly. Do
not guess. As you incorporate your sources (both the short story and the
secondary sources), make sure you cite everything. Whether you paraphrase or
quote, cite in the body of the essay and in a list of sources at the end. For
help, consult Purdue
OWL.
8.
You
can find a rubric for grading this paper on Blackboard.
9.
Take note:
Any
essay that is missing any parenthetical citations within the text and/or is
missing a works cited page risks being accused of plagiarism. You will be required
to revise the essay and you will be subject to a substantial penalty even after
this revision. Papers that do not meet the length requirement will be subject
to a penalty of at least 5 points per every ~150 words short. Review the policy
regarding late papers on page 2 of the syllabus. Please also see page 2 of the
syllabus for how I would like written work formatted.

Written Work: All papers should be written using the newest MLA style guide. Each of
the major papers requires in-text citations and a Work(s) Cited page. The
obligatory Work(s) Cited pages are never included in the word count. Works
cited pages are unnecessary for discussion board posts. Essays should be
formatted as follows: 1-inch margins, 12-point Times New Roman font,
double-spaced, with page numbers and a title. Please remove the space Word automatically places between paragraphs. There should only be one space
after periods. Each new paragraph should be indented one half-inch by hitting
the Tab key, even if it is only a single line of dialogue. Use italics
throughout your essay for the titles of longer works and quotation marks for
shorter works.
AI Statement: AI
content generation tools (such as ChatGPT, etc…) are not permitted for any
work, or phase of work, in this class. Using them may interfere with your
progress as an independent thinker and your achievement of the course’s
outcomes.

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