a)    Many theories exist to help managers and leaders to be effective. Identify examples of appropriate and inappropriate leadership from across the public services and discuss the reasons for your choice, referencing appropriate management theories to illustrate your answer.

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 ‘Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet’. Henry Mintzberg

a)    Many theories exist to help managers and leaders to be effective. Identify examples of appropriate and inappropriate leadership from across the public services and discuss the reasons for your choice, referencing appropriate management theories to illustrate your answer.

b)    What characteristics of leadership are important during a crisis

 

  1. The "ethics infrastructure" includes measures to enhance and preserve organizational integrity, access to information that promotes transparency and accountability and prevents misuse of power by company personnel.
  2. What are the ethical hotspots found in a business and give the practical lessons which research has found in business ethics.
  3. Your boss looks the other way as the company’s best salesperson quietly gives expensive gifts to the purchasing agents of the company’s best clients. Company policy forbids such actions on penalty of dismissal. What do you do? In your answer explain the strategies of how employees tend to rationalize unethical conduct.        
  4. Total Quality Management (TQM) is creating an organizational culture committed to the continuous improvement of skills, teamwork, processes, product and service quality, and customer satisfaction.
  5. Discuss the seven (7) basic tools of total quality management (TQM).
  6. Discuss demings PDCA Cycle and list down his 14 points.
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