If you have been the leader and experienced some frustrations or negative or challenging experiences, what would you do moving forward to turn around to a more positive experience.

Does the end justify the means? Assuming the responsibility of leadership, a leader also assumes the ethical boundaries that accompany it. Many leaders have relied on illegal or unethical tactics to achieve their goals. For this assignment, use the Internet to find 2 articles in the last 6 months that discuss the decision of the same leader of an organization that was considered illegal or unethical by the authors. Your articles should be found online in the popular press or a professional journal. Be sure to apply the material from your text to your discussion. Directions: For your first post, describe the key points of each article and detail why the author of the article found it illegal or unethical. Evaluate the leader's ethical awareness or standards, (apply the course material). This discussion will be at least 300 words. (Be sure to reference your articles in APA format).

Caribbean Team Vibes and Whatever! Karen Brown sat in her office and thought about her 20-year career at Bright Lights Corporation(BLC). Her success at BLC has been from her own efforts and management. She had improveddiversity for the team she led, launched new products and had taken on challenges which at timesseemed insurmountable. Recently, she and her colleagues were part of a team that launched anumber of products in the Caribbean region. The successful product launch had created a hugedemand for the company’s products that required BLC to establish and centralize a call center inTrinidad and Tobago. Karen was discouraged that, at the end of their first month of working together, the team members’call response average was a little over two minutes off target. She was also getting complaintsfrom the three Caribbean team members. They calculated that together the three spent an averageof five and a half minutes with each customer; when customers wanted further information,…

Being a manager, motivating yourself and leading your team are important to your work effectiveness. Many research findings showed that the effects of poor motivation at the workplace can lead to higher staff turnover, lower levels of engagement just to name a few. Other research findings also showed that leadership styles play important roles in influencing work motivation. Use your current work organization or the organization you worked before, evaluate the work motivation of your subordinates/colleagues. Then write a report for a senior manager in your organization on how the work motivation could be further improved for better work efficiency and effectiveness of the organization.In your report, you should make use of the course concepts and do not answer the question simply in descriptive and anecdotal terms, but present it in the form of critical analysis mainly based on the theories/concepts of motivation and your chosen work situation. Please state assumptions where necessary.…

Think about a current leadership role or one you had in the past. It could be a formal role such as a supervisor, coach, team captain, or an informal one such as in a student project team. In this role, what demands were made of you? What constraints did you face? Finally, describe any choices you made that defined the role to suit your strengths.

Celebrating Successes Share a firsthand experience you have had with an escalating sense of possibility, where you and those you were working with broke through barriers that initially seemed daunting, built growing confidence, and took on even steeper challenges.

If you have been the problem in the group project, how will you turn yourself around to be a strong collaborator, team player and a solution provider moving forward?

Caribbean Team Vibes and Whatever! Karen Brown sat in her office and thought about her 20-year career at Bright Lights Corporation(BLC). Her success at BLC has been from her own efforts and management. She had improveddiversity for the team she led, launched new products and had taken on challenges which at timesseemed insurmountable. Recently, she and her colleagues were part of a team that launched anumber of products in the Caribbean region. The successful product launch had created a hugedemand for the company’s products that required BLC to establish and centralize a call center inTrinidad and Tobago. Karen was discouraged that, at the end of their first month of working together, the team members’call response average was a little over two minutes off target. She was also getting complaintsfrom the three Caribbean team members. They calculated that together the three spent an averageof five and a half minutes with each customer; when customers wanted further information,…

According to the research in our text book, 26% of new managers feel they are unprepared to transition into management roles 58% of new managers don’t receive any training to help them make the transition 50% of first-time managers fail in that transition It seems moving to a management position isn’t easy as these statistics indicate. What could organizations do to make the transition into a management role easier? If you have found yourself making the transition from peer to manager, you know how difficult it can be. If you have not had that opportunity, you likely will at some point in your career. The below video gives some great practical advice on how to navigate this professional transition.

How does a person's ability to resolve conflict relate to their effectiveness as a leader?