Archives A1: The five steps in career planning are: Do a self-assessment on yourself Career preferences-prioritize what you want from your job and career Career objectives- set short and long-term goals for your career and act on them Plan-create a pla...

Archives C D D D D B C C D C B D Totals: Autocratic-2 Consultative-6 Participative-4 Empowerment-0 Based on this exercise,  my preferred leadership style is consultative. However, I have numbers fairly well distributed among both participative and auto...

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Archives Sheryl Sandberg focuses on women in her book. Sandberg got through the glass ceiling by working hard and getting rid of internal barriers such as a lack of self-confidence, not raising her hand, and pulling back when she should be leaning in. The global practice that most resembles her desire to promote diversity is Global Management Team. Hofstede’s dimension of power distance inequality vs. power equality applies to Sandberg’s ideas. The GLOBE dimensions that apply best to Sandberg’s theory are gender differences and power distance. Planning-Sandberg’s goal is to have more women be successful in the business world. Organizing- […]

Archives I think when someone cheats on homework and copies papers, the people being harmed are the person whose work is being copied and also the person who is doing the cheating. No one benefits in these situations. The person who is cheating will think they are benefitting because they may receive a higher grade but they are really just hurting themselves but not learning the material themselves. The items I think I are most unethical are items 11,15, and 17. In item 11, the company is the one harmed and the friends benefit from it. For item 15, the […]

Archives This assessment really didn’t teach me anything about myself that I didn’t already know. I’ve never claimed to be a saint but I’ve always considered myself a fairly ethical person and this assessment more or less proved that. I had a 1 on just 1 question and the majority of my answers were 4’s with a few 3’s thrown in. The surprise actually came in the second portion of the assessment. I have witnessed a significant amount of actions that this book would consider unethical but only reported those actions in 2 instances. I think in the instances that I actually reported […]

Archives   Jiffy Lube Case Study Questions: Jiffy Lube utilized both human and informational management resources. Jiffy Lube realized that it’s customer service advisors were the key to increasing their specialty oil sales. It used informational resources to increase it’s employees skills and product knowledge. All of this was done through their own Jiffy Lube University. Jiffy Lube University develops interpersonal skills by teaching the employees how to act in certain situations and by having them experience different team roles than what they are used to during the virtual garage simulations. By having them experience different roles, they realize how […]