Assignment 2
Assignment Purpose:
In Assignment 2, students are provided a business
scenario. Gleaning information from the scenario, students will
create interview questions for candidates applying for the new Vice President
position within the organization. In completing this assignment,
students will demonstrate their knowledge, skills and abilities to apply 21st century leadership skills to a real-world
situation. Students must show that the candidate must be prepared to be a
leader within the context of the organization and its growth into the
international market.
Assignment Scenario:
You are the leader of a medium size organic cereal
company known as “Cereal Stuff “. The vision statement is: “To provide the
world with cereals and good stuff that it can make.” You want to
expand your business to the Canadian and Mexican markets and develop a new
related product containing quinoa that some of your customers have wanted you
to make. You have decided to take on a new vice president to spearhead
the expansion. Your business is set up horizontally with each department in
charge of their decision making. Department heads are all vice
presidents and they form a team that works with you to lead the company
business efforts and to keep the business moving forward. The departments
include: production, quality control and product development, finance and
accounting, and marketing and sales. The new vice president will be head of the
new marketing division. The business has a culture that is best described as an
adhocracy. You are hoping to move toward a more democratic
culture. The business values include only using quality organic
foods, the customer needs are first, and sustainability in production processes
and packaging.
Assignment Instructions:
Step 1: Review the assignment instructions carefully.
Step 2: Create a Word or Rich Text Format (RTF)
document that is double-spaced, 12-point font. There is no set
format to the paper but students should organize in a manner that is easy for a
reader to understand so it is important to make a clear presentation of the
questions and the reasons for the questions;
Step 3: Review the grading rubric for the assignment
Step 4: Follow this format:
· Title page with title, your name, the course, the
instructor’s name;
· Introduction paragraph (must include a discussion on
the general type of candidate the CEO wants and why);
· Body, in paragraph form:
· Number each
question ( no fewer than 10 questions);
· Under each
question identify through labels why you are asking the question based on the
reading material from the class and then in separate paragraph the answer you
want as a response again based on the reading material from class.
Step 5: In writing a formal paper it should be done in
the third person. What this means is that there are no words such as “I,
me, my, we, or us” (first person writing), nor is there use of “you or your”
(second person writing). If uncertain how to write in the third person,
view this link: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/first-second-and-third-person
Step 6: In writing this assignment, students are asked to
support the reasoning using in-text citations and a reference list. A
reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text
citation and vice versa. View the sample APA paper under Week 1 content.
Step 7: In writing this assignment, students are expected
to paraphrase and not use direct quotes. Learn to paraphrase by reviewing
this link: https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QPA_paraphrase2.html
Step 8: Write down or highlight key facts from the
interviews. Consider making an outline to capture key points in the
paper.
Step 9: In your paper, respond to the following elements
of leadership:
· Develop questions that are reflective of what skills a
leader should have to run a new department on an international basis;
· Create questions that considers the 21stbusiness landscape, the role of the leader,
leadership styles, the need to bring trust to the corporation and globalization;
· Utilize nonstandard questions for an interview- you want
to discuss leadership and not where the candidate views their future in five
years. Remember that the candidates have been vetted and are experienced
professionals so give the candidate credit for basic tools of leadership. Focus
on what the CEO wants in a candidate for his company;
· Evaluate the remarks of the candidates as to how their
leadership style, and skills in a global market and with sustainable products,
will fit the organization and the business landscape of the future as the CEO
perceives it.
· Compare the leader’s views and contrasts them with the
reading for weeks 1-6.
NOTE: In the case of using a personal
interview with a business leader, the questions must be cleared with the
professor ahead of time and added to the paper as appendices.
Step 10: Create the introductory paragraph. The
introductory paragraph is the first paragraph of the paper but is typically
written after writing the body of the paper (Questions students responded to
above). View this website to learn how to write an introductory
paragraph: http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/faculty/donelan/intro.html
Step 11: Write a summary paragraph. A summary
paragraph restates the main idea(s) of the essay. Make sure to leave a
reader with a sense that the paper is complete. The summary paragraph is
the last paragraph of a paper.
Step 12: Using the grading rubric as a comparison,
read through the paper to ensure all required elements are presented.
