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LDR 531 Final Exam Guide (New)
LDR 531 Entire Course (UOP Course)
  LDR 531 Week 1 Discussion Question 1 LDR 531
Week 1 Discussion Question 2 LDR 531 Week 1
Summary LDR 531 Week 1 Assignment Examining a
Business Failure Paper LDR 531 Week 2 Discussion
Question 1  LDR 531 Week 2 Discussion Question
2  LDR 531 Week 2 Assignment Creating a Plan for
Positive Influence Paper LDR 531 Week 2
Summary LDR 531 Week 3 Discussion Question 1  LDR
531 Week 3 Discussion Question 2  LDR 531 Week 3
Assignment  Addressing the Challenges of Groups
and Teams Paper LDR 531 Week 3 Summary
  1. Job dissatisfaction and antagonistic
relationships with coworkers predict a variety of
behaviors organizations find undesirable,
including unionization attempts, substance abuse,
undue socializing, and tardiness. These behaviors
are indicators of a broader syndrome called   2.
Organizational momentum ________________.    3.
Some studies indicate the best approach for
transformational change may have the chief
executive officer create an atmosphere for change
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LDR 531 Week 1 Discussion Question 1 (UOP Course)
LDR 531 Final Exam Guide (UOP Course)
  Identify specific ways in which your
organization acquires and shares knowledge or
information? Is this information communicated
through official or unofficial leaders?1
1) Which of the following is best defined as a
consciously coordinated social unit, composed of
two or more people, which functions on a
relatively continuous basis to achieve a common
goal or set of goals? A.  Party  B.  Unit  C. 
Community D.  Organization 
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LDR 531 Week 1 Quiz (New)
LDR 531 Week 1 Discussion Question 2 (UOP Course)
  What is the difference between managers and
leaders? Is it possible to be an effective
manager without being a leader? Be sure to
support your answer.
  1)      Those with a ________ personality
identity opportunities, show initiative, take
action, and preserver until meaningful change
occurs, compared to others who passively react to
situations 2)      _______ is an extrinsic means
of motivation. 3)      Which dimension of the Big
Five Model is a measure of reliability? 4)     
Which of the following is Theory X consistent
with? 5)      Which of the following is an
instrumental value according to the Rokeach value
survey?
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LDR 531 Week 2 Discussion Question 2 (UOP Course)
LDR 531 Week 2 Discussion Question 1 (UOP Course)
  What are the benefits of minimizing
organizational politics? Give two examples of how
your organization could minimize organizational
politics.
What are the differences between people oriented
and task oriented leadership styles? Explain the
similarities and differences in the leadership
styles of women and men. Be sure to support your
reasons.  
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LDR 531 Week 2 LT Reflection (New)
LDR 531 Week 2 Individual Assignment Professional
Development Plan (New)
Discuss this weeks objectives with your team.
Your discussion should include the topics you
feel comfortable with, any topics you struggled
with, and how the weekly topics relate to
application in your field. Prepare a 350- to
1,050-word paper detailing the findings of your
discussion.Click the Assignment Files tab to
submit your assignment.
Assume you are the manager of your learning team
and need to develop a plan that will address the
characteristics of your group and yourself as the
leader. This plan can be used to determine the
needs of the learning team and is a tool for
members to assess their skills, strengths, areas
needing improvement, and the resources needed to
help them reach their career goals. Use each
Learning Team members DiSC assessment results
completed in Week One. Develop a combined DiSC
chart of your Learning Team members for use in
developing this paper. Based on the individual
assessments, what are the characteristics of your
team?
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LDR 531 Week 2 Mentorship Meeting Worksheet (New)
LDR 531 Week 2 Mentorship Agreement Form (New)
    Complete the University Material Week 2
Mentorship Meeting Worksheet.Click the
Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
  Complete the UniversityMaterial Mentorship
Agreement Form.Click the Assignment Files tab
to submit your assignment.
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LDR 531 Week 3 Discussion Question 1 (UOP Course)
LDR 531 Week 2 Quiz (New)
  How would you modify your communication style
to better accommodate team or group members with
contrasting communication styles? Be sure to
provide specific examples.
  1)      The leadership process that describes
how a group operates in an open system with other
groups is called 2)      Ideological leaders will
develop when the leader 3)      Effective
transformational leaders 4)      Transformational
behavior can include 5)      The concept that
some people are natural (born) leaders is an
attribute of which leadership approach? 6)     
Distant charismatics are often described in
terms of their effect on follower
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LDR 531 Week 3 Individual Assignment Leadership
Style Paper
LDR 531 Week 3 Discussion Question 2 (UOP Course)
  Evaluate how a company structures or uses
groups or teams. Do you feel the organization
would be a good fit for you based on what you
learned through the Williams assessment? Why or
why not?
Select and describe a leader you admire. Your
selected leader may be either a real-life
individual or a fictional character from
television, the movies, or a book. Using
leadership theories, nalyse your selected leader
to identify characteristics and provide specific
examples of leadership qualities you think
contributed to that persons success. Evaluate you
r own leadership style and work with your mentor
to identify your own leadership
characteristics. Write a paper in which you
explain your leadership style and your ideas and
plans for improving your effectiveness as a
leader based on your comparison with an admired
leader and your work with your mentor.
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LDR 531 Week 3 Mentorship Meeting Worksheet (New)
LDR 531 Week 3 LT Reflection (New)
Discuss and choose, as a Learning Team, the most
important barrier that you think creates a
communication challenge within groups and teams,
as highlighted in the Barriers to Effective
Communication section in Ch. 11
of Organizational Behavior. Why did your team
choose this particular barrier and how does it
create a communication challenge? Provide
real-life examples you may have experienced
regarding this particular barrier. Prepare a 350-
to 1,050-word paper detailing the findings of
your discussion.Clickthe Assignment Files tab
to submit your assignment.
  Complete the University Material Week 3
Mentorship Meeting Worksheet.Click the
Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
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LDR 531 Week 4 Discussion Question 1 (UOP Course)
LDR 531 Week 3 Quiz (New)
1)      Which of the following terms best
describes that occurs when two or more parties
decided how to allocate scarce resource? 2)     
Shirley Shands is a hard worker but Debra, her
manger, is irritated with her. While Debra
concedes that Shirleys work gives her no cause
for complaint, Debra is toured of the
interruptions in her work because of Shirley
asking for repeated clarifications over what
exactly she has to say in e-mails or phone calls.
She often requests Debra to proofread her e-mails
before sending them, and Debra feels she sends
too many e-mails instead of just speaking to the
person concerned. From the scenario, we can
conclude that_____ 3)      The two general
approaches to negotiation are_______ bargaining
and _____ bargaining
How does goal setting motivate an employee to
increase job performance? Give an example.
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LDR 531 Week 4 Mentorship Meeting Worksheet (New)
LDR 531 Week 4 Discussion Question 2 (UOP Course)
  Complete the University Material Week 4
Mentorship Meeting Worksheet.Clickthe
Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
In what type of organization do you think your
leadership style would be most effective, and in
what organization would it be least effective?
Compare and contrast these two types of
organizations.
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LDR 531 Week 4 Team Assignment Conflict
Resolution (New)
LDR 531 Week 4 Quiz (New)
  1)      Why is Maslows theory
criticized? 2)      ________ are caused by a
specific event, are very brief, and accompanied
by distinct facial expressions. 3)      Which of
the following statements is true regarding
goal-setting theory?
As you continue to develop in your career, you
will find that your responsibilities as a leader
will increase. You will be tasked with many
different jobs, such as managing conflict,
handling communication challenges among your team
members, or addressing organizational
communication needs. As you know, no employee
likes to speak up only to have his or her ideas
not taken seriously, or to confront others about
their working styles, or to face uncomfortable
gossip among coworkers. View the LDR/531
Storybooks. Develop a summary of no more than
1,050 words that includes multiple ways to handle
the three situations shown in the Storybooks.
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LDR 531 Week 5 Discussion Question 2 (UOP Course)
LDR 531 Week 5 Discussion Question 1 (UOP Course)
  What are the different reasons for resisting
change in the workplace and how could leaders go
about creating employee buy-in to change? Give an
example.
How could leaders increase learning and
innovation in the workplace? Give an example.
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LDR 531 Week 5 LT Reflection (New)
LDR 531 Week 5 Individual Assignment Motivation
Plan Paper (New)
  Complete the 360 assessment. Discuss the
benefits of using this assessment as a
tool. Prepare a 350- to 1,050-word paper
detailing the findings of the 360
assessment.Clickthe Assignment Files tab to
submit your assignment.
  Use the DiSC assessment results from your
Learning Team members. Interview your mentor to
gather information about your mentors
organization, the department your mentor works
in, and his or her job description. Write a plan
that may be applied to your mentors department
and that would increase your Learning Team
members motivation, satisfaction, and
performance based on their personal profiles, as
if they were employees of that department.
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LDR 531 Week 5 Quiz (New)
LDR 531 Week 5 Mentorship Meeting Worksheet (New)
  Complete the University Material Week 5
Mentorship Meeting Worksheet.Clickthe
Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment
1)      Which of the following is an example of
an individual source of resistance to
change? 2)      Strategy of differentiation
consists of which of the following? 3)     
Culture is most likely to be a liability
when 4)      Which of the following is the last
step in Kotters eight-step plan for implementing
change? 5)      A(n) ______ strategy emphasizes
the introduction of major new products and
services.
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LDR 531 Week 6 Discussion Question 2 (UOP Course)
LDR 531 Week 6 Discussion Question 1 (UOP Course)
  How has the structure of todays archetypal,
large organization changed from the typical
organization of the past? What is the most
significant event in the evolution of
organizational structure? Be sure to support your
answer.
  How could socialization be compared to
brainwashing and how can socialization be used
ethically within an organization? Give an
example.        
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LDR 531 Week 6 Quiz (New)
LDR 531 Week 6 Mentorship Meeting Worksheet (New)
  Complete the University Material Week 6
Mentorship Meeting Worksheet.Clickthe
Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
  1)      Transformational change in an
organization 2)      Political behavior in the
work place 3)      Hard power tactics best
influence those with which following
characteristic? 4)      A person likely to
participate in political behavior 5)      Buck
passing and scapegoating when politics is seen as
a threat are forms of 6)      Politicking is less
likely in organizations that have
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LDR 531 Week 6 Team Assignment Failure Analysis
and Change Strategy (New)
While there is no blueprint or checklist that one
can follow to guarantee the success of a
business, much can be learned from analyzing
those that have failed and those that have
flourished during the same time period and under
similar circumstances. Write a paper of no more
than 2,000 words. Part 1 Business Failure
Analysis Select a business that failed and one
that succeeded within the last 5
years. Identify each organizations objectives,
vision, and mission. Determine the indicators of
the business failure and success from research.
These may include aspects of the leadership
style, communication, structure, and so forth.
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