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INTRO TO BUSINESS 

ASSIGNMENT 4 – Weeks 8 & 9

Leadership & Management: Leadership Consultant Analysis

Due Date: Week 9

Note: All scenarios in this assignment are fictional.

Real Business

It can be difficult for a business to improve how it operates from inside the organization. Sometimes, an outside perspective is needed. The large discount retail store you work for wants to improve its in-store restaurant management team.

Your Role

Companies like Target and Walmart often works with outside consultants—people who are not employees of the company but who are hired on a contract basis to help with a specific project. As a Leadership Consultant, you’ve been hired by a large discount retail company to help the company improve its leadership structure and approach to management.

Instructions

Step 1: Organizational Structure

Take a look at the Organization Chart provided by the company.

·       Based on your knowledge of hierarchies, would you say that this team has tall structure or flat structure? Explain your answer in 1-3 sentences.

Step 2: Human Resources

The company would like to improve the culture of its team and the quality of its work. Its leadership has provided you with a Process Chart detailing how it currently applies Human Resources best practices.

·       What step of the Human Resources Cycle is missing? In 2-5 sentences, explain why it is important to include this part of the process.

Note: You should complete Step 3 after reading the material in Week 9.

Step 3: Leadership Style

You have been asked to help improve the leadership style of the team leader in order to meet the team’s performance goals. The team leader has given you a description of what is most comfortable in terms of leading others.

·       Identify this leader’s style of leadership, and list two benefits and two drawbacks to that style as it relates to the performance of the team.