Effective Management

Each week, you will be asked to respond to the prompt or prompts in the discussion forum. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length, and is due on Sunday. By Tuesday, you should respond to two additional posts from your peers. If you have not done so lately, please review the Rules of Discussion. 

Effective management is crucial for any leader/manager.

Identify the leadership factors most important to group morale and discuss the links between morale and performance. How might this affect political appointees who may not know the organizational processes and/or culture of their agency? Include at least one source which can be your textbook.

In your follow up posts, respond to two other students and, based on their description of how these factors affect political appointees, discuss if there should be standards or guidelines for making political appointments.

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0000W4 Discussion 2

Current Events

Each week, you will be asked to respond to the prompt or prompts in the discussion forum. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length, and is due on Sunday. By Tuesday, you should respond to two additional posts from your peers. If you have not done so lately, please review the Rules of Discussion. 

This week we reviewed chief executives and the challenges of administrative leadership.

Find a contemporary news story about a prominent public official who faced leadership challenges and was ousted from office. Suggested sites on which to find credible news include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, or NPR, just to name a few. Provide a summary of the situation, using concepts described in this week’s chapter.  What were the factors that lead to the official’s downfall? Be sure to include a link or attachment of your news piece and cite your source.

this is a two part.