What are the dominant attributes, dominant leadership style, and strategic emphasis of a chosen organization

What is management? Often we confuse the study of management, a key business discipline, with managers, a person tasked with directing the activities of people and/or processes to accomplish organizational goals. Management, the business discipline, is a broad discipline with four major functions: leading, planning, organizing, and controlling. The business environment today is increasingly dynamic and changing at a rapid and often confusing pace. This makes management increasingly difficult and complex. In this assignment you will study the functions of management to determine best practices in a variety of industries and changing environments. You will also explore the three distinct environments that all organizations face: The external macro-environment, the competitive environment, and the internal organizational cultural environment. Upon completion of this assignment you should be able to: Analyze business issues in terms of the principles and functions of management. Distinguish between organizational culture types. Background Information Managers do all four of the management functions; they lead, plan, organize, and control. Managers are seldom experts in all four of these areas, but typically have strengths and weaknesses. Poor managers may be competent in some areas, but their deficiencies in others result in an overall lack of effectiveness at meeting organization goals and they typically have poor relationships with the people they supervise. The business environment can be divided into two main parts, the external and the internal business environment. The external business environment can further be divided into the macro-environment and the competitive environment. The macro-environment contains those factors that affect everyone; which includes the economy, technological changes, laws and regulations, demographics, social issues, and the natural environment. The competitive environment applies to just you and your competitors. It consists of the other competitors, new comers to the industry, substitute and complementary product producers, suppliers, and customers. The internal business environment is divided into the organizational culture and climate. Instructions Read Chapters 1 and 2 in Management: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World: As you read Chapter 1 in the textbook, keep in mind managers you may have had in the past. This chapter will introduce you to the study of management and the four main managerial functions. If you have ever served as a manager, think about which of the functions you did and in which you spent the majority of your time. As you read Chapter 2 in the textbook, think about the environment in which you and your organization are doing business. This chapter will present a basic framework for organizing the environment around you and your organization. Review the workshop videos listed under Resources. Download the PowerPoints and review these to help you further understand your chapters. Watch the Bad Bosses video listed in the assignment resource section of this assignment. Think about managers you considered both good and bad. What were the differences between them? How were they alike? Were there any specific functional areas of management where they were particularly effective or ineffective? One of the hardest internal parts of a business to understand is its organizational culture. The competing values model of culture is described in the section of the text, “The Internal Environment of Organizations: Culture and Climate,” and Figure 2.13. The competing values model of culture presents an effective framework for analyzing organizational culture. Use the competing values framework to consider the culture of your own business, church, family, or some other organization with which you are very familiar. Navigate to the threaded discussion and answer the following questions: What are the dominant attributes, dominant leadership style, and strategic emphasis of an organization with which you are familiar? Defend your answer with a detailed evaluation that demonstrates clear, insightful critical thinking. Which type of group best describes your organization’s culture: group, adhocracy, hierarchy, or rational, and why? Defend your answer with a detailed evaluation that demonstrates clear, insightful critical thinking. Your initial response should be 200 to 300 words in length, include two academic sources that are properly cited using APA style, and is due by the end of the fourth day of the workshop. Now conduct a critical analysis of a posting by two of your classmates by the end of the workshop. The topic of your discussion response should be your classmate’s posting and should be written as if you were reviewing their posting in an academic journal. Your discussion response should therefore answer the following questions as applicable: Were the arguments of your classmate articulate and logical? Were their facts correct? Was the interpretation your classmate provided reasonable and consistent with experts in the field? Was your classmate consistent with both the substance and intent of their references? The focus for your critical analysis is not whether or not you agree with your classmate, but how well was their position presented. Each response should be at least 200 words in length and cite two academic sources. Please strive to make your discussion responses ones that cause iron to sharpen iron.