Article Writing Homework Help

A final group presentation is due in Week 8.  You have received your  group assignments by now.  Your group presentation will be based upon  the below case study, and you will be required to include concepts,  course readings and theories that we have learned over the past 8  weeks.   

Analyze the leadership scenario below, taking care  to respond to each of the essential elements within it, and use your  analysis as the basis for the group presentation.

Note:  No GROUP assignment is due for Unit 5, however, you  will need to start preparing for the Unit 8’s Final Presentation NOW.  

Request for Proposals: Mid-American Manufacturing Company

The Mid-American Manufacturing Company has sent out an RFP for  proposals to increase employee productivity.  In order to develop a  proposal, your consulting team has done some homework. Here is what your consulting group has learned about the company:

The leadership team consists of 10 members:

• Chairman of the Board—2 years
• President—5 years
• Senior Vice President—new
• Assistant Vice President—3 years
• Director of Global Research—7 years
• Director of Community Research—8 years
• Director of Administration—10 years
• Research Analyst—new
• Research Analyst—10 years
• Office Manager—30 years

Company Overview:

The Mid-American Manufacturing Company is a seventy-five year old  established manufacturing company in the Midwest.  The company has a  solid reputation in the community for producing quality products. There  are 100 employees at the headquarters and five satellite offices  throughout the country. Much of the communication is online and meetings  may be held in person and through video conferences.

Over the past four years, the company has experienced turnover at the  highest levels. There have been two interim chairs, three senior vice  presidents and three new team members. There is no succession plan. The  senior vice president is often overruled by the President. The assistant  vice president does not have all of the qualifications for the position  but was in the right place at the right time to move from research  analyst to the current position in the department. 

The three directors  staged a coup to oust the previous senior vice president, who was near  retirement. The previous senior vice president is now a research analyst  in the department with a vast amount of institutional knowledge.  Everyone thinks the senior vice president, now research analyst, will  retire when eligible. The directors were left to their own devices  during the staff upheaval and created their own working environment.  When a research analyst retired last year, a new research analyst was  brought in. On the analysts first day, there were no keys to the office,  no password to the computer, and no type of orientation or introduction  to the team.  

Staff meetings are contentious as the new Senior Vice  President works to exert power and control over the department,  especially the directors.  The team is resistant to that authority. Amazingly, the production in the company is still above average  although employees have not been pushed to deliver an excellent product  for quite a while.  

There is no innovation to be seen in the company. Things appear stagnant.  The Chairman of the Board wants the President  and Vice President to turn up the heat on employee productivity and  wrote the RFP with that in mind.  While the RFP is about company  productivity, the leadership team is in crisis. Given the background  information your team has uncovered, you have decided to focus first on  the leadership team since that is where decisions are made.  Direct your  presentation to the leadership team.

Analysis and Presentation Details

First, diagnose the situation at Mid-American Manufacturing by considering the theories and elements of leadership listed below:

• Manage Self
• Energize Others
• Intervene Skillfully
• Followership
• Change Theory

Next, design a 7-10 minute video presentation that directly addresses  the issues you have discovered at the Mid-American Manufacturing  Company. Your task in the presentation is to convince the Chairman of  the Board to hire your team as the consultants for the project. Your  team is free to fill in the gaps and backstory as needed to develop your  plan. Creativity is encouraged. Every member of the team must  participate in the planning and implementation of the presentation.

Finally, upload an MP4 file containing your presentation video, as  well as an accompanying document that briefly describes each member’s  responsibilities and contributions to the project.

The project/ presentation would need to cover the key areas listed below: The area below in bold with a star is my part.  

-Introduction and purpose of our consulting team -Diagnosis of situation at Mid-American Manufacturing*Addressed Issues discovered at the Mid-American Manufacturing Company* -Benefits of hiring our team for the project and why they should