7-3 Project One: Organizational Evaluation Proposal

7-3 Project One: Organizational Evaluation Proposal

Shanon Beck

BUS-210 Managing/Leading in Business

December 9th, 2023

Speaker Notes:

Slide 1: 7-3 Project One: Organizational Evaluation Proposal

- Hello, my name is Shanon Beck, and I have been recently hired as the new manager of the SNHU Pet Supply Company. The purpose of this presentation is to introduce and implement my management style, as well as go over several concerns and points important to our employees.

Slide 2: Introduction

- The SNHU Pet Supply company started like any other small business right here in Manchester, New Hampshire, and has since expanded to include 200 employees based in Manchester, as well as a satellite office in Denver, Colorado, which employs 100 pet enthusiasts. Alongside our office staff, the SNHU Pet Supply company also employs an extensive digital workforce, numbering over 300 employees. These past few years, we’ve seen rapid growth and expansion due to consumer demand for our products.

Slide 3: Leadership and Management

- The goal of being in a leadership position is to influence employees to work towards the common organizational goals (Soomo Learning, 2023) by ensuring inter-communication for ease of information, developing employee relationships, and building a culture that promotes diversity and inclusion. I believe I am a strong leader because of my high level of openness, high level of conscientiousness, and low neuroticism. According to my self-assessment, I have a democratic and participatory leadership style that builds trust and confidence with employees during high-stress situations (Soomo Learning, 2023). Our company needs to put diversity and inclusion at the forefront of our goals to ensure innovativeness and competitiveness in today’s market, as well as implement an open-door policy to encourage our employees to speak up and share ideas or concerns.

Slide 4: Followership

- My personality traits are that I am highly open, have high conscientiousness, high agreeableness, and extraversion, as well as low neuroticism. These personality traits allow me to be heavily social, friendly and someone that people want to be around. Additionally, I am an active listener and have been told by many employees in the past that they felt heard by me. I am innovative and open to change but will be assertive when I need to be. I can be calm in stressful situations but know when to act quickly. These personality traits will allow me to lead our business in a competitive and inclusive way.

Slide 5: Decision-Making Models

- The two most used decision-making models are the rational and intuitive models. The rational model is the most used model by leaders and managers (Soomo Learning, 2023). The rational model uses an eight-step process to determine the decision, while the intuitive decision model is based on a gut instinct formulated by a leader's past experiences, decisions, and knowledge. Both of these models have their place in our company, but the rational model is the best fit to ensure that we are making the best possible decision for our company, employees, and stakeholders.

Slide 6: Emotional Intelligence

- Emotional Intelligence is the ability to understand your emotions and those of people around you. (Soomo, 2023) Being able to practice self-regulation and self-awareness is a cornerstone to the goals of our company and to the fundamental need to be diverse and inclusive. I have scored a higher level of emotional intelligence, leading me to be a strong leader when it comes to understanding our employees and making them feel at home while working. But this does not end at me; all managers are required to practice an open-door policy under my leadership, keep their door open literally and metaphorically to our employees, by practicing this policy it will lead to increased morale and emotional well-being for our employees.

Slide 7: Forms and Functions

- The SNHU Pet Supply Company currently uses a heavily centralized organizational culture, which leads to most decisions being made by high-level managers, decreasing the innovativeness and morale of our employees. Decentralization makes employees feel more comfortable and empowered in their workplace (Soomo Learning, 2023), giving them more authority when it comes to the day-to-day operations of the company increasing innovativeness and the efficiency of our operations.

Slide 8: Communication Practices

- In the past, the company has had a very decentralized network of communication methods, leading to each department and branch relying on different forms of communication. This has caused a delay in communication, impacting morale and productivity. My recommendation is that communication standards be set for all branches and departments, as well as standard communication medians. I suggest that G-Suite becomes our primary communication medium due to its vast number of communication possibilities, from text-based to conference-style meetings, as well as how innovative it is in today's world. Additionally, we must ensure team huddles are taken place both between managers as well as with employees to ensure inter-departmental communication.

Slide 9: Organization Mission, Vision and Goals

- Our company’s mission is to provide high-quality products of all types to our customers and their pets, which ties into our organizational goals of making products more affordable for our customers, increasing the efficiency in how our products are delivered, as well as increasing employee satisfaction. The importance of our mission has brought together a large and diverse group of pet owners dedicated to providing high-quality products for the sake of the pets that we are passionate about. --- Having a rich organizational mission, vision, and goals is important to our employees, as it makes them feel proud to work for us. It’s also important to our customers, as it lets them know what kind of company their money is going to, and the cause behind our company.

Slide 10: References

Soomo Learning. (2023). Managing and leading in business (2nd ed.).

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