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Identify an example of a management scenario from current events involving adverse selection or moral hazard. Discuss some methods for correcting the potential problems of the asymmetric information. Your response should be no more than 500 words. 

• Compare and contrast your two top leadership styles. Did your results surprise you? Why, or why not?
• Evaluate how your leadership style could impact employee motivation and the change initiative.
• Select two supervisors from those portrayed in the unit lesson to join your change initiative team, and explain why you would choose them. What roles are they best suited to play in the change process, and how will you mentor them to utilize their strengths and improve on their weaknesses?
• Provide an analysis of the motivational theories that could play a role in successfully leading employees through the change initiative.
• Identify areas where you think you can improve on your own leadership skills to ensure this change initiative is a success.

Share an example based on your own experiences where the characteristics of a leader who you worked for had a clear impact on the employees or the organization. Explain why this leader was either effective or ineffective. What are the lessons learned that you can apply to your own leadership development? Your response should be no more than 500 words.

• Provide an explanation for each of the criteria. Remember, these should directly represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) as well as the requirements for the position.
• Develop a rating scale, and provide a legend that identifies the distinct performance rating definitions. There must be a minimum of three levels. (The template has three levels; however, you can add more.)
• Next, you will fill out your newly created form to evaluate the mid-level manager. This is, of course, based on the input of the immediate supervisor and your own assessment.
• Evaluate each criteria, and include a minimum of three criteria where the employee does not meet performance expectations.
• Summarize the employee performance appraisal in the comments section.
• Identify the employee’s strengths and weaknesses.
• Offer feedback and coaching on ways that the employee can improve his or her performance.
• Finally, you will write a one-page synopsis in which you explain the value of your evaluation process and new tool to your leadership team. Include the information below:
  • how the changes will benefit the organization,
  • how equal employment opportunity laws were considered, and
  • strategies that leaders can use to address unmet employee performance expectations.
• Include two sources to support your explanation.

Besides feedback during an evaluation, what other measures can you employ to facilitate employee improvement when there are noted deficiencies? Offer three options, and explain which you feel would work best, and explain why. Your response should be no more than 500 words

For this assignment, prepare a PowerPoint presentation to train mid-level managers in your organization. The focus is to help the managers design an effective training process for employees in their department.
This presentation should simulate an actual presentation that will be delivered to the managers. You must utilize the slide notes function in PowerPoint to add speaker notes to each slide; these notes should be used in order to explain or expand on slide content as if you were actually presenting this to your audience. Alternatively, you may add audio to the slides, but if you do so, you will need to provide a transcript of your audio in a separate Word document and upload it in Blackboard in addition to the PowerPoint file.
Include (at a minimum) the points below in your training delivery.

Include an overview of the training.
In conducting a needs analysis, what are the steps?
What is the content of the training?
How are trainer(s) selected?
Identify two organizational objectives.
Identify two training objectives.
Identify who is the target audience for the training. What are their learning styles?
Evaluate training models. Which one would you select, and why?
Compare and contrast different training methods.
Connect the training methods to learning styles.
How will the effectiveness of the training be evaluated, and why is evaluation critical?
How should managers ensure transfer of training?

At the end of the PowerPoint presentation, you must have one slide with five evaluation questions to determine the effectiveness of your training.
Your PowerPoint presentation must be a minimum of 15 slides in length, not counting the title or reference slides. As aforementioned, you must add slide notes or audio to the slides. 

Do you know if you are an auditory (learn by hearing), visual (learn by seeing), or kinesthetic (learn by doing) leaner? Using your preferred search engine, search the following terms: "learning style self-assessment." Then, take one of the many available online self-assessments.

Do you agree or disagree with the results? Why, or why not? Share an example of a time when your learning style could have been better met during a training experience. Your response should be no more than 500 words.

For this assignment, write an essay explaining your new
compensation strategy for the mid-level manager position you still
need to fill. Your audience is the chief executive officer (CEO) and
other supervisors in your organization. In this essay, include the
items listed below.

After a brief introduction, explain how equal employment opportunity
laws impact the organization’s compensation strategy.
Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of
pay-for-performance and competency-based pay. What strategy would you
recommend for your organization, and why?
Explain how various motivational theories can factor into your
development of a multi-generational compensation package for your
whole organization that includes indirect benefits. Be sure to give
specific examples of how different generations of applicants or
employees will be affected.
Explain your proposed compensation package, which should include
direct and indirect benefits and how the package will affect hiring
and retention. Be sure to specifically identify how much you will pay
the mid-level managers, and indicate how it compares to your state and
the federal minimum wage. You can search the Internet for sites that
list comparable pay data. You should identify a low, medium, and high
pay range for the mid-level manager.
Explain how you will assess the effectiveness of the compensation
strategy a year from now.

Your essay will contain a one-page appendix in which you will create a
chart of your compensation strategy. This chart should have three
columns, which should address the areas listed below:

legally mandated benefits,
direct benefits (include how much you will pay the mid-level managers), and
indirect benefits.

Your essay will be a minimum of three pages in length, not counting
the appendix, title page, or references page. You must use at least
two sources to support your essay. Adhere to APA Style when
constructing this assignment, and make certain to include in-text
citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note
that no abstract is needed.

The chief executive officer (CEO) of your organization asked you to
identify required benefits and non-required benefits. Name your top
two required benefits, and explain why they are important. Then,
identify your top three non-required benefits, and explain how you
feel they would affect hiring and retention. Your response should be
no more than 500 words.