Amazon

Write a 700- to 1,050-word leadership styles report, including the following:

Restate the needed change within the organization you have been working on throughout this course, based on your Week 1 and Week 2 assessments.
Examine the various leadership styles you explored in Week 3 in the context of the organizational culture and proposed change. Explain the styles you considered and any supporting rationale for why you considered them.
Justify which leadership style or approach you recommend to best support the organizational change by doing the following:

Explain how this style will support sustainable organizational success.
Explain how this style integrates the organization’s mission and vision.
Explain how this style will increase value for stakeholders.

Amazon

 

 

Write a 700- to 1,050-word leadership styles report, including the following:

Restate the needed change within the organization you have been working on throughout this course, based on your Week 1 and Week 2 assessments.
Examine the various leadership styles you explored in Week 3 in the context of the organizational culture and proposed change. Explain the styles you considered and any supporting rationale for why you considered them.
Justify which leadership style or approach you recommend to best support the organizational change by doing the following:

Explain how this style will support sustainable organizational success.
Explain how this style integrates the organization’s mission and vision.
Explain how this style will increase value for stakeholders.

AMAZON

The organization you selected in Week 1 (AMAZON) is designing training for all the managers at all levels. It wants to base the training on one leadership theory.

Tasks:

Write a paper recommending a leadership theory. Address the following:

Summarize key details about the organization and two or three of the most important insights you have developed so far about the organization during your course project. This one paragraph summary should provide just enough information that someone who has not read any of your papers so far would have a brief background for understanding your project organization.
Why do you believe your chosen leadership theory is the best for your organization? What is your rationale? What research can you cite to support your choice? What are the factors in your organization that make your selected leadership theory the best choice?
How will using this theory positively impact the following variables?
Managers’ behavior toward subordinates and its effect on subordinates
Communication
Motivation of subordinates
Group and team behavior
Decision making
Culture

Amazon

Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s
Filings & Forms page, the Strayer University’s online databases, the Lexis Advance database, and any other
sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these
questions.
You will do a 15-minute presentation to the Board of Directors of the corporation. Use the Capstone Template
[PPTX] to ensure that your assignment meets the requirements.
Requirements
Develop an 8–12 slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes based upon assignments in Weeks 3, 6,
and 8, and the following:
Develop an executive-level PowerPoint presentation with 8–12 slides with speaker notes and appropriate
graphics.
Create a SWOT analysis for the company to determine its major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and
threats.
Based on the SWOT analysis, outline a strategy for the company to capitalize on its strengths and
opportunities, and minimize its weaknesses and threats.
Discuss the various levels and types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its competitiveness and
profitability.
Outline a communications plan the company could use to make the strategies you recommend above known to
all stakeholders.
Assess efforts by this corporation to be a responsible (ethical) corporate citizen and determine the impact
these efforts (or lack thereof) have on the company’s bottom line. Provide specific examples to support your
response.
Go to the Strayer University Online Library and locate at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and
similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.
References must be submitted on a Works Cited page using SWS format.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the
Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any
additional instructions.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is as follows:
Develop a corporate presentation based on a SWOT analysis, strategies for maximizing competitiveness and
profitability, a communications plan, and an assessment of efforts related to ethics.