Effective Leadership Practices

Effective Leadership Practices

The post contains two assignments

1:Effective Leadership Practices

Paper details:

: Interview a Leader You Know, Personally

Identify an individual you know, who is currently serving in a leadership capacity at an organization. Select one affiliated with your employer, a community leader, a political or church leader, or any individual whose leadership skills you admire. Arrange an interview with your selected individual, to learn about his or her view of leadership. Structure the interview around the concepts of leadership, as you have come to understand them from your own research or the recommended readings. Some suggested interview questions might be:

What is your definition of leadership?
How do you model leadership?
How do you inspire a shared vision in those around you?
How do you look for new opportunities that may require experimenting or taking risks?
How do you enable or empower others to act?
How do you recognize the contributions made by others?
How do you create a spirit of community?
In what ways do you get personally involved?
What challenges and opportunities do you face?

Conduct the interview, and then use the interview results to complete this assessment as instructed in the Requirements below.
Option B: Research a Well-Known Leader

It may be difficult for you to gain access to interview an available leader. If so, you may opt to research a well-known individual, from history or the present, whom you believe embodies great leadership. You may choose a business leader, political leader, author, scientist, sports personality, or any public figure about whom there is enough information publicly available for you to fulfill the requirements of this assessment. Refer to the Option B Leaders List (linked in the Resources) for potential subjects that might be appropriate. You are not limited to this list.

Focus your research on how the leader demonstrates exemplary leadership as identified below:

What is the leader’s definition of leadership?
How does the leader model leadership?
How does the leader inspire a shared vision in those around him or her?
How does the leader look for new opportunities that may require experimenting or taking risks?
How does the leader enable or empower others to act?
How does the leader recognize the contributions made by others?
How does the leader create a spirit of community?
In what ways does the leader get personally involved?
What challenges and opportunities does the leader face?

In your assessment, address the following:

Explain why you chose your selected leader.
Provide background information on the environment and culture of the organization in which the leader provides leadership. Note: If you followed Option A, protect the privacy of your leader by changing his or her name, but provide the background information as indicated.
Analyze how the leader models leadership.
Analyze how the leader inspires a shared vision.
Analyze how the leader looks for new opportunities that may require experimenting or taking risks.
Analyze how the leader enables or empowers others to act.
Analyze how the leader recognizes the contributions made by others.
Analyze how the leader creates a spirit of community.
Analyze how the leader reflects their definition of leadership.
Evaluate the leadership style, characteristics, or themes of the leader in relation to the purpose and relevance of leadership. In other words, how well does your leader demonstrate effective leadership?

Format your assessment according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting guidelines, including a title page as well as a references page with APA-formatted citations. Include references from at least two scholarly sources. Your completed assessment should be 4–6 pages in length (page count excluding the title page and references).

2:Environmental and Forestry studies

1. Conduct an audit of the following safety management system elements at your organization, or an organization with which you are familiar and have access to the required information:
SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ELEMENTS
ANSI/AIHA Z10 SECTIONS
COURSE TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS
1. Occupational Health and Safety Management System
3.1.1
8
2. Occupational Health and Safety Policy
3.1.2
8
3. Responsibility and Authority
3.1.3
8
4. Employee Participation
3.2
8
5. Review Process, Assessment, and Prioritization
4.1, 4.2
9
6. Risk Assessment
5.1.1
11
7. Hierarchy of Controls
5.1.2
14
8. Design Review
5.1.3
15
9. Management of Change
5.1.3
19
10. Procurement
5.1.4
20
11. Monitoring and Measurement
6.1
21
12. Incident Investigation
6.2
22
13. Audits
6.3
23
14. Corrective and Preventive Actions
6.4
23
15. Feedback to the Planning Process
6.5
23
16. Management Review
7.1, 7.2
24
Below you will find some suggested sources for the objective evidence to support your evaluation:
BOS 3651, Total Environmental Health and Safety Management 4
? Documents: Organizational safety manuals and instructions, safe operating procedures, and job hazard analyses
? Records: E-mails or letters from management to employees, safety meeting minutes, mishap logs, audit reports, OSHA citations, inspection reports, risk assessments, and training records.
? Interviews: Management personnel, supervisors, and employees
? Observation: Walk through some workplaces to observe conditions for yourself.
2. For each management system element, discuss the objective evidence you found (or were unable to find). Evaluate the effectiveness of the organization’s implementation of each element against available reference sources and best practice information. Use the following five-tier evaluation scheme to rate each element:
? World Class: OHS performance
? Strong: Conforming/complete, may have minor gaps with action plans
? Moderate: Scattered non-conformances need to be addressed, positive trends/major elements in place
? Significant Non-Conformances Exist: Still needs focus
? Major Effort Required: Major or systemic non-conformances exist
Appropriate references include the course textbook, textbooks from other college-level courses, ANSI/AIHA Z10-2012, other published consensus standards (ANSI, ASSE, AIHA, ISO, NFPA, etc.), OSHA standards and voluntary guidelines, and articles published in professional journals. Blogs, Wikipedia, About.com, Ask.com and other unmonitored Internet resources are not considered scholarly references and should not be used. Please contact your professor if you have any questions about the appropriateness of a reference source.
3. If an element is found to be less than World Class, provide recommendations for improvement. Be sure to use appropriate scholarly reference sources to support your recommendations.
4. Conclude the audit report with a summary of the overall status of the organization’s safety management system.
The Course Project must be a minimum of seven pages and a maximum of 10 pages in length, not including the title, abstract, and reference pages. A minimum of five professional references sources must be used.
Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.
APA Guidelines
CSU requires that students use APA style for papers and projects. Therefore, the APA rules for formatting, quoting, paraphrasing, citing, and listing of sources are to be followed. Students can find CSU’s Citation Guide in the myCSU Student Portal by clicking on the “Citation Resources” link in the “Learning Resources” area of the myCSU Student Portal. This document includes examples and sample papers and provides information on how to contact the CSU Success Center.

Forestry studies