Business
Ethical leaders practice
Assignment 2 Ethics and Leadership (Due Week 3; 20 points)
The purpose of this assignment is to explore and critically present your views about ethics and its role in leadership.
Consider your views, experiences, and readings about ethics. In a paper (4-5 pages, excluding your title page and reference list), discuss the following:
Definition of ethics. Support comments with three or more relevant references.
Provide an overview about the role of and need for ethics in leadership.
Identify the main ethical responsibilities in your professional field and position.
Describe the main ethical challenges posed in your field of work, profession.
Rubric:
Element
Not Met (3-0 points)
Met (4 points)
Exceede
Executive officers and junior employees
Popular press and media accounts generally suggest that executives are overpaid. For example: the average yearly salary of a CEO of Fortune 500 company in 2018 was $14.5 million. The average yearly salary of a regular worker was $39,888.
Justify why the CEO’s pay is appropriate.
Support your response with specifics.
Requirements: two paragraphs
Mergers and acquisitions
Review Jack Welch’s article “The Six Deadly Sins of Mergers and Acquisitions”
Locate and post a link to an article published in the last 5 years in the The Wall Street Journal, or another reputable source, about a merger that did not go as planned.
Which of these “sins” were committed, what issues arose as a result, and what behaviors could the organization have employed to prevent these errors?
Competitive advantage
Successful businesses regularly analyze their processes to ensure they’re operating as efficiently as possible and maintaining their competitive advantages. Although you can assess a company in many ways, a common technique is the SWOT analysis. In this assignment, you will practice using a SWOT analysis to better understand the factors involved in making business decisions that promote sustainable competitive advantage.
Select and research a company from the 2019 Fortune 500 list that demonstrates a sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Evaluate the selected company’s sustainable competitive advantage using the SWOT analysis technique.
Pay and Benefits Outside the United States
Respond to the following:
If you were asked to work in another country, which country would you choose and why?
What type of benefit(s) would be most important to you in this country?
Support your response with specific examples.
Requirements: two paragraphs
if you have the book Strategic Compensation: A Human Resource Management Approach, read:
Chapter 13, “Compensating Expatriates.”
Chapter 14, “Pay and Benefits Outside the United States.