Discussion: Organizational Stress: Positive or Negative? WK 5

Watch the video in the link below
How To Deal With Stress as a Leader – Miles Adcox (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVfXtvIVLzI  )

Discussion: Organizational Stress: Positive or Negative?
Consider the following two scenarios:

Scenario 1
The atmosphere at a small technology firm in California is always confusing and chaotic. Employees are under constant pressure to meet deadlines, and expectations frequently and suddenly change. Despite the lack of clarity, supervisors frequently reprimand employees for failure to perform. Supervisors often give these reprimands publicly. Employees constantly compete for supervisor attention.

Scenario 2

Workers at a business consulting firm in Massachusetts do the same job they have done in the same way they have done it for the past 10 years. Employees receive almost no supervision or feedback. Leadership does little to promote change or foster creativity. Employees rarely communicate with those outside of their departments. Employees work quietly in an orderly manner but receive little stimulation.

It is likely easy to identify which of the scenarios is less stressful, but is either environment desirable or indicative of a healthy organization?

Normally, the term organizational stress is a negative concept. The majority of stress researchers have focused on personal distress rather than on examining the positive aspect of stress called eustress (Chou et al., 2014). Scholars and practitioners need to give more attention to the question of if and when organizational stress can be beneficial.

To prepare for this Discussion, consider your experiences with stress in organizations and how you as a leader would address organizational stress.

By Day 3
Post your evaluation of the impact of organizational stress on the health of an organization. In your evaluation, do the following:

Explain whether you think organizational stress can be positive, negative, or both.
Then, given your proposed nature of stress, explain how you, as a leader, would work to promote or minimize stress within your organization.
Identify two or more specific tools and strategies you would employ to assess and manage organizational stress.
Be sure to support your work with a minimum of two specific citations from this weeks Learning Resources and one or more additional scholarly sources.

Refer to the Week 5 Discussion Rubric for specific grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use this rubric to assess your work.

Read a selection of your colleagues postings.

By Day 5
Respond to two or more of your colleagues postings in one or more of the following ways:

Offer an example from personal experience that validates your colleagues evaluation of organizational stress. Explain how your example validates his or her experiences.
Critique one or more of your colleagues suggested strategies and/or tools for assessing employee stress, and offer an alternative perspective.
Please note that, for each response, you must include a minimum of one appropriately cited scholarly reference.

Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what insights you gained as a result of reading the comments your colleagues made.

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This assignment will culminate in your conceptualization of an initial set of elements to frame a project. By completing this assignment, you will create a high-level description and justification of a project and the problem driving the need for a project. You will also provide an overview of the business practices and gaps in practice for addressing the problem and questions to be answered by conducting the project, which may inform the gaps in practice. A preliminary project technique, deemed manageable and feasible, will be identified. A self-assessment of your Capstone Literature template will also be provided to enable you to identify goals for advancing your work in the next course, DB-R8960. 

Follow the instructions detailed in the Business Problem and Project Justification Template for Sections 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0. 

Write an essay describing how the early Ecumenical Councils (Nicaea I, Constantinople I Ephesus and Chalcedon) developer Christological doctrine regarding the full divinity and humanity of Jesus Christ.

Write an essay describing how the early Ecumenical Councils (Nicaea I, Constantinople I Ephesus and Chalcedon) developer Christological doctrine regarding the full divinity and humanity of Jesus Christ. No references required but if you have the textbook Catholicism: the story of catholic Christianity second edition, chapters 1 and 4 may help a lot (not required though, so long as you provide accurate information)

Assignment: Applying French and Ravens Bases of Social Power: A Powerful Solution WK 4

Assignment: Applying French and Ravens Bases of Social Power: A Powerful Solution
There have been many stories throughout history of leaders who have been corrupted by their power. The very definition of leadership as a process by which an individual influences the group to achieve a common goal (Northouse, 2019, p. 5) implies the power to exert influence. Leaders must exert power in order to lead, but they must also strive to understand the complexities of power. Research by French and Raven (1959) and by others (Burns, 1976; Neck & Manz, 1994) provides insight on the types, or bases, of power available to a leader, the process of choosing among those bases, and the motivations for leaders choices (Northouse, 2019, p. 387). Recent researchers (Barbuto & Warneke, 2014; Vevere, 2014) also explore the effectiveness of using individual bases of power in particular situations and the effects certain bases of powers have on leaders and those they lead. Armed with this information, leaders can avoid utilizing certain bases of power when the choice may lead to negative consequences. They can instead choose to wield power in ways that will foster organizational success. Understanding the bases also gives both leaders and followers insight into situations they observe and difficult interpersonal interactions they negotiate.

To prepare for this Assignment, consider Case Study 7.1, His Team Gets the Best Assignments on pages 352-354 of Northouse (2019).

By Day 7
Submit a 3-page analysis of the case study. In your analysis, do the following:

Identify two of French and Ravens bases of power in the case study, and explain how leaders can use these bases of power to exert influence.
Explain how you might use your knowledge of French and Ravens theory to resolve one of the problems presented in the case study. Justify your response.
Note: Be sure to use the APA Course Paper Template (6th ed.) to complete this Assignment. Also, refer to the Week 4 Assignment Rubric for specific grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use this rubric to assess your work. Please Note: For each page of your paper, you must include a minimum of two APA-formatted scholarly citations.

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