Week 6 - Discussion 2 - HR Dev & Change

Week 6 Discussion 2 Template

Leadership Development and Social Change

Leadership and management development can go beyond the day-to-day operations of an organization and can actually help contribute to promoting positive social change at many levels. The human resource skills of effective managers translate well in promoting social causes like gender and economic equality.

Based on your reading for this week:

Consider how companies can utilize leadership development to promote positive social change within an organization and around the community.

Post by Day 4 a substantive response of approximately 200–250 words that addresses the following:

· Identify a company from your professional experience, including its industry and location.

· Describe leadership development strategies that the company could employ within the organization to promote positive social change.

· Explain how these leadership strategies could benefit both the company and the industry.

Be sure to support your work with specific citations from the Learning Resources and any additional sources.

Below are three UNRELATED EXAMPLES of how to cite within a paragraph in APA format. You need to cite resources in your Assignment to support and justify your thinking:

Haag and Cummings (2003) base their information on their experience and concepts of IT at the time, and...

The authors base their information on their experience and concepts of IT at the time, and... (Haag & Cummings, 2003).

The authors base their information on their experience and concepts of IT at the time. They stated that “…IT is the most important aspect that needs attention by upper management” (Haag & Cummings, 2003, p. 89).

Now, draft your response of at least 200–250 words below:

After you have finished addressing all elements of the Discussion prompt, do not forget to include your references in APA format. You will need to write the references to any resources that you cite in your Discussion Response. Below are examples of references, including your course text. When complete, please copy and paste your response in the appropriate thread in the Discussion Forum.

References

Blanchard, P. N., & Thacker, J. W. (2013). Effective training: Systems, strategies, and practices (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice-Hall.

Below are UNRELATED REFERENCES from a journal, a newspaper, and website. These references are only intended to illustrate correct APA formatting:

Ismail, A., Mohamad, M. H., Mohamed, H. A.-B., Rafiuddin, N. M., & Zhen, K. W. P. (2010). Transformational and transactional leadership styles as a predictor of individual outcomes. Theoretical and Applied Economics, 17(6), 89–104.

Porter, E. (2014, May 13). The politics of income inequality. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/business/economy/the-politics-of-income-inequality.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A18%22%7D

Walmart. (n.d.). Our business. Retrieved from http://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/our-business/

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