What are some advantages  and disadvantages to including employees in bottom-up business planning?

1. Consider your role as a consumer.  Where do you learn about news  of your regular brands or products that are environmentally friendly?   Which of these firms seem to be in the news often?  Does hearing about  company news that describes green marketing efforts increase your brand  loyalty?  Provide specific examples to support your answers.

2. A business-wide “Going Green” process is usually a top-down  approach led by upper management. Lower level employees, however, may  have a more practical view of day-to-day procedures. Should business  leaders include all levels of employees when creating a sustainability  plan, and if so, how can it be accomplished? What are some advantages  and disadvantages to including employees in bottom-up business planning?

Develop a description of the leadership strategies.

An effective leader must possess the skills, emotional intelligence, and knowledge base to influence and convince the members of the organization to not only adopt, but to become advocates for the change that the leader seeks to implement.

In order for one to develop the leadership skills that are required to affect change within the organization, one must become familiar with a variety of approaches previously utilized by successful leaders and managers in organizational transformation.

For this assignment, utilize the Rasmussen Business Library resource to research a business case study of an organization going through strategic change. Then research two leadership strategies that have been used to successfully drive organizational change during the past 10 years. Once you have located these strategies, write a paper analyzing the effectiveness of each strategy, and relate how effective management strategy alone may well be challenged to achieve desired change without effective leadership. In your analysis, address the following:

  • Identify and research two leadership strategies.
  • Develop a description of the leadership strategies.
  • Formulate an overview of how the strategy is used and rate its effectiveness.
  • Argue whether the strategy is still relevant and effective in present day organizations. Why or Why not?
  • Describe how management alone will fall short of achieving desired organizational change without all levels of leadership effectively operating in their rolls.1. Higgs, M., & Rowland, D. (2009). Change leadership: case study of a global energy company. Strategic Change18(1/2), 45–58. https://doi-org.ezproxy.rasmussen.edu/10.1002/jsc.838

    2. Son, S. (n.d.). 5 Case Studies About Successful Change Management. Retrieved from             https://www.tinypulse.com/blog/sk-case-studies-successful-change-management

    3. Khan, M. A. (2015, April 05). Organizational Change: Case Study of General Motors. Retrieved from https://www.asee.org/documents/zones/zone1/2014/Student/PDFs/159.pdf

    4. Baker, C. R. (2015). Organizational change at Ford Motor Company in the face of international financial crisis. Retrieved from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.rasmussen.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=7&sid=362b4922-63b0-457a-abe5-fca9067f9ae5@sdc-v-sessmgr01

    5. Kesler, G. (2008). How Coke’s CEO Aligned Strategy and People to Re-Charge Growth: An Interview with Neville Isdell. Retrieved from http://content.ebscohost.com/ContentServer.asp?T=P&P=AN&K=36883355&S=R&D=keh&EbscoContent=dGJyMNLr40Seqa44zdnyOLCmr1Cep7RSsq

Explain why voluntary intoxication is no excuse for committing a crime but involuntary intoxication is. Do you agree or disagree?

1. Describe the four elements of the defense of duress. Explain how, depending on the requirements of different states, a defendant may or may not be able to use the defense of duress based on these four elements.

2. Explain why voluntary intoxication is no excuse for committing a crime but involuntary intoxication is. Do you agree or disagree?

3. What are the two major approaches to the entrapment defense? Which one do you think is best?

4. What impact did the acquittal of John Hinckley have on the insanity defense in the United States? Be sure to provide examples.