Discuss ; Capitalism Is Mother Earth’s Cancer

The world is being buffeted by multiple global crises that manifest themselves into a climate, financial, food, energy, institutional, cultural, ethical and spiritual crises. These are the manifestations of unbridled consumerism and a model of society where the human being claims to be superior to Mother Earth. It is a system characterized by the domination of the economy by gigantic trans-national corporations whose targets are the accumulation of power and benefits, and for which the market values are more important than the lives of human beings and Mother Earth. —Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, in Deidre Fulton, “Capitalism Is Mother Earth’s Cancer”1
The myth of this century permeating both Canadian and global consciousness is the myth of economic growth. It is central to Canadian consciousness, breeding the same response, the same mindset, and a pervasive concept of truth as produced within a singular worldview. This myth reaches the core of the evolution of Canada itself. Economics as a field has us blindly believing that corporations really do have the same status as human beings and places extraordinary belief in the invisible hand of the markets and the playing out of competition as the reason for social inequality and poverty. This global economic myth requires us to blindly believe that there is no credible alternative to the current global economic system. This myth frames for humanity a singular narrative that growth is good, necessary, positive, and natural, and that it is the definitive Global economic growth is set to slow dramatically answer and solution to progress and development. This is the illusion. The heart of this myth must be viewed through the illusory current state of national and global economics. It is well documented in recent years that the rate of global economic growth has slowed substantially.
A 2015 McKinsey Global Analytics report sets a serious warning: “Without action, global economic growth will almost halve in the next 50 years.”2 It notes that economic growth has been exceptionally rapid over the last 50 years, but that there is no consensus on prospects for the next 50 years.
This global economic downturn is an outcome of its own worldview. The 2008 economic crash set in motion the framing of a new narrative and approach to the global economy that aimed at the very center of economics itself. At the heart of this warning is the shaping of the emerging “new economy” as an alternative future that is based on measurements beyond GDP and focused on human well-being and ecological balance. This is a time of calling out both the state of and experience of the global economy system. A report on regenerative economy by the Capital Institute makes a fundamental point: “The current global reality is pressing up against social, environmental and economic collapse. The world needs to move beyond the standard choices of capitalism or socialism.”3 It further  emphasized that the world economic system is closely related to and dependent upon the environment: “The failure of modern economic theory to acknowledge this reality has had profound consequences, not the least of which is global climate change.”4
The article “Beyond Capitalism and Socialism” highlights a key point that the post-2008 global economic crash saw an emergence of viewing economics through a new lens as a way to address this economic growth myth— mainly, economic growth and dependency on the environment cannot exist in siloes. Economics is converging upon itself— a product of its own worldview.5 The failure of modern economic theory to acknowledge this reality has had profound consequences, not the least of which is global climate change. The consequences of this economic worldview are vast and far reaching, encompassing a host of challenges that range from climate change to political instability.6
Economic Distortion: Addressing Dysfunctionality in the New Economy
In the words of Indigenous leader President Evo Morales, past president of Bolivia: The world is being buffeted by multiple global crisis that manifests itself in a climate, financial, food, energy, institutional, cultural, ethical and spiritual crisis. These are the manifestations of unbridled consumerism and a model of society where the human being claims to be superior to Mother Earth… It is a system characterized by the domination of the economy by gigantic trans-national corporations whose targets are the accumulation of power and benefits, and for which the market values are more important than the lives of human beings and Mother Earth.7
This is an honest reflection that points to the global economic crisis humanity is facing and calls out the foundation of economic dysfunction. It is from this questioning of economic power structures and pending collapse that a new economic movement has emerged— a paradigm shift so powerful as to redefine economy, to shift from destruction to construction, and facilitate a return to human values. What a powerful rendition of experience Fulton describes as caused from “the manifestions of unbridled consumerism.” From within the dominant economic worldview stems the fragmentation of reality, separateness, and isolation that originates with the divergence from the unity of life— the very cause of economic dysfunction. It is this response to the economic dysfunction that has caused the uprising of the new regenerative economy movement.
The term new economy is broad reaching and can first be examined through the lens of what it does not do. The new economy does not accept the orthodox neoclassical theory that dominates economics: “Humans are perfectly rational, markets are perfectly efficient, institutions are optimally designed and economies are self-correcting equilibrium systems that invariably find a state that maximizes social welfare.”8

Discuss the personal characteristics of effective leaders

Based on the interviews you completed in Assessment 2, write a report that describes your interview experiences, summarizes your findings, and analyzes your interviewees’ personal characteristics as they align with effective leadership.

Introduction

The purpose of this assessment is to consolidate your experience interviewing two leaders and to incorporate what you have learned thus far about the personal characteristics of effective leaders. Your assessment will reflect your insights about integrity, purpose, change, interpersonal skills, and keeping balance (resilience), and will embody a meaningful leadership story at different levels of an organization’s leadership.

The resources in this assessment address the implications of new science for leadership. Much of the traditional literature on organizations has been based in Newtonian images of the world as a mechanical operation where the manager’s task is to control outcomes, determine truth, and make sure things are right. New science has challenged many of these underlying assumptions, changing the thinking about organization and the role of leaders. More emphasis is given to the importance of identity and evolving assumptions, such as the recognition of interconnectedness. The importance of relationship in providing the patterns of order and integrity is being recognized. Living systems are chaotic and constantly adapting, but out of the chaos a new order is created.

Through dialogue, deep listening, and facilitating, leaders help followers create new knowledge and understanding of system patterns that allow a value-guided organization to let go of old patterns and reemerge adapted to a new reality. There is more recognition of the “boundary-less” nature of adaptive systems to their environments and the importance of values, mission, purpose, relationship, and accessibility of leaders to the survival of their systems. Living systems will naturally respond and adapt to their environments, making the leader’s job much more one of empowering, encouraging relationship, and facilitating the conversation about adaptation.

In Assessment 2, you prepared to interview two leaders in organizations of your choice. You will need to complete the interviews before you begin this assessment. You will use the findings from your interviews in this assessment as well as Assessment 4.

Using your notes from your completed interviews, write a report that addresses the following elements:

  • Thoroughly describe your interview experiences. Write the story of what happened from beginning to middle to end. Integrate into the story the names of the people you interviewed, their leadership level, and the focus of your interviews.
  • Recap your interview questions.
  • Summarize your findings from each question including the best stories and quotes in each interviewee’s words and some themes that seemed to pervade both interviews.
  • Analyze your interviewees’ personal characteristics and describe their alignment to effective leadership.
  • Explain the significance of the leadership characteristics you identified and how they apply to your own career progression.

Remember to edit and spell check your work before submitting it.

Competencies Measured

Discuss on Leadership Analysis In Organizations

Create a 6-7 page leadership analysis using the narrative and summary of the leadership interviews you conducted.
Introduction
This assessment gives you the opportunity to synthesize and demonstrate your understanding and experience interviewing leaders and how the leadership characteristics you analyzed relate to leadership theories, the New Business Realities, and the Thinking Habits.
The resources provided in this assessment explore the new science assumption of field theory and how it occurs in the human systems arena through culture, values, and ethics. Imagine purpose or direction working like gravity or a magnetic field to organize messy human behavior toward a unifying direction. A leader’s role is to state, clarify, discuss, model, and embody the values and purposes as a way to subtly create order and direction.
The resources in this assessment also address the idea that what you see is what you get, meaning that we create self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality just by deciding what to measure. It is important for leaders to understand that people support what they help create, and if the leaders want implementation, they have to promote ownership through participation. When leaders begin promoting ownership, they view job descriptions and organization charts differently. Their perspective moves toward a holistic approach to the interactions and connections between managers and employees or between departments. In the end, they serve the customer better.
Preparation
The following resources are required to complete the assessment.
CAPELLA RESOURCES
Click the links provided to view the following resources:

  1. Leadership theory: Summarize the leadership theory that you used to develop your interview questions. Analyze how the questions you asked and the data you collected during the interview support your chosen leadership theory. You might have used servant leadership, Kevin Cashman, Margaret Wheatley, articles from the Center for Creative Leadership, leadership stage theory, or other sources. Demonstrate your understanding of your chosen mastery (personal, purpose, change, interpersonal/being, balance, or action). Use examples from your interviews to demonstrate your mastery topic.
  2. Common Learning Themes: Reread the New Business Realities and the Thinking Habits of Mind, Heart, and Imagination, linked in the Resources. Select one topic from each and discuss its relevance to your experience interviewing leaders. The following are two examples:
    • New Business Realities: Did the interview reflect the dynamics of transformational change in complex systems in the change mastery questions?
    • Thinking Habits: Did the interview encourage professional self-development through conversational reflection in the questions on personal mastery?Create a 6-7 page leadership analysis using the narrative and summary of the leadership interviews you conducted.
      Introduction
      This assessment gives you the opportunity to synthesize and demonstrate your understanding and experience interviewing leaders and how the leadership characteristics you analyzed relate to leadership theories, the New Business Realities, and the Thinking Habits.
      The resources provided in this assessment explore the new science assumption of field theory and how it occurs in the human systems arena through culture, values, and ethics. Imagine purpose or direction working like gravity or a magnetic field to organize messy human behavior toward a unifying direction. A leader’s role is to state, clarify, discuss, model, and embody the values and purposes as a way to subtly create order and direction.
      The resources in this assessment also address the idea that what you see is what you get, meaning that we create self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality just by deciding what to measure. It is important for leaders to understand that people support what they help create, and if the leaders want implementation, they have to promote ownership through participation. When leaders begin promoting ownership, they view job descriptions and organization charts differently. Their perspective moves toward a holistic approach to the interactions and connections between managers and employees or between departments. In the end, they serve the customer better.
      Preparation
      The following resources are required to complete the assessment.
      CAPELLA RESOURCES
      Click the links provided to view the following resources:

      1. Leadership theory: Summarize the leadership theory that you used to develop your interview questions. Analyze how the questions you asked and the data you collected during the interview support your chosen leadership theory. You might have used servant leadership, Kevin Cashman, Margaret Wheatley, articles from the Center for Creative Leadership, leadership stage theory, or other sources. Demonstrate your understanding of your chosen mastery (personal, purpose, change, interpersonal/being, balance, or action). Use examples from your interviews to demonstrate your mastery topic.
      2. Common Learning Themes: Reread the New Business Realities and the Thinking Habits of Mind, Heart, and Imagination, linked in the Resources. Select one topic from each and discuss its relevance to your experience interviewing leaders. The following are two examples:
        • New Business Realities: Did the interview reflect the dynamics of transformational change in complex systems in the change mastery questions?
        • Thinking Habits: Did the interview encourage professional self-development through conversational reflection in the questions on personal mastery?

Leadership and the new science

Write a leader guidebook of best practices for new supervisors in your current organization or an organization with which you are familiar, based on the new science realities.

Introduction

This assessment provides you the opportunity to demonstrate a solid theory of leadership in a practical application that you can use in your organization.

The resources provided in this assessment cover both change renewal and chaos. Even though we fear change and long for the comfort of equilibrium, this closed and insulated stance means choosing to wear down and decay. When allowed to grow and evolve, living systems integrate diverse information through open feedback loops. Through self-referencing of values, traditions, aspirations, competency, and culture, systems recreate themselves in similar shapes, or what Wheatley (2006), calls fractals. A leader’s role is to invite disturbance, to create dangerously, because disturbance leads to dis-equilibrium and, therefore, growth and resilience.

By choosing to openly engage with change and remembering identity, leaders can increase speed to market and shape consumer preference. Although counterintuitive, the more freedom allowed in a self-organizing system, the more creative and adaptive it can be. Most innovation to the marketplace occurs through the adaptation to a customer’s request by one or two individuals. Information, rather than needing to be managed, needs to be shared and processed to increase awareness and consciousness of complexity and ambiguity. In the absence of information, people make it up. They will make their own meaning.

It seems the leader’s role is to openly invite new and disturbing information and to allow the organization to learn, make sense of, and respond or adapt to a changing environment, trusting self-referencing and stressing long-term identity.

The resources in this assessment also explore the paradox of order and chaos—how, over time and with a perspective toward wholeness, what might appear as chaos begins to build up a repeatable pattern of the strange attractor. In human systems, meaning, purpose, and mission are the organizing principles. Even a small change may result in a big impact on the whole system, and it is sometimes the slow but constant factor that is the unseen danger. So it is a combination of a leader holding tightly to vision and values while allowing individuals the freedom to act.

Reference

Wheatley, M. J. (2006). Leadership and the new science: Discovering order in a chaotic world. Berrett–Koehler.

Imagine it is your job to write a leader guidebook for new supervisors in your current organization or an organization with which you are familiar, based on the new science realities. Your guide should include the following:

  • Descriptions of effective best practices and day-to-day behaviors that leaders should follow for planning, measuring, motivating people, managing change and information, designing jobs, and encouraging relationships.
  • Descriptions of ineffective practices that leaders should avoid in order to be successful.
  • Explanation of the importance and implications of these new science guidelines to the success of the enterprise.
  • Examples and explanations for the positions you take.

Additional Requirements

  • Length: Your leader guidebook should be double-spaced and long enough to meet the expectations of the assessment and scoring guide criteria.
  • Font and size: Use a standard font—either Times New Roman or Arial. The font size must be 12 point.
  • Margins: The paper margins should be 1 inch on each side.
  • Components: Include a title page, table of contents, and reference page.
  • Formatting: APA format is required for all aspects of your guidebook, including citations and references. Your writing should be well organized and clear. Writing structure, spelling, and grammar should be correct as well.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

  • Competency 1: Analyze the art and science of leadership.
    • Write a leader guidebook of best practices that reflect the new science realities.
    • Describe how the new science guidelines impact the success of an enterprise.
  • Competency 3: Create an effective theory of leadership.
    • Describe behaviors of effective leaders.

Evaluate the various ways to deal with resistance to change

Please respond to the following:

  • As a manager, how would you deal with resistance to change when you suspect that employees’ fears of job loss are well-founded?
  • Give an example of what you might do or have done as a manager to improve the situation and why.

Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates’ posts.

Please respond to the following:

  • As a manager, how would you deal with resistance to change when you suspect that employees’ fears of job loss are well-founded?
  • Give an example of what you might do or have done as a manager to improve the situation and why.

Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates’ posts.

Evaluate the Student Success Criteria

  1. Competency
    Revise research and writing based on feedback.

    Student Success Criteria
    View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “This item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information pane.

    Scenario
    You are a first-year graduate student. You are taking a graduate course on research and writing. In this assignment, your professor has asked you to revise one of your papers based on feedback your received.

    Instructions
    Revise one of the papers who have written for your professor in this course. Be sure to incorporate your instructor’s feedback.

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  3. Competency
    Revise research and writing based on feedback.

    Student Success Criteria
    View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “This item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information pane.

    Scenario
    You are a first-year graduate student. You are taking a graduate course on research and writing. In this assignment, your professor has asked you to revise one of your papers based on feedback your received.

    Instructions
    Revise one of the papers who have written for your professor in this course. Be sure to incorporate your instructor’s feedback.

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Applied Managerial Marketing

businessasap

Deliverable Length:   4–6 pages (not including cover page and resource page)

You are the marketing manager for a new brand of sports drink “Refresh”. The all-natural ingredients in the drink are grown and harvested on small farms in the United States. The bottles and packaging are made from recycled materials. You are preparing for the launch of the product in the local market.

Read this article for more information on how features and benefits impact your marketing campaign:
Features vs. Benefits: Here’s the Difference & Why It Matters

Using what you have learned, answer the following questions:

  1. What are the features and benefits of this brand?
  2. What differentiates this sports drink from the competition?
  3. Who will the target market be and why?
  4. How will you promote “Refresh”?

Please use the MKTG630_U1_IP_Template to complete this assignment.

businessasap

Deliverable Length:   4–6 pages (not including cover page and resource page)

You are the marketing manager for a new brand of sports drink “Refresh”. The all-natural ingredients in the drink are grown and harvested on small farms in the United States. The bottles and packaging are made from recycled materials. You are preparing for the launch of the product in the local market.

Read this article for more information on how features and benefits impact your marketing campaign:
Features vs. Benefits: Here’s the Difference & Why It Matters

Using what you have learned, answer the following questions:

  1. What are the features and benefits of this brand?
  2. What differentiates this sports drink from the competition?
  3. Who will the target market be and why?
  4. How will you promote “Refresh”?

Please use the MKTG630_U1_IP_Template to complete this assignment.

How can inventory be organized and counted well?

1. How can inventory be organized and counted well? Name 2 concepts discussed in the course and explain. (4 pts.)
2. What is a carbon footprint? Name 2 companies that are engaged in reducing carbon footprints. (5 pts.)
3. How can RFID technology help reduce supply chain related costs or increase sales revenues (Give 3 reasons and explanations for 3 pts.)
4. When it comes to location decisions what are 4 important factors that need to be considered at a country level? Please explain them. (4 pts.)
5. Using the factor ratings shown below, determine which location alternative should be chosen on the basis of maximum composite score. Show all composite scores and then choose your decision.  (4 pts.)
6. Consider a firm with a 2019 net income of $20 million, revenue of $50 million and cost of goods sold of $20 million.  If the balance sheet amounts show $2 million of inventory and $500,000 of property, plant & equipment, what is the inventory turnover? (2 pts.)
7. A certain type of computer costs $2,000, and the annual holding cost is 25% of cost. Annual demand is 20,000 units, and the order cost is $150 per order. What is the approximate economic order quantity? (use the simplified EOQ equation, Q*, I gave during lecture) ) (3pts.)
8. For question #7 above, what is the total cost of the policy at the economic order quantity determined. I.e. What is the sum of the holding and ordering cost? (use total cost equation) (3 pts.)
9. It was mentioned during the course of this semester that sustainable development is a key goal for many suppliers these days. Name a company that currently engages in sustainable development and explain a product or service they produce that is considered to be sustainable. Please explain. (4 pts.)
10. What is an offshore factory? Name 3 reasons why North American companies are offshoring and explain. ( 4pts.)
11. What is a planning factor in MRP logic? (2pts.)
12. When doing aggregate planning, if gross requirements are 40, projected on hand inventory is 12, and safety stock is 5, then what is the quantity of the next planned order release? (2 pts.)

Perceptions of transformational leadership and job satisfaction

In this assignment, you are to critically read and evaluate a scholarly article’s strengths, weaknesses, and contributions to the study field. Learning how to critique a journal article has several benefits, including preparing you for publishing in the future and keeping you current on the literature in your field of study. The practical application is developing the ability to look at research within your organization and industry with a knowledgeable, critical eye. The University of the Cumberlands (UC) Library subscribes to many journals and provides you access to appropriate collections to support this assignment. Using the UC Library, locate and review the following peer-reviewed articles:

  • Dysvik, A & Kuvaas, B. (2013). Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation as predictors of work effort: The moderating role of achievement goals. British Journal of Social Psychology, 52(3), 412–430. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8309.2011.02090.x.
  • Aydogmus, Metin Camgoz, S., Ergeneli, A., & Tayfur Ekmekci, O. (2018). Perceptions of transformational leadership and job satisfaction: The roles of personality traits and psychological empowerment. Journal of Management & Organization, 24(1), 81–107. https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2016.59
  • Fitzsimmons, Callan, V. J., & Paulsen, N. (2014). Gender disparity in the C-suite: Do male and female CEOs differ in how they reached the top? The Leadership Quarterly, 25(2), 245–266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2013.08.005
  • Flocco, Canterino, F., & Cagliano, R. (2021). Leading innovation through employees’ participation: Plural leadership in employee-driven innovation practices. Leadership (London, England), 17(5), 499–518. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715020987928
  • Kuenzi, Mayer, D. M., & Greenbaum, R. L. (2020). Creating an ethical organizational environment: The relationship between ethical leadership, ethical organizational climate, and unethical behavior. Personnel Psychology, 73(1), 43–71. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12356
  • de Reuver, Van de Voorde, K., & Kilroy, S. (2021). When do bundles of high performance work systems reduce employee absenteeism? The moderating role of workload. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 32(13), 2889–2909. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2019.1616594

Following your review, choose one article from this list; critically evaluate the article’s strengths, weaknesses, and contribution to the study field using the outline below as a guide: Cover page

  • The cover page will include:

Discuss on Managerial economics

For this Discussion Question, complete the following.

1.  Read the two articles below that discuss why fuel prices fluctuate. Research two of these types further.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/eco-nomics/2012/03/05/five-reasons-gas-prices-rise/?sh=fccd6c41e02b

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2014/1031/Why-do-gas-prices-rise-and-fall-5-driving-factors/Oil-A-volatile-commodity

2. Locate two JOURNAL articles which discuss this topic further. You need to focus on the Abstract, Introduction, Results, and Conclusion. For our purposes, you are not expected to fully understand the Data and Methodology.

3. Summarize these journal articles. Please use your own words. No copy-and-paste. Cite your sources.

APA format 350 words minimum

For this Discussion Question, complete the following.

1.  Read the two articles below that discuss why fuel prices fluctuate. Research two of these types further.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/eco-nomics/2012/03/05/five-reasons-gas-prices-rise/?sh=fccd6c41e02b

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2014/1031/Why-do-gas-prices-rise-and-fall-5-driving-factors/Oil-A-volatile-commodity

2. Locate two JOURNAL articles which discuss this topic further. You need to focus on the Abstract, Introduction, Results, and Conclusion. For our purposes, you are not expected to fully understand the Data and Methodology.

3. Summarize these journal articles. Please use your own words. No copy-and-paste. Cite your sources.

APA format 350 words minimumc