 Strategic Management: Strategic Managment Gregory G. Dess,
University of Texas at Dallas
G.T. Lumpkin,
University of Illinois--Chicago
Effective Strategic Leadership: Creating a Learning Organization and an Ethical Culture
Application Questions| Application Questions and Exercises
1. Identify two CEOs whose leadership you admire. What is it about their skills, attributes, and so forth that causes you to admire them?
2. Founders have an important role in developing their organization’s culture and values. At times, their influence persists for many years. Identify and describe two organizations in which the cultures and values established by the founder(s) continue to flourish. You may find Internet research helpful in answering these questions.
3. Some leaders place a great emphasis on developing superior human capital. In what ways does this help a firm to develop and sustain competitive advantages?
4. In this chapter we discussed the five elements of a "learning organization." Select a firm with which you are familiar and discuss whether or not it epitomizes some (or all) of these elements.
Ethics Questions
1. Sometimes organizations must go outside the firm to hire talent, thus bypassing employees already in the firm. Are there conditions under which this might raise ethical considerations?
2. Ethical crises can occur in virtually any organization. Describe some of the systems, procedures, and processes that can help to prevent such crises.
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