Senior Military College

“Motivation refers to forces that energize, direct, and sustain a person’s efforts” (Bateman & Snell, 2013). Managers need to use motivation tactics everyday in order to achieve performance goals. Associates want to feel like they have a purpose at the company they are working for. If managers motivate everyday and focus on the positives more than the negatives a better work environment will be formed. This student has recently been feeling unmotivated at work. A new assistant manager has been brought into the department that this student works in and so far the attitude of that manager has not been positive. Although this manager is very knowledgeable and has been in his position for 8 years, he talks low of management in the company. He is very paranoid about the upper level management watching him. This affects how he treats this student as his associate. This student is striving to move up into management as soon as possible and sees upper management as leaders of inspiration. The assistant manager however has an opposite outlook on upper level management. He tries to down of the upper level because he does not see them as influential. The student has been motivated by previous managers and has had positive feedback on evaluations and performance. The assistant manager at times tries to talk this student out of moving up and becoming a manager. If the assistant manager would put aside his own beliefs that are negative and focus on the tasks at hand and the goals that need…

bankrupt chain of department stores into a trendy and profitable business full of buying customers. However, in order to arrive at its current success, Denton forced the company through some major changes. Due to a lack of discernment as a new and inexperienced CEO, the longstanding clothing retailer is now facing tremendously low employee morale and the threat of abandonment by key leaders and management personnel. Despite the financial and market gains, the company is experiencing low morale…

A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable (pg. 235, OB, Kinicki & Fugate). During these meetings a lot of discussion revolves around the roles and expectations of our management employees. Roles are a set of expected behaviors for a particular position (pg. 231, OB, Kinicki & Fugate). Though the focus is mainly on the changes to overall workflows, managers…

Recently, it was decided that all state government employees needed to complete Lean Six Sigma White Belt training. Essentially, this training is designed to combine Lean’s methods for reducing waste and maximizing flow in processes and Six Sigma’s methods for using measurement tools to decrease the variations that lead to inefficiency in processes. These concepts can be incredibly useful for government agencies, because government agencies are often extremely inefficient and behind the times…

there are a lot of issues that need my attention. Today the issues of the relationship between King Company’s strategy and the activities of the HR departments and the rest of the company, the improvement that need to be made to start correcting the relationship, the responsibility HR has in the current issues with in the company: low sales and fraudulent data input by employees, and finale King company’s communication. This may seem like a lot of issues but run hand in hand. Let get started my…

How organizational change affected more individual than orginzation? Norwich University is the oldest private military college in the United State that is located in Northfield, VT. Captain Alden Partridge was a founder of Norwich University, founded in 1819 in Norwich, Vermont. In the United State, Norwich University is counted as one of six senior military colleges and the birthplace of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Norwich University is a unique institution where students,…

In today’s environment, the Army needs leaders who can lead a complex organization, through complex issues, to get at a complex problem that may not have a right answer. Strategic leaders are asked to lead in an environment that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. T. Owen Jacobs wrote about these in Strategic Leadership; The Competitive Edge and thus coined the term VUCA. “I don’t think I am exaggerating when I say that we face the most daunting strategic environment in generations.”…

motivated to do great things within the military. In high school, I did not always outshine academically but being a great soldier is something I pride myself in and strive to be on a daily basis. The experiences I have gained over the past year while in the U.S. Army Reserves has given me knowledge and training that will help me excel at Valley Forge Military College and makes me the perfect student. Attending Valley Forge Military College will open many doors for the future and give me that…

changing my mind is what I went through for the rest of my life. I never imagined I would have picked to major in psychology until after my first semester of my senior year of high school. Throughout the rest of my life I was constantly changing my mind, was coincidentally put in to psychology by my counselor, and, due to my experience in…

The media serves as a conduit between the military and the American public. While it is a critical subset of the population, the military represents only roughly 1 percent of the entire U.S. population, which creates a potential contextual gap between the military and civilians. Many civilians today do not know anyone who serves and may feel disconnected because they do not understand the military’s purpose, activities and meaning in their own lives. For them, the media offers their only…