Positional Power in Relation to Organizational Structure and Culture

Submit a short paper or presentation identifying your chosen leader’s organizational vision, how your chosen leader developed the organization’s strategic direction, and what methods you would recommend that were not employed by the leader. Then, analyze evidence of the leader’s personal, political, and positional power, assessing how the leader used that power to structure the organization, thus creating its culture.

You will submit a short paper:

identifying your chosen leaders organizational vision,
how your chosen leader developed the organizations strategic plan, and what methods you would recommend for the strategic plan that were not employed by the leader.
Then, analyze evidence of the leaders personal, political, and positional power, assessing how the leader used that power to structure the organization, thus creating its culture.
Use the research on your chosen leader and the text to analyze best practices of how leaders structure the organization and build, plan, and staff effective executive teams for organizational success.
Identify at least two examples of strategic planning methods used by the chosen leader to align teams with organizational vision and the appropriate tools and methods to develop the organizations strategic plan.
Analyze evidence of the leaders use of personal, political, and positional power as tools to structure the organization for effecting change in organizational culture.
Apply the leaders use of business strategies as personal, political, and power tools to effect change in organizational culture.

You will be evaluated on the identification and summary of your chosen leaders organizational vision; examples and analysis of how your chosen leader developed the organizations strategic plan (methods); inclusion of your opinion and research on methods you would recommend for the strategic plan not chosen by the leader in his or her planning process; critical thinking applied to your work product; and the articulation of your response in the writing process.

Please use these headings in your paper.

Title Page

Introduction

Analysis of Leaders Personal, Political, and Positional Power in Relation to Organizational Structure and Culture

Organizational Vision: Strategic Plan

Organizational Vision: Vision

Organizational Vision: Methods

Organizational Culture: Power

Organizational Culture: Structured

Organizational Culture: Effect Change

Analysis of Best Practices of How Leader Structures the Organization

                        Organizational Structure

                        Build, Plan, and Staff Executive Teams   

Conclusion

Reference Page (at least two discipline-appropriate citations)

Remember to provide at least two examples of strategic planning methods used by the chosen leader to align teams with organizational vision and the appropriate tools and methods to develop the organizations strategic plan.

This Milestone should be approximately 2 to 4 pages in length.