The discussion board assignment for this week requires you to post an original response to the question below and also to post a response to a post from one of your classmates. In creating your original response, you will need to create a new thread to contain your response. When responding to one of your classmates, you can simply reply to their post when you read it.

Original Post:

Attachments:

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Respond by sharing additional insights or alternative perspectives.

Reminder: Be sure to support your posting and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources and/or current literature. Use APA formatting to cite references in your posting and responses.

Prompt one: Stakeholder Engagement and Roles in Strategic Planning:

Organizations seek to develop collaborative support for new strategies and roadmap to exploit new trends to identify and establish, new opportunities through the use of meaningful stakeholder engagement. Though it is not linear rather iterative process in which an organization learns and improves its ability to perform meaningful stakeholder engagement, developing relationships is a mutual respect in place of one-off consultations. The early engagement is beneficial to outline the likely opportunities, risks, conflicts and constrains within the organization, and reinforce partnership.

As the organizational leader, the following aspects might be considered in terms of stakeholder management to establish an engagement process which will promote cross-cultural relationship and fostering widespread habit of tolerance and compromise within the organization built on common values and vision.

• Internal alignment of the concerns in expectations, roles and outcomes: This stream of action will help to appreciate a multitude of viewpoints, pressures and business objectives the organization has.
• Building trust with stakeholders: Building the level of trust in relationship aided by understanding their viewpoints or motivations through avoiding not be too quick to judge.
• Building transparent environment: recognizing and articulating the tone of participation will play a pivotal path to encourage viewpoints from across the population spectrum
• Allow representatives from all your stakeholders: This includes gender, race, age, class, education or religion attributable to diversified opinions flow.
• Organization’s culture: This will have an impact on how stakeholder engagement occurs (i.e. autonomy for local adaption and local relevance).Therefore assessing its culture is important for identifying enablers and barriers to your stakeholder engagement activities.
• Assessing past non-productive engagement behavior will help the organization to learn from past experiences. It is important to collate this information from both the organization and stakeholder viewpoints.
• Recognize the interplay the influences between leadership, and capabilities in creating strategies, processes and procedures.
• Perform effective communication.

References:

1. Bryson, J. M. (2011). Strategic planning for public and nonprofit organizations: A guide to strengthening and sustaining organizational achievement (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
2. Raj Sharma. (n.d). The six principles of stakeholder engagement. Retrieved from http://www.censeoconsulting.com/media/pnc/2/media.12.pdf

Assignment Instructions

Describe a work task, a hobby, or another activity that you regularly do, and sequentially list the various actions you take in order to complete this activity. Consider the complexity of your list and the amount of steps required to complete the activity.

Answer the following questions in the space provided below:

1.     Differentiate the main actions between doing and improving your activities.

2.     Determine the overall manner in which variation has affected your activities.

Respond in one or more of the following ways:

• Ask a probing question.
• Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.
• Offer and support an opinion.
• Validate an idea with your own experience.
• Make a suggestion.
• Expand on your colleague’s posting.

Article A- ,“Institutional Collective Action and Economic Development Joint Ventures Feiock”,

Feiock, R. C., Steinacker, A., & Park, H. J. (2009

The authors, Feiock et al. (2009) introduction sets to establish purpose of study. Specifically, Creswell (2009) suggested introductions “set the stage” for a study (p.97). Feiock et al. (2009) introduction explored deficiencies, the purpose problem, and the meaning of the study for certain parties (Creswell, 2009). Feiock et al. (2009), documented cooperation and collaboration among jurisdiction and the economic link that influenced governmental behaviors, essentially the focal point for the study.

Feiock et al. (2009) introduction relates to Typology Research Purpose: Inform Constituencies, (Newman, I., Ridenour, C. S., Newman, C., & DeMarco, G. M. P., 2003).  Feiock et al. (2009) content related to aspects of Newman et al. (2003) typology.  Demonstrated attributes of Inform constituencies research purpose includes, describe the problem, heighten awareness, and inform the public, among other attributes (Newman et al., 2003).  Feiock et al. (2009), included content that suggested the study would reveal information explaining certain community behaviors.  Further, Newman et al. (2003) introduction initiated awareness and described present practices of joint economic ventures, both characteristics of Inform Constituencies purpose of research (Newman, et. al., 2003).

Additionally, Feiock et al. (2009) suggested their study, “will show serious underlying service problems” (p. 8), essentially informing the public (Newman et al., 2003). The authors also pinpointed, the role of politicians in cooperative and collaboration efforts among jurisdictions (p. 9),such information results in awareness and solicits data from parties who are affected by the program (Newman, et al.,2003.

As Creswell (2009) suggests, an introduction is an establishing point and initializing information that identifies a problem. Giving consideration to the parts of an introduction (Creswell, 2009), what is a good practice of maintaining impartiality while establishing the problem and designing an introduction?

Creswell, J. (2009). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (Laureate Education, Inc., custom ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Feiock, R. C., Steinacker, A., & Park, H. J. (2009). Institutional collective action and economic development joint ventures. Public Administration Review (69)2, 256–270.

Newman, I., Ridenour, C. S., Newman, C., & DeMarco, G. M. P. (2003). A typology of research purposes and its relationship to mixed methods. In A. Tashakkori & C. Teddlie (Eds.), Handbook of mixed methods in social and behavioral research (pp. 167-188). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Choose 3 different approaches to leadership and write a 1-2 page paper that covers the following:

• Write a 1 paragraph introduction to briefly explain what the different theories of organizational leadership are.
• Discuss each of the 3 chosen approaches to Organizational Leadership.
• Be sure to include in your explanation some of the benefits or situations best suited for each type.
• Provide 2 sources.

Unfortunately this assignment is due today in about 4 hours, therefore I am making 2 separate posts to be

sure that it can be done in time.

Discussion answer must be a minimum of 400 words

Background:Research serves as a guide by which to study, describe, and quantify an array of social and physical phenomenon. Theory, which is best described as a set of propositions or hypotheses that specify the relationship among a subset of variables, serves as a way of offering an intellectualized general commentary on that which is observed. Describe how theory is applicable to a research study.

Theories can be used in quantative, qualitative, and mixed method studies

How does theory inform a research study? How can a generalized theory remain timely enough to be applicable to new or innovative studies?