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Examine the roles and responsibilities of organizational managers and leaders in creating and maintaining a healthy organizational culture.

A. Select an organization with which you are familiar. (your choice).
B. Differentiate between management and leadership within the selected organization.
C. Describe the roles that organizational managers and leaders play in creating and maintaining a healthy organizational culture in the selected organization.
D. Explain how the four functions of management support the creation and maintenance of a healthy organizational culture within the selected organization.
E. Recommend at least two strategies that organizational managers and leaders can use to create and maintain a healthy organizational culture within your selected organization. Support your recommendations with the concepts discussed in class and in the text, as well as your personal experiences.

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How the Microsoft leadership differs from the management and the effects of leadership on the employees of Microsoft. Discussion of vision, goals, motivation is included.

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As a company, Microsoft is the leader in computer software for operating systems. The management of the company is excellent with accountants, financial operations, attorneys, software designers and engineers, and marketing that is among the best in the world. While all this is great, it is really the leadership and leaders who make the vision of Microsoft the outstanding company it is. Bill and Melinda Gates and Steve Ballmer are the leaders. It is their vision and their goals that excite and motivate the employees to go further, be more creative, stretch their imaginations and take the products further than anyone thought they could go. The leaders expect the products they create to be excellent and improve the lives of computer users. They want the products to be easy to use. And they want the products to sell well to advance the visions created for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It is up to the management to make sure the goals and expectations are carried out. Leaders provide the vision.

Leaders provide the vision and the goals. Management is the tool to motivate the employees to make those goals and the vision reality. When the atmosphere is exciting and creative, the company can thrive. Healthy organizations allow for creative thought and reward excellence with appreciation and support. In the case of Microsoft, Gates and Ballmer provide the leadership for the company and the management are left to other members of management and administration such as accountants, attorneys, software engineers. Bill Gates could perform the work of software development, but allows those engineers and workers the creativity to create software they could use. Leaders, good ones, allow work to progress from many minds and therefore synergy develops.

Planning, organizing, leading, and depending on what book you are using coordinating, controlling, or evaluating are important. I use evaluations since I think this is often the most important and most overlooked. With ...

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