Organizational Culture, Leadership and CSR

1. Organizational Culture and Leadership
Overview
It is important to understand yourself as a leader and how you fit into an organization. In this journal assignment, you will discuss your individual experience with organizational culture and how it has impacted communication and leadership within an organization you are familiar with. This could be an organization you currently work for, or one you have worked for in the past. You may wish to revisit the results of your personality assessment from your previous work and discuss how your leadership style connects to the organizational culture you describe here.
Prompt
Revisit your Big Five personality assessment and the related journal assignment, and consider who you are as a leader. Think of the culture of an organization that you currently work for or have worked for in the past, and describe your role within it based on the organizational culture and your disposition.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
• Organizational Culture: Describe the organizational culture of the organization of your choice. Consider the following in your response:
o What is the organization's mission and vision?
o How have you seen the organization's mission and vision reflected in daily activities such as communication, management approaches, priorities, and so on?
o What does the organization value?
• Impacts of Culture and Leadership: Describe the impact of culture and leadership on the employees and day-to-day business, providing examples. Consider the following in your response:
o How did organizational culture play a role in the examples you provided?
o In the examples you provided, was the communication or behavior aligned with the culture the organization promotes? Why or why not?
• Leadership Style and Personality Traits: Discuss your leadership style and personality traits; focus specifically on how your leadership fits into an organizational culture. Consider the following in your response:
o What traits make you a strong leader, and how does this connect to the organizational culture you described?

2. Socially Responsible Practice Recommendations

Imagine that you have been hired as a consultant to investigate the social responsibility of two companies, TOMS Shoes and The Body Shop. Your manager finds both of these companies to be inspirational. She would like the SNHU Pet Supply Company to become more socially conscious and has asked you to investigate what Toms and The Body Shop are doing. You are responsible for researching how their socially responsible practices impact both the companies and their customers. Your manager would like you to make some suggestions about how the SNHU Pet Supply Company can become more socially responsible and make ethical decisions.

Prompt
You will create an opinion brief about the two companies and suggest a social change for your company. Be sure to use evidence from the course (such as the definition of social responsibility found in your readings) to support your response and suggestions.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
• Socially Responsible Efforts: Describe each company's efforts to promote ethical and social good.
• Benefits: Describe the organizational benefits from adopting socially conscious policies.
• Socially Responsible Policy: Suggest one socially responsible policy that the SNHU Pet Supply Company could put into place, and explain how this would benefit the company and its consumers.