Ldr 510 - Managing and Leading Paper

Managing and Leading Paper

Zen Benefiel

LDR 510

University of Phoenix

September 29, 2003

Instructor: Ted Szaniawski

Managing and Leading Paper

Strategic planning within an organization requires the addressing of ethics and values that will become the foundation of the organizational culture. Many factors are included in the development and implementation of the corporate entity currently treated the same as an individual within the framework of law.

Person. I. A human being (a "natural" person). 2. A corporation an artificial" person). Corporations are treated as persons in many legal situations. Also, the word "person" includes corporations in most definitions in this dictionary. 3. Any other "being" entitled to sue as a legal entity (a government, an association, a group of Trustees, etc.). 4. The plural of person is persons, not people (see that word).—Oran '5 Dictionary of the Law, West Group 1999.

Best Practices of the Entity

As an entity responsible for carrying out appropriate measures that include the ethical and moral standards relating to the community it serves, several other factors come into play. Best practices concerning social responsibility cover a plethora of issues. These include poverty eradication, social integration, women and gender equality, homelessness and housing, economic development, community participation and urban governance, and crime prevention. Just how people address these issues is a function of the code of ethics and its implementation in the community. In this case – Spectrum Academy comprises its own community by design. This peer-based community design is to empower students, patrons, and staff as leaders within the Academy and to encourage the spillover into the community at large.

Peer-community facilitators, as change agents, are rare in the development of alternative solutions to this growing problem: disenfranchised youth. Spectrum Academy is a potent answer to the current crisis facing our juvenile systems today. It is a combination of a youth residential treatment center (RTC), charter school, and community technology center (CTC). This concept encompasses the value of education as emotional rips repair, because an emotionally unavailable youth simply cannot learn effectively. The community technology center promotes positive social interaction while facilitating the delivery of inexpensive e-curriculum to its patrons and to the vast array of charter schools that are struggling with the high costs of state-of-the-art education. Spectrum provides a needed service with timely application of technology.

Organizational Structure of Spectrum Academy

There are some obvious differences in the situational circumstances within Spectrum Academy. Staff as leaders must necessarily use behavioral, charismatic, path-goal and situational leadership in their day-to-day activities. Using the organizational model as an example (Fig. 1), there appears to be a clear structure of management for the entity concerning the structure of Spectrum Academy.

Co-Directors

Education

(charter)

Commerce

(CTC)

Community

(RTC)

State

Fulfillment

Outreach

Admin.

Curricula

Training

Business

Partnerships

Product Development.

After

School