In the second assignment, students continue working with Global Delivery Direct (GDD). Students learn about their own personality type and based on what is learned, rank several candidates who have applied for the position of CEO and develop interview questions based on leadership quality and personality types.In this assignment, students will take the Myers-Briggs Personality Assessment, learn about candidates for the position of CEO for Mail on Wheels and develop interview questions that will be used by Alex Cheng.Review How to Analyze a Case Study under Week 6 Content. Create a Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) document that is double-spaced, 12-point font. The final product will be between 5-7 pages in length excluding the title page and reference page.Review the grading rubric for the assignment. In addition to providing an introduction, students will use headings following this format:: In writing a case study, the writing is in the third person. What this means is that there are no words such as I, me, my, we, or us (first person writing), nor is there use of you or your (second person writing). If uncertain how to write in the third person, view this link:http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/first-second-and-third-person. Also note that students are not to provide personal commentary. In writing this assignment, students are expected to support the reasoning using in-text citations and a reference list. If any material is used from a source document, it must be cited and referenced. A reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice versa. View the sample APA paper under Week 1 content. In writing this assignment, students willuse resources from the course material and no more than 3 external source documents. The expectation is that students provide a robust use of the course material including the material presented in this assignment. In completing the assignment, students are expected to use the facts from the case study paired with the weekly courses readings to develop the analysis. The case study is not cited or referenced.In writing this assignment, students are expected to paraphrase and not use direct quotes. Students are expected to paraphrase, which can be learned by reviewing this link:https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QPA_paraphrase2.html Read and use theGlobal Delivery Direct (GDD) Company Profile. Read critically and analyze the following scenario:Having bought the business from Alex Cheng, owner and CEO of Mail on Wheels, who decided not to stay on in a leadership capacity, Rockfish now has to hire a replacement for Alex Cheng. Rockfish is looking for a candidate who knows the business, can present a good corporate image (i.e., to the bigger clients who are more likely to pay for the custom service), is well-educated, and will lead the existing group with a balance of firmness and give enough freedom to creatively personalize fulfillment of each clients needs. Since you are the manager with whom Chengs replacement will have the most contact, Rockfish has decided that you should participate in the call back interview. Further he has given you his interview notes on each candidate and wants you to rank them on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the best fit, so that he has some idea going into the interview what your on paper reaction is to each candidate.Here are his notes on each candidate:Henrietta was the assistant to Alex Cheng. She is 28 years old with 3 years of college. She currently is finishing her degree online at UMUC. Henrietta is a Business Administration major. She is friendly and has a quiet demeanor. Her Myers-Briggs personality test ranked her as an ISTJ. She has received high marks from Cheng who says she is detailed oriented, had a good understanding of the business organization and seemed to work well with the younger staff. She did not tolerate much nonsense from people, hated surprises, and wanted people to be brief in talking with her. These personality traits meant she could at times be cold to customers whose demands she believed were unfounded or unrealistic. Cheng did not see this as bad per se because he thought he was too pleasing sometimes. After all, he was in the business to make money. Overall, Cheng felt that she could handle the job. Rockfishs personal impressions were that she was hesitant in joining a bigger company. She liked the smallness of a business and felt in control. She did like the collaborative environment of GDD and responded well to the idea that her opinions and suggestions were welcome at all times. Her reasons for wanting the job centered mainly on the idea that she felt she could run the business well and had some good ideas about making the mobile units better using the advanced technology that Cheng wanted. The technology would allow for better connections to GDD allowing deadlines to be met faster. When asked how the staff perceived her, she laughed and said they called her Type A. but then to some of the people I work with, anyone who shows up for a meeting early is a Type A. Rockfish noted that during this statement, it was only one of two times during the interview that she held my gaze for any length of time. When asked what characteristics she thought a leader needed to succeed in the 21century she replied, objective, practical, controlled and fair. Her knowledge of the business was sound. She seemed to not know a lot about how GDD was operating.
Assessing Self and Potential Candidates
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