Superstars

- Nurruzana Rahim - Cristina Adame - Alexandra Ramirez
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 * __Final Project__**

Superstars MHR 318 – 05 May 12, 2011

**__ Online Final Project Assignment __** ** 1. **** What is your topic? **

Chapters 11 and 12, leadership theories.

** 2. **** What company are you assessing as consultants? **

Because our chapter deals with many different types of leadership theories instead of focusing on one company which would only have one leadership style we instead decided to choose many different leaders each representing a different leadership style. Each person will covers about 2 to 3 leadership theories... __**//Strategic Leadership://**__ //Lee Soo Man//, **__Charismatic Leadership__ :** //Former Malaysia Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad// //**__Change Leadership__**:// //Barack Obama// //**__Transformational Leadership__**: Lorena, Burlington Coat Factory Department Manager// //**__Authentic Leadership__**: Warren Buffett//

** 3. **** Provide some background information about the People. **

**__Strategic Leadership : Lee Soo Man:__**

Mr. Lee Soo Man is a South Korean entrepreneur and founder of SM. Entertainment including two subsidiaries known as SM Academy and SM TinTin Entertainment which specializing in Korean Pop groups. He co-founded the agency in 1995 that has taken place an important position in the South Korean entertainment. Actually Mr. Lee had started his career a singer while attending Seoul National University. But then after graduation, he moved into the business side of the industry once his popularity had faded. SM became one of the biggest record labels in South Korea, due to the success of such groups as H.O.T, S.E.S, ShinHwa, Super Junior, SNSD (GIRLS GENERATION), F(X), SHInee, etc. SM is now the biggest entertainment agency in South Korea, and Lee is the most important figure behind it. Lee Soo Man is the one who started to get Korean entertainment or Hallyu Wave to the world. He always believe that Asian entertainment market will increase and well-known by people one day - //**From nothing to Something **//. Now all across the world, people do recognized Hallyu wave. Many people even said that he is the representative for entertainment business in Asia.Lee is especially known for his ability to read the trend just a second ahead of the curve. Taking advantage of his unique skills, Lee is also expanding his business to developing star-related contents. SM Entertainment is involved in over 40 kinds of business, including album wholesales, entertainment agency, publishing, and licensing.

**__Charismatic Leadership : Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad__** Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad is Malaysia former fifth Prime Minister and he is the longest Prime Minister who served for Malaysia which is about 22 years. He is known to be someone who is very charismatic as he is someone who is always full with visions. There's a lot of new things he brought to Malaysia. He is the one who made Petronas Twin Tower Malaysia done and create an aim for the country to reach 'WAWASAN 2020' which is a vision to make Malaysia well known to the world by the greatness of technology,cultures, its people, etc. To give way to his juniors and feeling that he had reached his aim after serving the nations for 22 years, charismatically he stepped down and the prime minister although the people were sad about him stepping down as he brought a lot of great things to Malaysia.


 * __ Barack Obama: __**

Barack Obama's entire 2008 campaign centered around two ideals, hope and change. Hope for a better future and the change that needed to happen in order for a better future to be possible. Once he was elected Obama faced many challenges ahead of him from a crippling economy to a failing healthcare system, all the while he faced opposition from Republican's and other opponents the entire time. While he may not have accomplished all that he promised during his campaign in two years of his Presidency, Obama has been able to create some job growth, provide better and easier accesible healthcare to more people and managed to find and execute the world's most wanted terrorist.

__ ** Transformational Leader: Lorena ** __

A transformational leader is one that inspires a vision in everyone around them and motivates them to achieve a common goal. It is one that creates positive change through motivating others to achieve their maximum potential and serving as a role model. Lorena exemplifies what it means to be a transformational leader; the following story will demonstrate that: About 5 months ago Lorena went on maternity leave, leaving the area 1 department, which includes sportswear (the biggest department in the store), mens and accessories, with a temporary manager that would take over area 1 for only a short period. During that time 4 associates quit and all were unhappy with the temporary manager. She would completely ignore our availability and schedule everyone during specified unavailable times and because so many associates left, there were a slew of new associates that were not properly trained. The new associates were left to figure out the way the store works for themselves which led to a disastrous department in terms of presentation, by the end of those 5 months. Recently Lorena has returned and has changed everything around. She has single handedly properly trained all sales associates, has worked along side all associates, even doing tasks such as sizing and colorizing, and has inspired not only the associates under her but the manager above her want to make the store more presentable and functional. Her ability to lead has always been apparent however. In 2008 when Lorena had returned to work at Burlington for the second time, the store was in the same position as I described above. At this time she was not a manager, yet she took the bull by the horn and made sure everybody knew what needed to be done to better the department. She located the floor plan that corporate sends to each store and reconstructed many areas in order to be up to par with their expectations. This did not go unnoticed, as she had managed to get even the associates that had worked there for many years to work harder and keep up with the visual presentation of their department. Soon after, she was moved up to the manager position for her efforts and skills as a transitional leader.

** 4. **** What topics/theories will you cover to explain the interesting/challenging/successful phenomenon going on in the company? **

We will be covering Strategic Leadership, Charismatic Leadership, Change Leadership, Transformational Leadership, and Authentic Leadership and a specific person that encompasses that particular style of leadership.

** 5. **** Who will be responsible for discussing what theories? **

Strategic Leadership, Charismatic Leadership – //Nurruzana// Change Leadership – //Cristina// Transformational Leadership – Alex

** 6. **** Discuss in what ways some of the theories relate to the company, and in what ways some of the DO NOT relate to the company (there needs to be both as not every theory you choose will be exactly fitting to the company.) **

All leadership theories discussed in our presentation influences and sets the tone of the company. A leader's ideals and values will be echoed through the company's policies, regulations and procedures. To a large extent, these values and philosophies trickle down all the way to the employees at the bottom end of the company structure.

** 7. **** For those theories not utilized by the company, do you think they should? Does it fit the organization? How so? Why or why not? **

Every leadership theory is dependent on the company. It is up to the company to decide which role it wants to take on. There is no universal answer to the question as different companies will pursue different goals. As a result, one theory might be more fitting than the next. Once a company chooses to follow a specific leadership theory, it's identity, as perceived by the employees, will take on that image.

**__ Meeting Details: __**

** a) **** How often will you meet as previously decided? **

We meet once to decide who will be doing what and how our presentation and information should be formatted with various meetings before or after class to make sure everyone is on track with their portion of the presentation. We will also be meeting up again to film our short video for our presentation.

** b) **** Who will take on what roll or do what tasks for the group? **

We all have assigned leadership theories to cover and later on we will decide who will cover the other leadership theories in our chapters.

** c) **** What things are left to do as a group? List them... **

Decide what to film (script, information to provide…) Decide on a date to film the short video Decide who will edit the video //**(Nurruzana)**// Decide who will put presentation together Ask Professor if we should cover the other leadership theories in the chapter briefly since we are only focusing on four main theories. //**(Asked during Skype session)**//


 * d) When group meetings occurred and what was decided. **

**__May 13__** - All group members were present and decided on their leader to write about. We decided each member is responsible for their own leader and leadership theory and will make their own slides to contribute to the group presentation. **__May 18__** - After class we met briefly to decide when to meet to meet to film our short video.
 * __May 27__** - All members present. We update each other with the progress of the slides and write in scripts for the video. Script was written and settings were determined during our meeting. Everyone contributed to the dialogue and ideas for the video outline stated below.
 * __June 2 @ 3:00PM__** - (Meet at Library 3rd floor) Shooting Intro video
 * __June 2__** - Managed to finished up the video editings and uploaded in youtube.
 * __June 3__** - Members meet in class and discuss about the completed video and view slides that have been compiled.


 * __Video Outline__**

//*Entire Script and settings was written during our group meeting on 5/27 with contributions from everyone.*//

Example Example
 * 1st Intro: Scene 1**
 * Setting:
 * Introducing company with traditional leadership styles
 * Shoot in Black & White
 * Classroom with older looking desk.
 * Setting:
 * Classroom with chalkboard.
 * Newspaper outlined on chalkboard
 * Girls will be dressed as boys with fedoras, dress shirts and ties
 * Editor standing at front assigning articles to writers for the day/next issue
 * 2nd Intro**
 * Setting:
 * Modern looking desk
 * Shoot in Color
 * Nurruzana is now the editor of an online blog with more contemporary leadership styles.
 * Setting:
 * Modern meeting room
 * Whiteboard with ideas written down (cluster/idea maps)