Leadership and communication

Leadership and communication Order Description MGT 522 – Leadership & Communication Individual Busin" rel="nofollow">iness Case Due by 13th July 2016 Student Name : ___________________________________________ Student ID : ___________________________________________ Requirement Read the followin" rel="nofollow">ing case and answer the questions given below. Your responses must in" rel="nofollow">in total account for 1200 – 1500 words (400 – 500 for each question). This must be emailed by 13th July 2016 to [email protected] . You need to rely on the lecture slides, textbook readin" rel="nofollow">ing and your own professional practice while answerin" rel="nofollow">ing these questions. Please in" rel="nofollow">in case if you use any outside source, make sure to use APA referencin" rel="nofollow">ing because the work will be checked for plagiarism. The accepted percentage of similarity for this work is 7% or less. Be Fit or Be Out of Favor at Etihad1 Recently, employees at Etihad have an in" rel="nofollow">incentive to get healthy. If they join" rel="nofollow">in in" rel="nofollow">in the companywide weight-loss contest and succeed in" rel="nofollow">in reachin" rel="nofollow">ing their goals, they could win" rel="nofollow">in cash prizes or a luxury vacation. Inspiration for the contest came from the new corporate leader Salem AlNuaimi, who himself lost more than 10 kilo’s a few years ago. “He really put it on the radar,” says Sheikha AlShamsi, chief operatin" rel="nofollow">ing office at Etihad, “in" rel="nofollow">in the contest's first year, some employees lost up to 30 kilo’s”. Etihad was also one of the first UAE companies to take a hard lin" rel="nofollow">ine on smokin" rel="nofollow">ing. Mohammed Mansouri, director of the Center for Human Resources, was asked to comment on the antismokin" rel="nofollow">ing campaign. He said that “It has become socially acceptable to attack smokin" rel="nofollow">ing and smokers. Will we see the same thin" rel="nofollow">ing concernin" rel="nofollow">ing obesity? The time is probably ripe for that.” In 2015, director AlNuaimi announced that all Etihad employees would have one year to quit smokin" rel="nofollow">ing completely or else face termin" rel="nofollow">ination. The company offered smokin" rel="nofollow">ing cessation classes, nicotin" rel="nofollow">ine patches, and other support, accordin" rel="nofollow">ing to Mohammed Mansouri, who said director AlNuaimi decided on the policy after a close friend died of lung cancer—and after he learned that UAE state law does not protect smokers. Another concern was the fact that smokers drive up health care premiums, thus in" rel="nofollow">increasin" rel="nofollow">ing the expenditure on health costs for the company. “If someone wants to smoke, that is their choice, but when their choices impact their employer and fellow employees, then, frankly, we're not goin" rel="nofollow">ing to accept it,” says Mansouri. AlNuaimi found himself at the center of controversy when he told on Al Jazeera that Etihad would take every legal step to in" rel="nofollow">insist on healthy employees. “If you are an alcoholic, and we 1 * case not based on facts, but only for train" rel="nofollow">inin" rel="nofollow">ing / academic purposes have the right to fire you, we will do that, too,” he said. Bloggers and onlin" rel="nofollow">ine commentators attacked AlNuaimi for discrimin" rel="nofollow">inatin" rel="nofollow">ing unfairly again" rel="nofollow">inst overweight people and steppin" rel="nofollow">ing too far in" rel="nofollow">into employees' private lives. A pregnant woman said, “Last time I was pregnant, I gain" rel="nofollow">ined 20 kilos. In how much time would I have to lose that weight before gettin" rel="nofollow">ing fired?” Accordin" rel="nofollow">ing to AlNuaimi, however, it does not go that far: “Weight [he means bein" rel="nofollow">ing overweight] is complicated—it can be caused by disease—so before we go down the path of penalizin" rel="nofollow">ing employees who are overweight, we need to understand and build a consensus around it.” He says the company does not currently penalize overweight or obese workers. Questions 1. Which in" rel="nofollow">influence tactics does Salem AlNuaimi appear to be usin" rel="nofollow">ing in" rel="nofollow">in his attempt to combat employee smokin" rel="nofollow">ing and obesity? 2. What suggestions might you offer director AlNuaimi to help him be more successful in" rel="nofollow">in his attempts at in" rel="nofollow">influencin" rel="nofollow">ing employee weight control? 3. What is your evaluation of the ethics of a corporate leader attemptin" rel="nofollow">ing to in" rel="nofollow">influence employees to avoid obesity? (do you thin" rel="nofollow">ink it’s OK or not, and why) MGT 522 – Leadership & Communication Individual Busin" rel="nofollow">iness Case Due by 13th July 2016 Student Name : ___________________________________________ Student ID : ___________________________________________ Requirement Read the followin" rel="nofollow">ing case and answer the questions given below. Your responses must in" rel="nofollow">in total account for 1200 – 1500 words (400 – 500 for each question). This must be emailed by 13th July 2016 to [email protected] . You need to rely on the lecture slides, textbook readin" rel="nofollow">ing and your own professional practice while answerin" rel="nofollow">ing these questions. Please in" rel="nofollow">in case if you use any outside source, make sure to use APA referencin" rel="nofollow">ing because the work will be checked for plagiarism. The accepted percentage of similarity for this work is 7% or less. Be Fit or Be Out of Favor at Etihad1 Recently, employees at Etihad have an in" rel="nofollow">incentive to get healthy. If they join" rel="nofollow">in in" rel="nofollow">in the companywide weight-loss contest and succeed in" rel="nofollow">in reachin" rel="nofollow">ing their goals, they could win" rel="nofollow">in cash prizes or a luxury vacation. Inspiration for the contest came from the new corporate leader Salem AlNuaimi, who himself lost more than 10 kilo’s a few years ago. “He really put it on the radar,” says Sheikha AlShamsi, chief operatin" rel="nofollow">ing office at Etihad, “in" rel="nofollow">in the contest's first year, some employees lost up to 30 kilo’s”. Etihad was also one of the first UAE companies to take a hard lin" rel="nofollow">ine on smokin" rel="nofollow">ing. Mohammed Mansouri, director of the Center for Human Resources, was asked to comment on the antismokin" rel="nofollow">ing campaign. He said that “It has become socially acceptable to attack smokin" rel="nofollow">ing and smokers. Will we see the same thin" rel="nofollow">ing concernin" rel="nofollow">ing obesity? The time is probably ripe for that.” In 2015, director AlNuaimi announced that all Etihad employees would have one year to quit smokin" rel="nofollow">ing completely or else face termin" rel="nofollow">ination. The company offered smokin" rel="nofollow">ing cessation classes, nicotin" rel="nofollow">ine patches, and other support, accordin" rel="nofollow">ing to Mohammed Mansouri, who said director AlNuaimi decided on the policy after a close friend died of lung cancer—and after he learned that UAE state law does not protect smokers. Another concern was the fact that smokers drive up health care premiums, thus in" rel="nofollow">increasin" rel="nofollow">ing the expenditure on health costs for the company. “If someone wants to smoke, that is their choice, but when their choices impact their employer and fellow employees, then, frankly, we're not goin" rel="nofollow">ing to accept it,” says Mansouri. AlNuaimi found himself at the center of controversy when he told on Al Jazeera that Etihad would take every legal step to in" rel="nofollow">insist on healthy employees. “If you are an alcoholic, and we 1 * case not based on facts, but only for train" rel="nofollow">inin" rel="nofollow">ing / academic purposes have the right to fire you, we will do that, too,” he said. Bloggers and onlin" rel="nofollow">ine commentators attacked AlNuaimi for discrimin" rel="nofollow">inatin" rel="nofollow">ing unfairly again" rel="nofollow">inst overweight people and steppin" rel="nofollow">ing too far in" rel="nofollow">into employees' private lives. A pregnant woman said, “Last time I was pregnant, I gain" rel="nofollow">ined 20 kilos. In how much time would I have to lose that weight before gettin" rel="nofollow">ing fired?” Accordin" rel="nofollow">ing to AlNuaimi, however, it does not go that far: “Weight [he means bein" rel="nofollow">ing overweight] is complicated—it can be caused by disease—so before we go down the path of penalizin" rel="nofollow">ing employees who are overweight, we need to understand and build a consensus around it.” He says the company does not currently penalize overweight or obese workers. Questions 1. Which in" rel="nofollow">influence tactics does Salem AlNuaimi appear to be usin" rel="nofollow">ing in" rel="nofollow">in his attempt to combat employee smokin" rel="nofollow">ing and obesity? 2. What suggestions might you offer director AlNuaimi to help him be more successful in" rel="nofollow">in his attempts at in" rel="nofollow">influencin" rel="nofollow">ing employee weight control? 3. What is your evaluation of the ethics of a corporate leader attemptin" rel="nofollow">ing to in" rel="nofollow">influence employees to avoid obesity? (do you thin" rel="nofollow">ink it’s OK or not, and why)