Reference no: EM132751576

You are a training coordinator for Sunnyvale Insurance. The company recently added a new manager, and with new management positions anticipated, the company owners have asked that you support the company in calibrating management approaches and styles. In order to do this, you will need to develop management recommendations to send to leadership. Your work here will support leadership in both training current management and in informing future hiring decisions.

Directions

Upper management has asked you to develop a management recommendations email to support management in moving the company forward. In order to do this, I should analyze the current management approach being used, identify gaps, and recommend preferred management styles and techniques that will best serve the company. Submit a 1- to 3-page management recommendations email should include the following:

• Introduction: Owners Julianne and Robert Montague would like you to frame your management recommendations within the context of a modern workplace environment.
o Describe the workplace environment, including technology and growth considerations that potentially impact the company's future initiatives. Why is it important to consider management styles for their impact in a shifting workplace environment?
o Outline management traits that are valued in diverse and shifting business environments for effectively supporting employees. Specifically, provide examples of how management traits outlined would address the issues of employee turnover and low morale at Sunnyvale Insurance.
• Identifying Management Challenges: Provide background on the challenge impacting Sunnyvale's management, and include specific examples where possible.
o Describe the influence of the currently demonstrated management styles on company culture and workplace environment and provide at least two examples from the scenario to support your ideas.
o Consider how employees might respond to the management styles in the scenario. In turn, how might their responses impact the customer experience?
• Recommendations for Improvement: The owners have also asked that you share your recommendations for management and leadership styles. This will support them in supporting current management and in evaluating new management candidates.
o Recommend a preferred management approach. Include strengths and weaknesses as well as specific strategies to best support management in implementing the preferred approach.
o Based on the gaps you identified in manager support within Sunnyvale Insurance, discuss styles and leadership methods that the managers can employ to better support a diverse and increasingly virtual workforce. Provide examples to support ideas, and consider strengths and weaknesses of various management styles.
o Recommend techniques for reflecting on strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities and for managers to reflect on and improve their management style to best support the company and its employees. Specifically consider how managers will need to adapt their style for a diverse and geographically distributed workforce.
o Recommend resources and strategies for supporting a diverse and virtual environment, including technology for addressing the concerns expressed by virtual employees in the scenario. It is not necessary to find specific software to use; instead, discuss what types of tools the company might benefit from.
• Company Impacts: In a closing statement, briefly outline actions you would like your audience to take away from the email. Be sure to include how the company will benefit from the action.
o In the closing statement, be sure to discuss how the preferred approach and strategies will help support a more positive company culture and workplace environment and anticipate the impact on clients and sales based on key trends.

Management Recommendations Email
Submit a management recommendations email based on strengths and weaknesses of management styles observed and employee feedback outlined in the scenario. The recommendations should suggest a preferred a management style and approach to support the company as they move forward. The management recommendations email should be 1 to 3 pages in length.

Attachment:- Mgmt Styles Outline.rar