Leadership Decision-Making: Approaches and Models

PAPER#1 In this assignment, you are to assume the role of a senior executive of a large and highly successful organization in Saudi Arabia. The executive committee has directed you to collaborate with a global organization located in Europe in order to form a strategic alliance in your industry to gain an advantage over your organization’s fiercest competitor in the global marketplace. Using the Saudi Vision 2030 as a backdrop for your analysis, you are to discuss the following: Describe the various challenges that you could face by forming the alliance with the global organization located in Europe. How might you apply prescriptive or descriptive decision-making methods to accomplish the alliance initiative. Fully justify your reasoning. Evaluate the various decision-making methods that you might use to better insure the alliance will be effective against the competition. Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements: Be 5 pages in length, which does not include the title page, abstract or required reference page, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements. Support your submission with course material concepts, principles and theories from the textbook and at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles. Bazerman, M. H., & Moore, D. A. (2012). Judgment in managerial decision making (8th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons. ISBN-13: 9781118065709 PAPER#2 Choose a Middle Eastern company that you can easily research. Write a 4 page analysis, not including the cover and reference pages, of this company with regards to its corporate commitment to sustainability. Review available public documents relative to the organization’s corporate mission statement, standards and codes of conduct, and the impact of government regulations on the company’s ability to exhibit its commitment to sustainability. The required readings below provide insight which will aid you in your analysis. Make sure to cite and reference any information gleaned from those documents. Additionally, include two current and scholarly sources beyond the course materials and readings to support your analysis. Current sources are those published in the most recent five years. Scholarly sources come from peer-reviewed journals. Galpin, T., Whittington, J. L., & Bell, G. (2015). Is your sustainability strategy sustainable? Creating a culture of sustainability. Corporate Governance, 15(1), 1–17. Porter, T. H., Gallagher, V. C., & Lawong, D. (2016). The greening of organizational culture: Revisited fifteen years later. American Journal of Business, 31(4), 206–226. Epstein, M. J., & Buhovac, A. J. (2014). Making sustainability work: Best practices in managing and measuring corporate social, environmental, and economic impacts (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN-13: 9781907643934