You were recently appointed as a new manager.You face a number of issues in your new position.Please address one of the following:

• The previous manager used a transactional leadership approach, which has been relatively ineffective. Evaluate one leadership style and describe which you would take.
• An experienced executive assistant discovered that she made the same amount of money as a newly hired janitor.Consider the role the human resources department plays in driving organization performance.What HR strategies would you employ to address this?
• To keep people motivated in a tough economic environment, the company has shifted from annual to semiannual bonuses.Do you think offering semiannual bonuses is a good way to motivate the kind of behaviors organizations need to survive the economic downturn?What might be some potential problems associated with this approach?What other strategies would you use?