Maggie Bianchi - Language, Leadership and Linguistic Relativity.pdf

Language, Leadership, and Linguistic Relativity

As a topic of study, linguistic relativity shares space with anthropology, neurocognition, sociology, and linguistics. I am interested in the impact of linguistic relativity from a leadership standpoint. How can a leader be effective when members of the team speak different mother tongues? The studies and literature presented in this analysis originate from either linguistics-focused studies or business-focused articles related to economic consequences and social development within multinational teams.

Accounting Case Study

Maryland Corporation has developed a new personal fitness tracker device that the sales team believes will have broad consumer appeal. The sales manager, Nadia Zarento, is very excited about the product and the possibility of taking market share away from existing products produced by Apple and Fitbit. The sales team is very anxious to go forward with the investment to begin producing the fitness tracker.

For this case study, I put myself in the position of a member of the finance team, and in that role, I started to call Maryland Corporation "MayCo" in the way those in the company have nicknames for the corporate entity as a whole.  I also took the stance that the Sales Team is putting pressure on Finance in this case, and responded giving them some options.

Exec Report - Fitness Tracker Analysis.pdf

Executive Report

This slide deck represents how I would present these data to a member of the leadership team.  It includes an analysis of investing in the new product, and summarized my recommendations as to whether the company should go forward with the project as planned.

Correspondance - Zarento.pdf

Correspondance

In response to Case Study questions from the Sales Manager, I made the assumption that the questions from Nadia Zarento had gone to a common Finance team inbox.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging: Potential Applications

My goal with this paper is to create a framework with which to complete an equity audit. This framework will be flexible in that it can be applied in teams as small as my own, as focused as an entire division at a given site, or as broad as the company as a whole. Once the goal of the audit is determined, and a team is formed to manage it, the audit team must define the population, collect information, assess the proportional representation, and define next steps.

DEI Applications.pdf