An Analysis of the IS Department at Amazon Web Services

This report provides an analysis of the Information Systems (IS) Department at Amazon Web Services (AWS). It explores the functions, roles, and career opportunities within the department. The report highlights the importance of hiring skilled professionals, particularly full-stack developers, and emphasizes the need for proficiency in multiple programming languages. Furthermore, the report compares leadership and followership, emphasizing the importance of honesty, inspiration, and strong relationships in leadership. The report also discusses the role of followers in supporting the team leader and achieving organizational goals. The report references relevant literature to support its findings, including studies on leadership, followership, and the AWS platform.

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1THE IS DEPARTMENT
For this study the chosen company is Amazon Web Services, in which the study
determines the functions, roles and the careers that is found in the department of IS of AWS.
Some of the steps that can be taken for the employment for the IS department of the AWS are:
 The organization have to look for the proper talent by choosing the people with
the appropriate expertise in the IS field (Varia & Mathew, 2014).
 They must be concerned in the hiring of the full stack developer, as the job will be
for the Information System field.
 The candidate must be proficient in the multiple programming languages.
There are different comparisons between the leaders and followers such as:
Leadership comes with the multiple responsibilities such as honesty, traits of inspiring
and ability to build good relationship. When any leader is leading the team with the team
members, they are supposed to be honest in guiding the team (Leroy et al., 2015). The team
members always look up to the team leader. The team members always take the leader as their
inspiration and the leaders are the most essential source of encouragement.
In addition, for the dynamic followership, the follower should be loyal to the leader of his
team. In the corporate industry, the leaders are very important in planning the crucial role in
leading the team to achieve their goal. The followers need to abide by the given instruction that
is given by the leaders of their team for achieving the goals successfully.

2THE IS DEPARTMENT
References
Leroy, H., Anseel, F., Gardner, W. L., & Sels, L. (2015). Authentic leadership, authentic
followership, basic need satisfaction, and work role performance: A cross-level
study. Journal of management, 41(6), 1677-1697.
Varia, J., & Mathew, S. (2014). Overview of amazon web services. Amazon Web Services, 1-22.