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Option #1: Analyzing Leadership Decisions
Option #1: Analyzing Leadership Decisions
For this option, your final Portfolio Project is a thoughtful analysis of an ineffective or poor leadership decision. You may use a well-known leadership decision, such as the 2011 decision to split Netflix, which resulted in serious financial losses for the organization. Your project must include the following:
- Research a leadership decision that was ineffective or did not have the desired results.
- Describe the problem that may have precipitated the decision, as well as the apparent processes used by the leaders involved in the decision-making effort. Use terms from this course.
- Critique the processes they implemented, applying what you learned from this course.
- Recommend a different approach that could have been taken, using theories and methodologies from this course.
- Present a strong case for how your recommendations could have altered the decision made, leading to more effective results for the organization.
- Use theory from this course to support your evaluation, critique, and recommendations.
This assignment may be delivered in the form most suitable to your response. You can write a paper or create a slide presentation, website, or video. You could also try out a new tool such as Prezi or VoiceThread.
- If you choose a written format, your paper should be 10 pages in length.
- Cite a minimum of twelve scholarly sources to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to the textbook, ten of which should be academic, peer-reviewed sources. (You may not use the required and recommended readings for this course.)
- Format your project according to the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.) . You will find resources focused on helping you create your
Strategic Planning
Do some research and write a 500-600-word summary (body content length) that discusses two different strategic planning concepts. Locate a minimum of two scholarly journal articles for each concept—a minimum of four articles for the paper altogether (these articles must be new to this assignment for this course). You want to select research that presents each concept and its usefulness in strategic planning within organizations. If you elect to write the paper, then keep your writing in third person if you discuss how these concepts work in your sector.
Can someone help me with Week 2 Assignment in Principle of Marketing?
Prior to beginning work on this assignment,
Read
- Chapter 9: Managing the Marketing Effect, Sections 9.1 and 9.2 of the course text, Principles of Marketing
Watch
- How to Use SWOT Analysis (Links to an external site.)
- The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy (Links to an external site.)
This week, you will be creating components of your capstone marketing plan assignment. You will then finish your plan in Week 5.
Using the company you selected for your marketing manager internship, you will complete a situation analysis with the goal of identifying a new product/service to develop your marketing plan against.
+Describe the selected company and it’s brand. Include a brief history of the company.
+List the core products and services the company offers.
+Identify the key current competitors.
+Complete a SWOT Analysis
+Propose the product or service line you want to develop a marketing plan for.
+Justify your proposal with a SWOT-based argument for why it warrants marketing investment.
+Describe the core product, extended product, and the product concept.
+Explain how you plan to achieve competitive differentiation through creating customer value in four areas: branding, packaging, support, and quality
The Marketing Plan: Product Identification and SWOT Analysis paper
- Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style (Links to an external site.) as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word (Links to an external site.) resource.
- Must include a separate title page with the following:
- Title of paper in bold font
- Space should be between title and the rest of the information on the title page.
- Student’s name
- Name of institution (Ashford University)
- Course name and number
- Instructor’s name
- Due date
- Title of paper in bold font
- Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
- Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
- For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Writing Center resources.
- Must use at least one scholarly orcredible sources in addition to the course text.
- The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
- To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this Ashford University Library Quick ‘n’ Dirty (Links to an external site.) tutorial, which introduces the Ashford University Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
- Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) guide.
- Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Writing Center for specifications.
BUS 322 Discussion
Jack Welch, GE’s former CEO, said, “We now know where productivity comes from. It comes from challenged, empowered, excited, rewarded teams of people.”
- Explain how group dynamics, team characteristics, team leadership, and team management all play a vital role in company productivity.
Due Sunday by 3.00 pm
This assignment has two options. Please see below and choose the option that best suits your current situation. PLEASE HAVE THE PERSON THAT YOU ARE INTERVIEWING ANSWER ALL 9 QUESTIONS AND REMEMBER TO WRITE A 2-3 PARAGRAPHS ASSESSMENT ABOUT YOURSELF AS DESRCIBED BELOW.
Option 1 – Lesbian, Homosexual, and Bisexual
A lot of people know someone who identifies as lesbian, homosexual, or bisexual. Choose someone who is comfortable being interviewed and conduct an interview. You will not need to provide their identity. This exercise will get you familiar asking questions that may be considered uncomfortable.
- When did you first think you might be gay?
- When was your first crush?
- First date or sexual activity?
- Did you try to live the straight lifestyle for a period of time?
- Were you ever in denial?
- Have you come out to your family?
- How did they react?
- Have you ever been the victim of homophobic comments?
- Have you ever been discriminated against?
Option 2 – Heterosexual
Interview someone who you know that is Heterosexual with the following questions and complete your self-assessment.
- Are you sure you are straight?
- How do you know?
- Have you ever seen a member of the same sex and found them to be attractive in a sexual way? Ever?
- How long have you been straight?
- Were you born that way?
- Or was there something that happened in your childhood that made you straight?
- Were you straight before you had your first sexual experience?
- How do you know you were?
- Does your family know you are straight? Have you “come out?”
After you complete the interview, complete a self-assessment (2-3 paragraphs) on how comfortable you felt asking such sensitive and personal questions. What did you learn about discussing sensitive subjects? What will you do differently next time?
neen to solve the qoustion in 1 hour with out plagiarism
2. “HR departments must be more involved in designing—not just executing—the company’s strategic plan. This can be accomplished by aligning HR strategy with the Business strategy”. Outline the Basic Model that helps an HR manager translates the company’s strategic plan into HR policy and practice.
D) Case Application: “Managing HR in Arab Countries”
The Arabco Company was established in January (1988) in Saudi Arabia and has expended during the past 20 years into other countries in the region, including U.A.E, Bahrain, and Oman. The company is a subcontractor for various construction activities, mainly civil and electro-mechanical works. Under the leadership of its founder, Mr. Majed Al Amri, and due to the wise management of the HR director Mr. Hazem Shaker and the commitment of all employees; the company gained a good reputation in the Arab region, and marked itself in the construction industry for quality and the timely delivery of projects.
In the year 2008, the HR director, Mr. Hazem Shaker, retired and a new Young HR manager, Kareem Sabry, was appointed to the company. In order to meet the economy downturn challenge that happened, Kareem was proud to tell Mr. Majed that he will implement plans that can help the company decreases spending. He attempted to change some of the company’s HR policies and practices by:
n Lowering salaries for all employees.
n Hiring people who were willing to work for very low financial incentives.
n Reducing the training and development budget.
In less than four years, the clients started complaining of poor delivery of Arabco projects which drew Mr. Majed al Amri attention to that something was going wrong, but he did not know what.
He met with Kareem and learned that the employees’ turnover rate was very high, and at the time an employee was hired, another one resigned.
After visiting the 20 projects and finding similar problems in many of them, Mr. Majed noticed that five senior project managers (all are line managers) had resigned, and many of their team members were not happy in the company. Mr. Majed Al Amri wondered what action he should take.
Questions:
- Obviously, the new policies set up by Kareem have caused the problem; yet, Mr. Majed was also responsible for this problem to occur? How?
- Do you think that Kareem had a problem implementing effective communication with the line managers? If yes, What HR functions would be carried out by the line managers?
- As the new policies have shown negative impact on the company’s relevant outcomes, how can the HRM strategy help the company in creating a sustainable competitive advantage?
- Do you think that culture and employment law provide strong explanation and guide for many of the HR practices?
Learning Activity: Creating a Severance Package
Paper should be no more than 2 pages in length.
For this activity:
Create a severance package for a separated employee in a fictitious company.
At a minimum, include:
Position differences.
Years of service.
Actual compensation amounts.
Any additional benefits that you want to add. Determine whether severance pay is taxable. Create a chart that depicts the timeline of the disbursement of the compensation.
Use Microsoft Word or an equivalent application, such as OpenOffice.
Use at least one quality academic resource in this activity. Consider beginning with your course textbook and quality sources that can be found in the Strayer Library.
Human Resource
Respond to the following in a minimum of 225 words:
- The age for full social security benefits is 67 today, with more than one third of people working past the age of 70. The ADEA was enacted to prevent discrimination against older workers. Discuss some of the underlying situations that contribute to discrimination by age and what companies can do to avoid decisions based on age alone. Is there such a thing as reverse ageism?
Human Resource
As a first-year Human Resource Specialist at “State of Estates” estate planning firm, your boss (Will N. Trusts) presents you with the following two scenarios:
Scenario 1
Ned was hired six weeks ago by “State of Estates” to supervise the call center on weekends. At the time of hire, Ned did not disclose that he is a follower of the “Weekend Warriors” religion. In observance of his religious practices, Ned may not work Saturday mornings before noon. Ned called out of work three Saturday mornings in a row, costing the company extra overtime costs. The company looked to re-arrange the schedule, but to pull in a more senior supervisor on the weekend would require time-and-a-half pay. In addition, call-center statistics indicate a drop in productivity when there is a change of supervisor mid-day. The company would like to terminate Ned’s employment.
- Would Ned have an argument for religious discrimination against “State of Estates?” Why or why not?
- If yes, would the company be able to assert any defenses under these circumstances?
Scenario 2
Ella works in the accounting department in the northern satellite office of the company. She has been employed for four years, and performed her job well until recently, when she was caught sleeping on the job numerous times. Ella explained to her supervisor that she suffers from sleep apnea and has not been sleeping well at night. She requested a special caffeine supplement, at $200 daily, to keep her focused on the spreadsheets.
- What factors would a court consider in determining whether Ella’s sleep apnea qualifies her for protection under the ADA?
- Would “State of Estates” have to provide the requested accommodation of the caffeine pills in this instance? Why or why not?
Create two 350-word memos in one document based on these two scenarios.
Format your memos, including citations and references consistent with APA guidelines.
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