Category: Management

 

The goal of this study is to either increase a desired behavior that would help you accomplish your goals or to decrease a behavior that is currently interfering with accomplishing your goals. We all have behaviors that we would like to improve and things we would like to stop doing. By using the basic learning principles (i.e. classical conditioning, operant conditioning, observational learning) and variants of these principles (i.e. token economy, shaping, etc.) you are going to attempt to change your behavior over the course of the next few weeks.
Baseline: Take one week to identify what you want to change and then measure it. It could be as simple at the amount of time you spend exercising a week or how much you study per day. In complex conditions like anxiety and depression, it might be how many times you confront the feared situation/object (anxiety) or how many times you do something that you once enjoyed but no longer do (depression). If you have any questions, please ask me.
Reinforcement/Punishment: Find an appropriate reward and/or punishment and use these to modify your behavior. These stimuli must be given appropriately and consistently (i.e. if you give yourself a night out at the end of the week for studying certain # of hours per week DON’T go out unless you meet this goal). As you meet your goals and are reinforced/punished, increase the goals even more (For example, if you are trying to lose weight, you may start rewarding yourself by losing 1 lb. the first week, a total of 3-4 lbs by the second week, 6-8 lbs by the third week, etc.) Please, make sure to set realistic goals though or behavior will not be changed at all.
Analysis: In your paper, please discuss what you have decided to do, why you decided to do it, and which learning principles you have used to effect this change. Provide a line graph of the behavior you are measuring (including baseline) and progress over 3 weeks of time. Describe the obstacles you had to overcome and the problems you encountered along the way. Were you successful in changing your behavior? If not, describe why you think you failed to achieve your goals. This is NOT a research paper, so you do not need sources or to cite anything.
The first two paragraphs should introduce the topic of the behavioral modification and why it is important. Paragraph three should describe how you measured the behavior at baseline. Paragraph four should describe the events of week 1 and the reinforcers/punishers used. Paragraph five should describe week 2, paragraph six for week 3. Finally, paragraph 7 should sum up your experience with this project. Finally, attach a line graph detailing your progress from baseline to week 3 (cannot be hand drawn).

 
Part 1:

Please read the attached article then respond to the following prompts, thank you.

According to Ferri-Reed (2012), there are four active generations in our workforce, making it challenging for current leaders in the workforce who are trying to manage a successful team. Ferri-Reed suggests that learning and taking advantage of each generation’s strengths, can help build a high-performance team instead of it being a challenge.

What can a multi-generational team do to recognize and appreciate their differences in order to create a high-performance team?

As a team leader, how would you foster/nurture collaboration, effective communication and resolve conflict within your multi-generational team?

Reference:
Ferri-Reed, J., (2012). Blending Different Generations into a High-Performance Team. Journal for Quality & Participation, 35(3), 1-3.
File Blending Different Generations into a High-Performance Team.pdf (111.731 KB)
Part 2:

Choose ONE of the following cases to respond to.

Case 1

You have just become the manager of an insurance office with five professional agents and several clerical assistants. The office is part of the larger company headquartered in another city. Your office handles both sales and the processing of insurance claims. The office has been traditionally organized, with the manager running the office and supervising each employee individually. You have heard a lot of about the advantages of shifting to teamwork. Shifting to teamwork is supposed to improve morale. However, you have also heard that it can be difficult to create and manage teams. You are comfortable and capable as a traditional manager but think maybe you should try something new, such as teamwork. Use the following questions to consider your shift to teamwork.

What are the pros and cons of reorganizing the office into a team?
Who should be on the team? Should the team include both the professional and clerical assistants?
How much authority or control should you maintain over the team?

Case 2

You are the leader of a customer service improvement team that meets weekly at the end of the workday. Early in the team’s life, the team had some communication skills training. You closely follow the analysis and decision-making structures from the earlier training. Overtime, as the team has become more comfortable with analyzing quality problems and creating solutions (norming stage), you have been using less structure in facilitating the team meetings.

However, you have begun to notice problems with the meeting lately. Not everyone is participating, and the discussions are becoming dominated by several of the older male team members. You have noticed that their critical personal remakes have tended to silence some of the women team members. An argument that took place recently has caused other team members to stop participating during the meetings. Also, discussions tend to drift off topic and seem like repeats of previous conversations.

What should the team leader do to get the team’s communications back on track?
What is the best way to handle problem team members during the meetings?
Does the team need more skills training, more communication structure, or outside facilitation? Justify and explain your answer.

Case 3

You are the leader of a virtual team that is coordinating research projects among your corporation’s five research centers, distributed around the world. Although you had a coordinators’ meeting several years ago, cost and time constraints make meeting regularly in person impossible. The research centers have videoconferencing equipment, but time differences among the sites make the use videoconferencing services difficult. Consequently, most of your team’s communication is done via-email.

The virtual team has worked well at exchanging information and keeping everyone up to date on the progress of research. However, there is a growing conflict between one of the US research centers and the Asian center; they seem to be unable to coordinate activities and negotiate project roles. Their emails are getting more critical and disrespectful, and the rest of the team is tired of reading their back-and-forth bickering.

How can you (the team leader) deal with this communication problem?
Does the solution require either face-to-face or videoconferencing meetings?
What could be done to prevent such problems in the future?

2-3 pages, single spaced, 12 point font, 1 inch margins
academic and career goals
motivation to pursue advanced education in your preference specialties
how you decided your desired specialties
personal attributes related to becoming a master’s prepared nurse
strengths, diversity, adverse circumstances, ect.

 
This paper request the support in writing
a vision,
a mission statement
a strategic management approach

the mission and the vision paper will need to be intrinsically linked to the overall company mission and the Heath Department mission. Documents will be uploaded.

The strategy can be written in (a) overall strategy to obtain the 4 objectives (which are clear) and (b) a specific strategy to support managers in the field

 
This is a written report prepared collectively by a team that reflects on the seminar activities that have been used to simulate different aspects of the innovation process – including knowledge exploration, knowledge exploitation, managing inter-dependencies (the first 3 seminar activities that you have been involved in).

Based on these experiential learning activities (and the accompanying readings in lectures and seminars), the team will write a report that should include:

1. An analysis of the innovation processes that were experienced through the different activities. This should include reference to relevant concepts, theories and models that we have covered in the module so that you demonstrate that you understand how these theoretical ideas link to the practices that emerged during the different activities.

2. Reflections on the efforts of your group (what you did and how effective this was) during the group activities that you have participated in over the term, including efforts made to include all team members, what you learnt about team-working and other reflections on your group process as it pertains to managing innovation processes.

3. In the appendices you should include a summary of the team roles taken by individual group members during the activities and the writing of the group report including one paragraph reflective statements from each member as to their contributions during the activities and the writing. This part need not be included in the word count.

 
You are required to produce an enterprising change plan for an organization of your choice – private/ public sector or social enterprise making appropriate reference to supporting theories and models of change.

The plan will focus on a particular department/ business unit or work group within the organization that you are familiar with. The change plan is intended to enhance enterprise/ innovation/ improve efficiency or organisational effectiveness.

The change will usually involve introducing a new way of doing things, a new process or system; change that may require a change in the organizational structure and or culture. You will need to consider the change issue/ problem – why the change is needed? And what the change represents; a completely new way of doing things, process/ system? Or the redesigning of existing practices, processes or systems? You will also need to consider exactly what are the key changes to be made? What will be done or happen differently in the future & how this will improve the organization? Who will do this & how?
This report will be comprised of 4 sections

Section 1: Identifying the change situation/ context
• Identify the reasons for change/ change context/ enterprising nature of the change.
• Identify the scope of the change/ purpose/ aims
• Identify change agents/ change team

Section 2: The change project analysis
• Stakeholder analysis
• Force field analysis – resistance/ obstacles to change.
• Critique of existing organizational culture – supporting/ hindering change.
• Discuss the organizational readiness for change.

Section 3: Evaluation/ discussion of the change programme
• Evaluate options/ solutions to implement change
• Discuss required changes – Structure? Processes? Systems? People?
• Specific recommendations / justification of change activity
• Identify and discuss change stages & timeframe
• Communication plans
• Risk assessment of undertaking change

Section 4: Change plan
• Action Plan – milestones/ timescales
• Change project diagram and supporting written explanation / justification.

The report has a recommended word limit of 4000 words; however this does not include any tables or diagrams you may wish to put into the appendices and then refer to in the report itself. The report needs to be concise, but should make appropriate reference to supporting theories, models etc. to help underpin the validity of your recommendations. Clearly section 3 will be a very important part of the overall report.

I will upload the full assessment instructions with example from last year students and the zip files have an examples for student took A in the assessment. Also, recommendation references as important to use.

please when you choose the organization send me a draft from one page to take agree to carry on from the tutor.

 

Strategic management class.

This is a group case project, and we are 4 people and each one will do part of the project. So, I will do SWOT analysis part. I will upload several files to give you good idea about the project, so please read it carefully because the professor so picky. down you will find short explanation for the project, and I will upload also some files:

1- the Lockheed Martin case, so you do not need to purchase it.
2- specific explanation about the whole project, and my part too.
3- some chapters so you can get good idea about the class, because he want me to apply what I learn in the class in the project.

GROUP CASE
You will be assigned to a group of 4-6 students and required to perform a strategic analysis of Case 20: Lockheed Martin. The case is available electronically from Cengage Brain at
https://www.cengagebrain.com/shop/isbn/9781285425177

The purpose of the case analysis is to apply what you have learned in class to an actual company and the group will be evaluated primarily on its ability to demonstrate this application. The chapter “Preparing an Effective Case Analysis” (available electronically at Cengage Brain and included in the price of your purchased case) explains how to integrate course material into your analysis.

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Learning Outcomes: Knowledge and Understanding tested in this assignment:
– Visitor Management techniques: hard and soft; demand and supply
– The role of visitor management in determining the success of an attraction: accessibility; visitor needs and requests; special exhibitions for specific target market; repeat visitors; stress free experience; power of interpretation etc.
Learning Outcomes: Skills and Attributes tested in this assignment:
– Evaluate solutions to management problems inherent in a visitor attraction: e.g. for families to arrange a children’s room, for international tourists – guide who can speak their language instead of listening to the audio record and others
– Examine the effectiveness of different visitor management strategies: soft (mapping, static interpretation, signage, guides etc) and hard (face control at the entrance, fencing, closures, access limits etc)
Your report will be submitted to Turnitin (plagiarism software) so please make sure you fully reference all your sources correctly – ask for help is you are unsure and follow HBS style of Harvard referencing.
Detailed Brief for Individual Assessment
The title of the assignment… An evaluation of visitor management techniques at the British Museum with recommendations for future visitor management strategies.
Purpose of the assessment task
To demonstrate your ability to thoroughly apply visitor management theories to practical case studies and evaluate those theories and techniques, as well as to consider what future challenges may be encountered by the British Museum for managing visitors. You may wish to use other attractions for comparison.
Specific Instructions:
Produce a report.
Use section headings and sub-headings including:
1. Title Page
2. Introduction
3. Discussion/Analysis
4. Conclusions
5. Recommendations
6. References
7. Appendices (where necessary)
You do NOT need:
– an abstract or executive summary
– table of contents
– terms of reference
– methodology
You can vary the section headings, (e.g. break sections 3 into more focussed sections) and use relevant sub-headings.
It is essential:
• You MUST use a minimum of 10 references from academic books and journals and will receive a lower mark if you rely on web-based material (this does not include electronic books and journals).
• Make sure you fully reference all of your research material. You will be penalised if you miss references in-text or from the reference list / bibliography.
• You must use Harvard referencing. If you are unsure about this please ask a member of the teaching team or seek help from CASE
Tips:
• Use your initiative when researching. Do not simply repeat case material and theories that you have been introduced to in class – extra marks will be gained by finding additional theories and cases.
• Use other case studies to illustrate good practice that could be applied to your case study.

 
CW2 ASSIGNMENT
This assignment represents the culmination of all your work on this module. This is also where you incorporate your revised/enhanced material from your CW1 assignment. You have studied the strategic options available to the business. You are now required to independently evaluate the existing strategy of the business and make recommendations to the Board of Directors as to the future development of the business’ strategy. Your evaluation and recommendations should be presented as a Management Report.
Your management report should include:
Title Page: This must contain the following:
Module title and code
Assignment title
Your name and ID number
Name of your seminar tutor
Word Count (see later note on word limit): This needs to be in two parts (a) the total number of words in the document and (b) the word count minus the title page, contents page, executive summary, tables/charts, reference list and any appendices.
Submission date
Executive Summary: This should be no more than one page in length and should present a ‘snapshot’ of the report including your findings from the environmental audit and the strategic direction of the organisation. You should also include an overview of your recommendations with a brief rationale. [Note: This is not counted in the word limit.]
Table of contents: This should be no more than one page in length. [NOTE: This is not counted within the word limit.]
Introduction: An introduction to the company’s operations – in other words ‘setting the scene’. This to include an overview of the organisation’s operations, their proposed strategy, its financial situation, general state of the sector/industry (for example, is it in growth or decline) and its key competitors. It is expected that elsewhere in the report you will apply the models/concepts and frameworks to the organisation. This approach should underpin your knowledge and understanding of the organisation and the environment in which it operates.
Analysis and critical evaluation of the organisation’s environmental audit:
This is the material from your Formative assignment (Pestel, Capabilities, Porter’s Five Forces, SWOT/TOWS). However, you need to have taken into account the feedback provided and, where necessary, enhanced your work. [Note the comments made in the earlier section on the Formative.]
Analysis of the organisation’s strategic direction: This needs to be undertaken with a clear identification of the methods by which the organisation’s strategies have been pursued. You must use Ansoff and either BCG or GE/McKinsey.
Critical evaluation of the organisation’s strategy: This is in terms of its suitability, acceptability, feasibility and sustainability (SAFS Framework).
Conclusions: What conclusions have you drawn from analysing this organisation?
Recommendations: These are what you have derived from examining the organisation. These should link back to the material that you have critically reviewed within the previous sections. There must be a clear rationale for the recommendations. Read your recommendations carefully and ask yourself the following questions:
Are your recommendations rational?
What evidence can you provide in support of these recommendations?
How would the various stakeholders react? How would you react if you were a shareholder?
Is it logical that the company would or need to take these specific actions?
Do they make sense?
Would you be prepared to discuss them at a Board meeting?
References: These must be in the CULC Harvard Format. There must be appropriate in-text citations throughout your submission. [NOTE: You must seek out reliable and validated sources of information for your assignments – Please

 
An organization chart clarifies authority relationships, the span of supervision, the division of work, and departmentalization. It probably does not adequately portray the working relationships between the employees.

Consider this scenario. A company develops, produces, and sells a variety of products throughout the world. Sales have been growing about 5 percent per year. Projections reveal that no new employees will need to be added in the foreseeable future.

Construct an organizational chart for this company using job titles and employees listed in Team Skills Builder 8-2: Reorganizing a Company on page 276 of the text.
Include rationale for why you constructed the structure the way you did.

TEAM SKILL BUILDER 8-2: Reorganizing a Company
Divide the class into groups of four or more students. Following is a list of job titles for the organization as well as the number of people in each position.

The company develops, produces, and sells a variety of product thoughout the world. Sales have been growing about 5 percent per year. Projections reveal that no new employees will need to be added in the forseeable furture.

Job Title
Number of employees
Production worker
120
Production supervisor
7
Vice President—Production
1
Vice President—Finance and Accounting
1
Accountant
3
Secretarial
6
Human Resources Manager
1
Personnel Specialist
2
Salesperson
20
Regional Sales Managers
6
Vice President—Marketing
1
President
1
Production Staff Specialist
2
Chemists
6
Technicians
9
R & D Supervision
4
Vice President—Research & Development