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A former colleague calls you, and he sounds very frustrated. Once
again, senior leadership has proclaimed itself the followers of the
latest management fad and expects the entire organization to
immediately shift direction. You shake your head. You know that
organizations in today’s global marketplace are faced with a constant
need to understand the forces affecting them and adapt accordingly.
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write up to 3
paragraphs that respond to the following questions with your thoughts,
ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future
discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use
examples to reinforce your ideas:
Reflect on the following statement:
Organizations need to adapt to innovative techniques while avoiding
the pitfall of adopting unproven methods and/or fads that may not fit
with the culture of the organizations.
• What would you say to your former colleague?
• Are these two forces mutually exclusive, or do you perceive a
balance that can be struck between change and stability? Provide a
detailed example that will support your position.
• What examples can you give of preparing and managing potential
conflicts that result from change?
• How does organizational structure impact an organization’s ability
to innovate successfully?
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Scenario:
You are the newly promoted Manufacturing Coordinator, reporting
directly to the Director of Operations at Universal Products,
International (UPI) a medium sized manufacturer of high-end consumer
electronics components. You have several years of increasing
responsibility in UPI, working your way up from a production team
member to this new position with supervisory responsibilities. You
have spent several years as a member of an Organizational Culture (OC)
team that has reviewed organizational issues. This is a team composed
of volunteers from across the company. This group makes
recommendations for improvements that address employee morale and
safety. Membership on the OC is for two years. Your term expired last
year and you have been looking for ways to continue to contribute to
improving the organizational culture.
You have been taking courses at CTU for the past few years and are
nearing your degree completion. You have studied leadership, finance,
accounting and other business administration courses that provide you
with a working understanding of UPI structure and the core business
competencies of the company. You applied for your new position and
were promoted to help move the organization toward a more
collaborative and participative culture. Your new supervisor is
responsible for all manufacturing related departments. He reports to
the VP of Operations and her area of responsibility is all company
operations. Her peers are the Vice Presidents of Finance, IT, HR,
Marketing, and Supply Chain Management. They all report to the company
President.
The company has grown from 50 employees to over 300 hundred in the
past four years. You have been part of this dramatic growth and have
watched the company struggle with changes in reporting relationships,
additions of new layers of management and adding several new product
lines. UPI is poised for another large growth with the development of
a new electronic component that will make portable video players more
efficient.
The company is anticipating adding another 150 employees and opening a
new production facility across town on a parcel of land that UPI
recently purchased. This will mean that your department will have
employees in two locations for the first time.
In addition to your regular tasks, your supervisor has asked you to
serve on a project staff team that was formed to work out the changes
that will be necessary as the new plant comes online. Other project
staff will include your peers in other departments. This project team
must be up and ready to make recommendations on changes within the
next 90 days in preparation for how the two plant facilities will
interact. In addition, this team can expect that the directors will
routinely delegate other new projects and initiatives to discuss and
submit recommendations.
You also will maintain your new responsibilities for a staff of 8
employees who coordinate production scheduling and coordinate with the
two HR generalists that are physically located in the operations
department but report to the HR department.
To be successful in this new assignment, you will need to apply what
you know about organizations, their structures, change management, and
how individuals work within organizations.
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Research challenge: Investigate the knowledge capabilities of your allocated company, describe their strengths and propose strategic (knowledge based) initiatives to improve their performance.
Your Collaborative Learning Network (CLN), is to act as a consulting organisation asked to improve the performance of the company through the improvement of how knowledge is developed and applied in the organisation. This assignment requires this group to write a 2500 word (+/- 10%) business proposal highlighting 3-5 recommendations for enhancing the knowledge initiatives currently in place by the organisation, explain how these recommendations will generate a return on investment and enhance business performance (including both tangible and intangible benefits). Although written in business report format, this intention of this exercise is to link theory to practice, so standard referencing is required in Harvard format to enhance the robustness and credibility of the proposal.

Your CLN team will complete the report on the company page in the wiki. Assess how the organization approaches knowledge management and what strategies they have for the creation, capture, transfer and reuse of knowledge to drive competitive advantage, innovation, improvement and sustainability. Students should note that the introduction brief provided is NOT in sufficient detail to complete this assignment to a professional standard. There is sufficient other information available through public sources to make beneficial recommendations.

Your assignment is to be prepared as a research based “Business Proposal” aimed at influencing business stakeholders to take specific actions based on your recommendations. The content of this research will also be used in Assignment 3 where the same CLN group will present their findings to the lecturer (acting as the CEO) and the rest of the class (role playing as the company’s board of management).

The final wiki content must be posted into TurnItIn no later than the assignment deadline. A cover page signed by all group members must be given to the lecturer on or before the due date.

Note: Executives read Executive Summaries to decide if they should read more. If interested, they will look at Recommendations and Conclusions (for more details on value-at-stake and ROI) and Introduction (for background). Proposals which have not impressed executives by scanning there sections don’t get read or funded. It is important to ensure your proposals are impressive throughout, but recommendations, conclusions and Executive Summary are critical!

Considerations for the report:
• Focus on the recommendations (the board know who they are, they do not need a long history of the organisation, expect where the details are directly relevant to the recommendations)
• Be clear about the order of the recommendations (all at once, some before others, timeframes and ROI)
• The extent to which the presentation reflects an innovative way of sharing knowledge for the organisation and the size/difficulty of the change
• Quality of the analysis for the client company, does it touch base on all potential areas. Is it focused on areas with biggest impact?
• Risk, limitations, timeframes and return on investment (approximate)
• Synergies between the recommendations – are the interdependent or independent initiatives? Order of application?
• Creativity, plausibility and appropriateness of the recommendations
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In 2006, 59% of the hospitals in the US were nonprofit. As you learned
in the GAO report on nonprofit hospitals, to maintain this tax-exempt
status, a hospital must provide benefit to the community, but there is
some latitude by the IRS and other governmental agencies about what
qualifies as community benefit.

In this Discussion, you will analyze the extent to which a nonprofit
hospital is legally and ethically responsible to provide community
benefit, using the ACHE decision-making model to guide your analysis
of the following scenario:

The management team of Memorial Medical Center must make a decision
regarding the continuation of one of its outpatient clinics. To
provide better community service, MMC developed three outpatient
clinics throughout a large metropolitan area. Over the past several
years, one of the clinics has consistently been a financial loser. The
losses have grown even as the costs of maintaining the clinic have
increased. A primary reason for the negative financial performance is
the high amount of non-reimbursed healthcare services—the clinic
provides needed health care to a low-income part of the metropolitan
area. Several members of the executive management team believe MMC has
no alternative other than closing the clinic. One member of the
management team, however, believes that the situation raises ethical
concerns, and that the executive team seeks an ethics-grounded
response to the problem. (Nelson, p. 9)

To prepare for this Discussion:

Review the GAO report (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08880.pdf),
paying particular attention to its discussion about criteria for
nonprofit status.

Review the article “An Organizational Ethics Decision-Making Process,”
and apply the steps of the decision-making model to this scenario,
going into more detailed analysis than is already provided in the
article. What options does this hospital have? Clarify your ethical
reasoning for each option.(Article: Nelson, W. A. (2005). An
organizational ethics decision-making process. Healthcare Executive,
20(4), 8–14. Retrieved from
http://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=17407169&site=ehost-live&scope=site)

If you were an administrator at MMC, what decision would you make?

Post by Day 3 a response to the following:

Are the clinics helping MMC maintain its tax-exempt status? In what respect?

What are some of the options for MMC in this scenario? Which option do
you think MMC should choose? What is the ethical reasoning that leads
you to this conclusion?

Discuss the ethical obligations of nonprofit hospitals, in general, to
benefit the community. Is it acceptable, do you think, for a hospital
to do the bare minimum to maintain its tax-exempt status? Explain your
reasoning.
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•Question:
Discuss the role of autonomy of the parties within the Vienna
Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

Note:
Answer the Question above with an accurate identification of the legal
problems and for the suggestion of plausible and creative solutions,
provided always that they are supported by reasoned arguments and
legal authorities.

Do the footnote, bibliography and references (It is very important)
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Explain the controversial nature of the Rosenberg Case using the
perspectives of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Mohandas Gandhi, Simone de
Beauvoir, and W.E.B. DuBois. How and why did Beauvoir and DuBois
object to the Rosenberg indictments and executions? What positions
would Marx, Freud, and Gandhi have taken?

Please use exact page numbers, quotes, and phrases of the sources that
you will use for the essay, and especially, I want you to use Karl
Marx’s Communist Manifesto, and Freud’s Civilization and Its
Discontents, and Dubois and Beuvoirs’ works that have relationship to
the Rosenberg Case. Please use all books listed above, and if needed,
you can use some sources from internet.

Lastly, I want you to change the topic of the essay based on the
content, not necessarily “The controversial nature of the Rosenberg
Case.”
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Analyze and evaluate our current networked world in terms of its
positives and negatives for communication and collaborative community
building. Drawing from Castells and other theorists, examine three (3)
of the following aspects or features of our network
society:
a. new possibilities for constructing personal identity
b. ways that users – & systems – can be regulated
c. issues of sovereignty and the colonization of the net
d. changes in patterns of sociability & relationship building

You can use any web resources to answer this question , but i added
some readings and articles assigned from class that might be helpful
…. not sure though. This question must be answered in essay format
and in apa style .

Manuel Castells, Power and Politics in the Network Society

Christopher Keep, Brief Bio of Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think,” Atlantic Monthly (July 1945).

Heidegger, “The Question of Technology

EFF on The USA Patriot Act

Technological Determinism: Special Issue of Computer Mediated
Communication Magazine 3:2 (1 February 1996).\

Daniel Chandler, “Shaping and Being Shaped: Engaging with Media,”
Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine 3:2 (01 February 1996)

Marshall McLuhan’s Interview with Playboy (1969)

Paul Boutin, 101 Ways to Save the Internet, Wired 12.01 (January 2005
John Perry Barlow, “ The Economy of Ideas,” Wired 2.03 (March 1994).
John Perry Barlow, “The Next Economy of Ideas,” Wired 8:10 (October
2000).LA Times editorial, “Bounced Bloggers, July 25, 2004

Jon Healey and David G. Savage,”Firms Can Be Held Liable for Net
Piracy,” LA Times 6/28/05

Andrew Sullivan, “The Blogging Revolution,” Wired (May 2002).

note:-
This question is think piece that ask you to integrate and
apply theories, concepts, and claims in the course materials and to
articulate your position on this. Criteria for grading include:
coverage of all components of the question; integration and
application of course content; depth and specificity of your analysis;
clarity and precision of
your writing; and, of course, correct use of APA style in your writing
and in your references.
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Select an event or occurrence concerning a community or global population published in a newspaper, popular magazine, or professional journal within the last 3 months.

iii) Address all elements listed below in a substantive manner:

(1) Describe the event and ethical implications. Be sure to attach the source article or URL for the instructor.

(2) Use appropriate ethical terminology to define the concern(s).

(3) Analyze the scenario or topic according to the decision-making model.

(4) Identify the problem.

(5) State your value and ethical position related to the case. Present the theories and principles on which your position is based.

(6) Generate alternatives for resolving the problem.

(7) Examine and categorize the alternatives.

(8) Predict the possible consequences for those acceptable alternatives.

(9) Prioritize acceptable alternatives .

(10) Develop a Plan of Action.

(11) Evaluate: Did you do the right thing?
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This report will be a reasoned response to the proposed legislation
and/or policy based on the interests of The Manufacturers Association
(this is an imaginary industry association).

The current Prime Minister has just foreshadowed in a speech that the
government is proposing to introduce penalty duties of 60% on
manufactured imports where the importer fails to prove that it is
actively reducing its carbon emissions. The task is to provide a
report to a industry association about implications of such a policy,
if implemented. include arguments which could be lifted out of the
report and used in media release – these may support, condemn, or
partly support the proposal but they need to be politically viable and
convincing.

This report format should include:

. The INTENT of the policy (may include background literature)
. POLICY EFFECTS on the industry (i.e broad effects, cost effects,
cost benefits)
. POLICY EFFECTS on companies (i.e regulatory burdens, implementations costs)
. SUGGESTED MODIFICATIONS or alternatives
. RECOMMENDATIONS to government
and Reference List

Sub heading and dot point may be used throughout the report.The Key
issues that need to be address are:
. Address the concerns of the business group
.address the legitimate aims of the government in a constructive fashion.
.Address the concerns of society in a positive and sympathetic manner,
in keeping with the public relation requirements of the business
sector.
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Answer these two questions:
1) A suburban city used a five-part process for developing strategies
to respond to a strategic issue. The strategic issue was: Given the
city?s favorable location in the metropolitan area, what should the
city do to enhance, improve and compete as a tourist attraction.
Develop strategies in answer to the following four questions:

a. What are the pracitical alternatives or visions that could be
pursued to address this strategic issue?
b. What are the barriers to the realization of these alternatives or visions?
c. What are the major proposals that might be pursued either to
achieve the alternatives or visions or to overcome the barriers to
their realization?
d. What major actions and actions steps that must be taken in the next
six to twelve months to implement the proposals and who is responsible
for the action?

2) Which factors that drove urbanization in recent history are equally
relevant to contemporary urban growth? What are the differences?
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