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Business Build 1.    You own a Mid-Level Company 2.    Sales gross 10 million dollars per year 3.    You are a National Business 4.    You have two locations no closer than 500 miles apart ( staten island / Brooklyn ) 5.    No less than 30 employees per plant location 6.    Include Departments: DATA / Payroll / Sales / Plant 7. Outline formaT   Business Description based Build 1.    Company Description 2.    Plant Locations 3.    Department Logistics and Employee Count in Each Department     DATA Plan includes –  Data Storage – Protection – Security – Back up                                      Sales Point to Point       Web E Commerce       Social Network

Interview With A Tenured Employee Conduct an interview with an individual who has worked for the same company for at least three years. Before your interview, locate two peer reviewed articles that provide performance management best practices for organizations similar in size or industry to the organization of the individual whom you will interview. Answer the following questions during your interview: Determine why, specifically, that person has remained in position for so long. Does the organization incorporate any performance management best practices? Detail what the organization is doing right from a performance management standpoint. Also, discuss some areas of opportunity for the organization. In a 6-8 page paper (excluding title page or References section), share the results of your interview. Be sure to justify any related conclusions to the above bullet points by incorporating information from your research and weekly readings. This assignment is worth 8 points of the total course grade. This assignment aligns with the following weekly outcomes: 1, 2. This assignment aligns with the following course outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 5. NEW Assignment Type: Please click here to review instructions on how to submit your assignment.  (Links to an external site.) Grading Criteria Content Criteria Total: 4 Interview clearly meets content requirements. Peer reviewed articles and weekly readings lend support to proposed ideas. Answers to why the individual has remained in position, performance management best practices, and organizational strengths and areas of opportunity are highlighted. Writing and Organization Criteria Total: 2 Writing style is clear and concise. Tone is academic and appropriate for the content and assignment. Thesis statement is clearly articulated. Structure is logical, including an introduction, body, and conclusion. Flow is maintained by effective transitions. Rules of grammar, punctuation, and spelling are followed. Adherence to APA formatting requirements is evident. Research Criteria Total: 2 Sources are credible (preferably peer-reviewed), varied, relevant, and current (published within past five years); use of seminal work (e.g. Freud) is encouraged. Sources inform analysis, evaluation, problem-solving and decision-making. Includes required number of professional/scholarly sources. Addresses ethical considerations in research when appropriate.

8 academic sources articles from peer reviewed journals, books and other articles of work. as long as you properly cite them, it doesn’t matter where you get them.

How would you describe the impact of mass incarceration and criminalization of African American life in the society?  Do you think this is a problem for those around you and in the society in general? What solutions do you think are possible? This is your opinion, and so there is not one right answer.

Assignment Description This assignment is designed to allow you to demonstrate your knowledge of the roles and responsibilities of leaders in the management and operations of an organization, including the critical roles of decision making, and communication. You will conduct a leadership analysis to apply concepts learned throughout the course and explore aspects of motivation, conflict and change management, and diversity in contemporary organizations. Choose a publicly traded organization. Research the company’s mission, vision, and value statements. Write a paper that defines each type of statement and explores how a company’s mission, vision, and values guide organizational standards and practices. Your written assignment should be 1,500 to 2,000 words in length and include the following sections and information: Company Overview and History: What is the company’s history of existence and background since incorporation? What products and/or services does the company offer? Company Mission Statement: What is a mission statement? How does it create a guide for organizational standards and practices within an organization? What is the chosen company’s mission statement? Analyze the strength of the statement and provide a recommendation on how the mission statement could be altered or rewritten to strengthen it. Company Vision Statement: What is a vision statement? What is chosen company’s vision statement? How is the company’s vision supported by leaders and employees throughout the company? Company Values Statement: What is a values statement? What is the chosen company’s values statement? How do the company’s values contribute to providing quality consumer goods/services? Formatting & Sources Please write your paper in the APA format. As part of your research, you may refer to the course material for supporting evidence, but you must also use at least two credible, outside sources and cite them using APA format as well. Please include a mix of both primary and secondary sources, with at least one source from a scholarly peer-reviewed journal. If you use any Study.com lessons as sources, please also cite them in APA (including the lesson title and instructor’s name). Primary sources are first-hand accounts such as interviews, advertisements, speeches, company documents, statements, and press releases published by the company in question. Secondary sources come from peer-reviewed scholarly journals, such as the Journal of Management. You may use like JSTOR, Google Scholar, and Social Science Research Network to find articles from these journals. Secondary sources may also come from reputable websites with .gov, .edu, or .org in the domain. (Wikipedia is not a reputable source, though the sources listed in Wikipedia articles may be acceptable.) If you’re unsure about how to use APA format for your paper and sources, please see the following lessons: What is APA Format? Definition & Style How To Format APA Citations Grading Rubric The course syllabus provides more information regarding the assignment grading policy for course assignments. Category Unacceptable (0-1) Needs Improvement (2-3) Good (4) Excellent (5) Total Possible Points Quality and thoroughness in addressing the topic (x3) The submission was not well-written and lacked supporting detail. Most of the research findings achieved the basic desired result. The topics discussed were specific, clear, and well-written. Submission included supporting detail, specific, clear, and well-written. 15 Mission statement analysis and quality of supporting detail (x3) The presentation of the mission statement was vague and the associated detail was not written well. The associated mission statement detail was not written well and was insufficient but achieved the desired result. The mission statement supporting detail was sufficient, understandable and clearly written. The mission statement supporting detail was understandable and clearly written. Submission included an example. 15 Discussion of the significance of a company’s vision and values (x2) The student’s selected company vision and values were not present in the submission. The vision and values did not include sufficient supporting detail. The vision and values were included with sufficient supporting detail present in submission. The vision and values were included with sufficient supporting detail. 10 Mechanics (x2) Incorrect spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and use of standard English grammar that frequently interferes with meaning. Several instances of incorrect spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and/or usage grammar Few instances of incorrect spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and usage of grammar No or very few instances of incorrect spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and usage of grammar 10 Before You Submit When you have completed writing your analysis, proofread the document to ensure there are not any grammatical or spelling errors present. Also, check for plagiarism so that your case study analysis is not too similar to any existing materials. You may want to use plagiarism checkers like PlagScan or DupliChecker Note: Plagiarized submissions will NOT receive a score. How to Submit Your Papers When you are ready to submit your assignments, please fill out the submission form and attach your assignment as a Microsoft Word, PDF, or Text document. After turning in both assignments, you may go ahead and take the proctored final exam. You do not need to wait for your written response to be graded. You should receive your assignment grade within one week. If you are not satisfied with the score you receive on your assignments, you may revise or rewrite your papers and resubmit them for grading using the same submission form. Keep in mind that the grade you receive on your assignments is only a portion of your overall grade for the course, and you are free to retake the proctored final exam as well if you choose. Please see the course syllabus for a more detailed breakdown of the grading policy.

Task 1: Change Management Consultation You have been hired as a change management consultant for a manufacturing company. The leadership of the company currently uses a top-down management approach. The organizational structure is a hierarchy (pyramid type). Employees are not encouraged to be creative or make suggestions or decisions. They are also not encouraged to experiment and come up with new solutions to problems. The company has grown rapidly over the past decade, from generating $1 million in sales to $100 million. In the past year, the company expanded its business internationally and now has 500 employees worldwide. Due to the rapid growth of the company, the organization has not invested in training and development opportunities for its employees to drive innovation and process improvements. Additionally, the company’s processes and software systems for inventory management have become antiquated. As the change management consultant, you will provide a report for the executive leadership team where you diagnose the need for change and explain how to plan for change, how to implement change, and how to sustain change. You will also explain how the company can transition to a learning organization in order to be on the forefront of change and innovation. REQUIREMENTS Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide. You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course. A.  Discuss the need for change for the company in the scenario using either the systems contingency model or the organizational life cycle model. B.  Describe the differences between a learning organization and a traditional organization. 1.  Identify which stage of Woolner’s 5-stage model the company is currently in. a.  Explain why the company is currently in the identified stage of Woolner’s 5-stage model. 2.  Explain how the company from the scenario would use Senge’s 5 disciplines to become a learning organization.   C.  Identify the end result and the nature of change to take the company from a traditional organization to a learning organization using Balogun and Hope-Hailey’s model. Note: You may either identify both the end result and nature of change individually or identify the name of the quadrant in Balogun and Hope-Hailey’s model that aligns to the end result and nature of change.   1.  Explain why the end result and nature of change would be appropriate for the company in the scenario using Balogun and Hope-Hailey’s model.   D.  Discuss how four steps of the action research model could be applied to the change process (traditional organization to learning organization) for the company in the scenario.   E.  Recommend two innovation strategies that management could use to transition the company in the scenario from a traditional organization to a learning organization. 1.  Explain how one recommended innovation strategy would be used by management in the company’s change process.   F.  Discuss how four steps of Kotter’s 8-step model could be applied to the change process for the company in the scenario.   G.  Explain how each  of the five pillars of sustainable change could be applied to sustain the learning organization environment of the company in the scenario.   H.  Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.   I.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Keeping track of project performance and taking corrective action when necessary has become a serious issue for project managers at your company.   If you are hired in the middle of a software project (the previous project manager was fired), what would you do to ensure that the project conforms to agreed-upon quality and is delivered on schedule? What are some of the causes of schedule creep and poor quality? When is it appropriate to distribute the project milestone report to stakeholders?

Based on the information learned from Chapter 1 – write a 2 page paper discussing a major development in the 20th century that transformed organizations and how individuals performed their work.  Chapter 1 that’s being referred to comes from the following textbook: Eriksson-Zetterquist U. Mullern, T. and Styrhre, A. (2011). Organization Theory: A Practice-Based Approach. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0-19-956930-4 ^ 1 of 2 sources REQUIRED

Team Conflict Conflict exists in nature and, by extension, in all human relationships. Conflict can be something to avoid or embrace, or a more neutral approach can be taken. You will lead a group discussion on the subject among your peers. You decide that to generate a lively discussion, it is important to create a level of understanding of the role of conflict in groups and how conflict can be used to move a group forward. After doing some research on the topic of conflict, propose to your peers a position, and discuss the concept of conflict in teams. Is conflict something to avoid or embrace? Use examples from either your personal experience or from the literature that would support your position.

This is a powerpoint presentation on implementing a new product (a heated sleeping bag) to Patagonias line. The presentation must use slide notes. The notes section will support the content for each slide. The presentation should be 18 slides (not including the title and research references slides). For this company consider the Upstream Process and Responsibility framework. Describe how you would take this new product (heated sleeping bag) from concept to creation, then to commercialization, and finally to implementation in the U.S. The presentation will be organized by two parts. The first part is description of the sleeping bag development concepts while the second part is application to the hypothetical new product concept. Part I: Descriptions of concepts should include: description of the ideation approach of the product addressed in Part II description of a business case description of project oversight description of beta testing description of prelaunch readiness and training description of launch execution Part II: This section includes the application, analysis, formulation and evaluation of the product launch using the principles from this course. Include the following: Describe the product. Provide the competitive analysis with rationale for the product’s success. Summarize the business case. Specify beta tests and defend your recommendations. Construct the strategy formulation in relation to the product/service launch. Analyze and evaluate the Country’s cultural and its respective application to product/service launch. Analyze the strategy implementation on one of the following: systems, people or process fit. Requirements: Write a presentation that has 18 slides. Include a title and a reference page. At least six academic and professional references that provide information and guidance. Follow APA 7 guidelines for formatting.