Management

The primary focus of this annotated bibliography is systems thinking and change and how to achieve this by exploring principles of design thinking, innovation, changing mindsets  and also concepts of inclusion ( to be applied to higher education and accessibility).

Identify and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of traditional (classical ) organizational structures in managing projects.  Bring one of your personal experience as an example to indicate how organizational structure affects the leading the project.    PROFESSOR’S GUIDANCE FOR THIS WEEK’S LE: An organizational structure dictates who makes ultimate project decisions, how the communication of project goals and tasks will be, and how the team collaborates. Whether a firm prefers to execute projects within the traditional functional organization or through matrix arrangement will define the project management differently.

Instructions You have been hired as an HR Consultant to determine the level of satisfaction of employees with their organization’s compensation plan. Create a survey with 5-10 questions based on the components of a Total Rewards System (TRS).  Request two work colleagues to take the survey and take the survey yourself.  Compile the data and provide a summary of your findings.  Based on your findings, make recommendations for your organization’s leadership team as it relates to TRS. Include your survey as part of your assignment submission.

1) I need to identify the potential clients for CGI’s RMS (but not sectors or types of companies) I need real companies that can become clients – names, strategies of this companies and analyze their strategies;  2) Find what are main objectives of this POTENTIAL CLIENTS in this market?  What are the energy sources POTENTIAL CLIENTS want to invest in? Do POTENTIAL CLIENTS already have an acquired solution like RMS? Are THIS COMPANIES satisfied by the usage of this solution? 3) And AS CGI company Identify the main axes of the value proposition to develop towards THIS POTENTIAL CLIENTS and prioritize these axes.

Homework Assignment # 2- Due in Blackboard, Week 3, on 09/18/20 by 11:59pm. This assignment is worth 10pts: 3pts for picture representations; 7 pts for written paper In Chapter 6 of the textbook please review the Porter’s 5 Industry Forces. The PPT presentation of Chapter 6 has a very useful diagram as well. This assignment has 2 parts and is worth 10 points: 1.     Porter’s 5 Industry Forces: Please draw picture representations depicting EACH of the Porter’s 5 Industry Forces; please label each picture so I know which force you drew. You can simply draw on a piece of paper and submit a picture of it, or you can use software to create your drawings and submit it as a file. Don’t worry if you are not an artist. At the same time, the effort, creativity and thought you put forth will determine your grade.   2.     Porter’s 5 Industry Forces: Analyze all 5 of Porter’s 5 Industry Forces. Please write a one to two page paper applying Porter’s 5 Industry Forces to the product selected by your IBC team. If your team has not selected THE product yet, choose one of the products your team in considering. Your paper should be double spaced- typed, 12-point, Times New Roman font. See Syllabus for grading rubric.   REMINDER: Please integrate course concepts to achieve higher grades. Formula: MGMT 300 Course Concept Integration Formula:   1.     State the course concept 2.     Briefly explain the concept from the textbook 3.     Apply the course concept to YOUR interpretation of the subject matter/ personal experience

Assignment instructions – Part B PART B In Part B, we require you to write an essay on the following topic. Essay Topic: “Transformational Leadership places an overemphasis on charisma and personality.” Discuss this statement based on academic literature. Marking schedule for Part B: 10% of marks are allocated to the presentation of the essay. The student’s work should be typed with clear use of paragraphs and headings. Typographical and spelling errors should be avoided. 10% of marks are allocated to appropriate referencing of content. Students should familiarise themselves and make use of the APA referencing system and should cite and reference material properly. Students should make use of a range of resources (books, journal articles etc) and the literature used should be appropriate to the arguments made. 60% of marks are allocated to the analysis presented in the essay. Students should examine appropriate theoretical concepts and frameworks. Students should demonstrate an awareness of the wider context and present an in-depth discussion of current issues. Better students will demonstrate critical analysis skills and communicate their arguments in a clear and coherent manner. 20% of marks are allocated to the conclusions drawn. The conclusions should identify the key themes or issues under consideration. Conclusions should be well supported from the analysis and highlight the significance of arguments, evidence and insights   Guidance Notes on Part B: You must refer to relevant literature throughout the essay. This can be in the form of textbooks, journal articles, or relevant web-based material. Student are directed in particular to the following databases which they may find useful in developing their essay: ·       ABI Inform Complete (Proquest) ·       Ingenta ·       Science Direct ·       Sage Online In particular, the following journals may be helpful to you in relation to the prescribed topic: ·       Leadership Quarterly (Available on Science Direct) ·       Leadership and Organisation Development Journal (Available on ABI Inform) ·       Team Performance Management (Available on ABI Inform) ·       Journal of Management Development (Available on ABI Inform) ·       Group and Organisation Management (Available on Sage Online)   You may wish to refer to relevant theory or you may wish to cite relevant research or examples to support your arguments. Remember all material cited must be referenced using the APA Referencing system. Also please refer to the University guidance notes on the avoidance of Plagiarism. Please remember to structure your essay appropriate. You should use headings – and include an introduction, main body and conclusion/recommendations sections. Please do not label the main body as “main body”. You should avoid using footnotes in your essay. Please ensure you use UK English spelling in your writing – so avoid “z’s” such as “organization” and use the UK English spelling of “organisation” instead. Bullet points and numbered lists should be avoided in your essay – focus on strong, well-supported arguments from the literature. Please use “justify” alignment and 1 and a half or double spacing. Your font should be a suitable size (usually 11 or 12 font size). While we do not specify a particular number of references/citations to be included, you should include at least a minimum of 15 different academic sources such as textbooks or journal articles in your essay. Please answer the topic posed. Your essay should NOT be a summary of leadership theories. You need to specifically address the topic and question posed.   The word count for Part B must be 2000 words. This excludes the cover page and reference list. This is subject to a +/- 10% allowance to the allocated word count. Appendices should not be included in your Part B submission. Where a submission exceeds the stated word limit (allowing for the +10%) the maximum grade awarded will be P1.                                                                         Part B marking criteria: – Presentation of the essay. Clear use of paragraphs and headings and the text is free from typographical and spelling errors. (10%) – Referencing of content. Referencing throughout the essay with adequate citation support for arguments being made (10%) – Analysis. Comprehensive examination of appropriate theoretical models. Strong arguments presented with critical insights and good communication skills in evidence. (60%) – Conclusions. Clear identification of key themes and issues. Synthesis of core arguments and formulation of insights and recommendations as appropriate.(20%)

Focused on Company: Assurant https://www.assurant.com/our-story/who-we-are B.2. Problem Definition Have you included data that illustrates in a detailed manner the nature of the problem? For example, don’t just write, “There is a major attendance problem in the company”. That statement should be followed by facts indicating such issues as what types of attendance problems occur (e.g., tardiness? Sick leave abuse?), in what parts of the organization they most often occur, and/or on which shifts/days do they occur? .B.3. Research Objectives and Data Collection Plan Based on the problem definition, have you identified the research objectives that will be necessary to resolve the problem? Have you, based on each research objective, created a data collection plan. For example, if a research objective is to determine employee attitudes with respect to health insurance alternatives, how will you collect such data? Surveys? Focus group meetings? Internal documents? B.4. Project Significance Have you discussed why you believe the research is important to your organization? Have you discussed your proposed measures of success, short-term and long-term, for your research project? C. Have you demonstrated an understanding of the action research methodology? Do the research objectives and data collection plan take into account tools that include organizational stakeholders as participants in the research? D Have you written the document using clear and concise language free from grammar, syntax, spelling and punctuation errors? E.Have you documented your materials consistent with the APA Style Guide? Given that it is possible to complete this portion of the paper without needing to use references, there are no points assigned to this criterion.

Text book is:  Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace  4th edition by Michelle E. Mor Barak Questions 1-5  TITLE PAGE-first page of total submission.  EACH QUESTION:  FORMAT OF ANSWER—COPY QUESTION- FOLLOW WITH YOUR ANSWER-****IMPORTANT ONE (1) OUTSIDE SOURCE MINIMUM FOR EACH QUESTION.  DOUBLE SPACE-INSURE COMPLETE AND CONCISE ANSWERS-PROPER SPELLING & GRAMMAR, AND PAGE # OF TEXTBOOK THAT SUPPORTS THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION.  TITLE PAGE, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS— NO MORE THAN “6” TOTAL PAGES (INCLUSIVE OF TITLE AND REFERENCE PAGE)!   1.       One of the most significant problems facing today’s diverse workforce is exclusion. What can a first line supervisor do to create an inclusive workplace? 2.      What are some of the world-wide trends that have caused the workforce to become increasingly diverse? 3.      Why is country migration data generally imperfect? 4.      Antidiscrimination legislation varies country by country. In the past the courts have held that the laws of the country of origin rather than the host country. What are the implications of this policy for today’s global organizations? 5.      What are the problems in utilizing some general distinction categories (e.g. gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, and disability) to define diversity?

You are the training supervisor for a mid-size city.  The city manager and human resource manager meet with you and ask you to design a wellness program for city employees.  The city manager tells you that the city health insurance will be reduced by 20% if the city has a wellness program in place and if they can convince 50% of the employees to actively participate in the program.  There are currently 250 city employees ranging in age from 19 years to 67 years old.  Forty percent of the employees are female and sixty percent are male.  The city manager is concerned about the health of his employees’ and he is concerned about the rising cost of insurance.  The human resource manager shares with you that the primary health issues for the city employees have been high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, obesity and depression. Using the Rational Planning Process, 1- Needs Assessment, 2-Problem Identification (analysis, and definition), 3 – Intervention strategies (hypotheses) 4- Goals and objections, 5 – Program design (decision-making). In the design of your program, clearly identify the problem, include a needs assessment with supporting data, discuss the strategic plan that you want to implement, discuss the goals and objectives of the plan, how you will design the plan, your plan to gather employee support for the program, the estimated cost of program implementation and how you plan to evaluate the program.  Include a diagram or flow chart in your program.  Your plan should be at least two typed pages of documentation, one page for the diagram and one page for the references for a total of at least four pages.  You should follow APA format and include in text citations.

After a Hard Day’s Work at ACME In this Module 2 SLP, you have the opportunity to delve further into the talent management function and HR’s role in it. As you may recall from the video on talent management– performance management, learning and motivating, compensation, career development, and succession planning all are contributors to building a strong talent pool. You will learn more about two employees who have been with ACME, Inc. for two years. Andy is working as a quality assurance specialist in the plant and Ismal is an IT robotics specialist. These employees are friends and often meet outside of work with a few other ACME employees, including Henry, a new employee recently hired as an HR Staffing Specialist. Ismal caught some movement out of the corner of his eye. It was a video on the overhead TV screen: (People Squad Solutions, 2018) People Squad Solutions, 2018. HR Basics: Employee Retention. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIk3SYTDBSY “Quiet….Listen to this,” pleaded Ismal. The table of acquaintances turned to the screen. “That’s it–I make good money at ACME, but lately I feel something is missing.” “Something is missing? Ismal, you are lucky. Many things are missing for me,” said Andy. “Yep, more than one thing for me too,” said Ismal, thinking about his lousy boss. Your Role: You are Henry, the HR staffing specialist. Henry wants to impress his boss and thought “what an opportunity….I’m going to prepare a plan to save ACME from losing these and other ACME star employees as well.” Assignment Prepare a 3-page actionable plan addressing HR’s role (ACME-wide) for one of the three areas of your choice related to employee retention noted in the video. Pull in as many good HR practices as possible. Choose one of the following: Purpose for Employees Pathways for Employees Recognizing the Person In addition to the background readings, find two sources from the Trident Online Library to augment your plan. Submit your SLP 2 paper by the Module 2 due date. SLP Assignment Expectations Your submission will be assessed on the criteria found in the grading rubric for this assignment: Meets assignment requirements Critical thinking Writing and assignment organization Use of sources and mechanics Timeliness of assignment