Management

Your Research Project (RP) Proposal Pro Forma should include the following sections: aim, objectives and feasibility of the research project; literature review; research methodology; list of references, and dissertation milestones. In your RP you discussed some of the required elements. However, some additional work and corrections are required both in terms of content and structure of your research proposal. It would be rewarding that your review of the discussed issues would be more detailed, go beyond general statements and descriptions of your ideas and involved more detailed explanations and critical evaluations. In particular: Please make sure that you are clearly identifying and theoretically justifying your research goals. It will help you with defining your research hypothesis and/or formulating your research questions. As of now your research proposal is lacking theoretical depth, particularly it applies to aims and methodology sections. All sections of your research proposal require improvement of their structure. They should be divided into several subsections per the content. In particular, for example, your aim section requires serious review. Firstly, you would need to divide it into several sub-sections, including: research background, research objectives and questions, and, finally, research feasibility. Your aims section overall require significant additional work. Pleas clearly distinguish between your research aims, objectives and questions here. Please identify your research project objectives, formulate your research project questions, and discuss and evaluate the feasibility and validity issues in your research project. Your research objectives require further clarification and narrowing down. When formulating them, please make sure that it is feasible to achieve your research object within the scope of your research project. Your research questions are not clearly proposed and formulated here. Your research feasibility issues are not addressed here. The literature review requires some additional work. As I have already stated above, please divide it into several subsections per the content. Literature review should contain a comprehensive critical analysis of existing sources. It’s not a simply a compilation of brief reviews of existing sources. Your literature should include and would benefit from focusing on critical analysis, adding theoretical depth and coherence. A detailed, focused and critical discussion and analysis of relevant existing concepts and theories in the field of your research helps increasing the quality and validity of your research. All reviews of conceptual elements relevant for your research project should be well linked together. Overall, your literature analysis would benefit from taking a more critical approach to synthesizing the discussed material. Moreover, it could be further improved by relying on up-to-date sources. You do not clearly identify the research gap that you are going to address with your research project. Please make sure that you also develop a research framework here. Your methodology section would benefit from both improving its structure and content. As I have already stated above, please divide it into several subsections per the content. A critical and more detailed discussions of epistemological stance and research paradigm is required here. A clearer, more critical and focused review of research approach and research strategy; research design, including sampling, data collection, and data analysis methods would help improving the quality of your RP. For example, firstly, you do not clearly state what research methodolyg you are employing in your research project. Moreover, the discussion of the above elements is lacking a detailed information and critical comparison with other available options and review of their advantages and disadvantages. The same applies to your sample review. Please make sure that you are clearly defining and justifying your choices of research methodology and methods you will be using for data collection. For example, please clarify and better justify your choice of research methods and discuss its advantages and disadvantages. You are claiming that your research will be quantitative and also state that you will conduct several case studies. Please address inconsistencies in and clarify your statements. Please make sure that you also address such issues as strengths and weaknesses of your research methodology, validity and reliability, and triangulation in more details and theoretically justify your statements. It would be useful to identify and analyze research risks associated with the adoption of your methodology as applied to your research project. Please make sure that you discuss in detail operationalization and development of the research instruments in your project. Please make sure that you discuss and provide detailed information about conducting a pilot study of your research instruments here. Further, in your RP Methodology chapter, you will discussed and explain how your research tools were changed based on the analysis of the results of your pilot study. Please make sure that you explain how your approach addresses the limitations of the previous studies and what the difference is between yours and the other authors’ approaches. Please make sure that you are critically evaluating your methodology in retrospect in your conclusion sub-sections within this section. Please make sure that all your choices, including research methodology, methods, sample size, data analysis, etc. are theoretically justified. I would also suggest that you were more intensively relying on the existing theoretical frameworks to justify your ideas and decisions. Please make sure that you are clearly defining the concepts and providing more detailed explanations, comparisons, criticism and evaluations of existing research and your proposed research project. Please make sure that you discuss your project in the context of the other authors’ research and clearly theoretically justify all your choice and ideas. Overall, it would be rewarding to see that your RP is built on a more intensive use of various alternative perspectives originating from multiple academic sources. Theoretically justifying your ideas and providing contrasting opinions of other researchers help you preparing a more comprehensive, yet concise and well structured, critical analysis of the problem you chose to study for your research project, of its most important elements, and some related issues. Your work could be further improved and solidified by incorporating an analysis of consistencies and gaps between theory and practice. Please continue to engage in the search for additional academic resources that could contribute and add value to your analysis. It would be rewarding to see that you continue working at improving your writing style to achieve proficiency in terms structuring your arguments, language command, and consistency in committing to academic writing style and scholarly tone suitable for both academic and professional audiences. Please make sure that you properly acknowledge all materials you used for preparing your assignment and include all references to all sources in Harvard Referencing Style. Please review the Harvard Referencing Style Guide to insure that all references are in compliance with Harvard referencing style requirements

Using the organization below, prepare a written report that includes the following information: 1. Explain in detail how external factors affect the company’s structure. (25%) 2. Explain in detail HRM could support managers activities via an operational, a tactical and a strategic perspective in the company. (25%) 3. Explain in detail which leadership style is appropriate in the company to improve productivity and motivation levels with an organization. Contrast with other leadership styles (25%) 4. Explain in detail the role of team culture in the development of corporate social responsibility policies for your company. (25%)

lululemon is a popular yoga and activewear apparel company. The management and leadership challenges facing lululemon and write a report to the following questions. 1. What are the social and cultural factors impacting leaders within Lululemon? (450 words) – min 4 references 2. What are three recommendations that should be adopted by the leadership at Lululemon in managing people, raising morale, and ensuring improved motivation among staff? (700 words) – min 7 references 3. Using examples from the case what are the challenges confronting leaders/managers in today’s contemporary society? (1,100 words) – 10 references Task summary Examine and analyse the reading on the following page (Leadership, culture and transition at lululemon) and respond to three questions. The case material:- lululemon.pdf •References to other readings to support and contextualise your opinion is required. • You should have roughly 4 references per 500 words from the CQU library and Google scholar(general web sites are not academic sources). • Your report will be marked using the Case Study Rubric below. • APA style.

Write a 1,100- to 1,3575-word paper in which you complete the following: – Outline the responsibilities of a Human Resources department. Your response may include personal experiences with a Human Resources department. – Discuss employee turnover and the cost of hiring. Your response may include personal experiences in employee turnover and its financial impact on business. – Explain how SAP ERP systems distinguish between a task, job, and person.

With the justification of an HRIS solidified, you need to show your client how you will implement the HRIS using one of the change models discussed in our text. You will also need to explain and justify cost associated with implementation via a cost benefit analysis. You want to ensure the system is properly maintained and evaluated for continuous improvement. Therefore, you will include a maintenance and evaluation plan in your proposal.  Instructions  Write a proposal, in which you do the following:  Change Management Discuss the various reasons system implementation fails. Compare and contrast various change models. Then select a change model to use during system implementation. Provide details of how you will use the change model, and justify why you selected one model over the other models. Explain the various steps that should be included to ensure the change model is effective.  HRIS Implementation Discuss the activities that are necessary prior to the system going live, and provide a timeline for these activities. Specify which change management team member will be responsible for each activity, and explain their role.     Cost Benefit Analysis Create a cost benefit analysis matrix for the HRIS vendor you chose during Phase III: Design. Analyze the cost justification strategies that you will use to justify the cost of the HRIS, including data that identify each benefit and cost component examined, estimates of the dollar amount for each, estimates on when the organization will incur each cost and receive each benefit, and documentation justifying each decision you made in listing these benefits.  Maintenance Discuss how you will ensure the system is properly maintained and evaluated for continuous improvement.    Resources Use at least three quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.  The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is: Create an HRIS implementation and maintenance plan that includes a timeline of activities, responsibilities, and a cost-benefit analysis.

In Module 7, you will be asked to turn in a term paper on a Quality Management topic covered in this course. In this module, you will submit a rough draft of your final paper for instructor feedback. The Term Paper Draft is a graded assignment. Final Term Paper Prepare a term paper on one of the quality management tools from the course and show examples of how it is currently being used by businesses. Highlight any benefits or detriments as a result of the tools. Plan on using at least one book from a library, a personal interview, and any additional sources (minimum of 4 resources). Submission Your term paper draft will be 3-4 pages in length, not including the title or reference pages, and include an introduction with a thesis statement and a conclusion that summarizes the main ideas. Each paragraph should have a topic sentence supported by 3-5 sentences that offer additional details, explanation, and examples. The paper should be free of errors in grammar, sentence structure, and other mechanics. In addition, the paper should be in APA format, which includes Times New Roman, 12 point font with double line spacing and one-inch margins

Each student will be expected to research the decision making style of a well-known CEO. Students ars expected to identify some of the defining characteristics of the decision-maker they choose and describe some of the decisions these CEOs have made and how they have managed their companies in recent years. Total paper length will be 5 to 6 pages, double spaced, plus a reference list. The decision-making style as well as some specific business decisions should be described, analyzed, and interpreted. Each student should be able to explain the effects these CEOs have had on their companies. You will be expected to follow appropriate style guidelines such as APA or Chicago, especially for the citation of references.

Overarching theme: Work stress leads to burnout   Review the research on work stress (this should be at least a couple pages) in general and then maybe also on work stress in orgs like yours (non-profit org that helps adults with developmental disabilities)  (maybe focus on healthcare, patient management, etc.) Review additional work talking about how work stress then leads to burnout and maybe how the two are separately defined. Finally, review any and all research that exists on paperwork/documentation as a significant source of burnout in healthcare-type orgs like yours(non-profit org that helps adults with developmental disabilities) A.           What literature will you be reviewing and why? (1 paragraph) B.           What are the relevant concepts and terms associated with the problem? C.           What does the field already know? D.          What is the rigor of the prior research? E.           What is the relevance of the prior research to your problem? F.           End the literature review by explaining what you have learned

Change Agents in the Change Management Process (110 points) One of the most fascinating components of the change management process is the change agent. The change agent, who can be a leader, manager, employee, consultant, or customer, is a person who is often at the center of the change management process and performs several critical functions in the overall process. Address the following regarding change agents: Define the concept of a change agent, including the traits and characteristics that best represent a change agent in today’s organization. Discuss the role of a change agent in the change management process (e.g., formal or informal role, position of authority or power, etc.). Assess how a change agent can influence the generation, direction, success, or failure of a change initiative. Finally, assess any challenges a change agent may have in the change process (e.g., not agreeing with the change, management not truthfully sharing the repercussions of the change, etc.) and how these challenges should be addressed. Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements: Be 4-5 pages in length, which does not include the title page and reference pages, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements. Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines. Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles. It is strongly encouraged that you submit all assignments into the Turnitin Originality Check prior to submitting it to your instructor for grading. If you are unsure how to submit an assignment into the Originality Check tool, review the Turnitin Originality Check – Student Guide for step-by-step instructions. Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.

Overview: The topic is outsourcing.  This has been an important issue across all segments of American life.  We have all experienced product support call centers experiences talking to people as far away as India or the Philippines. Health care has not been immune to this as radiologists and diagnostic functions have been outsourced.  Some doctor offices and even some hospitals have outsourced blood analysis and the pharmacy.  Many universities have outsourced other functions such as the bookstore, parking (MSU has), and even housekeeping services.  In some cases companies have even reversed an outsourcing decision and have brought some functions back…As you can see this is a complicated issue.  The essay: We briefly discussed some of the advantages and disadvantages of making the choice to either self-operate a foodservice or outsource to a management company.  You need to be able to effectively argue either side of the issue, thus be in a position to make the best possible decision, based on the specific operation you’re deciding for, should you face this one day in your professional life. To complete the assignment you must answer the following three questions (200 or so words per question). 1.) If you were to choose a management company how would you address: Foodservice employee loyalty/disloyalty Sensitivity to local markets, products, producers Customer (patient, resident, or traditional customer) preference/demand 2.) If you were to choose to self-operate how would you address (keep in mind I am assuming you would hire a foodservice director and other necessary staff and supervisors and not take this on directly but that the foodservice management personnel would report to you) Loss of economies of scale (purchasing power advantage) How will you stay on top of trends, new products, etc. How will you measure your success 3.) Lastly, do you think that different operations or industry segments might be better suited to one or the other (e.g. university foodservice, company cafeterias, hospitals, prisons, camps, executive dining rooms, etc.)  Assignment details: The requirement is to answer each of the questions and then submit