Management

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.

Questions: 1. Do you feel that Boeing’s Board of Directors handled the 737 MAX situation properly? Why or why not? 2. Going Forward, how can the Boeing Company better resolve safety issues before they lead to injuries and lawsuits?

The question must satisfy all the requirements in it. I have attached the slides that the question must be answered from.   Please answer the below question as an essay from the slides  QUESTION for the essay: Assume that the pandemic is over and you are considering opening up a coffee bar with several of your friends. What kind of organizational structure might you use? What are your justifications for the structure you recommend? After the coffee bar becomes successful, you decide that expanding the number of branches might be a good idea. What changes to the structure might you make? You may want to use appropriate charts and/or diagrams in your answer, as you deem necessary.

Assignment Question: Choose one of the themes below and prepare an academic report in the form of a journal paper of 3000 words in length, excluding appendices.  1) Successful Innovation Management (Global examples) 2) Managing Service Innovation 3) Innovation Management–What it is and Why it Matters  4) Benefits and Limitations of Open Innovation  5) Managing Components of Innovation Management and IP 6) A Management Framework for Looking at Innovation Sources  !!Please refer to uploaded file which includes thorough details on assignment question, structure and content guidelines and lecture’s notes.

Create an economic vitality index using at least five parameters available in data sources associated with Kelsey and those that are accessible on the internet Use your index to rate Kelsey against the other city. Prepare an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation to the Economic Development Department of Kelsey that shows the following: The process your used to create the economic vitality index The results of how Kelsey compares with the selected city using your economic vitality index

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/opinion/george-floyd-protests-1960s.html In 3 paragraphs, please answer EACH of the following (1 paragraph for each question) based on the NYT Opinion entitled ‘George Floyd’s Death is a Failure of Generations of Leadership’ (the article is posted under ‘Content’ Article 1): What is the central thesis (the central argument that is being made in this article)? How is the issue of socioeconomic inclusion being tied to the issue of criminality in poor communities? Please be sure to fully explain this. Do you agree or disagree with the central thesis being made in this article? Explain why or why not.

Based on the biography of Benjamin Franklin  that is provided for unit 1, select what you feel are the three most significant major events of his life and explain how these events shaped the man and his thinking. Write 100+ words on each event. (300+ words total)

Purpose: This assignment will provide you an opportunity to examine the impact of effective management on the overall success of an organization.  You will need to utilize resources available through the library and other sources (including the internet) to obtain information.  You will be required to examine an organization from a variety of points of view with a focus on its planning, organizing, and controlling. In your paper you should discuss and identify as many Principles of Management concepts as possible.  Conclusions should be drawn regarding the effectiveness of the use of the broad range of management tools and their impact on the success of the company.    Introduction:  COVID-19 has had an impact on all of us. It has certainly affected businesses all around the world.  Your challenge is to select a company you can examine from the variety of perspectives covered in this course.  Most specifically, these include Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling.  You will examine the company you select utilizing a variety of research sources: business publications, the company’s own external and internal communications, the mass media, etc. From your research, you will be able to answer the following questions.  Your paper, which should be 7 – 15 pages in length, should present with the headers described below, with citations and presentation utilizing the APA or MLA guidelines.    Directions: Select a publicly traded US company. Companies in the Fortune 500 are strongly suggested. Research the top management of the organization, and detail the strategies that they advocated to help the company through the COVID-19 epidemic. As many companies had problems which led to lay-offs and retrenchment, this is an ideal time to focus on how management is working to move the company through these difficult economic times. Examine the critical issues that the organization faced, and detail the strategies employed to mitigate them.  All top managers are not successful.  If the company you choose employed strategies that failed, detail the failure and add analysis as to why it failed and what may have been done to foster success.   1.   Research all aspects of what this company did when it comes to pre and post planning for the economic disruption of COVID. 2.   Complete a SWOT Analysis on the planning of this company. Use your research to finish the SWOT. (Present a rich SWOT. Bullet points with one-liners. ALL factors, news, and information presented in your above analysis should translate into SWOT items.) Strengths: (use bullets to list entries) Weaknesses: (use bullets to list entries) Opportunities: (use bullets to list entries) Threats: (use bullets to list entries) 3.   Evaluate the SWOT and write your findings and suggestions to the planning this company employed or needs to employ to deal with the impact of COVID.

Any change management plan must consider the culture of an organization. For instance, some organizations prize the inclusion of their employees in all aspects of operations, while other organizations have a top-down approach to management. Creating a plan without taking this cultural background into context can be problematic for the success of a change initiative. Search the virtual library to find scholarly articles relative to change initiatives which apply to an organization in Saudi Arabia. Consider the impact on the individuals concerned and the impacts on the organization. Assess the cultural elements that you believe may impact the development of change strategies and implementation of change plans. Discuss the challenges the change initiative had to the organization. Develop a strategy that the organization could use to mitigate the challenges. Use CH6 FROM THE ATTACHED TEXT BOOK 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.

The supplement to Chapter 5 in your textbook describes and develops several decision trees. Address the following requirements: Develop a decision tree for the case described. Explain the process of developing a decision tree, draw the decision tree (include the decision tree in an appendix showing chance nodes, probabilities, outcomes, expected values, and net expected value). Defend your final decision based on your decision tree.  Case for consideration—An operations manager for a cereal producer is faced with a choice of: A large-scale investment (A) to purchase a new cooker which could produce a substantial pay-off in terms of increased revenue net of costs but requires an investment of 3,750,000 Saudi Riyal. After extensive market research it is thought that there is a 40% chance that a pay-off of 9,375,000 Saudi Riyal will be realized, but there is a 60% chance that it will be only 3,000,000 Saudi Riyal. A smaller scale project (B) to refurbish an existing cooker. At 1,875,000 Saudi Riyal, this option is less costly but produces a lower pay-off. Again, extensive research data suggests a 30% chance of a gain of 3,750,000 Saudi Riyal but a 70% chance of it being only 1,875,000 Saudi Riyal. Continuing the present operation without change (C) which cost nothing, but produces no pay-off. Directions: Your essay is required to be four to five pages in length, which does not include the title page and reference pages, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements. Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles. Use the Digital Library to find your resources. Use Sa University academic writing standards and follow APA style guidelines. SOURCES SHOULD BE NOT OLD THAN 5 YEARS THE PLAGIARISM SHOULD BE NOT OVER 20% USE TITLES AS REQUESTED IN APA STYLE  Current sources are those published within the most recent five-year period (2015-2019).  Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.