Management

Select at least two concepts from this week’s assigned readings from Essentials of Organizational Behavior. Identify the concepts you have chosen by properly citing the Robbins & Judge text, being sure to use the page number format utilized for short, direct quotes. In addition, you are required to obtain a full text, peer-reviewed article from a scholarly database and share how it speaks directly to at least one of the concepts you have identified in the Robbins & Judge text. The article you select should be no more than five years old and properly cited within your response according to APA (6e) style guidelines. A full source citation should also be provided at the end of your response. Please use this forum space to share and discuss what you have learned about each of these concepts, including specific knowledge gained about one of those concepts via the peer-reviewed article you have selected.

3.1 Task Read the case study below and imagine that you are the Business Adviser for the company. Write a 2,000-word report outlining your advice to the Divisional Director of PineApps Ltd on the following issues: Task 1 Based on the academic literature, discuss and evaluate the advantages for Pine-Apps Ltd in developing their own HR function. Task 2 Evaluate the role of a performance management system. Explain how a performance management system can be implemented with other HR processes to improve organisational performance at Pine-Apps Ltd. 1 The grade is provisional until confirmed by the relevant assessment board(s). Your work will be marked in grades rather than percentages. This is considered to deliver the most accurate and fair outcomes for students. Each assessment that you undertake will be assessed using the common grading system. Information about the grading system can be found in your Student Handbook, Section 13. The Grade Criteria can be found in Appendix C of your Student Handbook. Assessment Brief: LSBM205 – 2020-21 Page 2 Task 3 Explain how a performance management system can be used to improve employee commitment and engagement at Pine-Apps Ltd, Please identify the challenges they may face using this system and propose how these can be overcome or managed. Additional guidance You should present your work in a report format using headings and sub-headings Follow the structure of the assignment tasks in your report. Graphs and tables are accepted. Please place any documents, policies or similar in the appendix. Please submit the assignment in MS Word format. Please ensure that you refer to the academic literature and the case study to illustrate your answers for each task. Please ensure all sources are cited throughout your report.Use Harvard Referencing system Further details including suggested websites and resources will be on Canvas ‘Module Materials AB1 Case Study’ Weighting of the tasks Response to Task 1 is worth 30% of the overall grade for AS1. Response to Task 2 is worth 30% of the overall grade for AS1. Response to Task 3 is worth 30 % of the overall grade for AS1. Academic Conventions (i.e. structure, layout, clarity of the response) is worth 10% of the overall grade. Assessment Brief: LSBM205 – 2020-21 Page 3 Case study: Performance Management at Pine-Apps Ltd Pine-Apps Ltd is a technology start-up company that has been operating for just over two years. The company was established in 2018 by Georgina Whitecross and Tim Garrix, software developers who developed an app that revolutionized financial services in 2018. In less than two years, the business has developed over 50 very successful apps with many more in development. Revenue has increased by 200% from just over £50,000 in 2018 to £10 million in 2019. Pine- Apps is fast becoming the leading global app developer. Current clients include most of the FTSE’s top 100 companies. Pine-Apps Ltd has enjoyed incredible early success. However, more recently it has started to experience several significant internal problems due to the company’s fast growth. These problems have included poor communication, high levels of labour turnover and slow product development. To cope with the growth, six months ago the CEO and founder Georgina Whitecross developed a new organisational structure with two departments: Research and Development with 50 employees and Marketing and Sales with 10, supported by a small administrative team of 5 employees. Her partner and co-founder, Tim Garrix, has been appointed as Head of Research and Development. They have recently hired a new Head of Marketing and Sales. In a bid to manage the increasing workload, they have decided to focus on their core competencies and outsource the HR and accounting functions. In a very short period, the company has undergone significant change, growing from a small team of three to employing 65 highly skilled employees two years later. Currently, over 50% of the Research and Development employees are recent IT graduates with less than 6 months service. The skills required for these roles are fast changing thus making graduates the best source of available labour. Pine-App’s industry reputation and generous employment benefits (including above average industry wages and conditions which includes pensions and leave, and opportunities for growth and promotion) ensures it attracts the best graduates. However, labour turnover amongst the recent graduate recruits has been very high at 55%, with average tenure being six months. While these graduates are highly ambitious and initially appear to be very keen, the company has found that they lack commitment and loyalty. As one former employer stated, ‘I came to Pine-Apps, to gain experience from the best in the industry so I can develop my own apps and create my own business.’ Senior experienced Research and Development employees have also been expressing their dissatisfaction with the company. At Pine-Apps, training and mentoring are the responsibility of senior members of staff. The company believes that due to the fast-paced nature of the industry and technology, it is essential that senior members train and mentor the graduates. However, due to the high turnover of graduates, this has placed additional workload on the experienced members of staff. One senior developer claimed, ‘it’s like we have a revolving door, every time we employ a new group of graduates they are all keen and excited but as soon as we get them up to speed, they then turn around and leave and we are left to clean up the mess.’ Graduates have also expressed dissatisfaction with the mentoring system and lack of formal training opportunities. They have claimed that they are working in small teams and receive very little formal guidance and no formal training from the senior members. Instead they claim that they are expected to do what they believe is the ‘boring repetitive work’. They argue that the lack of formal training and very limited opportunity to work on exciting projects is negatively impacting on their skill development and employability. They also believe that they are given little opportunity or time to develop and work on their own new ideas and projects. Product development relies on high levels of communication and team working. However, the lack of social cohesion, especially between the senior and junior employees, has also been identified as a growing concern hindering this process. The resentment between the more senior and junior members has stifled communication and team working. Regularly, senior members organise meetings to discuss new and current projects but more recently they have stopped inviting the graduates. Due to the high turnover of graduates, senior employees believe it would be a waste of time for them to attend the meetings, plus they are also concerned over issues of confidentiality and intellectual property. This problem has been further heightened by the recent Covid-19 crisis which has led to remote working. There have been few initiatives by the company to engage the employees during this time and many of the graduate employees have felt isolated and disengaged. The CEO is very concerned by the rising costs associated with the outsourced HR function. She believes that costs have risen dramatically in relation to recruitment and selection. Despite the Assessment Brief: LSBM205 – 2020-21 Page 4 considerable investment in this process, she feels that they are being sent candidates that are not suitable for the needs of the business. She is also concerned by the growing divide amongst the Research and Development department employees. She believes for Pine-Apps to continue to grow and survive they must address the issues of poor communication and employee engagement and commitment. Author Dr Melissa Kerr Fictional Case Study

MT140M5-5: Discuss the purpose of corporate social responsibility and ethics. GEL-7.02: Apply ethical reasoning to ethical issues within the field of management. The Module 5 assessment requires you to consider the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in an organization’s strategy. CSR requires companies to ensure they are always working towards four pillars of societal accountability: economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic. Using the material from Chapter 4 of the text as well as your own independent research, you will draft an informative essay that makes the connection between a theoretical understanding of CSR and how it is reflected in the strategies of a real organization. Assessment Checklist: Using your research skills, locate and define the CSR policy of one well-known public company. Referring to your selected company’s CSR initiatives, identify which pillars of responsibility they seem most focused on: economic, legal, ethical, or philanthropic. Give at least two specific examples. Research the mission statement of your chosen company. Describe how the company’s mission statement aligns with their CSR policy. Give at least two specific examples. Utilize at least two external sources as part of your research. Sources might include your textbook (M Management 6th Edition by Thomas Bateman), the company’s website, or another resource found in the university Library. ·       Review the rubric before beginning this activity. Click on the link to access the textbook M:Management 6th Edition

Review the theories of Elkind, Erikson, Kohlberg, Marcia, and Piaget in chapters 16 and 17 of the text. Interview a person of your choice (they may be your parents, relatives, or friends) using the questions approved by your instructor. These questions must address the following: Cognitive, physical, and psychosocial development during the interviewee’s adolescence How peers influenced the interviewee during adolescence What people and/or events influenced the interviewee’s development of morals How the interviewee’s experiences as an adolescent formulate who they are as an adult. Note: American Psychological Association (APA) ethical guidelines indicate that interviewees have the right to refuse to answer any question posed to them by an interviewer. Please ensure that your interviewees are aware of this, and do not force them to answer where the opportunity to reply has been refused. Pick one of the theories reviewed in chapters 16 and 17 of the text. Write a paper of 750-1,000 words, discussing the selected theory and how it relates to your interview. Include the following in your paper: A description of the selected theory A description of your interviewee (gender, age, ethnicity, etc.) How the interviewee’s responses illustrate the selected theory. Support your response with examples. Include at least three scholarly references, in addition to the text, in your paper.

Assessment Question: You have just joined a new business managing the employee relations for a large publishing company. Your MD has just asked you to write a short report on some of the international considerations you need to consider as well as the role of diverse groups and parties in the relationship too – namely what their role is and how they help to control and manage the employment relationship. See attached for reading & class notes.

For this assignment, construct a paper outlining how environmental factors and risk management can affect negotiating outcomes. Feel free to investigate this topic at a local, national, or international level.     Typically, it is best to use sources within the last five years; however, you may utilize sources older than this if you wish to investigate how these factors (environment and risk management) have changed how negotiations have been handled over the years. Within your paper, please include: Title Page Introduction describing to the reader the topics being covered in your paper (half to 1 page) Section covering environmental factors as it relates to negotiating (bargaining) (2-3 pages) Section covering risk management as it relates to negotiating (bargaining) (2-3 pages) Conclusion (half a page) References Length:  5-7 pages, not including title and reference pages. References:  Include a minimum of 3-5 scholarly resources.

The learning outcomes are: Evaluate from critical perspectives, the impact of organisational culture on employees attitude and behaviour, in general and in relation to change. Evaluate different management/leadership styles in relation to managing change. Analyse the influence of position, power, control and organisational politics and the role they play in determining the process and outcomes of organisational change.

You are required to develop a portfolio to demonstrate an analysis of the effects of digital advances, introduction and use cases of your chosen digital technology, business benefits, barriers to use and recommendations for new digital tourism product/service concept   The topic selection will be from those introduced in the unit lectures (or another suitable digital technology in tourism, agreed with the unit leader). For examples, topics may include Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and so on.  I would like grade FIRST please! thank you very much! I am new, if I like the writter I will order from them on my following assigments! thank you in advanced.

Alliance Supermarket and Point-of-Sale (POS) Systems Read the “Alliance Supermarket” case study in Chapter 10 of your text. Alliance Supermarkets has been using a point-of-sale (POS) system for some time to track its inventory. The system uses a laser scanner to read the universal product code (UPC) on each item at the checkout container. The UPC is a number that uniquely identifies the product on which it appears. Currently, Alliance is using the UPC information to update inventory records for each item. Although the system has greatly improved the company’s ability to replenish inventory promptly, the company still has some problems. For example, sudden changes in demand for a particular item can catch the company by surprise as it bases inventory replenishment on historical demand patterns. Further, demand patterns and preferences may vary from one store to another depending on the customers served by each, but the inventory system groups all demand information together and treats each store equally. Finally, the manufacturers that make the products stocked by Alliance Supermarkets are always pressuring Alliance to help them target appropriate customers for special promotions and sales. The chief information officer (CIO) of Alliance realizes that much more could probably be done with the data collected from its POS system. For example, the company could analyze the relationship between each product’s sales and weather patterns. It is even possible to analyze an individual customer’s buying habits and identify instances in which a customer may be persuaded to try a different brand of a certain product. For this assignment be sure to address the following points: Study this situation and formulate new and innovative uses of the information from the POS system. Ideally, these ideas should help Alliance better serve its customers by ensuring that adequate quantities of each item are available, that costs are kept low, and that customers are made aware of new products that may interest them. Describe any information that may help Alliance reduce costs while providing better service. Propose a new approach that could be used by Alliance by using the purchase information that can be obtained on individual customers. Assess ethical and privacy considerations of information gathered from the POS system or purchased items. Your paper should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points) and supported with the concepts outlined in your text and additional scholarly sources. Submit your three- to four-page paper (not including the title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center and must cite at least three scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

The Management, Governance and Society module has examined the contribution of business firms and of other hybrid organizational forms to a variety of complex social issues. To understand global challenges, the module has referred to the United National Sustainable Development Framework, which highlights 17 Sustainable Development Goals to be globally achieved between 2015 and 2030. Such global goals are equally relevant to all regions in the world, however the actions through which governments, organizations and citizens in specific areas aim to pursue these global objectives will vary depending on the characteristics of the local socio-economic and socio-political environment.   Aim of this assignment is to critically evaluate the role of social-purpose organisational forms in mitigating a specific global challenge of your choice, in a geographical setting of your choice.     As a first step, you should:   – Select 1 or 2 SDGs. Should you choose more than 1 SDG, they should be clearly interlinked to allow for an integrated discussion;   – Select 1 geographical region of your preference (a country, or a region within a country).     In your essay, you should:   – Develop an analysis of the current situation and historical evolution of the region over the past two decades, with respect to the chosen SDG area (ca. 500 words);   – Examine the role of national and international policies to foster improvement in the selected area(s), highlighting advantages and disadvantages. At least 2 policy interventions (one national, one international) should be described and critically analysed (ca. 700 words);   – Examine the role of two hybrid (social-purpose) organisations of different kinds (e.g. one social enterprise and one public-private partnership) in addressing the identified problems in the selected area(s), highlighting advantages and disadvantages (ca. 1000 words);   – Formulate recommendations for policy and practice, by considering the interdependences between the chosen policies, the hybrid organisations, and the regulatory, socio-cultural and socio-economic environment (ca. 300 words).