Management

Instructions:  One of the most hotly debated subjects in labor relations today is that of ‘Right to Work’ laws. It’s time to do some deeper research and take a position on this controversial issue. In a narrative, do the following: 1. What is the history of ‘Right to Work’ laws? Where did they come from? Who proposed them and why? Has their purpose or effect changed since original inception? 2. Accurately summarize both sides of the ‘Right to Work’ debate. What exactly is each side arguing, and what are the defenses to the claims of their opponents? 3. Articulate your own opinion on this issue. Are ‘Right to Work’ laws ethically sound? Are they good for unions? Good for employers? Good for employees? If one or more of these stakeholders are disadvantaged, how? Do the benefits of these laws outweigh the costs? Why or why not? 4. What is your prediction for ‘Right to Work’ laws in America? Currently, the country is divided more or less 50:50 in terms of states with and without such laws. Will they become the new norm? Or will they regress and be repealed in the states that have enacted them? Defend your predictions with sound reasoning. Submission Instructions: This assignment should at a minimum contain 1,000 words of content (double spaced). Word count does not include headings, cover pages, references, or question text (if you choose to include it in your paper); I am looking for 1,000 words of substance. Your paper should be in APA format including a properly formatted cover page (abstracts are optional) and a reference page with at least three (3) NEW references (“new” here means references that you have not already used in previous assignments in this course). Providing additional references to your assignments demonstrates your desire to conduct additional research on the topic area, and can improve your research skills. With all assignments, include properly formatted in-text citations within the body of your work for each of your listed references so the reader can ascertain your original thoughts or ideas as well as the portion of your work that is credited to credible sources. It is very important to identify work from other sources to ensure that proper credit is provided to researchers in the field. This assignment uses Turn It In for originality verification. Submit the weekly written assignment as an MS Word attachment (.doc or .docx format). A recommended font is 12pt Times New Roman. DO NOT include discussion board answers with your formally written assignment submission.

MSCI 281 Supply Chain Management 2020-21Coursework AssignmentSupply Chain Resilience and COVID-19Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain resilience has become a more important concern for businesses, public-sector and third-sector organisations. Consultancy firms have been offering advice on resilience: for example, see links to reports from McKinsey, Accenture, and Gartner. Supply chain resilience has been a topic researched by academic supply chain researchers for over ten years, and there is now a body of work in this area. In this assignment, I would like you to take some of the key ideas and insights from this academic literature and use them to analyse examples of supply chain responses to disruption and change resulting from COVID-19.More specifically, I would like you to write an assignment addressing the following points:(a) Write a review of the key concepts and arguments concerning supply chain resilience. You should base this on reading selected journal papers in the supply chain, operations management and related literature. This should include, but not be limited to: definition(s) of supply chain resilience, why it is needed, how it is supposed to be achieved, and its effects on performance. Bear in mind the quality of the sources you use (i.e., they should be peer-reviewed journals), and aim to draw on about 10 journal papers. (b) Using web-based resources and the business press, identify two examples of supply chains responding to significant changes caused by COVID-19. These could be increases or decreases in demand, major changes in distribution channels, or disruptions to the upstream supply of inputs, among others. (It is possible that several of these could be present simultaneously in one case.) Describe the examples, providing as much detail as possible on the composition and structure of the supply chain, how COVID-19 has caused changes or disruptions, how the organisations involved have responded (if they have), and how effective their responses have been. Please provide as much specific detail as you can: quantify the changes as far as possible, identify specific products, services or other inputs, and provide timings and locations of key events. Although you may concentrate on one organisation in each example, please include information about the supply chain beyond this organisation and, where appropriate, the inter-organisational aspects of the situation.(c) Use key concepts and insights from your literature review in Part (a) to analyse the cases in Part (b). You should consider how these concepts can be used to describe and explain the examples. It may be useful to compare the two cases. You should also discuss whether the existing conceptualisations of supply chain resilience in the literature are sufficient for the exceptional characteristics of the disruptions cause by COVID-19. I am interested in your analysis of the cases. As such, you should not reproduce or summarise existing discussions of them by journalists, consultants, or academics, but write your own analysis. You may also want to relate your discussion to key SCM topics covered on the module such as inventory, inter-organisational relationships, the bullwhip effect, and so on.General pointsThe word limit is 3000 words, excluding references and Appendices. I strongly encourage the use of diagrams and Tables; all Figures and Tables must have numbers and titles, and you should refer to them explicitly in your text. Appendices should be used only for material that is not required by the reader to follow the argument of your essay (i.e., for optional, background material). Please use subheadings clearly to indicate the structure of your work. Use a consistent method of referencing, preferably the Harvard system. You are referred to the Lancaster University Library pages regarding referencing and plagiarism.https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/library/how-to/reference/All work submitted will be analysed by plagiarism detection software. Please don’t plagiarise: it is a serious academic offence.Please submit the work electronically via Moodle. The submission date is 25th January 20201. The exact time will be evident from the Moodle submission tool. Please do not put your name on your work or in the filename, only your student ID number.Please discuss the assignment with me if you require clarification.Martin Spring

Project management in real life  PROFESSOR’S GUIDANCE FOR THIS WEEK’S LE: The fundamentals of managing a specific project from inception to completion require a team of individuals with different capabilities and talents. Project managers are responsible for executing the project objectives flawlessly, which definitely takes more than just labor and materials. Each project follows a particular Project Life Cycle (PLC). However, one of the most fundamental yet crucial skills a successful project manager must possess is the ability to maintain a work-family/social life balance. In the world of project management, it is pivotal to understand that your schedule is your lifeline, enabling you to follow your planned strategies and attain your objectives.  Learning Engagement: Being a Project Manager (PM) may involve a lot of personal sacrifices and risks. As a prospective PM, if you were being offered a significant assignment that could enhance your personal position in the company, what would you try to do to maintain a work-family/social life balance?  Discuss

One paragraph of 300 words, two paragraphs are required2. Major: Architecture3. No beginning and end required4. You need to write a manuscript based on this brief brief,5. Three references are needed in the articleThe Future:A critical appraisal of a contemporary campaign or movement for professional change within architecture. What is the situation that is being challenged? Who is leading the challenge? What are their proposals? Who has the power to change the situation? The issue might be political, legal, economic, environmental, etc. Provide a critical viewpoint on the effectiveness of the process.A Project:Write a report on a built architectural project that you understand to have made a particularly positive social impact. Research and explain the professional issues regarding the project. Who was the client? What professionals were involved? How was it constructed? How was the money raised? Why was it beneficial? This could be a project that changed a community, that improved an environment, that set new architectural standards. Explain what factors made this kind of quality possible.Each section should be a minimum of 300 words.

Explain and motivate why sustainability and organisational context has become the key business challenge of the 21st century.Prepare a proposal to the Senior Management of your organisation on the topic of contextual strategy for your organisation. You will be expected to provide:1. A background as an introduction2. In the main body of your proposal:2.1. Explain and motivate why sustainability and organisational context has become the key business challenge of the 21st century.- Here you may consider referencing resources such as the World Economic Forum Global RiskReport, the Scientific Consensus for Policy Makers, the Planetary Boundaries, Wellbeing Economy or Doughnut Economics models. You may want to view these through the lens of the SDGs.- Consider a subsection on the global context and a subsection on your national or business specific geography context. What are the issues or systemic risks in the world today facing business leaders? What are the issues or systemic risks specifically facing your business in the contexts where you operate?- Consider a section on why and how business leaders need to shift from logics of disparate or intertwined (or shared value) to logics of nested dependency. The Marcus et al 2010 paper might be useful mentioned in class slides, or the recent Embedding Project guide on Embedded Strategies.2.2. Propose a well-considered and synthesised business case for action in response to 2.1 in relation to your own particular area of responsibility in your business / sector / industry and/organisation.- Focussing on one or more of the issues or systemic risks identified, clearly articulate why you have chosen to strategically respond to this issue/risk and why is of strategic relevance to your organisation.- Imagine that senior leadership of your organisation is reading this assignment, how will you communicate to them the strategic relevance of the issue/risk? And how will you summarise at a high level the value of your proposal?2.3. Choose and apply suitable frameworks and tools from the course to link sustainability and organisational context to your daily operations and management functions).- Here you can choose one or more of the frameworks we have explored during the module (or otherwise) to provide some structure to your proposal.o If you are looking to articulate a strategy on a specific issue/risk, consider using the Embedded Strategies guide – https://embeddingproject.org/resources/strategyo If you are looking to embed approaches to sustainability across your organisation, consider using the Embedding Framework – https://embeddingproject.org/resources/embedding-frameworko If you are looking to align your strategy to the SDGs, consider using the SDG Compass – https://sdgcompass.org/o If you are proposing that your organisation take clearer positions on issues so that new work can be legitmated in those fields, consider using the guide to position statements – https://embeddingproject.org/resources/next-generation-governanceo If you are proposing a strategic partnership to realise your proposed strategy, consider using the guide on partnering for community resilience – https://embeddingproject.org/resources/partnering-for-community-resilience-south-african-case-studieso There are a lot more tools and frameworks available on this page under each of the practices: https://embeddingproject.org/resourceso If you have other tools or frameworks in mind, welcome to check in on their relevance to support your assignment- Outline a clear proposal or plan for how you are going to develop a strategy to respond to the issue/risk you have identified. Guide the reader through from start to finish, and make clear the principles that are guiding your thinking. For example, you may recognise that co-articulation of the challenges the identified issue/risk and co-creation of pathways to addressing the identified issue/risk may strengthen the likelihood of success so be clear about this as well as the actions that you would propose to take (e.g., including a group of internal and external stakeholders from the early stages in a series of workshops to better understand, own and solve the challenge).2.4. Make specific reference to your role as a leader in building an organisation that will be more resilient and competitive in the face of present and future sustainability challenges.- Throughout the assignment and in a section towards the end, reflect on your personal leadership and change agency role in leading the work you are proposing in this assignment. 3. A conclusion detailing a summary of main arguments, with clear recommendations.· Refer to all sources used using the APA referencing method.

Research Assignment 1: Week 3The subject of your research paper this week focuses on the diversity and inclusion. The elements you want to include in your paper are the following:Differences between diversity and multiculturalismThe dimensions of diversityEmbracing diversity versus diversity and inclusionValue/benefit of diversityChallenges with diversity and inclusion measuresSteps to building a diverse and inclusive organization and/or solutions to challengesThe topic itself evolves almost as fast as technology, so please keep this in mind as you gather your research and contemplate your approach to your paper.The course objectives addressed by this assignment are as follows:Understand the importance of multiculturalism and diversity within organizationsIdentify groups protected under the Civil Rights Act of 1964Discuss ethical issues in HRMThings to remember….Remember, this is not an opinion piece but a scholarly work supported with credible references and sources from your research. You are expected to conduct outside research aside from the text. Remember you are to analyze critically the data you find. It is very important that your critical analysis relate the course content to real-world applications from your work experiences or current events affecting HRM practices.The assignment is due Sunday, 11:59 PM ESTSubmitted as an MS Word attachment in either a .doc, .docx, or .rtf format.Your paper should be a minimum of five (5) full pages of double spaced content in 12-point Time Roman or Arial font. This excludes your title page, abstract, and reference pages.Include a properly formatted APA cover page, an abstract, a properly formatted Introduction and Conclusion, and a minimum of 5 references (with 3 of those being peer-reviewed) to support your work.Merely copying pasting and citing sources does not constitute scholarly writing. You must present ideas and positions and support or refute those arguments with credible references and sources. Direct quotes should support your work and not replace it. You should use direct quotes ONLY:to show that an authority supports your pointto present a position or argument to critique or comment onto include especially moving or historically significant languageto present a particularly well-stated passage whose meaning would be lost or changed if paraphrased or summarizedPlease make sure to proofread carefully. Grammar and spelling errors will affect the grading. Microsoft spell and grammar check is a great tool or you. You can also access a web-based free service – Grammarly – but you must use Firefox, Chrome, or Safari.

consider an organization that you have some familiarity with. perform an information search about the selected organization. analyze the key links between you organizations goals and strategies and the staffing system. how do successful staffing strategies contribute to the selected organizations success? why is this information important to consider and discuss?

The body of your paper: (3 Pages total BODY in length)-Your thoughts should be supported with relevant course content and library research.Explain the differences, importance, and purpose of both the code of conduct and the code of ethics.-Secondly, tell me about some of the factors that you would use to make ethical hiring decisions in an organization.-Why would these be important to include in the hiring process (Example of things that you might include: Legal Ground Rules or other items in our reading material or library that would be considered in the process). Format: APA Paper (With an abstract).

Refer to the “Freeman-Brown Private School Case Study” document for details pertaining to this assignment. The board of directors at Freeman-Brown Private School (FBPS) has hired you as part of a consulting team to review the situation and present your findings and recommendations. Write a paper (1,500-1750 words) that discusses the case. Complete this assignment from the perspective of the hired consultants. Respond to the following questions: Review how organizations interact with their external environment (as open systems and complex adaptive systems). How effective was Freeman-Brown as an open system at the time of the closure? How effective was Freeman-Brown as a complex adaptive system at the time of the closure?  Review your reading this week on the internal environment of organizations. What is your evaluation of the organizational culture and organizational climate at the time the decision to close two campuses was made? What is your evaluation of the decision made by Dr. Murphy and Caudill? What is your evaluation of the process of going about the closure? Was FBPS demonstrating social responsibility? Discuss the closure impact on three specific stakeholders.   Provide an explanation, using appropriate management theories, for how the administration could have handled the closure effectively with stakeholders? Include one theory from each of the following: the classical approach, the human relations approach, and the modern management approach. You have been asked to suggest two goals: one long-term and one short-term goal for the future direction of FBPS. Justify your decision. Present a concluding statement that integrates the 4 functions of management as a means to revamp management at FBPS and meets the recommended goals.  Use at least two academic resources as references for this assignment.  Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Assignment Performance measure in operations is a quantifiable indicate of how well an organization or business achieves its desired objectives. Critically discuss what performance measurement is? And what is the role of measurement in obtaining insight into operational performance? Assignment should be 1500 words ±10%. Draw on the module content, core texts, required reading and associated resources (as well as other research you might do). Reference the sources in Harvard referencing style as shown in your referencing guides.   4 harward style references required from following books: 1.      Mullins, Laurie J. (2016) Management and Organisational Behaviour 2.      Slack, N., Chambers, S., Johnston, R. and Betts, A. (2006) Operations and Process Management