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As the human resources (HR) manager for a public organization, you are conducting a New Hire Orientation session for all new employees. As research for your orientation, you are writing a report about the functions of the organization, its strengths and weaknesses, and its mission, vision, goals, and objectives.

Instructions

1. Choose a public organization, such as Target, McDonalds, Apple, etc., as the basis for this assignment. Be sure to choose an organization where the information needed to complete this assignment is publicly available and is easily accessible.
2. Using research from at least three sources, develop a report that accomplishes the following tasks:
   • Identify the company’s mission statement, vision statement, goals, objectives, and tactical plans.
   • Explain how each of the four functions of management impacts the organization’s goals and objectives.
   • Discuss the ethical implications of the organization’s policies and strategies with respect to market expansion, human capital management, and the environment.
   • Conduct an internal and external assessment of the organization:
     • Identify the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats using SWOT analysis.
     • Illustrate the organization’s product portfolio using a BCG Matrix.
     • Analyze the internal and external environments using environmental scanning. Assess the organizational structure; the relationships and interactions among employees, management, and shareholders; market competitors; as well as the industry, national, and macro environments.

Support your responses using scholarly research from the Argosy University online library resources.

Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner. Your response should demonstrate ethical scholarship in appropriate and accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA); and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Write a 5–7-page report in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M1_A3.doc. For example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M1_A3.doc.

Identify two films not presented in class that you believe have the potential to transform one’s political sensibilities pertaining to deep differences. In addition to your recommendations, be sure to give a full citation and a short abstract for each of the two films you suggest.  (650 words)

The Discussion Board (DB) is part of the core of online learning. Classroom discussion in an online environment requires the active participation of students and the instructor to create robust interaction and dialogue. Every student is expected to create an original response to the open-ended DB question as well as engage in dialogue by responding to posts created by others throughout the week. At the end of each unit, DB participation will be assessed based on both level of engagement and the quality of the contribution to the discussion.

At a minimum, each student will be expected to post an original and thoughtful response to the DB question and contribute to the weekly dialogue by responding to at least two other posts from students. The first contribution must be posted before midnight (Central Time) on Wednesday of each week. Two additional responses are required after Wednesday of each week. Students are highly encouraged to engage on the Discussion Board early and often, as that is the primary way the university tracks class attendance and participation.

The purpose of the Discussion Board is to allow students to learn through sharing ideas and experiences as they relate to course content and the DB question. Because it is not possible to engage in two-way dialogue after a conversation has ended, no posts to the DB will be accepted after the end of each unit.

Assignment Details

There are times when you will give ideas extemporaneously, and there are times when you will have time to carefully plan what you will say. As a professional in business, information technology, or criminal justice, your opinions will carry more weight if you are considered to be a knowledge-focused, thinking, and educated representative in the discipline. Here, you will consider ways to blend and merge your overview of your education, your oversight of your discipline, and a need to be able to represent yourself and your topics in the best light.

Respond to the following questions during this unit’s discussion. If you use research to support or explain your answer, be sure to format citations and a reference list according to APA guidelines.

Part A

• What are 3 key things that you would want a mid- or upper-level manager to know about you if you had a chance to make a presentation to him or her?
• Why are the 3 items important to you, and why do you think they would be important pieces of information for your managers?
• If you were going to tell a mid-level manager or senior executive about your own personal history and professional goals in a brief elevator trip, how would you summarize them?
• How might such an elevator speech be of help to you as you move forward?
• Be sure to consider the concepts of speaker, message, audience, and situational awareness as part of your discussion.

Part B

• How do you use and apply the concept of reflective practice in your everyday work and in your career thinking and planning?
• Discuss ways in which your preparation for presentations can make use of the concept of reflective practice.
• How could you use reflective practice, your discipline knowledge, and your understanding of the rhetorical triangle to create an effective, career-related online presence on social media?

Please submit your assignment.

Purpose of Assignment and Content Development	Demonstrates an outstanding use of appropriate, relevant, and compelling content with excellent expression of topic, main idea, and purpose. Demonstrates exemplary knowledge or analysis of human perspectives appropriate to the assignment’s purpose and context. Where applicable, graphics accurately reflect the assignment requirements.	30%
Critical Thinking	Demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to analyze assumptions and evaluate evidence, complexities of issues, and alternatives. Where required, demonstrates outstanding or exemplary ability to use creativity and originality in problem solving.	30%
Organization, Grammar, and Presentation (Including Information Literacy)	Organization is clear. Language clearly and effectively communicates ideas and content relevant to the assignment. Presentation and delivery are confident and persuasive (where applicable). Audience, style, tone, and perspective are consistent and appropriate to assignment. Few, if any, errors in grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. Where applicable, demonstrates outstanding selection and use of high-quality, credible, and relevant sources to develop ideas that are appropriate to the assignment. Sources are consistently cited.	25%
Interactive Participation	Demonstrate active interaction and participation throughout the week and substantive responses to at least 2 posts in addition to posting the DB assignment post.

Prompt: You and your team have been tasked with developing a management plan and website for a housecleaning company called Sparkling Surfaces Cleaning Company. In addition to using the site to find new clients, the company’s owners also want to find a way to generate revenue from the site itself. In the first round of development the site will be used primarily to provide information to prospective clients and provide them with a means to submit their information to the company to receive a free quote for cleaning services. In the future, the site may allow online payments and the retrieval of personal information, and as a result, quality, security, and privacy are top concerns.

 

It is your responsibility to define the management plan and create basic pages for the site. In this milestone, you will begin to create your management plan concentrating on the planning, and the layout and design sections.

 

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

Planning for the site: 

• Select a domain name, decide where the site will be hosted, and provide a detailed rationale for the choices made.
• Determine how the owners of the site will be able to generate revenue (i.e., which e-commerce models can be used).
• Determine the development approach that will be used to build the site and provide a rationale for the approach chosen.

Layout and design for the site:

• Determine the design requirements that the site must meet (i.e., which specific design approaches will be used, which must be avoided, etc.).
• Determine the technical requirements around user experience that the site must conform to in order to provide an acceptable experience.
• Make decisions about site content—how the information on your site will be structured and why.

Format: Five pages, double spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins. APA citations s

ou, as a HR Generalist, have been asked by your HR Director for your recommendations in terms of what tools your organization could use to better manage the talents of your employees. This will help to develop policies and procedures in managing your human capital. Please develop a PowerPoint presentation to your Director addressing the following:

• Describe and analyze the broad range of talent management efforts that use software applications to help you Director to make an educated decision.
• Give some examples of firms that have successfully used these applications.
• Describe how these efforts are useful in terms of strategic human capital management.

esources are attached: Material – Business Model and Strategic Planning Outline; Innovation Business Model, Vision, Mission, Values; Supply and Value Chain; SWOTT Analysis; Balanced Scorecard; Communication Plan

Write a 700- to 1,050-word section for your business model and strategic plan in which you add your strategies and tactics to implement and realize your objectives, measures, and targets.

Include marketing and information technology strategies and tactics.

Develop at least three methods to monitor and control your proposed strategic plan, being sure to analyze how the measures will advance organizational goals financially and operationally.

Explain the ethical issues faced by the organization, summarize the legal and regulatory issues faced by the organization, and then summarize the organization’s corporate social responsibility.

Develop a 350-word page executive summary defining the new division of existing business. Share your Vision, Mission, final business model, value proposition and list your key assumptions, risks, and change management issues. Quantify the growth and profit opportunity and planned impact on various stakeholders.

search the clinical and management tracts for nursing advancement.

Based on your research, complete the following tasks as a 2- to 3-page report in a Microsoft Word document:

• Discuss at least three advancement opportunities you have as a professional nurse with a BSN.
• Compare the opportunities in the clinical versus management tracts.
• Describe the track that you will choose to pursue and provide reasons for your choice.

Use APA 6th Edition when formatting your assignment

IBM’s Multicultural Multinational Teams

Historically, IBM was one of the most tradition-bound companies on the planet. It was famous for its written and unwritten rules—such as its no-layoff policy, its focus on individual promotions and achievement, the expectation of lifetime service at the company, and its requirement of suits and white shirts at work. How times have changed.

IBM has clients in 170 countries and now does two-thirds of its business outside the United States. As a result, it has overturned virtually all aspects of its old culture. One relatively new focus is in the teamwork area. While IBM, like almost all large organizations, uses work teams extensively, the way it does so is unique (Aguinis, & Kraiger, 2009).

To instill in its managers an appreciation of local culture, and as a means of opening up emerging markets, IBM sends hundreds of its employees to month-long volunteer project teams in regions of the world where most big companies don’t do business (Hymowitz, 2008). Al Chakra, a software development manager located in Raleigh, North Carolina, was sent to join GreenForest, a furniture manufacturing team in Timisoara, Romania. With Chakra were IBM employees from five other countries. Together, the team helped GreenForest become more computer savvy to help its business. In return for the IBM team’s assistance, GreenForest was charged, well, nothing.

This is hardly pure altruism at work. IBM calculates these multicultural, multinational teams are good investments for several reasons. First, they help lay the groundwork for opening up business in emerging economies, many of which might be expected to enjoy greater future growth than mature markets. Stanley Litow, the IBM VP who oversees the program, also thinks it helps IBMers develop multicultural team skills and an appreciation of local markets. He notes, “We want to build a leadership cadre that learns about these places and also learns to exchange their diverse backgrounds and skills.” Among the countries where IBM has sent its multicultural teams are Turkey, Tanzania, Vietnam, Ghana, and the Philippines.

As for Chakra, he was thrilled to be selected for the team. “I felt like I won the lottery,” he said. He advised GreenForest on how to become a paperless company in 3 years and recommended computer systems to boost productivity and increase exports to western Europe (Gupta, 2008).

Another team member, Bronwyn Grantham, an Australian who works at IBM in London, advised GreenForest about sales strategies. Describing her team experience, Grantham said, “I’ve never worked so closely with a team of IBMers from such a wide range of competencies.”

Assume you are employed by a consulting company that works with Fortune 1000 companies on Organizational Behavior topics. You have been asked to write a white paper in which you discuss the following questions. This paper will be used to inform potential clients about your company’s philosophy on teamwork and to give them a sense of how your company will prepare their teams. This is an extremely high profile assignment and its success is critical to your company.

Based on the above reading and the knowledge gained from your assigned readings, respond to the following questions:

• If you calculate the person-hours devoted to IBM’s team projects, they amount to more than 180,000 hours of management time each year. Do you think this is a wise investment of IBM’s human resources? Why or why not?
• Why do you think IBM’s culture changed from formal, stable, and individualistic to informal, impermanent, and team oriented?
• Describe the stages of group development these teams should expect to experience. At each stage, make recommendations that will help move the team into the next stage.
• Multicultural project teams often face problems with communication, expectations, and values. How do you think some of these challenges can be overcome?
• Explain some of the group decision-making challenges the team may experience and recommend ways to overcome them.
• Discuss at least three recommendations to help make these teams effective.
• Identify three factors that will help make individuals into team players.

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

References:

Aguinis, H., & Kraiger, K. (2009). Benefits of training and development for individuals

and teams, organizations, and society. Annual Review of Psychology. 60,

451–474.

Hymowitz, C. (2008, August 4). IBM creates volunteer teams to cultivate emerging

markets.Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from http://online.wsj.com/article/

SB121779236200008095.html

Gupta. S., (2008, October). Mine the potential of multicultural teams.  HR Magazine.

53(10), 79–84.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Explained if the management time devoted each year is a wise investment of IBM’s human resources.	25
Explained the reason for change in IBM’s culture.	25
Described the stages of group development these teams should expect to experience and provided recommendations at each stage to help move the team.	25
Described the ways the challenges faced by the multicultural project teams can be overcome.	25
Explained group decision-making challenges the team may experience and recommended ways to overcome them.	20
Provided recommendations to make the teams effective.	20
Identified three factors that will help make individuals into team players.	20
Written Components.	4

BM’s Multicultural Multinational Teams

Historically, IBM was one of the most tradition-bound companies on the planet. It was famous for its written and unwritten rules—such as its no-layoff policy, its focus on individual promotions and achievement, the expectation of lifetime service at the company, and its requirement of suits and white shirts at work. How times have changed.

IBM has clients in 170 countries and now does two-thirds of its business outside the United States. As a result, it has overturned virtually all aspects of its old culture. One relatively new focus is in the teamwork area. While IBM, like almost all large organizations, uses work teams extensively, the way it does so is unique (Aguinis, & Kraiger, 2009).

To instill in its managers an appreciation of local culture, and as a means of opening up emerging markets, IBM sends hundreds of its employees to month-long volunteer project teams in regions of the world where most big companies don’t do business (Hymowitz, 2008). Al Chakra, a software development manager located in Raleigh, North Carolina, was sent to join GreenForest, a furniture manufacturing team in Timisoara, Romania. With Chakra were IBM employees from five other countries. Together, the team helped GreenForest become more computer savvy to help its business. In return for the IBM team’s assistance, GreenForest was charged, well, nothing.

This is hardly pure altruism at work. IBM calculates these multicultural, multinational teams are good investments for several reasons. First, they help lay the groundwork for opening up business in emerging economies, many of which might be expected to enjoy greater future growth than mature markets. Stanley Litow, the IBM VP who oversees the program, also thinks it helps IBMers develop multicultural team skills and an appreciation of local markets. He notes, “We want to build a leadership cadre that learns about these places and also learns to exchange their diverse backgrounds and skills.” Among the countries where IBM has sent its multicultural teams are Turkey, Tanzania, Vietnam, Ghana, and the Philippines.

As for Chakra, he was thrilled to be selected for the team. “I felt like I won the lottery,” he said. He advised GreenForest on how to become a paperless company in 3 years and recommended computer systems to boost productivity and increase exports to western Europe (Gupta, 2008).

Another team member, Bronwyn Grantham, an Australian who works at IBM in London, advised GreenForest about sales strategies. Describing her team experience, Grantham said, “I’ve never worked so closely with a team of IBMers from such a wide range of competencies.”

Assume you are employed by a consulting company that works with Fortune 1000 companies on Organizational Behavior topics. You have been asked to write a white paper in which you discuss the following questions. This paper will be used to inform potential clients about your company’s philosophy on teamwork and to give them a sense of how your company will prepare their teams. This is an extremely high profile assignment and its success is critical to your company.

Based on the above reading and the knowledge gained from your assigned readings, respond to the following questions:

• If you calculate the person-hours devoted to IBM’s team projects, they amount to more than 180,000 hours of management time each year. Do you think this is a wise investment of IBM’s human resources? Why or why not?
• Why do you think IBM’s culture changed from formal, stable, and individualistic to informal, impermanent, and team oriented?
• Describe the stages of group development these teams should expect to experience. At each stage, make recommendations that will help move the team into the next stage.
• Multicultural project teams often face problems with communication, expectations, and values. How do you think some of these challenges can be overcome?
• Explain some of the group decision-making challenges the team may experience and recommend ways to overcome them.
• Discuss at least three recommendations to help make these teams effective.
• Identify three factors that will help make individuals into team players.

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

References:

Aguinis, H., & Kraiger, K. (2009). Benefits of training and development for individuals

and teams, organizations, and society. Annual Review of Psychology. 60,

451–474.

Hymowitz, C. (2008, August 4). IBM creates volunteer teams to cultivate emerging

markets.Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from http://online.wsj.com/article/

SB121779236200008095.html

Gupta. S., (2008, October). Mine the potential of multicultural teams.  HR Magazine.

53(10), 79–84.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Explained if the management time devoted each year is a wise investment of IBM’s human resources.	25
Explained the reason for change in IBM’s culture.	25
Described the stages of group development these teams should expect to experience and provided recommendations at each stage to help move the team.	25
Described the ways the challenges faced by the multicultural project teams can be overcome.	25
Explained group decision-making challenges the team may experience and recommended ways to overcome them.	20