Author: chris

Directions: Use the textbook and any articles assigned in the course to build a vocabulary of organizational change that would be used to improve performance in an organization of your choosing.

Requirements:

In this self-reflective assignment, you need to build at least 20-25 theories, concepts, terms, or models from your readings and define these with at least 2-3 sentences each.
In your introduction you will justify your choices by showing how these are relevant to one organization of your choosing and one in which you want to implement organizational change.
Back up your assignment by incorporating 2-3 scholarly sources that are not required readings in this course.
Your paper should be 4-5 pages in length, well written, and formatted according to the APA requirements

Legal Underpinnings of Business Law

Imagine that you own each of the following businesses:

Tinker’s Home Security Service (sole proprietorship)

Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service (general partnership)

Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service (LP)

Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service, Inc. (corporation)

Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service, LLC (LLC)

The businesses are being sued for breach of contract. Create a matrix that lists each business, and compare and contrast your personal liability exposure as an owner as a result of the lawsuit.
For each business entity, analyze how you might limit your liability exposure as an owner.
Describe a business that you may own some day or that you currently own. (Even if you never plan to own a business, pretend as if you will do so for the purposes of this assignment.) Examine the best business organizational form for the business that you have described, including in your examination personal liability exposure, management, taxation, and ease of formation.

Technology affects everyone’s lives according to Techonomy. In 750-1000 words how do you think technology has changed because of the technological trends you articulated?

Evaluation of Corporate Performance

The Final Project will involve applying the concepts learned in class to an analysis of a company using data from its annual report. Using the concepts from this course, you will analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the company and write a report either recommending or not recommending purchase of the company stock.

Research Tip: The “Mergent” database in the University Library contains company profiles and financial information for publicly traded companies and their competitors. To access this database enter the Library and select “Find Articles and More” in the top menu panel. Next, select “Databases A-Z” and go to section “M” for “Mergent”. For help with using Mergent, use Mergent Online Quick Tips.

TAKE IT TO THE REAL WORLD

WHOLE LIFE OR TERM LIFE INSURANCE – which one is the better deal and why?

One of the hallmarks of an engineering economics course is that there are lots and lots of problems – example problems, homework problems, and exam problems – that ask you to respond to an imaginary series of controlled circumstances with a solution utilizing the most recent technique being presented. This assignment will required you to go into the “real world”, gather some actual information and data, analyze the situation from a time value of money perspective, then formulate and report your recommendations based on what you found. This is intended to be an open-ended problem with no specific end product in mind. It will be up to you to define the situation, explain what the options are, determine what decision criteria may be needed, document your analysis, and present your conclusions. The result will be no better or worse than what you make of the project.

Your sources of information may be as varied as the Internet, sales brochures, salespeople, people working in a related area, knowledgeable friends, and whoever or whatever you find in the way of a reliable source of information. Use your imagination, your contacts, and your inquisitiveness to seek out and learn what you need to know. Do not be dishonest, deceitful, or a pest when attempting to glean information from those you talk to learn something.

Insert a 1000-1250 word description of a technological trend that has affected your life that was invented in the year 2013 (You cannot talk about a new version of a device or an app). Explain the technology and briefly describe it’s origin and historical

Select and read an article from a business publication or website, such as CEO Refresher or GuideStar, on one of the following topics related to NPOs:

Ethics
Conflict of interest
Board management

Write a paper about this article that includes the following:

Summary of article
Name, author, and publication information for article
Reason(s) for selecting article
What you learned from the article
How you can apply this knowledge to NPOs

Design a Customer Database
Play Around Toys Inc. owns another division known as Play Around Again Toys. This division sells previously used toys. Because this division focuses on keeping costs low, it does not maintain any type of automated customer database. Click here to learn more about Play Around Again Toys and the challenges it is facing.
Submit a report answering the following questions:
1. Describe the problem being faced by Play Around Again Toys and its business impact.
2. Propose a solution to the above problem, list its objectives, and express its feasibility.
3. List the information requirements that the solution will address.
4. Create a schedule for building the database.

HR Performance Issues and Motivation

The relationship between the organization and its members can be greatly influenced by what motivates individuals to work. The style of leadership, job design, resources on the job, and environment can all have a significant effect on the satisfaction of employees and their performance. Performance is also influenced by individual motivations (e.g., social, recognition, financial reward, personal growth and development, and/or intrinsic satisfaction) and can equally impact the organization. There are many theories that attempt to explain the nature of motivation. Write a four- to five-page paper (excluding the title and reference pages) evaluating the relationship between motivation, job satisfaction, and work performance. Be sure to address the following:

Describe a performance issue which resulted from a motivational problem (what, why, who).
Use a content theory of motivation (e.g., Maslow, Alderfer, Herzberg, or McClelland) or a process theory (i.e., Adams, Locke, or Heider and Kelley) to explain how the issue creates a performance problem for the organization.
Use the theory of motivation you selected to describe an intervention/action to change the motivation/behavior and correct the performance problem.

Theory of Corporate Finance

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.

Find Web resources that investigate the inherent differences between a company’s strategic plan and the financial policy of that same company. Use what you have learned to discuss the following:

Purpose of the strategic plan
Scope and objectives of the strategic plan
Operating plans
Steps of the financial planning process
Sales forecasts
Forecasting