How might your approach to managing a project, developing your team, and coordinating with different functional departments differ at the two firms?
The Organizational Context: Strategy, Structure, and Culture
Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:
- Compare and contrast the organizational cultures at Amazon and Google. Imagine if you were in charge of a project team at both companies. How might your approach to managing a project, developing your team, and coordinating with different functional departments differ at the two firms?
APA format , 500 words
What might be some of the environmental pressures that would contribute to your belief that it is necessary to alter the structure?
You are a member of the senior management staff at XYZ Corporation. You have historically been using a functional structure set up with five departments: finance, human resources, marketing, production, and engineering.
- Create a drawing of your simplified functional structure, identifying the five departments.
- Assume you have decided to move to a project structure. What might be some of the environmental pressures that would contribute to your belief that it is necessary to alter the structure?
- With the project structure, you have four projects currently ongoing: stereo equipment, instrumentation and testing equipment, optical scanners, and defense communications.
- Draw the new structure that creates these four projects as part of the organizational chart.
APA format, 500 words
Explain the biological (genetic and neuroscientific); psychological (behavioral and cognitive processes, emotional, developmental); and social, cultural, and interpersonal factors that influence the development of psychopathology.
Explain the biological (genetic and neuroscientific); psychological (behavioral and cognitive processes, emotional, developmental); and social, cultural, and interpersonal factors that influence the development of psychopathology.
What forces and ideas shaped their origin?
Week 1 Discussion: The Cost of Expansion
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Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
Textbook: Chapter 3, 4
Lesson
Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook)
Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, pick two (2) of the following settlements:
Southern colonies
Chesapeake colonies
Middle colonies
New England colonies
Then, address the following for your selections:
Compare and contrast the settlement patterns.
What forces and ideas shaped their origin?
Examine the influence of religion for those settlements (e.g., Puritanism, Quakers, and the Anglican Church).
Follow-Up Post Instructions
Compare your selections and analysis of those selections with those of your peers. If they chose different settlements, examine how yours are similar and/or different. If they chose the same settlements, build on their posts by providing additional information about the settlements that you have not already noted in your own post.
Writing Requirements
Minimum of 2 posts (1 initial & 1 follow-up)
APA format for in-text citations and list of references
Book Title: U.S. History
Publisher: OpenStax
Publication Date: 2014
APA Citation
OpenStax. (2019). U.S. history. OpenStax CNX. Retrieved from https://cnx.org/contents/p7ovuIkl@6.18:gMXC1GEM@7/Introduction
How does your leadership style impact your decision making in nursing care?
Week 1 Discussion: Reflection on Leadership Self-Assessment (Graded)
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Course Outcome
This reflection enables the student to meet the following course outcome:
CO 1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of quality nursing care. (PO 2)
Due Date
Posts in the discussion at least two times, and
Posts in the discussion on two different days
Directions
Reflection is an activity that involves your deep thought into your own experiences related to the concepts of the week. Answers should be detailed. In reflections students:
Demonstrate understanding of concepts for the week
Engage in meaningful dialogue with classmates and/or instructor
Express opinions clearly and logically, in a professional manner
Use the rubric on this page as you compose your answers.
Scholarly sources are NOT required for this reflection
Best Practices include:
Participation early in the week is encouraged to stimulate meaningful discussion among classmates and instructor.
Enter the reflection often during the week to read and learn from posts.
Select different classmates for your reply each week.
Reflection Question
Based on the results you obtained from the Foundation of Nursing Leadership self-assessment in Week 1 Lesson, reflect on the questions below and share in a post.
What is your current leadership style?
How does your leadership style impact your decision making in nursing care?
How will you further develop your leadership skills?
What biological, psychological, environmental, sociocultural, behavioral, and health system factors might be contributing to the failure of LGBT to use health care services
Discussion Question:
What biological, psychological, environmental, sociocultural, behavioral, and health system factors might be contributing to the failure of LGBT to use health care services? What population health nursing interventions might promote more effective use of services?
Your initial posting should be at least 400 words in length and utilize at least one scholarly source.
What does Ladson-Billings mean by the education debt?
What does Ladson-Billings mean by the education debt? What are the different components of it? [Note, Ladson-Billings is talking about way more than funding, so if you’re only talking about money, you have not understood the whole article] [at least two paragraphs; make clear that you understand what Ladson-Billings is talking about]
Analyse the key changes in the strategic position, i.e. external environment and internal environment of the organization during the five last years.
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT FINAL REPORT Task brief & rubrics
Task
As an individual assignment, you may select one of the leading companies that are listed by https://www.entrepreneur.com/franchise500 .
You will develop and submit a report reviewing the basic strategic steps the company has followed in the last five years, including the pandemic period of
COVID19, addressing the four specific tasks set out below.
• Analyse the key changes in the strategic position, i.e. external environment and internal environment of the organization during the five last years. You may use a variety of the theoretical models as well as company/market/sector data to analyse the major changes in the internal and external environments of the company.
• Critically evaluate how well the organization responded to the external and internal challenges over the period concerned. The focus of your critical evaluation is to determine how well the case organization responded to the changes analysed in task 1. This evaluation should include an analysis of its success, explaining the key factors that enabled the company to become a unicorn. Your considerations should be supported by analysis and evaluation of the key performance indicators for the period studied.
• Critically discuss the basis and sustainability of the competitive advantage of the company. You are to use a range of theoretical frameworks to develop a critical discussion focusing on the competitive advantage of the case organization and how it has changed over the period studied. You are further required to conclude by focusing on how sustainable the competitive advantage of the company is going forward.
• Based on the above, develop a range of strategic options available to the company to ensure its success and sustainability into the future. You are required to develop a range of strategic options for the organization that may ensure its long-term success. These options need to be specific and relevant to the company. Development of each option needs to be supported by the theoretical models.
You will need to:
• Apply and highlight the concepts and theories learned in the course.
• Insert in your report figures, charts and images to support your models.
• Refer to press coverage and annual reports you may find about the matter.
• Apply professor’s tips to produce a great report.
Formalities:
• Type of Report: Word
• Word count: 2.500
• Line Spacing: 1,5
• Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total word count.
• Font: Arial 12 pts.https://www.entrepreneur.com/franchise500
• Text alignment: Double Justified.
• The in-text References and the Bibliography must be in Harvard’s citation style.
Submission: Via Moodle (Turnitin). Sunday 11th September 2022 at 23:59 CEST
Weight: This task is 60 % of your total grade for this subject.
Learning Assessments. It assesses the following learning outcomes:
• analyze and explain the concepts, principles and practices associated with strategy formulation and implementation
• demonstrate an understanding of the complexities of strategic management
• conduct and present a credible business analysis
If you were asked to create a supplier code of conduct, discuss how you would assemble a team or committee to write it. How would the committee work?
Companies often project their corporate values on their suppliers through a supplier code of conduct or similarly named requirements. Writing these requirements can be arduous and require the input of multiple stakeholders. Thinking about your selected company’s supplier code of conduct, respond to the following:
- If you were asked to create a supplier code of conduct, discuss how you would assemble a team or committee to write it. How would the committee work?
- Support your response by integrating source evidence using SWS-style citations. The textbook may be used as a source.
Select two fast food restaurants and evaluate them in terms of service quality. Suggest ways to improve the service quality.
Please respond to the following:
- Select two fast food restaurants and evaluate them in terms of service quality. Suggest ways to improve the service quality.
- Evaluate the two fast-food restaurants in terms of the “Seven QC tools” discussed in Chapter 16 of textbook, OM. Determine the top three QC tools that tend to be most valuable to business owners. Explain your rationale.
