What is ‘the dark side of business relationships’ and what are the causes of its development?
question：
A) What is ‘the dark side of business relationships’ and what are the causes of its development?
B) What are the possible measures to manage the ‘dark side’ and how effective are they likely to be?
Answer the two questions separately, each for about 400-500 words.
References:
• Villena, V., Revilla, E., & Choi, T. 2011. The dark side of buyer–supplier relationships: A social capital perspective. Journal of Operations Management, 29(6): 561-576. • Anderson, E., & Jap. S. D. 2005. The dark side of close relationships. Sloan Management Review, 46(3): 75-82. • D. Ford, L.-E. Gadde, H. Hakansson, I. Snehota, Managing Business Relationships, John Wiley
Explain why the Lean Organizational Structure is beneficial for businesses aiming to increase their value.
Operations management, as you learned in the course, focuses on implementing management strategies in order for an organization to effectively and efficiently achieve their goal(s). Whether a business is seeking improved quality control, more efficient processes, or detailed analysis of
employee performance, operations management is the central factor to achieving these successes. In an 800 – 1200-word essay, answer one of the prompts below using concepts you learned from the course to support your arguments.
You may refer to the course material for supporting evidence, but you must also use at least three credible, outside sources and cite them using APA format. If you use any Study.com lessons as sources, please also cite them in APA (including the lesson title and instructor’s name). If you’re unsure about how to use APA format to cite your sources, please see the following lessons:
What is APA Format? Definition & Style
How To Format APA Citations
Essay Prompts
1. Explain why the Lean Organizational Structure is beneficial for businesses aiming to increase their value.
2. When considering a company’s performance metrics, is there a metric in particular that you feel businesses should value more over the others? Why or why not?
3. Which quality management framework do you think yields the most meaningful information for companies to improve their quality? Why?
Identify and investigate, a suitable aircraft functional Global Posistioning System (GPS) Block Schematic diagram. This may be in the form of a hand drawn labelled diagram or an extract from an Aircraft Maintenance Manual (AMM) or publication.
Background:
Aviators throughout the world use the Global Positioning System (GPS) to increase the safety and efficiency of flight. With its accurate, continuous, and global capabilities, GPS offers seamless satellite navigation services that satisfy many of the requirements for aviation users. Space-based position and navigation enables three-dimensional position determination for all phases of flight from departure, en route, and arrival, to airport surface navigation.
Task:
1. Identify and investigate, a suitable aircraft functional Global Posistioning System (GPS) Block Schematic diagram. This may be in the form of a hand drawn labelled diagram or an extract from an Aircraft Maintenance Manual (AMM) or publication.
2. Interpret and articulate through critical analysis, the principal operation including the navigational parameters calculations methods of the aircraft GPS which you have identified and drawn with the function of its components within the system.
3. Through research and evaluation of technical literature, assess and recognise the different applications of GPS and Differential Global Posistioning System (DGPS) aligned with the aircraft operation highlighting the Safety factors, advantages and disadvantages.
4. As a case study examine and summarise the findings of an Air Accident Investigation with focus on confusion and risk arising from mismanagement of GPS information which had serious or potentially serious consequences for an aeroplane operation highlighting the; Human, safety and engineering practice factors contributing to the accident in the aviation history.
Procedure:
You must explore, analyze, describe, and discuss the areas identified. In addition to the Reading/References section of this assignment brief, you should review the Equipment/Resources section.
You will write a technical report (1,500 words) on this subject taking into consideration the following key features:
• Format a Cover page and Table of Contents.
• Describe the purpose of your report in an Introduction.
• Provide a Block Schematic of an Global Posistioning System (GPS).
• Describe the operation of Global Posistioning System (GPS)and the function of the components.
• Discuss GPS and Differential Global Posistioning System (DGPS) highlighting the Safety factors,
• advantages and disadvantages.
• Investigate an example of confusion arising from mismanagement of GPS information which had serious or potentially serious consequences for an aeroplane operation in the aviation history.
• Summarise your findings in your report with a conclusion.
• Include a Bibliography to list your supporting references.
• Correctly use an Appendix for supporting data and information (If required).
Requirements:
• Introduction/aim/purpose of the report: Excellent Introduction and background with citations.
• Schematic diagram Global Posistioning System (GPS): Excellent to outstanding diagram with labelling.
• Discussion: (System operation with component function): Excellent to outstanding with masterly systems understanding.
• Comparison GPS and DGPS: Excellent to outstanding with masterly systems understanding.
• Research based section (mismanagement of GPS information and consequences for an aeroplane operation in the aviation history): Excellent to Outstanding with a masterly understanding.
• Research Resources Used: Excellent to outstanding resources and citation methods used.
• Summary and Conclusion: Excellent to outstanding summary content with very thought provoking arguments
During the interwar years, the south Wales coal industry suffered from a loss of markets, leading to a fall in output, employment and profits. Examine the extent to which these factors affected either three specific companies based in the coalfield, or a specific south Wales valley.
BS2572/BS8572 State, Business and the British Economy, Autumn semester assessment 2021-22
The aim of this assessment is to get you to interpret business-related data in order to address a topic of historical relevance relating to the economic history of the British economy during the pre-Second World War period. The data provided relates to the performance of selected individual businesses (e.g. profits, dividends on ordinary shares) operating during the first 40 years of the twentieth century (or some part thereof) taken from both the old, declining, staple industries (e.g. coal, iron and steel) and new industries (e.g. motor vehicles, oil). Your task is to examine and interpret relevant data, either for a single company or a small sub-group thereof, from that provided (and/or which you have found from your own research) to address one of the topics indicated below. The data should be interpreted in the light of the debate amongst economic and business historians relating to the chosen topic. To this end, you may also wish to consult other data sources indicated (e.g. Marquand (1937), Mitchell (and Deane) (1962), Mitchell (1988), Williams (1985)) or contemporary sources available online (e.g. The Times Digital Archive and the Economist Historical Archive, both available via the University library website). Please note that you only have to address one of the topics, not all three. Your work will be assessed according to the assessment criteria set out in module outline and, in particular, your ability to incorporate and interpret relevant data within the framework of the debate surrounding the topic which you have decided to answer.
Topics (choose only one):
1. During the interwar years, the south Wales coal industry suffered from a loss of markets, leading to a fall in output, employment and profits. Examine the extent to which these factors affected either three specific companies based in the coalfield, or a specific south Wales valley.
2. Using data for a small number of companies (a minimum of three), examine the extent to which the First World War impacted on their profitability. Account for any differences found.
3. Using profit data for a small number of companies, consider the extent to which businesses operating in the ‘new’ industries during the interwar years performed better than those in the ‘old’ industries. How much of the difference can be explained by variations in the extent to which new (scientific) management techniques had been adopted?
A word of warning about the supplied business data on profits
During the period covered by this assessment, the rules which had to be followed by companies in drawing up their annual accounts were somewhat limited and directors of a company were able to set them out in whatever way they wished, as long as the information presented a ‘true and fair’ view of the company’s financial position. Changes in the mode of presenting information could, and often did, change over time, and hence the supposedly simple concept of profit may no longer be so when one tries to compare profit figures over time, since changes in definition may have occurred without this being clearly indicated. Hence time series runs of profit data, even when taken from the same source through time, need to be considered with some caution, especially where one does not know precisely how the figures have been arrived at. Where such figures are taken from different sources, as often has to be the case, then the figure for one year may not necessarily be directly comparable with that given for another year.
There are, of course, different conceptualisations of profit. For an economist, profit is simply the difference between revenue and costs, where the latter implies all economic costs (including opportunity cost), but for accountants it may simply be the difference between actual income and actual expenditure. Even here, however, there can be different concepts of profit, not least between gross profit and net profit, and whether or not it relates simply to the trading activities of the business, or all activities. Gross trading (or manufacturing) profit relates simply to the difference between the revenue received from selling goods during the financial year and the (direct) costs incurred in producing and selling goods during the same period (e.g. wages, cost of inputs, selling and transport costs, etc.). Net trading profit would then deduct items such as depreciation of machinery and equipment and any interest payments on loans which the company may have taken out in order to be able to continue to produce and sell goods.
When a company resorts to borrowing money (whether through debentures, notes or such like), rather than raising new capital through issuing more ordinary or preference shares, they will need to pay interest during the life of such loans – if such interest is not paid to those (the creditors) who have loaned the money (due, for example, to a failure to make sufficient gross trading profit or, indeed, a trading loss) then the company could be forced into liquidation by its creditors. In the interwar years, due to the prevailing economic situation, companies in many industries were often forced into borrowing large sums of money, and the amount of interest they had to pay out each year on such borrowings could be large, meaning that there could be a big difference between the company’s levels of gross trading profit and net (overall) profit. Since the ability to pay dividends to ordinary shareholders would depend on the latter rather than the former figure, a company which seemingly made a high gross trading profit in a year may not have been in a position to pay a dividend to ordinary shareholders since interest payments on loans were high and absorbed much, if not all, of the gross trading profit.
On the other side, however, net profit for the business as a whole could exceed the net trading profit, especially if the company had used former profits not distributed to shareholders or not directly invested back into the business itself, but in other activities, e.g. other businesses (by owning shares therein) or by lending money to others (e.g. the government). During the First World War, for example, when many firms had large surpluses of funds as a result of wartime profits, they would purchase War Bonds or such like, and earn interest thereon. This interest would represent revenue for the firm (as would any dividends paid out on shares they owned in other companies) and would therefore swell the revenue side of the company’s profit and loss account, increasing overall net profit of the business, although that profit had nothing to do with the company’s trading activities during the current financial year.
While there can be a problem in comparing profit figures for a single company over time, due to changes in accounting conventions used, or through incomplete information being provided in press coverage of a company’s affairs (see, for example, entries in The Times and The Economist), more problematic is the attempt to compare across companies at a given time. Once again, the use of different accounting conventions can be problematic when trying to compare profit figures, while direct comparisons of the dividend payments on ordinary shares made by different companies is affected not only by the net profit made, but by decisions of a company’s directors as to what policy should be adopted towards shareholders – the boards of directors of some companies might decide to distribute as dividends all but a small amount of the net profits shown in the profit and loss account while in other companies they may decide to keep them within the business as retained earnings/ploughed-back profits. Hence, any comparative analysis needs to be carried out with care, and you should beware trying to claim something from profit data that might not be true. However, comparative data can be indicative of common problems affecting companies in a given period and, if those companies are in the same industry, the travails affecting that industry.
For more on company profits during the early twentieth century and their reliability, see:
Arnold, A.J. (1997) ‘Corporate financial disclosures in the UK 1900-24.’ Accounting, Business & Financial History 7 (2): 143-173.
Arnold, A.J. (2014) ‘“A paradise for profiters”? The importance and treatment of profits during the First World War.’ Accounting History Review 24 (2-3): 61-81.
Arnold, A.J. and Matthews, D.R. (2002) ‘Corporate financial disclosures in the UK, 1920–50: The effects of legislative change and managerial discretion.’ Accounting and Business Research 32(1): 3–16.
Boyns, T. (2020) ‘Obfuscation in British published accounts: Birmingham Small Arms Co. Ltd., c.1897-c.1939’ [Draft prepared for WEHC pre-session ‘Accounting resources for Economic and Financial History (19th and 20th c)’ – available in folder ‘Specific Tutorial Readings’ under ‘Tutorial Questions/Answers’ tab on Learning Central]
Boyns, T. (2021) ‘Depreciation during the second industrial revolution: the British cycle and motor vehicle industries, c.1896-c.1922’, Accounting History Review, 31(1): 73-112.
Sources
[Please note that the references listed here either provide a possible source of relevant information and/or links to other potentially useful sources.]
General data sources
Mitchell, B.R. (and Deane, P.) (1962) Abstract of British Historical Statistics (Cambridge: University Press) (ASSL HA1135.M4)
Mitchell, B.R. (1988) British Historical Statistics (Cambridge: University Press) (ASSL HA1134.M4)
Williams, (L.) J. (1985) Digest of Welsh Historical Statistics, 2 vols. (Cardiff: Welsh Office), especially vol. 1. (ASSL Reference; ASSL Salisbury Library, WG4.2W; Talybont Research Reserve – 310.9429 WEL)
Topic 1
Buxton, N.K. (1978) The Economic Development of the British Coal Industry (London: Batsford) (ASSL HD9551.5.B8)
Hare, A.E.C. (1940) The Anthracite Coal Industry of the Swansea District (Swansea: University of Wales Press) (ASSL Salisbury Library, WG8.H)
John, A.H. and Williams, G. (eds.) (1980) Glamorgan County History vol. V – Industrial Glamorgan (Cardiff: Glamorgan County History Trust) (ASSL Salisbury Library Celt Folio DA740.G5.G5; Celt Reference DA740.G5.G5)
Lewis, E.D. (1984) The Rhondda Valleys: A Study in Industrial Development, 1800 to the Present Day (Cardiff University Press) (ASSL Salisbury Library Celt DA740.R5.L3)
Marquand, H.A. (ed.) (1937) Second Industrial Survey of South Wales (Cardiff: Cardiff University Press Board), especially, vol. I (Chapters 2 (Mining and associated industries) and 3 (Metal and engineering industries)) and vol. 3 (Chapter 1 (Labour supply and demand in the south Wales coalfield)) (ASSL Salisbury Library, WG8.N)
Shore, L.M. (2012) Peerless Powell Duffryn of the South Wales Coalfield (Lydney: Lightmoor Press), esp. chapters 8-10 (ASSL Salisbury Library, Celt Folio HD9551.9.P6.S4)
Shore, L.M. (2017) The Tredegar Company: One of the South Wales Coalfield’s ‘Big Three’ (Lydney: Lightmoor Press), esp. chapters 7-8 (ASSL Salisbury Library, Celt Folio HD9551.9.T7.S4)
Supple, B. (1987) The History of the British Coal Industry, Vol. 4: 1913-1946 – The Political Economy of Decline (Oxford: Clarendon Press), esp. chapter 9(ii), ‘Business performance and entrepreneurial quality’, pp. 386-410 (ASSL HD9551.5.H4)
Watson, R. (1997) Rhondda Coal, Cardiff Gold – The Insoles of Llandaff Coal Owners and Shippers (Cardiff: Merton priory Press), esp. chapter 9 (ASSL Salisbury Library WG4.38.W)
Williams, C. and Croll, A. (eds.) (2013) Gwent County History Vol. 5 – Twentieth Century (Cardiff: University of Wales Press), chapters 3 (Coal) and 4 (Iron, steel and aluminium) (ASSL Celt DA740.G88.G9)
Topics 2 and 3
(See also Items listed under Topic 1)
Boyns, T. (1998) ‘Budgets and budgetary control in British businesses to c.1945’, Accounting, Business & Financial History, 8(3): 261-301.
Boyns, T. (2019) ‘Birmingham Small Arms Co. Ltd. 1919-1939: information, budgeting and control’ (unpublished paper presented to a conference in Nice, March 2019 – a copy can be found on Learning Central in the folder ‘Specific Tutorial Readings’ under ‘Tutorial Questions/Answers’ tab).
Boyns, T. and Edwards, J.R. (2013) A History of Management Accounting: The British experience (London and New York: Routledge) (esp.ch.9) (ASSL 658.15110941 BOY; online copy also available).
Church, R.A. (1979) Herbert Austin – The British Motor Car Industry to 1941 (London: Europa) (ASSL HD9710.C4) (Contains material related to the history of Austin Motors Ltd.).
Church, Roy A. (1994) The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry (London: Macmillan) (ASSL HD9710.G7.C4).
Coleman, D.C. (1969) Courtaulds – An Economic and Social History vol. II – Rayon (Oxford: Clarendon Press) (ASSL 338.47677C).
Corley, T.A.B. (1988) A History of the Burmah Oil Company, Vol. II 1924-1966 (London: Heinemann) (ASSL 338.2728C).
Davenport-Hines, R.P.T. (1984) Dudley Docker – The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) (ASSL HC252.5.D6.D2; 658.40092 D) (Contains material related to the history of BSA Ltd.).
Lloyd, I. (1978) Rolls-Royce – The Growth of a Firm (London: Macmillan) (ASSL HD9710.G74.R6.L5; 338.47629L).
Lloyd, I. (1978) Rolls-Royce – The Years of Endeavour (London: Macmillan) (ASSL HD9710.G74.R6.L5).
Lloyd-Jones, R., Maltby, J., Lewis, M.J. and Matthews, M. (2006) ‘Corporate Governance in a major British holding company: BSA in the interwar years’, Accounting Business & Financial History, vol. 16(1): 69-98.
Lloyd-Jones, R., Lewis, M.J., Matthews, M. and Maltby, J. (2005) ‘Control, conflict and concession: corporate governance, accounting and accountability at Birmingham Small Arms, 1906-1933’, Accounting Historians Journal, Vol. 32(1): 149-184.
Pugh, P. (2000) The Magic of a Name: the Rolls-Royce story, the first 40 years (Cambridge: Icon) (Trevithick TL215.R6.P8).
What would the impact be on profit from the disposal of obsolete inventory in order to improve the balance sheet?
Supply Chain: Inventory Management Case Study
How do we reduce inventory levels?
A manufacturer of computer peripheral devices was look-ing to improve its balance sheet and P & L by reducing inventory and the associated carrying costs, while improving customer service.
The products required to support different customer channels varied from expensive long-lead time engineered systems to relatively low-value standalone units that supported personal computers. The company needed to completely revamp its inventory, manufacturing and product support policies, procedures and practices to reflect the dramatic and fast changes to its product line.
The two main questions that needed answered were:
1. What would the impact be on profit from the disposal of obsolete inventory in order to improve the balance sheet?
2. How do we institute a program to prevent the buildup of obsolete inventories by disposing of slow movers on a regular basis?
Establish performed a logistics cost/performance bench-mark for all of the divisions showing that inventory carrying costs were extremely high. The bulk of the problem was in inventory management, there were problems managing the broad mix of products required as well as large amounts of obsolete and slow-moving inventory.
A cross functional team was formed that included members from Operations, Marketing, Sales and Finance to evaluate and dispose of excess and obsolete inventories.
The process of creating inventory was benchmarked to “best-practices” to identify improvement opportunities in purchasing, materials management, inventory planning and management, and the manufacturing operations.
In purchasing and materials management it was recommended that the total purchasing power of the corporation be leveraged to obtain more favorable purchasing and consignment agreements by centralizing the purchasing function. At the same time, local materials management functions
could be strengthened to improve requisitioning and materials usage and upstream supply chain partnerships were established to improve material flow and reduce purchased parts inventories.
In inventory planning and management, a centralized logistics function was recommended.
Written policies and procedures were developed for inventory planning, management and reporting, and a new forecasting and inventory planning business process and information system was implemented. All inventories are now managed more intensively to avoid excess and obsolete inventories and active inventories are deployed and re-deployed based on well defined
forecast requirements.
The promotion process was also brought under control to avoid sudden unanticipated demand on the plants, and manufacturing performance criteria was changed from lowest unit cost and high absorption to meeting the schedule in time and quantity to improve customer service levels.
http://www.establishinc.com/inventory-management
Critically discuss the methods used in this research, what are the limitations, what data could be missing or would be beneficial to have included. Is the data collection appropriate?
This assignment requires you to produce a consumer research report.
This report should document the analyses that you have conducted, and your findings/interpretations from a research project commissioned by a client during your role as a Research Analyst. Your client has given you some data that needs analysing. It is up to you to decide how best to analyse the data. Data will be available on Moodle before Week 2.
Your client wants a full report which summarises the findings and proposes a future research proposal to address the business problem. The report should have the following sections:
Report Template- please read!!
Title Page
Executive Summary
You should summarize your whole report within 300 words here, including your research topic, source of data, key findings, and key recommendation. Remember, this is NOT a signposting introduction.
Table of Contents
Introduction: In this section, you should clearly the purpose of the report. Introduce the current business situation of the brand/company/industry with evidence, such as market share, competitors, and recent or potential problems or market opportunities, and explain why this research may be important for this company.(Remember to contextualise the research within the use of relevant sources and literature) – 500 words
Method: Critically discuss the methods used in this research, what are the limitations, what data could be missing or would be beneficial to have included. Is the data collection appropriate? – 300 words
Data Analysis & Findings: the most important part, including quantitative (SPSS) and qualitative (thematic) results and analysis. Why such analysis is used? What are the results? What do the results tell us? Report the research findings. Discuss how the findings can have impact on your chosen company with the use of academic and industrial literature. -1100 words
Recommendations:
1) Provide practical recommendations for marketers and – 300 words
2) Write a research proposal for a future study that can build on your research results and to address the business problems. (Purpose, methods, instrument and sample) -500 words
Appendix: Include at least one page of A4 for your analysis work, including SPSS outputs and qualitative coding scheme.
Reference: Please make sure you use Harvard Referencing
The Case Study
Deliveroo: The potential acquisition of SUPPER London
You are a marketing research analyst that has recently been hired to analyse some data that was collected by your client, Deliveroo, aiming to help the CEO make a crucial business decision, whether to operate a potential acquisition (SUPPER London) as its own independent brand or bring it into a new service for Deliveroo, Deliveroo Premium.
On the back of the growth of revenue during the Covid pandemic, which saw a 128% increase in spend per customer (Edison, 2021), Deliveroo seeks to expand it’s current offering to keep competing for market share in the UK. The acquisition of SUPPER London, an online food delivery platform, founded in 2015 and focusing on high-end London restaurants is to go ahead this year. You have been brough on to analyse customer data collected by Deliveroo on themselves and SUPPER London. Your task to ‘make sense’ of the data and help the CEO make a decision on how best to take the new acquisition forward from a branding perspective. The question posited to you by the CEO is: Should we re-brand the acquisition to become Deliveroo Premium, or should we operate it as a separate division?
The CEO has asked for your report (max 3,000 words) to be concise, business-like and should propose a justified decision on whether the acquisition should be rebranded or run as its own brand, which should include 1) your review of the ‘end-to-end’ research process, 2) your analysis of the data and 3) your recommendations.
Deliveroo:
Deliveroo is an online food delivery platform operating in over 60 cities across the UK. Founded in 2013, in London by CEO Will Shu it has seen revenue growths of 650% year on year. Deliveroo operates in over 200 cities in the UK, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait (Sassard, 2017).
Customer Satisfaction, Deliveroo and SUPPER London
Some quantitative customer research has been carried out within Deliveroo (n=50), as well as SUPER London, measuring brand awareness, brand associations and satisfaction. An important inquiry posed by the CEO is to find out what brand association is most linked to customer satisfaction. Qualitative data in the form of Trustpilot reviews has also been collated and needs further analysis. The CEO would need to know if he should operate SUPPER London as its own independent brand or be rebranded as a Deliveroo Premium service.
What should be the most important characteristics of a hospital in which one would want to have an open heart surgery?
please read Case 19: The Case for Open Heart Surgery at Cabarrus Memorial Hospital(http://vizedhtmlcontent.next.ecollege.com/pub/content/130026cd-3843-47f0-8503-348360891b2a/HCM4025_Case19_OpenHeartSurgery.pdf). Create a 3 page report in Microsoft Word document that answers the following questions.
Why is the hospital considering this additional service?
Does the hospital and community really need this service? Why or why not?
What should be the most important characteristics of a hospital in which one would want to have an open heart surgery?
Is it financially viable for a hospital to offer this service? What costs and revenues would you predict to know the viability? Would any revenues cover the costs of offering this service?
In addition to the above, state any three instances that could go wrong if this service is offered.
Support your responses with examples.
What procedures will be used to determine whether the program was implemented as planned?
REVIEW THE GRANT MANAGEMENT CYCLE
Review the Grant Management Cycle
Your grant application is nearly done! There’s just one more piece you’ll need to complete for the application process to be complete.
In addition to laying out the all of the goals and objectives, you’ll need to show the funders how you plan to measure whether or not those goals and objectives are being met. This is all part of the grant management that will take place after you receive a grant.
Your job now is to determine how you will evaluate the success of the program. You will need to create a document that considers the following questions:
What questions will the organization’s evaluation activities seek to answer?
What are the evaluation plans and time frames?
What kinds of data will be collected?
At what points?
Using what strategies or instruments?
Using what comparison group or baseline, if any?
If the intention is to study a sample of participants, how will this sample be selected?
What procedures will be used to determine whether the program was implemented as planned?
Who will conduct the evaluation?
Who will receive the results?
How does this program or project define success?
Create a 2–3 page document that answers each of the questions at a high level. This document should be written in such a way that it can be shared across the Resource Center as well as with volunteers and partners in the program so they can understand how the program will be evaluated throughout the grant cycle. While you want the information to be clear and specific, it’s not necessary to go into great detail. It should be easily understood by all.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Review the grant management cycle.
develop a business proposal persuading the senior management of your organization to initiate a change in processes, procedures, products, people, or structure based on events currently happening in your company.
Prior to beginning work on this final paper, read Chapter 14(https://ashford.instructure.com/courses/83803/external_tools/retrieve?display=borderless&;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.ashford.edu%2Flti%3Fbookcode%3DBovee.7626.18.1%26navPointId%3Dch14) and Chapter 15(https://ashford.instructure.com/courses/83803/external_tools/retrieve?display=borderless&;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.ashford.edu%2Flti%3Fbookcode%3DBovee.7626.18.1%26navPointId%3Dch15) from your textbook and the Week 5 Weekly Lecture.
You will develop a business proposal persuading the senior management of your organization to initiate a change in processes, procedures, products, people, or structure based on events currently happening in your company. You may use experience with a past company if applicable.
In your paper,
Develop an introduction that provides sufficient background on the topic, a thesis statement, and a logical conclusion that smoothly flows from the body of the paper.
Identify processes, procedures, products, people, or structures that need change based on events that are or were happening in your current or past company.
Organize the information using appropriate headings based on the context of the recommended change initiative.
Provide a fully developed rational argument to persuade management into initiating change.
conduct critical analysis of a specific policy area affecting children and youth.
Part A.Policy Table Exercise: you will prepare a table that details your selected policy problem, the decision-making group considering the problem, two to three proposed solutions for addressing it, and your assessment of those alternatives using selected criteria. An example of a Policy Table will be provided on iLearn. (10 points)
Part B.Final Policy Memo: You will then prepare a policy memo including the key steps in the policy process. The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate your understanding of the policy making process and to conduct critical analysis of a specific policy area affecting children and youth. Your policy memo should:
1. Who decides?: describe the governmental body considering the issue –including its membership, decision-making authority and any timelines (if applicable)
2. The problem: outline the problem, its causes, and key issues
3. Solutions: describe two to three proposed or potential solutions
4. Assessment: assess each proposal against specified criteria(i.e. cost, impact, equity and political feasibility), and
5. Recommendations: make recommendations and conclusions
