Determine how cultural nuances such as religious customs and nonverbal communication could impact leadership effectiveness.
Your company has just hired your foreign friend to work in a middle-management position. As a new manager, she is interested in coaching her staff through their careers. Since you have lived in the United States for many years, your friend believes that you understand job coaching for a traditional American company. She wants to work with you and has many questions—some of which concern the manner in which cultural nuances related to religious customs, verbal and nonverbal communication, and so on may affect leadership roles
Instructions
Write a 5–7 page paper in which you:
- Recommend whether your friend should assume the role of a job coach as soon as she begins her new position or wait until she has been a part of the company for a certain amount of time. Provide a rationale for your response.
- Determine two conflicts that could possibly arise as a result of asking people to work on days of religious significance. Propose concrete solutions for these two possible conflicts.
- Determine whether cultural factors could restrain the foreign manager from expressing his or her ideas readily. Provide a rationale for your response.
- Determine two actions that you can take in order to prepare yourself and your friend to become multicultural leaders. Provide two examples to support your response.
- Predict two major conflicts that may arise out of nonverbal communication misunderstandings (for example, words misinterpreted, hand gestures, looks, shoulder shrugs, names of objects). Suggest two actions that your friend could take in order to defuse these types of misunderstandings and thus make the workplace more harmonious. Justify your response.
- Use at least five quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
- Determine how cultural nuances such as religious customs and nonverbal communication could impact leadership effectiveness.
Evaluate the importance of creative thinking in the process of developing a strategy for an organization.
- Evaluate the importance of creative thinking in the process of developing a strategy for an organization.
- Provide support for your response.
What strategies would need to be incorporated within the organization to promote innovative practices?
Bank of America (organization)
The most important assets of an organization are its employees. Given the right opportunities and structure, employees will be empowered to transform an organization. Entrepreneurship allows organizations to grow, compete, and retain employees.
Using the organization, create a strategic employee innovation plan to support you in strategizing the implementation and fostering of innovative thinking across the organization. address the following questions in your plan:
- 1.What strategies would need to be incorporated within the organization to promote innovative practices?
- 2.How will you embed intrapreneurship competency into the organization?
- 3.How will you identify the intrapreneurs within the organization?
- 4.How will intrapreneurs be supported and encouraged? How will you foster a climate of innovative learning and development?
- 5.How will you know when your employees become more innovative and that your strategies have been successfully implemented?
Prepare to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide; Include references
Develop three strategies to promote productive, innovative practices.
the Wall Street Journal to conduct research on innovation. Select an example of an innovative process that has resulted in significant change in your industry. What factors contributed to the success? Be specific.
2. Develop three strategies to promote productive, innovative practices. How would such strategies cater to innovative engagement and the development of new ideas?
Does this story affirm the company’s core values? Why or why not?
STORY TELLING IN MARKETING AND SALES – Assignment
The Ethics of Storytelling
Assignment Description:
During the past week in class, we learned that all brand stories need to have a strong ethical foundation. Brands need to create and distribute messages that are honest and convey their corporate values.
FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT, “CHOOSE ANY 1” OF THE FOLLOWING SHORT VIDEOS TO WRITE ABOUT:
⦁ “Apple 2013 Christmas commercial” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03KQTCEM08k
⦁ “WestJet Christmas Miracle” ⦁ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIEIvi2MuEk⦁ &⦁ t=9s
For the video you choose, answer the following questions about the story that is being told:
(minimum 350 words, combine 1 to 5)
⦁ Does this story affirm the company’s core values? Why or why not?
⦁ Does this story foster trust with each and every stakeholder? Why or why not?
⦁ Does this story help build relationships? Why or why not?
⦁ Does this story showcase diverse and inclusive behaviors?
⦁ Does this story honor the company’s commitments and promises to its customers? Why or why not?
Note: Write a minimum of 350 words for above 5 questions, conveying your own thoughts and views.
Define ethical research.
Define ethical research. Give one example of ethical misconduct, give examples of why you think this. Provide one example of an unethical research study and state why it is unethical.
Describe the specific market for your product/service – who will buy it and where
Dr. U. N. Umesh
Create a document that you will present to raise capital for your idea. Be as convincing as possible because those who invest in start-up businesses have numerous entrepreneurs approaching them. In other words, they have other choices, so your pitch needs to be appealing.
Here are some suggested steps or sub-headings, many of which have been covered in earlier assignments.
First, describe your idea from a product/service standpoint
Next, describe the idea from the business standpoint
Suggest why you believe the start-up business you have suggested will work
Describe the specific market for your product/service – who will buy it and where
Information base on Ass 1&2&3&4
Explain the results of your process evaluation and how the weak points can be strengthened.
Selected Readings in Quality Control
Fountoulaki, A., Karacapilidis, N., & Manatakis, M. (2011). Augmenting statistical quality
control with machine learning techniques: an overview. International Journal of Business
and Systems Research, 6, 610.
Freeman, K. P., Cook, J. R., & Hooijberg, E. H. (2021). Introduction to statistical quality
control. JAVMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION, 258(7), 733–739.
Montgomery, D., & Woodall, W. (2008). An Overview of Six Sigma. International
Statistical Review / Revue Internationale De Statistique, 76(3), 329-346. Retrieved
August 17, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/27919650
Thangarajoo, Y., & Smith, A. (2015). Lean Thinking: An Overview. Industrial Engineering
and Management, 4(2), 1-5. DOI: 10.4172/2169-0316.1000159
Homework: Using the learnings for this week’s reading assignments and additional
research complete the following:
PHASE 1 – PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
Select a process from an organization you work for or are familiar with. Make sure it’s a process you are able to collect data and process statistics.
Create a flowchart of the current state or as-is process using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Vizio, or Excel and evaluate how well your process operated (efficiency and effectiveness) of your process using process improvement techniques.
Next ascertain how the process can be improved based on the results of your evaluation and
define process metrics and measure the current state process. Use process improvement
techniques to improve the process. Create a flow chart of the improved process using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Vizio, or Excel.
Use your professional judgment and what you learned this week to ascertain how the future
state process will perform according to your metrics.
Phase 2 – Evaluation
Evaluate your process using either lean concepts to find ways to eliminate waste and improve
the process and/or SQC or Six Sigma to reduce defects or variances in the process
Then complete the following in Excel:
chart and Compute the defined process metrics including process capability and process
variation.
Create and display a control chart for the process.
Analyze the control process metrics using Statistical Quality/Process Control (SQC) methods.
Decide whether the process could benefit from the use of Six Sigma, Lean, or other tools.
(Include all calculation and charts)
Executive Summary
Write a 700-to-850-word executive summary which includes the following:
A brief description of the process based on the flowchart of processes current state
Explain the results of your process evaluation and how the weak points can be
strengthened. Include a description of the process improvement technique(s) used.
Provide a brief description of future state process improvements
Using the metrics chosen to evaluate process current state estimate how you anticipate
the future process will perform
Provide a brief description of your process improvement project to achieve the process
future state
A summary of the Process Evaluation (using either Lean or SQC or Six Sigma)
A summary of the evaluation of the control chart and process metrics based on other tools
A description of the SQC project and recommendations.
Cite references (including some peer reviewed) to support your assignment.
Provide a list of references and format your citations according to APA guidelines.
How will being aware of the ethical considerations and their relationship to study feasibility affect your potential choice of research topic and research design?
Assessment Description
Before the end of this course, you will complete CITI training to foster your professional development and integrity as a researcher. What will you learn in CITI training that applies to your dissertation? To what extent, if at all, do the ethical considerations of a study influence the feasibility of the study? Explain. How will being aware of the ethical considerations and their relationship to study feasibility affect your potential choice of research topic and research design? Explain.
How do these epistemological foundations affect both the nature and the application of each GCU core qualitative design? Explain.
Assessment Description
Recall the GCU core qualitative research designs presented in a previous research course. What kinds of inquiry approaches are best suited using each qualitative core design? Why? How does the nature of each GCU core qualitative design differ from each other? What specific epistemological foundations underlie each design? How do these epistemological foundations affect both the nature and the application of each GCU core qualitative design? Explain.
