Appraise valid sources of data in regards to sustainable energy (if any), skilled labor, raw materials, utilities, and shipping conveyances in the Atlanta area.

Competency

Describe the process of creating data sets.

Scenario

You are the facility manager for EnVision, a high-tech vehicle maker located in Atlanta. This new company designs, manufactures, and sells electric vehicles and charging units. EnVision’s unique designs, technical prowess, and limited competition has placed them in the enviable position of having a high demand for their line of products. This demand has generated over a billion dollars in pre-sale orders, and facility expansion will be required to meet customer needs. Due to space limitations within the existing plant and surrounding property, the firm’s CEO, Mark Hammel, has asked you to assist him in selecting a new site that will accommodate a new state-of-the-art facility.

The CEO has stated that retention of current employees is paramount which limits your selection to the local area. He also stated that it would be highly desirable to use sustainable energy in the plant’s operations. Resources in the form of additional personnel, raw materials, utilities, and shipping conveyances also need consideration.

Instructions

In a written memo to Mark Hammel, address the following issues in regards to your site research.

  • Appraise valid sources of data in regards to sustainable energy (if any), skilled labor, raw materials, utilities, and shipping conveyances in the Atlanta area. You must cite the source(s) of the data you use.
  • Discuss the relationships between the sustainable energy, skilled labor, raw materials, utilities, and shipping conveyances for a manufacturing facility in the Atlanta area.
  • Evaluate potential gaps or issues with the identified datasets. Share how you plan to go about closing these gaps, including identification of further sources of data or research that might be necessary.
  • Using Excel, organize your sources of data into datasets. Include as part of your submission.

Data Files

For this deliverable, please reference the following data files as necessary:

Leadership and management

Leadership and management are two terms that are used interchangeably but represent different roles that have different functions. Understanding the differences and similarities is essential for social work administrators as they develop leadership strategies within organizations. Understanding the functions associated with leadership and management roles can influence how social workers supervise and work with colleagues in administrative practice. As you prepare for this Discussion, consider how your understanding of leadership and management roles might affect you when you assume a supervisory position.

Respond to the colleagues by explaining whether you agree or disagree with your colleague’s analysis of the similarities and differences of leadership and management and their application to a potential supervisory position in a human services organization. Provide support for your position.

Colleague VC 

RE: Discussion – Week 1

An analysis of the similarities and differences of leadership and management roles as they relate to human services organizations.

Managers are accountable for the day-to-day operations. Management is a position. Managers are appointed or assigned to specific managerial roles within an agency. Managers keep organizations flowing by safeguarding all team members and allowing all team members to feel like they are in partnership with agency missions. They keep the company stable and current. On the other hand, leaders boost the organization by setting goals, establishing a concept, and encouraging others to join in joint actions to enhance momentum. Leaders focus on what can and will be accomplished for the betterment of all parties involved (Lauffer,2011).

How these roles may affect me as I assume a supervisory position.

Supervisors are part of the team’s supervisory procedures; they provide incentives for group members to participate. Therefore, offering formal and informal views related to successful completion by joint training and support. According to the literature, since it is difficult to identify and reward emerging behaviors without shaping them, these, defined as joint leadership (Lauffer, 2011).

I have never been in a supervisory role, so I am unsure of the leadership style I would implement. However, after reviewing the literature, I would define myself as a super leader. (Lauffer,2011). I can engage others based mainly on my life experience. As a certified peer recovery specialist ( CPRS), I   interact with clients, community organizations, and recovery facilities. My role as a CPRS helps me actively expose needed knowledge-based information related to working with people with a substance abuse disorder.     My colleagues have up-to-date information on the latest Medically assisted treatment or ( MAT). As a leader,  I am available to answer any questions they may have, which allows my colleagues to establish their connection with the recovery community. They think of ways to integrate a less stigmatizing experience. Thus, they remain culturally aware that language matters when addressing the recovery community.    I am making sure my colleagues are respected and valued when working towards understanding the culture of recovery.

Reference

Lauffer, A. (2011). Understanding your social agency (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: Sage.Chapter 8, “Leadership, Management, and Governance” (pp. 243–280)

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Colleague KP 

RE: Discussion – Week 1

Post an analysis of the similarities and differences of leadership and management roles as they relate to human services organizations.

Although often times used interchangeably and overlap as complementary of one another, leadership and management still in some respects represent different roles that have different/varying functions. According to Lauffer (2011), leadership entails inspiring others to action around a shared vision and management functions are to control, coordinate, and oversee an organization’s programs and other operations. A very important similarity is that both are crucial and essential components of successful and efficient administrative practice. Lauffer (2011) mentions that in social agencies, leadership and management are about “starting things up, getting them done, and keeping them moving” (p. 244). Some of the mentioned desired personal characteristics of both leaders and managers are drive, self-confidence, flexibility, charisma, professionalism, and vision (Lauffer, 2011). It is noted that both leadership and management have relational and situational elements (Lauffer, 2011).

A difference that exists is that while management is a position in which one is appointed the role, any one person can be a leader or demonstrate leadership traits and qualities, regardless of their title/role within the agency. Management roles arise out of interactions with other members and the needs of the situation.

Include how your understanding of these roles may affect you as you assume a supervisory position.

As noted by Lauffer (2011), it is important to keep in mind that without good leadership one’s agency would be unable to effectively chart its own directions or to change those directions as needed and without good management, it would be unable to coordinate all the activities necessary to get to where it hopes to be going. There exists distinct leadership behaviors to keep in mind that managers may perform in various organizational situations included, but are not limited to: liaison, monitor, disseminator, spokesperson, resource allocator, and negotiator, in which these roles are all situationally specific and designed to support personnel and organizational efforts to achieve specific program and managerial goals (Lauffer, 2011). By having a good understanding of leadership and management and how they overlap, yet differ, situationally, it will allow for implementation of scientifically efficient strategies and techniques to demonstrate positive outcomes in both categories.

References

Lauffer, A. (2011). Understanding your social agency (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: Sage.

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Amazon and Walmart follow somewhat different strategies. Suggest reasons for these differences in operating profitability.

Please read the question carefully before making a bid. I would need 200-250 words for each of the four points. Please break the answers in four separate sections, as required below.

Question:

Amazon.com is the largest retailer on the planet, with Walmart not far behind.  The third-largest retailer on the planet is Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

Required:

  1. Amazon and Walmart follow somewhat different strategies. Suggest reasons for these differences in operating profitability.
  2. Amazon and Alibaba follow somewhat similar strategies.  Suggest reasons for the differences in operating profitability.
  3. Rank-order these firms in terms of their short-term liquidity risk. Do any of these firms appear unduly risky as of the end of fiscal 2018? Explain.
  4. Rank-order these firms in terms of their long-term liquidity risk. Do any of these firms appear unduly risky as of the end of fiscal 2018? Explain.

evaluate the Resource Based View theory in terms of their usefulness in explaining firms’ strategies.

1. Essay Requirement

Write an essay addressing the key issues relevant to one of the four questions below and draw a suitable conclusion. The essay should be approximately 2,000 words excluding all appendix and references. Your work should appear professionally produced in terms of the quality and currency of the data, analysis and conclusions drawn.

2. Topic Selection

You are required to select and write about ONE of the four essay questions given below:

1) Critically evaluate the Resource Based View theory in terms of their usefulness in explaining firms’ strategies. Illustrate your answer with reference to at least one case company of your own choice.

2) Critically evaluate the importance of the Porter’s Five Forces framework. To what extent are his ideas still relevant to modern day strategy making? Illustrate your answer with reference to at least one case company of your own choice.

3) Critically evaluate the relevance of strategic planning in today’s environments. Illustrate your answer with reference to at least one case company of your own choice.

4) Critically evaluate Porter’s ‘generic strategies.’ To what extent are his ideas still relevant to modern day strategy making. Illustrate your answer with reference to at least one case

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company of your own choice.

ABC and Master Budgeting Discussion

ABC and Master Budgeting Discussion

Discussion: Activity-Based Costing (ABC) and Master Budgeting

Read at least 2 academically reviewed articles on ABC and 2 articles on Master Budgeting and complete the following:

A. Write an annotated bibliography of each article.

B. Based on the articles you reviewed, discuss what you learned

C. In addition, discuss how a manager would use the concepts in the articles you reviewed in managerial decisions.

Use APA throughout. Please organize your discussion as listed above.

2 pages

conduct the following descriptive statistics analyses with Excel®

conduct the following descriptive statistics analyses with Excel®

In preparation for writing your report to senior management next week, conduct the following descriptive statistics analyses with Excel®. Answer the questions below in your Excel sheet or in a separate Word document:

  • Insert a new column in the database that corresponds to “Annual Sales.” Annual Sales is the result of multiplying a restaurant’s “SqFt.” by “Sales/SqFt.”
  • Calculate the mean, standard deviation, skew, 5-number summary, and interquartile range (IQR) for each of the variables.
  • Create a box-plot for the “Annual Sales” variable. Does it look symmetric? Would you prefer the IQR instead of the standard deviation to describe this variable’s dispersion? Why?
  • Create a histogram for the “Sales/SqFt” variable. Is the distribution symmetric? If not, what is the skew? Are there any outliers? If so, which one(s)? What is the “SqFt” area of the outlier(s)? Is the outlier(s) smaller or larger than the average restaurant in the database? What can you conclude from this observation?
  • What measure of central tendency is more appropriate to describe “Sales/SqFt”? Why?

explain the role that analytics plays in the modern business environment.

explain the role that analytics plays in the modern business environment.

This week’s required readings explain the role that analytics plays in the modern business environment. Consider the following questions and respond in a minimum of 175 words with 3 different opinions.

  • How is data analytics different from statistics?
  • Analytics tools fall into 3 categories:descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive. What are the main differences among these categories?
  • Explain how businesses use analytics to convert raw operational data into actionable information. Provide at least 1 example.
  • Consider the organization you work for (or another organization you’re familiar with). Does this organization use data analytics?If so, how is it used? If not, how could the organization use data analytics to improve its performance?

bounded rationality perspective

Pick one of the following terms for your research: bounded rationality perspective, cognitive biases, decision learning, devil’s advocate, groupthink, incremental decision model, management science approach, nonprogrammed decisions, rational approach, or satisficing.

Instructions:

DEFINITION: a brief definition of the key term followed by the APA reference for the term; this does not count in the word requirement.

SUMMARY: Summarize the article in your own words- this should be in the 150-200 word range. Be sure to note the article’s author, note their credentials and why we should put any weight behind his/her opinions, research or findings regarding the key term.

DISCUSSION: Using 300-350 words, write a brief discussion, in your own words of how the article relates to the selected chapter Key Term. A discussion is not rehashing what was already stated in the article, but the opportunity for you to add value by sharing your experiences, thoughts and opinions. This is the most important part of the assignment.

organizational analysis discussion paper

organizational analysis discussion paper

Each student will write an 8-10-page paper on an organization of his or her choice. The submission must be typed, double-spaced, and have uniform 1-inch margins in 12-point Times New Roman font. The organizational analysis will contain the following sections:

  • Introduction of the organization, including history and background.
  • Organizational strategy.
  • Organizational design and your assessment of effectiveness.
  • Organizational culture.
  • Conclusion and what you would change about the selected organization for improvement.

Please finish it before the deadline. Thank you.

Analyze data sources and uses in the local, national, and global marketplaces.

Analyze data sources and uses in the local national and global marketplaces.

Please respond to the following questions based upon these course objectives:

  • Analyze data sources and uses in the local, national, and global marketplaces.
  • Evaluate various methods for creating customer value.
  • Compare and contrast the ways that a company can create brand identity.
  • Assess internal and external communication needs as they relate to the marketing function
  • Assess challenges for a domestic company marketing globally.
  • Analyze challenges related to the implementation of marketing efforts.
  • Develop a marketing plan.

Please answer the following questions with supporting examples and full explanations.

  1. For each of the learning objectives, provide an analysis of how the course supported each objective.
  2. Explain how the material learned in this course, based upon the objectives, will be applicable to the professional application.

Provide evidence (citations and references) to support your statements and opinions.

All references and citations should in APA format.