Organizational Effectiveness

Discussion Question 1

In the position of internal Organizational Development Consultant, also referred to as Organizational Effectiveness Officer, you have conducted a survey of the entire 3,000-employee population at your organization. The common denominator among the millennial generation responses within the workforce is a desire to work from home. Create a strong statement to the effect and make a recommendation to the CEO to add the virtual employment status to the current employment status currently practiced at your firm (i.e., Exempt Full Time; Part Time; Per Diem; Independent Contractor).

Discussion Question 2

Applied Concepts (AC) – Week/Course Learning Outcomes Using your textbook, LIRN-based research, and the Internet, apply the learning outcomes for the week/course and lecture concepts to one of the following scenarios: As applied to your current professional career As applied to enhancing, improving, or advancing your current professional career As applied to a management, leadership, or any decision-making position As applied to a current or future entrepreneurial endeavor OR Using your textbook, LIRN-based research, and the Internet, apply the learning outcomes for the week/course and lecture concepts to a business organization that exhibits and demonstrates these concepts. You should develop a summary of the organization’s strategy and how they use these concepts to compete. This is a learning and application exercise designed to give you an opportunity to apply concepts learned in a pragmatic and meaningful way that will enable you to gain valuable and relevant knowledge in an effort to augment your skill set and enhance your professional careers

multiple regression model

Instructions: 

The Excel file for this assignment contains a database with information about the tax assessment value assigned to medical office buildings in a city. The following is a list of the variables in the database:

  • FloorArea: square feet of floor space
  • Offices: number of offices in the building
  • Entrances: number of customer entrances
  • Age: age of the building (years)
  • AssessedValue: tax assessment value (thousands of dollars)

Use the data to construct a model that predicts the tax assessment value assigned to medical office buildings with specific characteristics.

  • Construct a scatter plot in Excel with FloorArea as the independent variable and AssessmentValue as the dependent variable. Insert the bivariate linear regression equation and r^2 in your graph. Do you observe a linear relationship between the 2 variables?
  • Use Excel’s Analysis ToolPak to conduct a regression analysis of FloorArea and AssessmentValue. Is FloorArea a significant predictor of AssessmentValue?
  • Construct a scatter plot in Excel with Age as the independent variable and AssessmentValue as the dependent variable. Insert the bivariate linear regression equation and r^2 in your graph. Do you observe a linear relationship between the 2 variables?
  • Use Excel’s Analysis ToolPak to conduct a regression analysis of Age and Assessment Value. Is Age a significant predictor of AssessmentValue?

Construct a multiple regression model.

  • Use Excel’s Analysis ToolPak to conduct a regression analysis with AssessmentValue as the dependent variable and FloorArea, Offices, Entrances, and Age as independent variables. What is the overall fit r^2? What is the adjusted r^2?
  • Which predictors are considered significant if we work with α=0.05? Which predictors can be eliminated?
  • What is the final model if we only use FloorArea and Offices as predictors?
  • Suppose our final model is:
  • AssessedValue = 115.9 + 0.26 x FloorArea + 78.34 x Offices
  • What wouldbe the assessed value of a medical office building with a floor area of 3500 sq. ft., 2 offices, that was built 15 years ago? Is this assessed value consistent with what appears in the database?

Submit your assignment.

Resources

The Role of Capitalism

The Role of Capitalism use attached worksheet

Capitalism is an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. Socialism is a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates for the means of production, distribution, and exchange being owned or regulated by the community as a whole

In this assignment, you will complete the worksheet comparing capitalism and socialism:

Briefly define, in your own words, the concepts of capitalism and socialism.

Identify three pros and cons of each.

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:

Examine the role capitalism plays in corporate decision making.

Sources

William H. Shaw. 2014. Business Ethics: A Textbook with Cases. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning 8th edition textbook.

spring 2021 Assignment 2 Capitalism A 4.2020.docx worksheet

Organization is Starbucks

Purpose of Assessment

Analyze the organization you assessed in Week 2 (WK2OrgCulture_Stanley). Apply leadership theories and approaches to support organizational change that aligns to the organization’s mission and values. You will be measured on how you justify your assessment of the leadership approach.

Write a 700- to 1050-word paper for your Leadership Styles Rationale . In your paper , complete the following:

  • Restate the needed change within the organization.
  • Analyze the various leadership styles you explored in Week 3 in the context of the organizational culture and proposed change.
  • Justify which leadership style or approach would best support the organizational change.
  • Discuss how this style will support sustainable organizational success.
  • Discuss how this style integrates the organization’s mission and vision.
  • Discuss how this style will increase value for stakeholders.

Change Management and Management Styles

THIS IS A MANDATED ASSIGNMENT.

Change Management and Management Styles
As economic times change, management styles have changed accordingly. New concepts and issues of management styles have been analyzed, synthesized, and evaluated to meet the changing needs of the marketplace. The concept of change management has gained great acceptance and/or disapproval by all sectors, including civilian and military.
Katzenbach (1995) wrote that “Real change leaders are the linchpins connecting three critical forces for organizational change and performance: top leadership aspirations (what are we trying to become?); workforce energy and productivity (how will we climb the mountain?); and the marketplace reality (what do our target customers truly seek, and what can and will our potential competitors really do?) (pp. 8-9).
Analyze the changes in the healthcare field to determine if there have been periods of time in which leaders in the field, as well as actual practitioners in the field, have had to address the issue of change management. Specifically, this analysis should be based on a synthesis of the current literature (and literature no older than 1995) to demonstrate how leaders in your field of study have addressed the issue of change management – as well as any changes in management style. Finally, the student should relate these specific changes to their own current, previous, and/or future career paths. This analysis should help to reveal how you have seen changes occur over the past decade or so in your field. Finally, what possible changes, suggestions and/or recommendations would you consider to be necessary in your field of study?

Instructions:
Write a well-researched, thorough response to the questions posed above in an APA formatted paper. Include 7 scholarly references in your paper.

Respond in 2100-2450 content words, not including title page, abstract, or references, to each question.

amazon handling the change to implement amazon go shops

amazon handling the change to implement amazon go shops

How is amazon handling the change to implement amazon go shops? What attempt at change is being made and what stakeholders are involved? What is the current state and what is the desired state?

○  Choose 2-3 conceptual tools for analysis and show you can apply them

○  Show that you have conducted further reading to deepen your knowledge

○  Use theory to explain why actors in the case took certain actions

●  If appropriate, and based on your analysis, recommend alternative actions that could have been taken

●  Show that you can think critically about the concepts and theories you have used in your analysis: highlight the insights they offer as well as their shortcomings.

theoretical body of knowledge on the topic and your profession

Chapter 5: Discussion

The purpose of this chapter is not just to reiterate what you found but rather to discuss what your findings mean in relation to the theoretical body of knowledge on the topic and your profession. Typically, students skimp on this chapter even though it may be the most important one because it answers the “So what?” question. In other words, I want you to pretend that I know nothing about your research and topic/problem, and that we’re going to discuss your findings of your research as it relates to your problem/possible solution. Please answer the following questions:

(1). What do your findings suggest about the business field of study? One way to answer this question is to answer the following question: Will your findings change an aspect of business? Why or Why not?

(2). What do your findings suggest about a business career or role? Will your findings change a specific role in business? Why or Why not?

(3). Do your findings introduce any new research that needs to continue, or do you believe your research presents a potential solution to the problem you presented, and no further research is necessary? Why or Why not?

400 words APA format

PowerPoint  presentation

Instructions

For this assignment, you will continue  with the industry you selected in Unit II. You will create a PowerPoint  presentation in which you will be looking at historical, current, and  forecasted measures of the unemployment rate, inflation rate, and labor  force participation rate for the United States as a whole. You must  utilize the Notes or Audio Narration feature of PowerPoint to explain  each slide in detail. (you can omit the title and intro slides)

Please address the following in your presentation.  Provide a minimum of a 3-year history of the following:

  • unemployment rate in the United States,
  • inflation rate in the United States, and
  • labor force participation rate in the United States.

Indicate how these historical measures impacted your selected industry.  Provide a current evaluation of the status of the following:

  • unemployment rate in the United States,
  • inflation rate in the United States, and
  • labor force participation rate in the United States.

Indicate how the current status of these economic indicators are impacting your selected industry.  Provide a forecast (projecting at least 3 years into the future) of the following:

  • unemployment rate in the United States,
  • inflation rate in the United States, and
  • labor force participation rate in the United States.

Indicate how the forecast of these economic indicators will impact your selected industry if the forecast is correct.  Your PowerPoint presentation must be a  minimum of 15 slides in length (including the title slide and reference  slide). Please present your content using the following format.

  • Slide 1: Title slide
  • Slide 2: Introduction
  • Slide 3: A 3-year history (minimum) of the U.S. unemployment rate
  • Slide 4: A 3-year history (minimum) of the U.S. inflation rate
  • Slide 5: A 3-year history (minimum) of the U.S. labor force participation rate
  • Slide 6: How the historical measures impacted your selected industry
  • Slide 7: Current status of the U.S. unemployment rate
  • Slide 8: Current status of the U.S. inflation rate
  • Slide 9: Current status of the U.S. labor force participation rate
  • Slide 10: How the current status of the economic indicators are impacting your selected industry
  • Slide 11: Forecast (3-year minimum) of the U.S. unemployment rate
  • Slide 12: Forecast (3-year minimum) of the U.S. inflation rate
  • Slide 13: Forecast (3-year minimum) of the U.S. labor force participation rate
  • Slide 14: How the forecasts of the economic indicators are going to impact your selected industry.
  • Slide 15: References

Ensure that the presentation you  create is your own authentic work. Adhere to APA Style when creating  citations and references for this assignment. APA formatting, however,  is not necessary.  The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics website is helpful for finding data for this assignment.

Please include at least two references.

Calculation of the inventory account

there are three (3) primary methods used by companies to assign costs to inventory and cost of goods sold: LIFO, FIFO, and Weighted Average. Each method assumes a particular pattern for how costs flow through inventory, but this is not a guarantee of how the inventory will actually flow. With each method comes a number of pros and cons that a company must consider when implementing its inventory management strategy. Select a company below to learn more about their chosen method. Then discuss the benefits of the chosen method taking into consideration how that particular method impacts the calculation of the inventory account, the cost of goods sold account, and the financial statements for that company.

Target – Uses LIFO

https://blackboard.strayer.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/ACC/100/1188_henryhand/ARTICLES/W6DQ_Target.pdf

Amazon – Uses FIFO

https://blackboard.strayer.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/ACC/100/1188_henryhand/ARTICLES/W6DQ_Amazon.pdf

Project Management

Assignment Details

Assignment Description

Assignment Details

Risk is inherent to every project. Some risks are more likely to occur than others, and some will have a greater impact to the project if realized. Although you cannot account for every risk, a thorough risk analysis and assessment can help minimize the liabilities of the project and ensure that your projects are successful.

Refer to Case 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4 of your text. Each of these cases presents you with a project scope statement for a fictional project. You are to pick 1 of these cases on which to perform a risk analysis. After picking a case of your choice, you should address the following:

  • Summarize the project.
  • Discuss how the risk management process will be applied.
  • Identify potential risks associated with this project (you must come up with at least 5 different risks).
  • Use a risk assessment form to analyze identified risks.
  • Develop a risk response matrix to outline how you would deal with each of the risks.

Please use the following templates when writing your paper

In conducting the risk assessment and developing the risk response matrix, you can either develop the risk assessment form and the risk response matrix yourself, or you can use the templates provided in your text. Your submission should be 5 pages in length. Be sure to cite your sources using APA; include your references and in-text citations.

Use this template to complete this assignment.

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

  • Title page: The title should be in all capitals.
  • Length: 5 pages minimum
  • Body: This begins on the page following the title page and abstract page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 5 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
  • Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.MGMT412_Unit_4_Risk_Assessment_form_Template MGMT412_Unit_4Risk_Response_Matrix_Template