Monthly Archives: March 2023

·  Overview
In your second assignment, you created a professional development plan using EI building blocks and motivation. In this last assignment, you will examine how politics and power influence an organization and its culture.
In business, power and politics greatly influence an organizational culture and may hinder organizational productivity. In your role as consultant, you observed power and politics influence on the corporate culture.
Instructions
Write a 5–7 page report that addresses the following:
1.  Influence of Politics and Power:
o  Explain how politics and power-play may have influenced the organization’s culture.
2.  Sources of Power:
o  Explore at least one source of power and describe how management could use this influence to benefit the department and improve organizational performance.
3.  Leadership Behavior and Culture:
o  Make recommendations that support how the study of power and politics could influence leadership behavior and improve the organization’s culture.
4.  Leadership Influence:
o  Discuss the importance and complexity of leadership behavior in solving the issue you identified. How does it influence organizational structure and performance?
5.  References and Citations:
o  Go to the Strayer University Online Library to locate at least two resources.
o  In-text citations are required when paraphrasing or quoting another source.
6.  Formatting and Writing Standards:
o  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.
Confidentiality: Since you will be addressing real issues in real organizations in your assignments, it is important to respect confidentiality. Feel free to use an alias for any company or individuals you might mention in your assignments. Remember that all discussions about these organization should only occur within this course and not be shared with people outside the course.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
·  Analyze the influence of politics, power, and leadership behavior on organizational culture.

HR Knowledge 9: Human Resource Management

Thoroughly review the following video:

Based on your review, please respond to the following:

Specifically focus on the key HR functional areas. Now, select any 3 of the functional areas that would be your first, second, and third choices if you could work in HR. List each by priority and briefly explain why you selected your choices.   This is where you can find the video.

Gregg Learning. (2017, July 24). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJhRXBpXTPI

Popular press and media accounts generally suggest that executives are overpaid. For example: the average yearly salary of a CEO of Fortune 500 company in 2018 was $14.5 million. The average yearly salary of a regular worker was $39,888.

• Justify why the CEO’s pay is appropriate.
  • Support your response with specifics.

Details are attached

Question #1 – 

Think of a recent change that happened in your organization. Try to focus on a large change, not just a small change in artifacts, such as a form. It might be a policy change, a change in leadership, a change in organizational goals. Think about how it was implemented. 

Based on Kotter’s 8 steps, describe the change. Did your organization follow each step? If so, describe how. If not, describe how “skipping” that step may have impacted the change and how employees responded to it. Use at least two class resources in your post. Remember to cite correctly.

References

 https://sourcepov.com/2010/04/10/org-culture-intervention/ 

 https://learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/content/484531/viewContent/18262393/View 

Assignment Details

You are employed at a large, global, high-tech company that has offices worldwide in places such as Tokyo, London, Bombay, Toronto, Mexico City, Chicago, and Seattle, to name a few. Although sales have been reasonable these past few months even with the global economic crises, an internal crisis exists related to employee morale being at an all-time low. There are many different beliefs about what is right and what is wrong across the board, especially when it comes to the cultural and communication differences and the technological equipment challenges. There are also concerns regarding the selfishness of the employees, where the employees do not enjoy working as a team.

Your supervisor has tasked you, as the as the VP of the Service Department, to prepare a research paper that will communicate information and solutions as well as provide a foundation of knowledge so that you can work with your peers and employees to solve these problems. At a minimum, your research paper must include the following:

• What steps can management take to make the teams      cohesive?  Evaluate the steps that are necessary in this scenario to      create high-performing teams.
• Evaluate the importance of the internal environmental      factors that include the cultural, language, political, and technological      differences that will affect the team-building process.
• What can be done to overcome the communication barriers      between locations? What are the best practices that should be implemented      going forward?

Present your findings as a Word document of 3–5 pages formatted in APA style.

Job Description and Justification

Overview

As the HR manager for a large health care organization, you have been asked to design a new position for an individual contributor in a non-clinical department such as Billing, Admitting, HR. The job should be entry to mid-level and one appropriate for someone with a bachelor’s degree in health care administration.

Instructions

Write a 6–8 page paper in which you:

1. Develop the job title and essential duties for the new position.
2. Write detailed job description suitable for listing on the organization’s website.
3. Identify the desired KSAs (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities).
4. Explain the required minimum qualifications.
5. Describe the steps involved in hiring for this new position.
6. Develop salary recommendations.
7. Identify a process to identify the most qualified applicants for the position.

Be sure to justify each decision and recommendation you make.

 Writing Standards:  Include the assignment title, your name, course title, your professor’s name, and the date of submission on a separate page (first page of submission).  

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Design a non-clinical job for an individual contributor with justification for its development.

For this assignment, select a real company in the fast food industry. 

You have just been hired by (your selected company) as its new vice president of strategic planning. The corporation’s performance in recent years as well as the changes with business and economic conditions will be a central focus of your new job.

Given the size of the corporation and the fact that it is in a highly competitive industry, the chief executive officer (CEO) to whom you report has already given you permission to hire a staff of recent Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduates to assist you in your efforts. You recently completed the interviewing and hired four people with minimal real business experience.

In coming months, you and your team will be creating a completely new—and, presumably, more effective—strategic plan. You plan to begin by holding a kick-off meeting with your team.

Deliverable Length: 1,000–1,250 words

To feel confident that all of the employees in your strategic planning team understand all that you have taught them, you require each to prepare a streamlined version of the key elements of a strategic plan. You require each employee to prepare the following sections of a strategic plan for the corporation’s next 3-5 years:

• Mission and Vision Statements (Simply copying from an existing real company is unacceptable.)
• Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-Bound (SMART) Goals and Objectives
• Industry Analysis
• Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, and Trends (SWOTT) Analysis
• A Perceptual Map
  • Choose any criteria that you think are important to plot.
  • Explain why you picked the criteria.

Your task is to create a plan, following the same parameters, which will be the sample standard that your employees’ submissions should match.

This needs to be completed with a traditional word outline.  (a description of what the paper will consist of)

 Instructions

In this assignment, you will create a decision tree for a business that is considering expanding to a new location. An important part of this analysis will be the details that you create for the business itself. Feel free to pick any industry that you are most familiar with, that will allow a multi-node approach.

Assignment Requirements:

• A one to two paragraph description of the business and its market. If you are using an actual business or industry, include links to references that explain the market. If you are using a fabricated business, your description should be more complete so as to explain the forces at play.
• Include multiple nodes that can affect outcomes.

– One must be financially related- One must be market-related- One node is at your discretion

• Generate a graphic of the decision tree using Microsoft Word or another application of your choice.
• Include one to two pages of discussion of the decision tree and possible branches based on your specific example.
• an example business decision to be made, walking through the decision-making process
• Include a recommendation with justification based on your opinion of the business and or market.

Consider, for example, what criteria are used in your discipline to evaluate alignment of research components. And in what way will your future research contribute to your identity as scholar-practitioner who is dedicated to positive social change?

For this Discussion, you will consider criteria for evaluating alignment among the various components of a research study. You will also reflect on your role as a positive social change agent through research.

With these thoughts in mind:

By Day 4

Post an explanation of the criteria you could use to evaluate alignment between data collection methods and other research components, such as the problem, purpose, research questions, and design. Then, reflecting on the course content, discuss the extent to which your newly acquired research knowledge and skills can support your role as an agent of positive social change. Be specific and provide an example(s).

Be sure to support your Main Issue Post and Response Post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA Style.