Author: chris

In 6 to 8 slides (including detailed speaker’s notes):

1. Describe your organizational development (OD) practitioner competencies.

• What makes you the best candidate for this opportunity?
• What are your credentials?

Select an organizational development (OD) intervention strategy for the scenario above. Begin by reviewing the four categories of organizational development (OD) interventions. There may be multiple issues to be addressed at the same time. Develop and explain your intervention plan.

• How will you organize the plan so the organization can change effectively and efficiently?
• What will most likely transform the organization in the given scenario (i.e., structural, technical, or behavioral change or a combination of these)?

Develop 8–10 pertinent interview questions you will ask management. Include your rationale for selecting your intervention strategy. Explain what assessments you will need to perform. Describe the data that you might need to collect from the organization. Explain how you will collect data and measure results. Justify your answer. Create and explain a reinforcement strategy or a transfer-of-skills plan. How will you be certain that the change has become the new normal and will continue once your consulting contract is terminated?

Your final product will be a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of approximately 6 to 8 slides in length (including detailed speaker’s notes). You will utilize three to four scholarly sources in your research. Your presentation should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources;

As the rate of innovation increases, companies face expanding product/service lines, shorter product and service lifecycles, and more frequent product/service transitions. All of these can bring tremendous value but also pose enormous challenges and risks.

 

The article “The Art of Managing New Product Transitions” by Erhun, Gonclave, and Hopman (2007) from the readings for this module includes a matrix titled “Product Drivers and Risk Factors,” which focuses on Intel, a company that manufactures high-tech products (p. 76). Based on your readings and research, address the following issues:

 

• Redesign the product risk factor matrix so that the factors are appropriate for a services firm that delivers traditional tax accounting and audit services. For example, among the supply risks, assume that the company relies on individuals with specific knowledge of the tax law in the jurisdictions where its clients operate, be it state, federal, or foreign.
• Now, assume that the firm wants to develop a management consultancy practice. (Alternatively, you may choose to add a legal services line instead.). Create a separate new matrix that summarizes the additional risk factors for this firm launching a management consultancy or legal services line. What additional risk factors are you adding to your matrix?
• Explain how the business risks differ between traditional tax and audit services and management consulting services. In your opinion, what are the three biggest risks the firm faces if it diversifies into the new service line?
• Recommend whether the firm should organically grow into a consultancy service or acquire a third party to achieve new goals. Justify your recommendat

Journals: Throughout the semester you will find a total of 4 recently dated (within 2 weeks of submission) articles that discuss a new biological issue. Your article may come from a newspaper, magazine, scientific journal, or a credible news/journal website on the Internet (i.e. Sciencedaily.com, nationalgeographic.com, etc.). Refer to the Lecture Schedule on the last page of this syllabus for each of the due dates.

 Journal requirements:

1. You must cite the source article for your journal. This citation must include the date, article title and complete website URL or magazine, newspaper, journal, etc information. No citation; no grade.
2. Write a one-page maximum paper discussing your answers to the following questions:

* Summarize the article and discuss how the new information was discovered (type of research, observation, human subjects, etc.)?

* How did the article enhance your understanding of the biological issue OR in what ways did it disagree with your past knowledge on the subject?

* Why is the article important knowledge for the general public?

 

A tentative title for your project. The title should not restate the paper’s topic (e.g., “Logging in the Northwest” or “Cat Ladies). It should suggest your plan to enter the conversation, signal your position in the debate/discussion, or in some way give readers of a hint of your research purpose.
A description of your research question. How did you get interested in the subject? In what field or academic conversation you working?
A description of your research purpose. How do you plan to enter the acadmic conversation? What do you plan to accomplish with your research ?
An overview of the research you’re done so far. What had your research shown you? What questions have you answered?
A plan for completion of the project. What research must you do to complete your project? Can you complete the research in the time that remains in the term?
Part TWO: A Working Annotated Bibliography
Choose five scholarly pieces using the MLA formatting and citation style, each with critical annotations.
One source must be a peer-reviewed academic journal article.
The other four sources need from “academic” sources (such as newspapers with a vigorous editorial process, books, textbooks, and encyclopedias)
This section will also feature a detailed annotation, or a paragraph summary (or a descriptive annotation) and paragraph evaluation (Evaluative annotation) of each source (243).

GRADING (150 Points)

Part One: Proposal (40 Points)- This section should be at least three paragraphs and will be evaluated on how clearly, yet throughly each of the following elements are discussed:
Title
Question
Purpose
Overview
Plan of Completion
Part Two: A Working Annotated Bibliography (100 Points total, 20 points pass/fail for each source)— Each source must contain an MLA citation, a summary paragraph, and an evaluation paragraph.
Source One (Peer Reviewed Journal Article) (20 Points P/F)
MLA citation
Summary
Evaluation (How does the source answer your research question?)
Source Two (20 Points P/F)
MLA citation
Summary
Evaluation (How does the source answer your research question?)
Source Three (20 Point P/F)
MLA citation
Summary
Evaluation (How does the source answer your research question?)
Source Four (20 Points P/F)
MLA citation
Summary
Evaluation (How does the source answer your research question?)
Source Five (20 Points P/F)
MLA citation
Summary
Evaluation (How does the source answer your research question?)
Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation (10 Points). This proposal/bibliography should be free of obvious grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors. The key to successfully completing this section is to proof-read your writing.

Issues and trends that affect healthcare delivery are varied and arise from many different sources, such as the emergence of new technologies, changing patient and workforce demographics, and economic fluctuations. Federal, state, and local policies are continually instituted or amended to address new developments or priorities and to rectify problems in healthcare delivery. For instance, changes may be required to address cost containment challenges or disparities in access to healthcare services.
To prepare for this Discussion:
Identify an issue currently in the news that is associated with federal, state, or local efforts to improve healthcare delivery.
Research the issue in a variety of news sources, such as government sites (e.g., the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health) and online newspapers. Do not use blogs or other informal sources.
Select one article or news item on which to focus for this Discussion.
Reflect on the information in the article/news item and consider how it relates to your understanding of the U.S. healthcare delivery system. Review the information in the Resources and conduct additional research using the Walden University Library and credible websites to deepen your understanding of this issue.
Think about the social, economic, and political circumstances surrounding this issue

 

• What are supply shocks? Explain what effect adverse and favorable supply shocks have on the supply curve. Give an example of a supply shock that has affected the U.S. economy on more than one occasion.
• Briefly explain how a change in the personal income tax rate affects aggregate demand.
• True/False Statements. Indicate if the statement below is True or False. You must support your answer with a few sentences for each statement.
  1. When considering the aggregate demand curve, the wealth effect, interest rate effect and effects from international trade reinforce each other.
  2. Economic advisers who fear that the economy is growing too rapidly would recommend that the government decrease spending and/or increase taxes.
  3. An increase in government spending will shift the aggregate demand curve to the left.
  4. When federal government spending amounts to less than tax revenues, the federal government runs a budget deficit.
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Question 1   Place yourself in the position of general manager of a service department. How might formally written job requirements help you to manage your work unit?

 

 

 

 Question 2  Organizations are increasingly operating in ambiguous yet dynamic environments.  Do these new organizational environments dictate more or less human resource planning activity? Why or why not? Support your answer. (Points : 2)

• Select a movie or TV show that effectively communicates the culture, values, and norms of a society that is different from your own culture.
  • The movie or TV should meet the following requirements:
    • Must be a foreign film with subtitles
    • Provide you with a glimpse of what life is like in another culture
    • The process of watching this movie or TV show should provide you with a unique cultural experience.
• Watch the movie or TV show that you selected, and use your reactions as part of your response to the following topic:
  • Define ethnocentrism. Discuss how ethnocentrism affects individuals and societies.

Write a paper of 2–3 pages addressing the following:

• Provide a comprehensive overview of the concept of ethnocentrism.
• Use your cultural experience of watching the selected movie or TV show to discuss the effect of ethnocentrism on individuals and societies.
• Use any personal experiences that you may have had visiting different countries around the world as part of this paper; however, do not let your personal experiences with other cultures be the focal point of this paper.
• The focal point of the paper is your cultural experience watching the selected movie or TV show and your comprehensive overview of the concept of ethnocentrism.
• Please note that this paper is not intended to be a summary of the movie or TV show.
• This paper is not a book review or overview of the movie or TV show you selected.
• Focus on the cultural observations that you are able to make based on this experience and your discussion of the concept of ethnocentrism.

Write one paragraph for each of the following three topics. The entire assignment consists of three paragraphs and should fit in less than one page

 

1. Why is Capaneus (Inferno 14) so important in understanding the psychology of the sinners in hell?
2. Identify the religious issues Dante faces in Inferno 19.
3. Define the allegorical representation of Lucifer (inferno 34)

When you are finished with your research, write a four to five page paper addressing the following issues:

1. Describe the organizational culture of Southwest Airlines the best you can using the characteristics of organizational culture discussed in Rao (2010) and  Piccolo and Bardes (2011).  These include  but are not limited to detail-oriented, team-oriented, innovative, aggressive, outcome-oriented, and people-oriented.  Be specific as you can regarding which characteristics of organizational culture that you read about in the background materials apply to Southwest and which ones do not.
2. Describe the organizational culture of Koch Industries the best you can using the characteristics of organizational culture discussed in Rao (2010) and  Piccolo and Bardes (2011).
3. Now suppose Koch Industries decided to purchase Southwest Airlines.  Compare and contrast the two cultures, and explain what kind of challenges do you think they would face in merging the two cultures.  Also, explain what steps you think would need to be taken in order to prevent culture clashes between the two organizations. Use concepts from Rao (2010) or  Piccolo and Bardes (2011) as part of your recommendations on steps to